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Post by Raskovnik on Aug 24, 2014 1:16:14 GMT -5
The House of Leaves would be pretty damn hard to do I stand by thinking it could make for an awesome movie if they drop the Johnny Truant narrative (even if that's my favorite part) as well as everything else, and just do an adaptation of the Navidson Record. It'd probably piss a lot of fans off and would be a swerve to any fans of the movie who went to pick up the book but I don't give a shit, it'd be a good movie. I don't like House of Leaves fans anyways, haha. |
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Post by Hurbster on Aug 24, 2014 5:18:08 GMT -5
History has shown is that Dune is unfilmable. Not even mini-series versions were any good.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Aug 24, 2014 5:52:57 GMT -5
Mr B Gone by Clive Barker
World War Z
Naked Lunch
Weed Species by Jack Ketchum
The Bighead by Edward Lee
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Post by Glitch on Aug 24, 2014 6:05:21 GMT -5
Naked Lunch.
It is too much of a mess of words to work on film. The film version bearing the same name doesn't count since it's more of a tribute to the author than an adaptation.
Ideas change dramatically with each sentence. I had a hard time telling what was going on. It's hard imaging how it could work as a film narrative.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 24, 2014 7:20:24 GMT -5
Finnegan's Wake
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Post by wildojinx on Aug 24, 2014 7:48:34 GMT -5
Several Stephen King short stories/novellas. Blockade Billy, Night Surf, The Boogeyman, etc. Then again, they WERE able to make a movie out of Misery (the majority of which takes place in one room and in the book version contains lots of scenes of the main character writing), so never say never.
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Post by bibboid on Aug 24, 2014 16:30:47 GMT -5
Anything by Clive Cussler. When they made Raise the Titanic, he hated it so much he vowed to never sell the movie rights to his books again. Twenty five years later, he relented and let them make Sahara, which he hated so much that he sued the studio for ruining his story. I seriously doubt we will ever see another Dirk Pitt movie.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2014 16:33:06 GMT -5
Finnegan's Wake can suck all of the dicks. I had to read that thing for a class once, I'm pretty sure that the instructor just wanted to see if anyone could explain it to her because she seemed to have no clue what it was all about either.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Aug 24, 2014 17:15:48 GMT -5
History has shown is that Dune is unfilmable. Not even mini-series versions were any good. I rather liked Children of Dune. I do love the David Lynch version too, though I'd be hard pressed to defend it as an adaptation. Someone was taking another shot at adapting Dune, but I think it died in development hell. I think Hyperion could definitely work, but it would need to be a big-budget miniseries to do properly, and no one would take the risk on it. I know Bradley Cooper is a huge fan and trying to get it off the ground. |
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Post by Raskovnik on Aug 24, 2014 17:31:53 GMT -5
History has shown is that Dune is unfilmable. Not even mini-series versions were any good. In a perfect world Dune would get a high-budget TV adaption a la Game of Thrones. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 24, 2014 17:41:27 GMT -5
I'd say the majority of Lovecraft's work is pretty unfilmable (not that it hasn't stopped people from trying).
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Aug 24, 2014 17:43:30 GMT -5
NO novel is unfilmable ..... you just have to be clever in interpretating it!
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 25, 2014 3:17:35 GMT -5
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Well they can, but some of futuristic stuff in this book is going to look really outdated.
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Post by Joker on Aug 25, 2014 11:05:55 GMT -5
I'd say the majority of Lovecraft's work is pretty unfilmable (not that it hasn't stopped people from trying). I'm fairly certain a lot of his short stories would be easy enough to film. Heck Re-animator is a great film. The trick with Lovecraft tales is there is rarely a hero or happy ending instead it is frequently death, madness or an outside character relating what they know happened. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 25, 2014 11:13:51 GMT -5
I'd say the majority of Lovecraft's work is pretty unfilmable (not that it hasn't stopped people from trying). I'm fairly certain a lot of his short stories would be easy enough to film. Heck Re-animator is a great film. The trick with Lovecraft tales is there is rarely a hero or happy ending instead it is frequently death, madness or an outside character relating what they know happened. I meant in that a lot of his stuff works on describing the indescribable and not really knowing what's going on and relies on the reader's own imagination you really can't do that in film. |
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Post by Hugh Mungus on Aug 26, 2014 21:04:55 GMT -5
Gump and Co. The sequel novel to Forrest Gump was essentially written to be unfilmable after Winston Groom was screwed over by Hollywood Accounting practices that denied him any money from the movie's success (Holly Accounting techniques were used to label the film unprofitable and Groom's deal was to receive a percent of the profits$). The first line of the book was "Don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story." It didn't stop them from trying to film it, but it never came to be. Remember reading the book after I saw the movie first shock me how different it was Based on what I've read, Groom didn't have a problem with the major changes made to his book, though he admitted he preferred John Goodman as Forrest Gump, as Groom's Gump was a giant and an idiot savant. Here are the major differences: thatwasnotinthebook.com/diff/forrest_gump_book_1986_vs_forrest_gump_movie_1994/0#diffPage(possible language warning) |
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Post by Red Impact on Aug 26, 2014 22:08:59 GMT -5
I think you could do Lovecraftian horrors in film. I think it'd work better as shorts, and most of them you'd give the Alien approach to, in that you never really get a good look at what you're dealing with until the end, if ever.
I agree that Dune as a film is destined to suck, regardless of who does it. Could work as a tv series, but it's much too dense as a feature length film. I'd also say the same of Neuromancer.
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