Books that *should* be films!

ChuckManual

I simply cannot understand why Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest books (Harlequin, Vagabond and Heretic) haven't been adapted for the screen. They are all absolute rip-roarers!

...or all eight volumes of The Outlaw Chronicles, by Angus Donald. Admittedly, you'd probably have to do some judicious pruning and get them down to a trilogy, but still...

The Flashman series of books could do with a decent screen outing too. The one film that was made was absolutely awful.

randella

Pretty much anything by Iain Banks.  They serialised the Crow Road for telly and it was great.  Reading through Whit for the first time in years - had forgotten how good a book it is, would make a great series.

His stories generally have godalmighty twists in them that you never see coming and never seem contrived either.  I think they'd translate to the screen very well.

breakstuff

Not a film,but I'd love to see the Logan McRae novels by Stuart Macbride turned into a tv show.There's been talk of it for years but nothing's materialized yet.

Sporky

The "That's not my..." series.

Sporky

Oooh - forgot one.

A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

Also there's a sequel already written:

A Million Random Digits THE SEQUEL: with Perfectly Uniform Distribution

57Deluxe

The Soul Of Tone...

fretmeister

It's a tough question.

Usually if I really enjoy a book and then see the film later even if I enjoy the film I still miss the bits missed for time reasons etc.

There was a Puzo book that I thought was far better than the Godfather but I'll be damned if I can remember the name at the mo.

Reverend

57Deluxe said:

The Soul Of Tone...

Hertz32

Gateway by Frederik Pohl. 
At *least* as good as Ender's game, someone owns the film rights to it I believe. Hopefully theyre being sat on until the film can do the book justice

mart

Sporky said:

Oooh - forgot one.

A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

...

Wasn't that what Twin Peaks was based on?

Dopesick

Fly Fishing by JR Hartley

fields5069

Ulysses.

Nikko

Sporky said:

The "That's not my..." series.

Im particularly fond of the 'Donkey' instalment. Could read that over and over.

octatonic

They should do a film version of 'The Bible".

xSkarloey

fields5069 said:

Ulysses.

Stephen Rea starred as Bloom in a version from the early 2000s. 


Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke

fob

I always thought that Julian May's 'Many-Coloured Land' and its sequels would make for a great mini-series. Great sci-fi with lots of characters and fun plots. I think I read somewhere that someone is looking into it already, though that could mean a few years before we see anything.

RocknRollDave

octatonic said:

They should do a film version of 'The Bible".

There's loads of them, is there not?

The Monty Python one was especially good.

earwighoney

The Crimes of Josef Fritzl.... 

IvanMC

I do know what you mean by books that should be films, but I reckon some books are TOO good to be films. Take Lovecraft for instance. Take At The Mountains of Madness: turn it into a film. What will you get? Disappointment. That story is so flawlessly perfect -as it were- to turn it into a film. It really does make your imagination run wild. You can even smell certain things. Some books shouldn't become films.

octatonic

RocknRollDave said:

octatonic said:

They should do a film version of 'The Bible".

There's loads of them, is there not?

The Monty Python one was especially good.

I mean the whole thing- from beginning to end.

RocknRollDave

octatonic said:

RocknRollDave said:

octatonic said:

They should do a film version of 'The Bible".

There's loads of them, is there not?

The Monty Python one was especially good.

I mean the whole thing- from beginning to end.

ALL of it? Jesus....