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Post by Cela on Dec 25, 2009 15:19:08 GMT -5
"A Dirty Job" by Christopher Moore is one of my favorite books ever and would make for an amazing movie. I say "Lamb" but no way in hell that will ever happen. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2009 15:20:07 GMT -5
"A Dirty Job" by Christopher Moore is one of my favorite books ever and would make for an amazing movie. I say "Lamb" but no way in hell that will ever happen. No love for Fluke? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2009 15:23:00 GMT -5
Also just about all of Carl Hiaasen's books not counting that one about the Owls who's name escapes me
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Post by i.Sarita.com on Dec 25, 2009 15:53:59 GMT -5
American Gods by Neil Gaiman would make a pretty neat movie.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2009 18:02:54 GMT -5
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Post by AriadosMan on Dec 25, 2009 19:14:11 GMT -5
You know, for seemingly being in the Public Domain, Lovecraft seems to only get Syfy Saturday and the random Justice Leauge productions of his work. Then again, I don't know who wants to make a film where the moral of the story is usually "Interacial Marriage is a plot by not evil but uncaring alien fish god's non-white cultists," so I suppose the "Influence" is probably the better racket. A good chunk of Lovecraft' stuff was published in the 1930s and is not PD. Generally, only texts published before a certain date in the 1920s (1926?) are PD. This also explains why Conan of Cimmeria is not PD, since all the Conan stuff was published in the 1930s. |
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Post by Psy on Dec 25, 2009 19:20:06 GMT -5
Well, there's the Kildar/Ghost series by John Ringo - oh wait, you said "good" books. Those are just entertaining Mary Sue-fests with explicit sex scenes for no apparent reason than to enforce the 'bad guy' image of the main character in an attempt to give him a character flaw.
I would have loved to see Ringo's "Through the Looking Glass" series adapted to a series of movies, while still containing not one, not two, but three-four Mary Sues... it's a hell of a sci-fi romp, not skimping on the sci to make room for some fi.
Honestly though, the Otherland series by Tad Williams. Or Tailchaser's Song/Tale, by Tad Williams. The Otherland series is an amazing work of fiction with one of the most detailed and satisfying conclusions I've ever read. Tailchaser's Song/Tale is another good fantasy novel, this time from the perspective of cats. I think it would be best as a cartoon but that doesn't mean it'd be good for the kiddies, some of the scenes would have to be rated PG-13 if not R.
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Post by Cela on Dec 25, 2009 19:32:43 GMT -5
I say "Lamb" but no way in hell that will ever happen. No love for Fluke? Anthropomorphic aqua mammals in whale subs, not sure that would work too well. Bloodsucking Fiends could cash in on the Twilight craze. |
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Post by Psy on Dec 25, 2009 19:43:58 GMT -5
"War of the Flowers" by Tad Williams would also be fantastic as a movie, some great visuals there running from the comical to the horrific.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Dec 25, 2009 20:18:51 GMT -5
For the money that was spent on that crappy Dungeons & Dragons movie, they could have instead used one of the successful franchises in the D&D pantheon. I cannot believe that they threw that piece of crap together rather than use the highly popular and successful Dragonlance story. Hell, I would have even found something in the Ravenloft setting to have been infinitely better than that colossal disappointment.
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Post by drjayphd (feat. Pitbull) on Dec 25, 2009 21:04:22 GMT -5
Minna Unchi.
Those of us in the US would know it better as Everybody Poops... now when's Paul Provenza going to do something with the rights?
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Post by delurked on Dec 25, 2009 21:06:24 GMT -5
I was always surprised no one ever took the Three Investigators and tried to make a movie or tv series out of their adventures. "The Pushcart War" was another children's book I thought would have made a good movie.
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Post by Psy on Dec 25, 2009 22:01:38 GMT -5
For the money that was spent on that crappy Dungeons & Dragons movie, they could have instead used one of the successful franchises in the D&D pantheon. I cannot believe that they threw that piece of crap together rather than use the highly popular and successful Dragonlance story. Hell, I would have even found something in the Ravenloft setting to have been infinitely better than that colossal disappointment. I actually enjoyed the second one, the one with the frost dragon. Of course, it helped that the barbarian chick was insanely hot. I'm not crazy about Dragonlance, but I think it's absolutely absurd that they have not made an Icewind Dale (based on the game), Drizz't, Baldur's Gate, etc movie. That's just ridiculous. |
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Post by Young Game on Dec 25, 2009 23:15:01 GMT -5
Letter Perfect by Charles P. Crawford.
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Post by Real Folk Bruce on Dec 25, 2009 23:48:30 GMT -5
I would kill to see an adaptation of VALIS with Bill Murray as Horselover Fat and Terry Gilliam as the director.
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Post by NerdyGerdy on Dec 26, 2009 0:01:52 GMT -5
The Catcher in the Rye
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Dec 26, 2009 0:52:10 GMT -5
For the money that was spent on that crappy Dungeons & Dragons movie, they could have instead used one of the successful franchises in the D&D pantheon. I cannot believe that they threw that piece of crap together rather than use the highly popular and successful Dragonlance story. Hell, I would have even found something in the Ravenloft setting to have been infinitely better than that colossal disappointment. I actually enjoyed the second one, the one with the frost dragon. Of course, it helped that the barbarian chick was insanely hot. I'm not crazy about Dragonlance, but I think it's absolutely absurd that they have not made an Icewind Dale (based on the game), Drizz't, Baldur's Gate, etc movie. That's just ridiculous. I have never seen the second one, but since it was direct to video my hopes were not high. I realize that there are several examples of established franchise lines that WotC had access to outside of Dragonlance (I even mentioned the interesting world of Ravenloft as another example). People merely mention Dragonlance because of the sheer volume of sales should have warranted serious consideration at the very least. Quite honestly, there are tons of material that they have that could make for some highly entertaining films. Hell, I bet that you could make a moderately prices anime style movie based on the Temple of Elemental Evil and make a nice amount of money since most players find there way into that module. Heck, bring to life any Gygax written module and the hardcore fans will wet themselves over it. Even the abandoned franchises would have been immensely better than what they did actually do. To be honest, I had a three part module based in the Dark Sun setting that ultimately featured an attempted expansion into the realm by the Gith-Yanki (who were mostly absent in that setting) that I think could have made one humdinger of a movie (complete with a couple of terrific fantasy setting, including a hidden, abandoned, underground Gith-Yanki city that was powered by an artificial sun that orbited the central tower in the city). The Counsil of the Wyrms setting couple have been fantastic as well. But no, we got that putrid abomination. |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 26, 2009 1:34:18 GMT -5
You know, for seemingly being in the Public Domain, Lovecraft seems to only get Syfy Saturday and the random Justice Leauge productions of his work. Then again, I don't know who wants to make a film where the moral of the story is usually "Interacial Marriage is a plot by not evil but uncaring alien fish god's non-white cultists," so I suppose the "Influence" is probably the better racket. Lovecraft is near-impossible to translate into film. He worked almost exclusively in short story form, and spent more time creating atmosphere than telling plot. He used archaic dialogue, his characters were sometimes racist and almost always misogynistic, and he rarely showed the monster. There have been plenty of films that have tried though, including the Resurrected and the Haunted Palace (both based on the Case of Charles Dexter Ward), The Unnameable, Dunwich Horror, Re-Animator, From Beyond, Dagon, The Curse and Die Monster Die (both based on The Colour Out of Space) and the Lurking Fear. Most of the others that are "Lovecraft" just use his concepts because they're cool, dispensing with the actual stories. That said, he's on my own top ten list of this nature: www.popsyndicate.com/column/story/10_stories_that_need_to_be_made_into_movies |
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on Dec 26, 2009 13:49:46 GMT -5
American Gods by Neil Gaiman would make a pretty neat movie. Every time I think that, there's a small part of me that reminds myself that with the editing necessary to make it palatable to mainstream audiences (And with the budget required for the big scenes, you'd have to make it mainstream to break even) It would lose the magic. And the disjointed story (the numerous threads that provide backstory, but have no DIRECT relevence to the main plot) is probably too confusing to properly adapt to a screenplay, and to remove them would get rid of some of the better scenes. That said, Anansi Boys would probably be easier to adapt, thanks in some small part to it's more linear story. |
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on Dec 26, 2009 13:50:54 GMT -5
Also just about all of Carl Hiaasen's books not counting that one about the Owls who's name escapes me Sorry for the Double Post, and I'm not sure whether this is considered a "Good" book, but Striptease was Hiassan and decent movie |
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