Assuming the same amazing transformation they did with the "Lord of the Rings" series, what other favorite books do you think would make really great movies?

"The Vampire Lestat"
Volume I of the "Dragonlance Chronicles"
"The Blood on My Hands (http://members.aol.com/Frugalmuse/victarMKfanfics/blood01.htm)" - okay, so this one's not a book; it's a Mortal Kombat character fan fiction, but it's still one of the coolest things I've ever read!

I would love to see both The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and The Recluce Saga by Modesitt made into movies. Both are kinda lengthy (like 10+ books apiece at 600+ pages per book), but it'd rock :).

Also, it might be neat to see a movie for Also Sprach Zarathustra, but I think it might be better as a book.

Ooh, ooh. The Eternal Champion series by Michael Moorcock would be fucking awesome. You gotta love Elric.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes.

Any of her books, nuff said.

Though Hawksong is one of the best books ever written, it will be hard for them to make it a movie without making it look cheesy. Its one of those books where its a lot better in your head than in the hands of a director.

Though people transforming into snakes & hawks is amazingly incredible to think of, when you think about how they would make it look in Hollywood - it would turn out to look like the Animorphs most likely. I don't wanna see that book ruined like that. Hopefully if it does get out, there's a phenomenal director out there that could make an amazing movie out of it.

Ooh...I wonder how they would do a movie version of Elric. He's like one of my boyfriend's all time favorite characters ever!

Though Hawksong is one of the best books ever written, it will be hard for them to make it a movie without making it look cheesy. Its one of those books where its a lot better in your head than in the hands of a director.
Agreed. That's true of a lot of good books, and I bet some not-so-good books could be turned into fairly decent movies, though I can't think of any off hand.

Angie - I think if they tried to make a movie of any of the Dragonlance books, theyd make an arse of it.

BUT! I'd love to see someone tackle "Job" by Robert A Heinlein... That'd be the Mutts Nuts... :D

if could make a book into a movie, id want to make a movie from the far side gallery... do comic books like that count? i think his views on cowz are great....

Ooh...I wonder how they would do a movie version of Elric. He's like one of my boyfriend's all time favorite characters ever!

He's one of my favorite characters too. In all honesty, of the three series I listed, Elric would be the easiest one to do. At least in that, there's not all sorts of stuff that some people can see and others can't and getting confused and stuff (in both Jordan's and Modesitt's work, both of which I highly recommend, commonfolk can't see magical weaves, for instance, and other such things).

Also, it might be neat to see a movie for Also Sprach Zarathustra, but I think it might be better as a book.

A film by Nietzsche? Interesting.

I'd like to see "This Present Darkness" by Frank Peretti.
Also Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, or the books about Drizzt Do'Urden by R.A. Salvatore (Dark Elf Trilogy, Icewind Dale Trilogy, Legacy of the Drow, etc.)

I would love to see the ."A Dream of Eagles" (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books-ca&field-keywords=Jack%20Whyte&bq=1/701-4325745-8943566) series by Jack Whyte made into movies. My only fear would be that they could not capture the brilliance of the books

Dean Koontz "The Face" is just begginging to be made into a film.

I love anime too. I'd love to see a movie or multi-part movie made for each of the Lunar (Silver Star and Eternal Blue) video games.

i would love to see the alanna series by tamora pierce be made into movies... if they did it well, it would be soooo good

Hows bout the Witching Hour series by Anne Rice? I think that was the name she was under for those.. been so long....

Vamp lestat... DEFINATLYYYYYYYYYYY or menoch the devil... OOoOoooOOOOOOOooooo... TALE OF THE BODY THIEF... now that would rock!!

other vampy stuff: vampire the masquerade...

umm... other than that passion.. I would say comic bk wise..I would say witchblade...but they already hacked that one... what bout "ghost" no not ghost in the shell... just ghost... or OOOOOOO what about ... *drumroll* this one kicks so much arse... BEST MOVIE OF THE CENTRY:

THE DARKNESS

wouldn't that just rock??? uh huh it would!!!

Or what about that new comic strand... umm... SOJOURN... that is pretty nifty... DO IT DO IT DO IT... ne one gonna submit these to thriving producers? I think i need to get out the stationary to send those out... MUST HAVE's in my movie collection.....


okok..... long shot... and not a book... well maybe from the tv show:

THE SECOND X-FILES MOVIE....
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I'm with whoever said Vampire Lestat. IMHO, the best of the Anne Rice vampire books.

But, I'm more of a science fiction buff. I'd like to see:

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

Rendezvous with Rama (the first one, not the sequels) by Arthur C. Clarke. Also by Clarke I'd like to see The Songs of Distant Earth.

And Ringworld by Larry Niven.

Rendezvous with Rama (the first one, not the sequels) by Arthur C. Clarke. Also by Clarke I'd like to see The Songs of Distant Earth.


*smacks head* forgots bout that one!!! right on!!

i would die of happiness if i saw......any of philip pullman's books made into movies! those are SO COOL! has anyone here read them?

Just about anything by Brad Meltzer(which is easy cause I know of only 4 novels of his).

Also any of the Jinx graphic novels by Brian Michael Bendis. Especially Gold Fish. Hmm..Torso would be awesome to be made into a movie. Although there has already been that sorta already I think. Or maybe it was a book I'm thinking of. Basically Torso was a graphic novel written by Brian Michael Bendis on the true events of America's first serial killer. It was never officially solved. I believe there was already a movie made about it, but not based on Bendis' graphic novels, which could own the other movie.

I would say I would like to see Y: The Last Man made into a movie, but I think it would be better as a television series, cause it doesn't really have an ending, not right now at least. It would be very similiar to The Fugitive in the way that it keeps going. It basically is about some kind of plague or something that happens and all the male creatures of the world die, with the exception of one guy and his pet monkey, both of which are male. That means all male creature, cows, sheep, dogs, humans, everything. Then it shows how society is run by women, but there is the initial chaos with the planes crashing that were being flown by guys. Submarine disasters, energy problems with the guys running power plants dying, all that. Then it shows how the women take control of their countries, but yet the life of the one guy is in trouble cause of the wacko girls that believe that the men died due to being evil and they want to kill this last guy, when there are others that believe him to be the last hope. Very good read. Every issue leaves you hating the fact that you have to wait for the next.

Just about anything by Brad Meltzer(which is easy cause I know of only 4 novels of his).

Also any of the Jinx graphic novels by Brian Michael Bendis. Especially Gold Fish. Hmm..Torso would be awesome to be made into a movie. Although there has already been that sorta already I think. Or maybe it was a book I'm thinking of. Basically Torso was a graphic novel written by Brian Michael Bendis on the true events of America's first serial killer. It was never officially solved. I believe there was already a movie made about it, but not based on Bendis' graphic novels, which could own the other movie.

I would say I would like to see Y: The Last Man made into a movie, but I think it would be better as a television series, cause it doesn't really have an ending, not right now at least. It would be very similiar to The Fugitive in the way that it keeps going. It basically is about some kind of plague or something that happens and all the male creatures of the world die, with the exception of one guy and his pet monkey, both of which are male. That means all male creature, cows, sheep, dogs, humans, everything. Then it shows how society is run by women, but there is the initial chaos with the planes crashing that were being flown by guys. Submarine disasters, energy problems with the guys running power plants dying, all that. Then it shows how the women take control of their countries, but yet the life of the one guy is in trouble cause of the wacko girls that believe that the men died due to being evil and they want to kill this last guy, when there are others that believe him to be the last hope. Very good read. Every issue leaves you hating the fact that you have to wait for the next.

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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

I know a lot of people hate them, but I think it would be really cool if they took the basic story and elements of Animorphs, maturized it a bit and made it into a film. I thought they were cool books and would love to see them done live (and right, not like that horrible TV show). When I say maturized, I mean something along the lines of the last ten or so books. Nice and dark and stuff.

I would love to see Robin Hobb's Farseer/Liveship series done. I can see The Farseer Trilogy done into a TV miniseries and then the Liveship Traders done for the big screen. I just think it'd be cool to see all the dragons and the serpents and the living seaships and stuff. *sigh*

The Chronicles of Narnia, most defintiely. The BBC did a made for TV version back in the early ninties but it only went through the fourth of seven books (The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; and The Silver Chair were the movies, but the others are The Horse and His Boy, The Magician's Nephew, and The Last Battle). I also want to see Madeline L'Engle's Time Quartet made into movies (A Wrinkle In Time, Many Waters, A Wind In The Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet)

Game of Thrones, but considering that its about the same length as the three books of the Tolkein trilogy combined and more complex, I doubt it will happen.

Snow Crash, by Stephenson, OTOH...

the cat in the hat

the cat in the hat

isn't that movie coming out in december? Mike Meyers is in it... it looks neat :)

Harry Potter and the prisoner of azkaban. yeah, don't fucking tell me it's coming out in June... I want it NOW.

:heart: Katie

I've been hearing about scripts being done for a movie version of Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. I do indeed reallllllllllllly hope it's true. :D

the cat in the hat

isn't that movie coming out in december? Mike Meyers is in it... it looks neat :)

Harry Potter and the prisoner of azkaban. yeah, don't fucking tell me it's coming out in June... I want it NOW.

:heart: Katie

Yea, they are making Cat in the hat.


I don't know about the HP movies though.

I love the books. But I after watching the movies I felt like it ruined everything for me. Everyone looked different then I had planned, and the school... I had my own idea of how big it was, but in the movie it seemed really small. Just that nothing was how I had pictured it, and in my mind it was so much more amazing.

So now I feel let down.

Rendezvous with Rama (the first one, not the sequels) by Arthur C. Clarke. Also by Clarke I'd like to see The Songs of Distant Earth.


*smacks head* forgots bout that one!!! right on!!

Which one were you slapping your head over? Please accept my humblest apologies. I certainly didn't mean to induce bodily injury. :)

Just thought those two books would be pretty awesome flicks for completely different reasons.

the cat in the hat

isn't that movie coming out in december? Mike Meyers is in it... it looks neat :)

:heart: Katie

No, it looks scary. I'm not watching it.

I'm rather upset that Chuck Palahnuick's Survivor got cancelled after 09.11.2001 The script was by Gwyneth Paltrow's brother, Kevin Spacey, Jim Carrey and some others were considering being in it, and Trent Reznor was going to score it. But no, we can't have a movie about a plane, that would be far too horrific...

How about a movie version of If Chins Could Kill: Confessions Of A B Movie Actory? Bruce Campbell's autobiography, starring...Bruce Campbell!

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

I'd really like to see Diamond Age... I think Snow Crash would just get ruined by Hollywood x.x

Also, I'd love to see someone do The Bacchae, by Euripides. I mean, it's got enough sex and violence to make any Hollywood director happy O.o;;

Anne Rice's-the witching hour

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Ok, more? What about Rising Stars? I believe they are already in the works on making that one a movie. That will be easily one of the best movies of all time if they do it right. I really hope J. Michael Strazynski(spelling?) is on set to keep them on the right path, or that he is the one that writes the script(which I believe he is). Just about anything by him would probably kick ass. For those not in the know he is easily one of the best comic book writers out there currently. He is the current Amazing Spiderman writer. He was also the creator/writer of Babylon 5.

Hmm...what else? Lets see, also Midnight Nation, another one of his books that was a finite series(had a beggining, middle and end preplanned before it was launched).

Hmm...Lady Death would be good, if they did the first series or maybe 2nd. The first was easily the best.

Fathom would be great as a movie. Battle Chasers or Danger Girl(also the first series). Powers would be pretty good. ooh, ooh, yes, the one..dammit, forgetting the title and too lazy to go dig it up. I think it is Beautiful Killer...or is it Beautiful Assassin? Maybe I'm wrong. It is the one that was only 3 issues. The girl that had the real pale skin and whose parents were killed so she went out to get revenge on the people that were responsible. Her parents were former spies that had to keep her existence hidden. I believe that they already had a production company buy the rights and it is rumored that Ashley Judd is thinking about taking up the part.

A Ghost Rider movie would be awesome if done right as well. There are actually so many comics that would make great movies. Maybe one day I will have to come up with a list. There have been a lot that are in beginning stages(script writing and casting and director choosing..etc.)

The book that i really want to see get made has already been turned into a movie, just it was such a poor adaptation that im going to suggest it anyway because they really aren't even close to being the same story.

The Power of One by Bryce Courtney.

Other than that I agree with the tale of the body theif by anne rice.
The serpentwar saga by Raymond E Feist
And id like to see a modern version of 1984 done aswell.

And id like to see a modern version of 1984 done aswell.

The Justice Department in the U.S would never allow it to be shown, they'd claim it was "un-american" :evil: (and yes I am a patriot, and yes I love my country, and no I won't hijack this thread)

I'd also like to see more of the Carl Hiassen books made into movies. "Stormy Weather" would be really neat, but my opinion is biased :mrgreen:

And how could I forget Neuromancer???

But they just did Neuromancer... Matrix, anyone? =P Heh, I know, I know, it's not Neuromancer, but a lot of the ideas are very familiar, no?

But they just did Neuromancer... Matrix, anyone? =P Heh, I know, I know, it's not Neuromancer, but a lot of the ideas are very familiar, no?

True, tis similar, and Gibson loves it. Johnny Mnemonic was Ok (I'm still trying to find the Japanese release which supposedly was much different) but Neuromancer is my sentimental fave Gotsa ta love the drug addict hero, the crazy space Rastas, and Molly would so rip Trinity a new one ;)

Anything written by Harry Turtledove ( Alternative history ) and most of Douglas Adam's books.

The book that i really want to see get made has already been turned into a movie, just it was such a poor adaptation that im going to suggest it anyway because they really aren't even close to being the same story.

The Power of One by Bryce Courtney.

While I have to agree with you on that it was a poor adaptation, I stil have to say that that movie kicked so much ass. For me, it was way more emotionally powerful than Schindler's List, or Saving Private Ryan, etc.


But for me... Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow. (made as seperate movies filmed concurrently, ala LOTR, but different. meh, if you've read them you'll know what I mean.)

I know this Much is True by Wally Lamb

I don't know about the HP movies though.

I love the books. But I after watching the movies I felt like it ruined everything for me. Everyone looked different then I had planned, and the school... I had my own idea of how big it was, but in the movie it seemed really small. Just that nothing was how I had pictured it, and in my mind it was so much more amazing.

So now I feel let down.

I agree. The first movie pissed me off at the end when the left Hermione's task with the potions and fire door out. Bastards.

ahem, christopher pike's last vampire series. it was my first toe in the waters of vampire novels and i just liked them, dammit.

and yea, i'm with katie. POA, NOW. not later, NOW. (honestly, if they don't get moving on those movies, book six of HP won't be out til' forever.)

I think The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski would be very cool to see. Has anyone else read it?

Other than that, the Christopher Snow books from Koontz.

Hm...well I guess I could say one of 2Pac's autobiographies? Anyway, he's already got a movie coming out this fall - Tupac: Resurrection...I think it's opening in most theaters nationwide...I'm definitely going to see that...I think.

I would like to see a movie about Malcolm X that would begin from his childhood to...was it Chicago? Then Harlem, and the many other places he went to after that. I know there's autobiography movies out there, but I don't know if there's any actual movies. That would be too hard to do anyways...it would have to be at least a few hours long. Malcolm X has always been someone I've admired, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Assata Shakur, and others. Unfortunately I don't know much about history and don't remember what I learned about them in middle/high school :? only remember some things.

He's one of my favorite characters too. In all honesty, of the three series I listed, Elric would be the easiest one to do. At least in that, there's not all sorts of stuff that some people can see and others can't and getting confused and stuff (in both Jordan's and Modesitt's work, both of which I highly recommend, commonfolk can't see magical weaves, for instance, and other such things).
The Elric saga has been optioned by Universal !!!

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/24/film.elric.reut/ (http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/24/film.elric.reut/)

If you'd like to sample another great series by Mike Moorcock, look for the Jerry Cornelius books. Very funny stuff.

I'de like to see a Amelia Atwater-Rhodes movie.... I'd also like to see Dangerous Angels by Fracesca Lia Block... I loved those books. :D

Another vote for Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson.

Wizard and Glass - Stephen King - 4th of the Dark Tower series. A real Stephen King movie has not been made until they make one of these. Hail Roland of Gilead!!

Another vote for Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson.

Wizard and Glass - Stephen King - 4th of the Dark Tower series. A real Stephen King movie has not been made until they make one of these. Hail Roland of Gilead!!
Totally with you there 439. I love Stephenson's work and Dark Tower is screaming to be made a flick too

I'll throw in another vote for Snow Crash.

Remember how much the first 10 minutes of Blade kicked ass? The first part of Snow Crash (The Deliverator) would kick 100 times more!



They'd really have to get just the right people to play Hiro and YT, but it could be sooooooooooooooooo cool.

I'de like to see a Amelia Atwater-Rhodes movie.... I'd also like to see Dangerous Angels by Fracesca Lia Block... I loved those books. :D

*gasp* AMELIAAAAA! Dude, she's my favorite author. Evar. I'd kill to see Demon in my View as a movie. I'd kill.

I'd really like to see The Old Kingdom Series (I don't know if that's what they're called.. but I call them that. You know, Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen) by Garth Nix turned into a movie, but I think they would find some way to butcher it. Another Garth Nix book I'd like to see be turned into a movie is Shade's Children. It seems like it would have a good script.

Or The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King. That is one of the best books ever, or at least to me. But, like The Old Kingdom Series, I like the book to much, so if a movie came out I'd find too many things wrong with the movie. :(

The frog and toad series (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0064440214/102-2495272-8831302?v=glance) should be remade using "Pixar" or some other digital animation. That would rock. :cool:


Oh, and for the more adult movie enthusiasts, "Deception Point," By Dan Brown would be cool as a movie, as well as "The Face" by Dean Koontz

"once" by james herbert....though it will be rated R cos of all the sex scenes, but its really good

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

I heard it's already been made into a film, but it wasn't very good apparently.

Get Tim Burton on the job I say.

My book movies are....

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Dont Think Twice by a woman who's name I cant remember
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
Keeping You A Secret by Julie Anne Peters

The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever by Stephan Donaldson would be a great series to make into movies. But seeing as there's six books in total, maybe it would have to be two books per movie.

The Chronicles of Narnia, most defintiely. The BBC did a made for TV version back in the early ninties but it only went through the fourth of seven books (The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; and The Silver Chair were the movies, but the others are The Horse and His Boy, The Magician's Nephew, and The Last Battle).

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe should be out next year:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0363771/

I heard of this a few years back, that they'd been wanting to make it but couldn't finance it until some rich guy who loved the series decided to donate a bunch of money.

well my choice is... Well it was a video game THEN a book... but none the less STILL A BOOK lol my choice would be HALO!!! that would be a nice movie! nad just pray that they dont slaughter it, but with i think it has great potential

I'd like to see any Jackie Collins book.....just not directed by Aaron Spelling. He directed Hollywood Wives and Lucky, and it appeared that he had never even read the book and that annoys me. The movie should closely follow the book!!!!

Probably a much more faithful version of a Anne Rice novel. Oh yes, Definately Pandora. And they can't screw it up, because I'll just kill them. I'd also like a good faithful adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. (like that will ever happen).

Definitely, The Vampire Lestat. I love Anne Rice books. I think all the chronicles should be movies. Heehhehee. Well, they already have Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned. I loved both.

I can't think anything else. Aaaacckk! *Goes blank*

'Once Minutos' (Eleven minutes) by Paulo Cohelo

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes.

Any of her books, nuff said.

Though Hawksong is one of the best books ever written, it will be hard for them to make it a movie without making it look cheesy. Its one of those books where its a lot better in your head than in the hands of a director.

Though people transforming into snakes & hawks is amazingly incredible to think of, when you think about how they would make it look in Hollywood - it would turn out to look like the Animorphs most likely. I don't wanna see that book ruined like that. Hopefully if it does get out, there's a phenomenal director out there that could make an amazing movie out of it.
Hell yes. I've recently become a fan of hers last summer because i'm a huge writer myself and when i found out that she got published when she was my age i had to read her stuff, and alas, vampires, what a coincidence that i just happen to love those! Not to mention she grew up right near my town and i know a few people who know her. But yeah, her books would make pretty cool movies, but something tells me when i try to picture them that they're better as books. *shrugs* I guess we'll never know for sure unless it happens.

Hmm...what else...everything i think of has been done...lol.

Ender
A Game Of Thrones
Legend.....
so many to count :)

I think these have already been said, but...

The Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman. I so want to see a movie of this, but I'm a little worried of what they would do to it...

And I also think 'Sabriel' by Garth Nix could make a very interesting movie (I still have to get round to reading the other 2 books in the trilogy. I do actually have them, just haven't had the time yet lol)

Also, a book I read ages ago called Artemis Fowl would be really good as a movie. (I think there was at least 3 of them...)

hmmmm definately vampire lestat but how bout some remakes--IE a good version of Farenheit 451, some Kurt Vonegut and also how bout Catcher in the Rye :) i can dream can't i? LOL

I agree that Sabriel would make a great movie. My brother doesn't think so, he says "It's more about the thoughts and feelings" which is true, but it could be adapted. Plus evanescence should do the soundtrack. Or am I the only one that thinks whisper was practically written for the book to be read to? :p

The only problem though is that they would probably turn Sabriel into such a kids movie. I can't see a talking cat being taken as a serious character in a movie... And since it would end up being aimed at kids, they wouldn't go too much into things like the importance of death or anything....

Mad About Maddie by Cheryl Ann Porter. That book is so. good. I even thought of a cast for it and everything. Also Thinner by Stephen King. Awesome, just awesome. I would LOVE that movie lol.

I think Lirael by Garth Nix would make a great movie. I havent actually read anything else written by Garth Nix (including Sabriel), but Lirael is such an awesomage book and I think modern day special effects would be able to bring the Stilkens and the Dead etc to life so well...4 months old thread hehe

Two books (or rather, book series'), are:
Elita by Kate Jacoby, and The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind.

ooh i would love to watch a Catcher in the Rye movie! MAN that Holden cracks me up

Two books (or rather, book series'), are:
Elita by Kate Jacoby, and The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind.
Oh i love Terry Goodkind, i've finished reading the second book a few weeks ago
but i can't find the third book anywhere :(
yeah i would love to see those as a movie too

The tommorow series, John marsden ... best series eva!!!
(besides the ellie chronicles that come after ... but they havent been finished yet)

Definitely Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series! Even though they're fairly new books (the first one in the series came out last year), Sarah Ash's Tears of Artamon series would be a great choice. Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. Hmm... I know there's more, I just can't think of them at the moment.

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman, that would pwn :)

yeh i agree, i think the "his dark materials" trilogy would make great films.

as soon as the series is finished id say fearless by francine pascal. i remember they were going to make it a tv show on the wb but they didnt stay true to the book at all and rachel leigh cook was going to play gaia.... although 35 or 37 books worth of material would be too much for 1 movie they could tone it down and cut stuff out or make it a two part or 2 part movie. but thats never going to happen

The Rhapsody series by Elizabeth Haydon...if you get rid of the part where this woman has an orgasm in the bathtub, it's an awesome series:D But Elizabeth Haydon is very poetic and artistic....It would be a great movie:)

I would love to see both The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and The Recluce Saga by Modesitt made into movies. Both are kinda lengthy (like 10+ books apiece at 600+ pages per book), but it'd rock :).

Oh, I love Robert Jordan. Except I'd be pissed when characters were missing and such.

Here's info on Ender's Game...still in preproduction.

http://www.movie-source.com/movie_page.asp?movieID=1529

Anywho...how 'bout some Heinlein? To Sail Beyond the Sunset would be nice...or the one I can't remember right now...about the old guy who gets a brain transplant into a younger body...argh!

Oh, now I remember. I Will Fear No Evil was the name of it.

Id like to see ''Myst: The Book of Atrus'', or its sequels turned into a movie. The Myst series is not very popular, save its computer game counterpart, but i think it would be an awsome movie...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by... *goes to look at book* Steven Chbosky (haha i knew his name was cool). Anyone else read it? I would imagine it to be a sort of drama/comedy. Since it is sort of a series of diary entries, it would probably be narrated.

Well, for starters I'd like it if somebody did Ella Enchanted properly :mad: Terry Pratchett's books would be awesome, or maybe it'd be better to make like this discworld tv series, focus on each of the books for maybe like three or four eps... Then Jane Austen's Sanditon (well, somebody else finished it but it was still good). Then better adaptations of Jurassic Park and Lost World, those books are actually pretty good, you'd just need to add some emotion in them. Danger Girl the comic book might make a kick ass movie too. Then there's this book, I think it's called Lives of the Monster Dogs or something, it was cool but it might be kinda hard to make...

Discworld.. Anne Rice's Vamp Chronicles but done correctly.. Hobbit.. Silmarillion.. BATMAN: Nightfall (Don't make Bane such a pussy), Marvel's ONSLAUGHT - So many superhero cameos :)

Discworld.. Anne Rice's Vamp Chronicles but done correctly.. Hobbit.. Silmarillion.. BATMAN: Nightfall (Don't make Bane such a pussy), Marvel's ONSLAUGHT - So many superhero cameos :)
OMG I would drop dead if Onslaught was ever made into a film! It was the first X-Men thing I read, it got me into it and made me completely fanatic :D It's just the coolest thing, still makes me cry like a little baby...

Oh yeah, and Batman, coolness :D

OMG! The whole Mayfair chronicles and the Jane Yolen Dragon books. :)

Here are the books that would make the best movies ever!!!!!!

Coraline by (uh.... I forgot. sorry)

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman, but those movies are already in progress. New Line and Scholastic took on the project right after LotR was finished. It may be a while, but it's happening. Go to http://www.bridgetothestars.com and click on movie for more details.

And the best movie of all time? Midnighters, by Scott Westerfeld. OMFG, if you have ever read that book, you've gotta know what I mean!

for the ones who like terry goodkind's sword of truth series

http://http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060817c.php

I want the Gossip Girl book series to be made into movies. As long as Lindsay Lohan isn't in it (she was rumored to play Blair, which would have killed it) and they do appropriate casting, it could be really good.

(Book are almost always better than the movies, though.)

The Tomorrow Series by John Marsden - would make excellent movies!

Also, the Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Cananvan - they would rule as movies!

The Zodiac. It's a book written by a main investigator in the Zodiac murders years ago in California. Zodiac was a serial killer who sent letters in code to all the newspapers in the Bay area. He was never found. It's an awesome book.

Tomorrow, Maybe by Brian James would make the most wonderful movie!!

Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block. If that movie was made right, it would make my life. <3

Catcher In The Rye!!!!!!!!!!!111111111

I'd like to see Twilight by Stephenie Meyers turned into a movie. It'd be amazing.

I want the Gossip Girl book series to be made into movies. As long as Lindsay Lohan isn't in it (she was rumored to play Blair, which would have killed it) and they do appropriate casting, it could be really good.

(Book are almost always better than the movies, though.)

that would be cool. and amen to no LL...i dont get her popularity? eh, wtf do i know.

David Icke's Children of the Matrix should totally be made into a movie someday. I bet it would be something like the 'V' television series of the 1980's which I've heard of but never seen.

Anyhow, the premise of it all is that reptilian aliens disguised as humans control affairs on planet Earth. (See my 'location' thingy...lol)

Anything by Patricia Cornwell or Linda Fairstein-both brilliant writers.

Put me down as Lucy in any PC movie!:)

For me "Daughter Of The Fortune" by Isabel Allende and it's sequel "Portrait in Sephia" really good books.
and by the same writer i hope that "City Of The Beats" will do a very good movie, and be possible that they made it's sequels.

The Clique series.

Seriously. Hilarious.

Does anyone know if a version of Lady Chatterley's Lover has been made into a film? I thought that mightn't be a bad movie idea, even if the book was rather boring.;)

The Traveller by John Twelve Hawks


(Carrie Anne Moss would HAVE to play Maya - and David Carradine would HAVE to play her father.)

The Traveller by John Twelve Hawks


(Carrie Anne Moss would HAVE to play Maya - and David Carradine would HAVE to play her father.)
Haha wow, I was just opening this thread to post that too :D
It would make such an awesome movie.
And nice ideas about casting :)

I'd heard that there was a movie being planned but I have no idea what the status on that is :confused:

Another book I read recently that would be an awesome movie is Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly.
It's very Indiana Jones, with a group of archaeologists solving riddles and uncovering the wonders of the ancient world. The descriptions of all the locations seem really incredible and the book actually has diagrams to show you how they'd look. It'd be pretty epic to see on screen :)

There are many books, I would like to see as a movie. For example the last book I read: False Memories by Dean Koontz. It's a fantastic thriller and I'm sure a film would be very intresting, because I love thrillers.

I'm sure that a movie has been made out of the book before, but I'd love to see a modern one. The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde.

My favorite book series is actually being made into a movie now, but it has taken over a decade. It's called, "The Golden Compass", by Philip Pullman.

I'd also like to see the Artemis Fowl series made into movies. I think there is talk of it, but no confirmed plans.

And lastly, I'd like to see a modern Dracula. And Dracula 2000 doesn't count. I want a good one that is sophisticated and takes place when it was written.

"Angels and Demonds" by Dan Brown :D

::Grits teeth:: Ender's fucking Game. >.< (If they take any longer with that movie, I'll have to start taking hostages!)

I would say "Crosses" by Shelley Stoehr. I don't have any idea about the cast but I would love for this to be a movie. Has anyone else read this? I cried soo hard at the end because i can relate to it.

remake of Wuthering Heights...into a good movie. But I don't think that's really possible is it?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.....yes, I know it's already a movie, but it was...how can I put this nicely?...painful to watch. Actually, there's no concievable way to make a better H2G2 movie because Douglas Adams is dead (bless his soul). Yes, life (and death) is totally unfair.

for me,any Stephan King's books can make the good movie.

it would never happen because it would probably end up being a porno, but uh "mr darcy takes a wife" haha

the plot to it isactually interesting but all the uh.... sexual stuff in there would give it an nc17 rating haha.

still would be interesting. it was a good read.

I have read 10 pages of Angels And Demons, and would love the book to be a movie, which I hear is already being considered, so that's brilliant! :)

My favorite book of all time, "Twilight", by Stephenie Meyer, is now going to be made into a movie. I'm so excited. It's about a girl (Bella) who falls in love with a vampire and the vampire loves her back, but they both know it is very dangerous because the vampire (Edward Cullen *swoon*) is drawn to her scent, etc etc. It's a very cool book, I highly reccomend that you read it before you see the movie. The front has pale arms and hands holding out an apple like forbidden fruit. There are going to be more books in the series, which will also be made into movies.

The Dark Tower by Stephen King...

Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block.
Violet and Claire by Francesca Lia Block.
I was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block.
The Hanged Man by Francesca Lia Block.
The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.
Junie B. Jones Has A Monster Under Her Bed by Barbara Park.
Wasted by Marya Hornbacher.
Cut by by Patricia Mccormick.
Dancehall by Bernard F. Conners.

I would like "The curious incident of the dog in the night-time" to be adapted, but in a comic or casual way, not in a supertouching way... (though I know it would be seriously difficult to translate that book to a movie...)

Ok...there's this book I remember reading as a child it was called...
Where the wild things go I don't remember what it was all about. I just know I loved the book and always had someone read it to me. And from what I remember about it...I think it would be a cool childrens movie...

i always liked imagining how a movie version of "the lost years of merlin" series would look like. I wanted to play rhia soo badly :)

Dinoaur Summer by Greg Bear.

I really want to see "Sunglasses after Dark" by Nancy A Collins

i don´t know if i had posted that before..

i´d like to see
outlander (and the followers) by diana gabaldon and
the stephanie-plum-series by janet evanovich as a movie
hello darkness by sandra brown could be a nice movie too

I think Meg Cabot's "The Mediator" series would make some great movies! I love Meg Cabot and this series just has such a great ending! Her series "1-800-Where-R-You" might make some good movies as well! That has a pretty good ending but I think "The Mediator" would be better for the movies.

"The Vampire Lestat"
isn't that the movie Queen of the Damned? :confused:


I would like to see a movie of Angels & Demons... by Dan Brown. But if the rumours are true, a movie will indeed come soon.

Endar's Game - Orson Scott Card - Would be hard to find good child actors, but the story is solid.
Foundation Series - Issac Asimov
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - Small book, but a classic nonetheless

The rest of the books I like are either better in prose, too long, or already in a movie form.

Of course, 75% of the books I love are non-fiction which does not lend itself to entertainment movies unless it is made for T.V. like on the History or Discover channel.

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - Small book, but a classic nonetheless
Great choice but it's been done. 1966 - pretty cheesy though. Would love to see a remake.

I can't believe nobody's done Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson yet.

My favorite book series is actually being made into a movie now, but it has taken over a decade. It's called, "The Golden Compass", by Philip Pullman.

AHHHH!!! Yay! They're making a movie out of The Golden Compass! They'd better do all three books because that would just be awesome. *drool* I looooove this series so I hope they don't botch it.

I'd really like to see The Dark Tower series by Stephen King be made into movies. The movies definitely wouldn't be as good as the books, but it'd still be great to see it adapted to film.

AHHHH!!! Yay! They're making a movie out of The Golden Compass! They'd better do all three books because that would just be awesome. *drool* I looooove this series so I hope they don't botch it.

oooh I'm excited, it comes out this December I believe.

120 days of Sodom? Anyone?

(I'm kind of joking, but it'd be kind of interesting in a sick way...)

No, really? Poisonwood Bible.

The silmarillion by JRR Tolkien !

Oooh cool. Or the Abhorsen trilogy.

i dunno if anyone has mentioned these but....
Black Creek Crossing or The Right hand of evil by John Saul
The "Odd Thomas" series by Dean Koontz
i'll think of more soon but thats a start...

The Sword of Shannara Trilogy! but it would take alot of work to make it good...

The hobbit by JRR Tolkien

"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" and "The Lurker at the Threshold" by H.P. Lovecraft

:cool:

sabriel, lirael and the abhorsen- all by garth nix
and my favourites anything by tamora pierce- my favourite fantasy writer as a teen.
and the misfits collection by isabelle carmody

Blackberry Wine by Joanna Harris. It'd be well arty :p

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, but I don't know if it'd translate well...