OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies

[Wirraway_Ace]

Fvorite books that are not already movies that might reasonably (plot and length) be made into a movie, by genre:

Warfare/History:
Pigboat 39 by Gugliotte
Wahoo by O'Kane

Fiction/Fantasy:
Tigana by Kay

Fiction/Science Fiction
Parafaith War by Modesitt

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: AcePylut9

50 Shades of Grey

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The book sold millions of copies...to women.

If you made a movie none of them would go see it. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Two people mentioned HMS Ulysses

Maybe I should read that?

Red Storm Rising would be good.

[Cap Mandrake]

I enjoyed Team Yankee by Coyle. The scope is manageable but I'm not sure how you make a movie about fictional conflict in the 1980's against an enemy that no longer exists.

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: Wirraway_Ace
Wahoo by O'Kane

I'd watch that. I think I actually read that book twice. It's great, I highly recommend it to anyone able to get their hands on a copy.

If that book doesn't make you want to play a sub game, I don't know what will...

[jcjordan]

To me the Star Wars books that had Grand Adm Thrawn & some of the others that are post ROTJ. I've heard tales of a Wake Is movie being in the works as long as it's about the battle as well as what happened to those that surrendered & not TMTSNBN-esqe. I also agree on RSR a book I've reread many times over maybe one of his more current books that feature China/ME scenario

[crsutton]

C.S. Forester's brilliant "The Good Shepherd" one of the best WWII novels I have read-about an intense convoy battle in the North Atlantic. I inherited it from my dad and re-read it every three or four years. Very much like HMS Ulysses.

[danlongman]

I would like to see "The Telephone Book of Shannara" made into a ten year long maxi-series like "24".
And a regular series "Quotidian Events And Everyday Happenstance of Shannara".
and a National Geographic special "Humouroids and Other Bathroom Secrets of Shannara"
Fianlly a bunch of vignettes..... "Smashing Bodice Rippers of Shannara-Babylon City of Bimbos"
all by soojan the spambot
Oh Yeah..documentary "The Prolonged Agony and Hideous Death of Jar-Jar Binks and Clay Aiken In Shannara"
cheers

[Justus2]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I enjoyed Team Yankee by Coyle. The scope is manageable but I'm not sure how you make a movie about fictional conflict in the 1980's against an enemy that no longer exists.

Actually I would love to see Coyle's The Ten Thousand, the scenario could be updated a bit, but the premise would still be good with European unrest, shifting alliances, etc.

Another series that seems ripe would be Elric of Melnibone, I read something a couple years ago that one was in the works, but it must have died out. but I would think it has many elements that could resonate with modern movie audiences: addiction, tragic relationships,family rivalries etc, that would probably not have been seen as approachable in the past, when fantasy was generally seen as more suited for a younger audience.

[jeffk3510]

All Louis Lamour books

[Cap Mandrake]

Just thought of another one. Grave's I Claudius, a fantastic story of old Rome.


It was a BBC TV series which was well acted but annoyingly television-like. I dont think there was one outdoor scene. It was a bit of a complex book to fit into 2 hrs.

[khyberbill]

HMS Ulysses (by Allistair McLean)

The good guys die in the end in this book which is probably why it was never made into a movie. I would like to see "enders game" by Orson Scott Card turned into a movie.

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: khyberbill

HMS Ulysses (by Allistair McLean)

The good guys die in the end in this book which is probably why it was never made into a movie. I would like to see "enders game" by Orson Scott Card turned into a movie.

I think I read somewhere it's in produciton or post-production already.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Just thought of another one. Grave's I Claudius, a fantastic story of old Rome.


It was a BBC TV series which was well acted but annoyingly television-like. I dont think there was one outdoor scene. It was a bit of a complex book to fit into 2 hrs.

Wife and I re-watched it on DVD last year - fantastic quality despite the years!

IMHO the lack of outdoor scenes (there are some - in the garden for example) are not hampering the story at all - the acting is so superb that it covers everything - it is just like great theater play!!!


Leo "Apollo11"

[khyberbill]

I think I read somewhere it's in produciton or post-production already.

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If it is, it is a well kept secret.

[Canoerebel]

Well how about Bridge on the River Kwai and Doctor Zhivago?  Most of the good guys die in those flicks, but both got Best Picture awards, IIRC.  So HMS Ulysses is set, though it doesn't have a love interest, which I suppose is de rigguer (spelling?). 

Perhaps Ben Afflec can take the part of Hans Bilgewort, a lonely lighthousekeeper in Newfoundland who falls for Eva Corn, a longshorewoman of questionable virtue.  They have a torrid love scene inside the lighthouse, where some whacky Canadian RAF pilots had draped parachutes to dry.  When Affleck points the lighthouse's piercing light into the eyes of a German U-Boat commander, blinding him temporarily so that he beaches his vessel, Afflec is given command of the HMS Ulysses.  He rams Ulyssess into Tirpitz, Gniesenau and Prince Eugen, sinking all three, but discovering the Eva was actually a bosun in the German Navy.  She informs him that his son is actually the love child of Admiral Donitz.  The End. 

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Perhaps Ben Afflec can take the part of Hans Bilgewort, a lonely lighthousekeeper in Newfoundland who falls for Eva Corn, a longshorewoman of questionable virtue.  They have a torrid love scene inside the lighthouse, where some whacky Canadian RAF pilots had draped parachutes to dry.  When Affleck points the lighthouse's piercing light into the eyes of a German U-Boat commander, blinding him temporarily so that he beaches his vessel, Afflec is given command of the HMS Ulysses.  He rams Ulyssess into Tirpitz, Gniesenau and Prince Eugen, sinking all three, but discovering the Eva was actually a bosun in the German Navy.  She informs him that his son is actually the love child of Admiral Donitz.  The End. 

I don't know. The whole love child of Donitz thing has been done to death. Maybe Ulysses, while under US command, could capture an Enigma machine?

[bradfordkay]

The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Sterling - it's an alternate history where the earth was hit by a meteor shower in 1878, wiping out the industrialized northern hemisphere (Benjamin Disraeli is sanctified for saveing the British empire by moving the government and people of quality to India). The book is set in 2025 and is a rollicking adventure/spy novel. When I was reading it I was thinking that I would love for Spielberg to make a film of it (or Peter Jackson).

[Canoerebel]

India's in the northern hemisphere, so how did it avoid the catastrophe?
 
The plot sounds a bit like Heiro's Journey, which takes place 3,000 years in the future after an atomic war wiped out most of civilization and knowledge, turning North America into a battleground for forces of good against those of evil, which include a slate of nasty mutated beasties.

[bradfordkay]

Well, it's pretty close to the equator, unlike all the major industrialized nations. Some people did survive, especially in Russia, by turning to cannibalism in the several years where all crops failed due to the dust cloud. Otherwise, take it up with the author.

The book is worth reading, IMO. It was a lot of fun with a couple of very good heroes involved.