Novels you’d like to see made into a films?

[Nicholas S. Folsom]

Originally Posted by Nicholas S. Folsom

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

I really, really hope this is done WELL by Peter Jackson, his wife Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens. This is one of the most beautiful books ever written. By that I mean about the afterlife... Simply amazing. My eyes tear at the thought of it.

"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life." – Susie, page 320.

I really hope Peter Jackson, Walsh and Bowens don't screw this up.

For me, since Fight Club was done so well by all involved, my next Chuck Palahniuk choice would be Survivor. I don't know what it is about a jet airliner speeding towards the Austrailan outback while the protagonist tells his story in flashbacks just appeals to me.

I don't get nor do I understand Diary. Do I? ....No. Third I'd gladly take Invisible Monsters. I'm guessing some badass CGI would be needed to pull off whats her name's lower jaw being shot off. (or was it a bird crashing in to her half-rolled down car window destroying her lower jaw?) Anyway, that's pretty gruesome but pure Chuck Palahniuk. Isn't Invisible Monsters told via flashbacks as well...? One character, whilst wearing a wedding dress, pointing a shotgun at another while the house they occupy is burning to the ground. Do I senese a theme here?

[Mikado]

Originally Posted by LeChuck

I was going to mention Mr. Palahniuk (that is how it is spelled BTW), but am very nervous over such a scheme. He is such a talented writer that Fight Club worked so well since it was in his head a lot and they can keep the wonderful prose in there. Lullaby is my favourite and, while it is possible, I feel it is best to leave him alone.

I have always thought his book Survivor would make a great film.


I would also like to see Chris Bachelder's Bear v. Shark made into a film as well. Would be a quirky little film.

[billnye97]

A couple of books that I just read both could be made into great movies.

The Cell by Steven King. Absolutely an awesome premise on how zombies came to be.

The Road by Cormac Mccarthy. This would be more challenging but I think with the right director it could definitely be done.

[sub780lime]

The Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore

[tazer floyd]

Originally Posted by billnye97

A couple of books that I just read both could be made into great movies.

The Cell by Steven King. Absolutely an awesome premise on how zombies came to be.

The Road by Cormac Mccarthy. This would be more challenging but I think with the right director it could definitely be done.

Both being done. Cell to be written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski and directed by Eli Roth, and The Road (brilliant book) to be written by Joe Penhall and directed by John Hillcoat.

[Tattiana]

Originally Posted by sub780lime

The Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore

Even the Dark Elf trilogy before it would be awesome!!! I would love to see them show the evil reachs of dark elf society on film...that and all the spiders in the UNderdark and the creatures would be awesome.

And you cant go wrong with an Illithid..... if they made Davy Jones in the Pirates movies look pretty cool i think they have the techology now to do an Illithid justice with a higher budjet film company.

[sub780lime]

Originally Posted by Tattiana

Even the Dark Elf trilogy before it would be awesome!!! I would love to see them show the evil reachs of dark elf society on film...that and all the spiders in the UNderdark and the creatures would be awesome.

And you cant go wrong with an Illithid..... if they made Davy Jones in the Pirates movies look pretty cool i think they have the techology now to do an Illithid justice with a higher budjet film company.

Dark Elf is my first choice, but Icewind Dale would probably translate better to mainstream film.

[Damian]

If somebody can figure out how to do it, I'd like to see Pier's Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series made into movie. However there are six or seven books in the series which would make a transition to film difficult. The fantastic but short lived Showtime series, Dead Like Me was loosely based on the first book, On A Pale Horse.

[billnye97]

Well thanks to this thread I just finished reading Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. A truly amazing book. I do echo the other posts here and hope Peter Jackson doesn't drop the ball with this one.
I can't believe Eli Roth is going to direct The Cell by Stephen King. My hopes for that one just went down the toilet.

[billnye97]

http://www.filmbuffonline.com/2007/1...-pictures.html

Here is some info on the Lovely Bones film that Peter Jackson is doing. Just thought I'd share with everyone.

[rixrex]

It's not a novel, but a very good script I got to read in grad school called Harrow Alley.

Apparently it's been around since the 1960s and optioned by many but never gone into pre-production. I think some of the optioners, like George C Scott at one time, were not easy to work with types.

Anyway, it's a really good script.

[trevanian]

Originally Posted by rixrex

It's not a novel, but a very good script I got to read in grad school called Harrow Alley.

Apparently it's been around since the 1960s and optioned by many but never gone into pre-production. I think some of the optioners, like George C Scott at one time, were not easy to work with types.

Anyway, it's a really good script.

Is this the one that is a comedy set during the plague of the dark ages? I know Scott had the rights to something everybody loved, but nobody wanted him to direct it after that SAVAGE IS LOOSE thing of his.

[rixrex]

No, it's not a comedy although there are some light moments, but really is a story of redemption and tragedy as well set in London during the plague. It really ought to be put into book form at least.

I have to say that, out of all the scripts we got to read at USC grad school, this was 1978-1982 for me, Harrow Alley beat all of them, and this included scripts for The Princess Bride, Coal Miners Daughter, Atlantic City and other fine films.

At the time we read it, George C Scott had the rights, and because he wanted to star or direct, nobody would put up the money. Plus the script is long at about 180-190 pages, and not really anything was extraneous to the story so cutting it down wasn't really a consideration.

I would bet that if Richard Chamberlain had the rights, and wanted to star, it would have been a mini-series for certain. But Scott wasn't only just an unreliable draw, he was also very difficult to deal with.

[Bantam]

I'm interested to see how Confessions of a Shopaholic translates onto the big screen. The book was good, and I'd always thought that it would make a funny film.

Trailer here...


I'm a BIG fan of Isla Fisher's (...she's soo cute! ), and John Goodman plays her dad, it looks like. Haven't seen him in a major film in a while, now!?

[furthest1]

Anybody ever read The Cay? I'd love to see that one made in to a film.

[furthest1]

Meant to bring this up... is anyone else a fan of the classic story A Christmas Carol? Well they're coming out with a new film version of the story that will be starring Jim Carrey. I definitely excited to check it out. Anyone else interested in this?

[Monterey Jack]

Yeah, that's wheat we need...the 50,000th version of A Christmas Carol, only now with creepy, dead mocap eyes!

[furthest1]

I'm looking forward to this. I'm a huge fan of the story, so anytime I can get a re-telling of it, I'm all for it. They actually showed some footage this year at Comic Con, and the guy from Cinema Blend said that the animation was excellent! So it looks like Zemeckis is on the ball with his motion capture stuff. Check out the coverage here.