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OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 2:56:57 PM   
Canoerebel


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Status: offline 		I bet we all have favorite books that haven't been made into movies. Here are five that I wish Peter Jackson would take on:

1. Hiero's Journey (by Sterling Lanier)
2. HMS Ulysses (by Allistair McLean)
3. Arundel (by Kenneth Roberts)
4. Rabble in Arms (by Kenneth Roberts)
5. Oliver Wiswell (by Kennth Roberts)

What books might you nominate? (Also, any of you gents ever read Hiero's Journey? It's been a favorite of mine since I find it in a shop outside Salt Lake City in 1974, but I've never known another person who has read it (outside of my children).

P.S. Having a great screenwriter and director would be critial to the success of the venture. Without it, you end up with Allistair McLean's Ice Station Zebra or Kenneth Robert's Northwest Passage, both of which were imminently forgettable films.
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 3:20:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		I always wanted to see an Ian M. Banks SF novel as a movie. 'Look to Windward' would be my book of choice.

Very much agree on HMS Ulysses, I imagine it to be similar to 'Das Boot'.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 4:10:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		Many of the Alistar McLean's would be excellent.

With the advent of modern CGI, I would love to see some of the Fantasy Books from my youth turned into Movies:

The Dragonriders of Pern
The Shannara Series

Number One on my list though would be William Forstchen's One Second After. Magnificent and horrifying book...


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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 4:15:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'd love for Morgan Llywelyn's Finn MacCool to get an adaptation. It wouldn't need much work to adapt it, really... I wouldn't want Peter Jackson to do it though. Maybe someone more like Ridley Scott instead. I also hear there's a Dark Tower HBO TV (or Warner Bros. movie) series on the way, kinda sorta? Anxiously awaiting that... Although neither of those is really in the same genre as your 5.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 4:29:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Pern would be awesome

Battlemech is another.  It would also, IMO, make an awesome game as an MMO or a Strategy game

The Necroscope would be cool.

The Sacketts. 

Red Storm Rising

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 4:36:25 PM   
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 4:56:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		I would love to see an HBO or Showtime adaption of The Caine Mutiny that very closely follows the book. I say HBO adaption because any movie would be far too short to follow Wouk's work.

As much as I love Bogart, the 1950s movie did not do that book justice.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 5:06:20 PM   
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 5:10:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		I had forgotten about that one, it's been too long... Would definitely want to see that, but please keep everyone involved with the previous Clancy movies far, far away from it.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 5:34:28 PM   
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Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Gettysburg by Michael Shaara redone with modern CGI so that the army of the Potomac looks like an actual army
Drum Beat by Jim Butcher with a script by Joss Whedon
Day by Day Armageddon novels by J.L. Bourne

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 5:40:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		I seriously doubt a new Gettysburg could be anything close to the original.  That undertaking was too large and too male oriented to attract major funding, me thinks.  It also did a fabulous job of remaining historically accurate while not being offensive:  southerners (slave owners!) are portrayed in a positive light; Confederate prisoners say they are fighting for their "rights," and Chamberlain engages in an eloquent discussion of humanity's "divine spark" and the fact that it includes the black man.  The movie is an epic that cannot be redone.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 6:19:30 PM   
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 6:23:53 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Lecivius
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Battlemech is another.  It would also, IMO, make an awesome game as an MMO or a Strategy game

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You might just get your wish... www.mwomercs.com It is in closed beta now, and is supposed to start next month.

EDIT: wrong URL

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 6:44:30 PM   
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 6:52:04 PM   
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Small Ship, Big War, by Cuttlefish.


definitely

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 6:53:46 PM   
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Also

Eagles of Mitsubishi

would make a cool movie, plus you get some nice zero replicas afterwards

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 7:02:05 PM   
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 7:02:29 PM   
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Just 3 from me this time:


#1
HMS Ulysses
by Allistair McLean


#2
Bomber
By Len Deighton


#3
Haie und kleine Fische ("Sharks and Small Fish")
By Wolfgang Ott


Leo "Apollo11"

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 7:35:57 PM   
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 8:18:42 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

"Starship Troopers."


Good one!!
Preferably with the cast of EastEnders being dismembered in a gruesome way by the bugs.

'Shadows over Baker Street'. Some of those stories would make a great film.


Ok.....I admit it,.....I'm a closet Lovecraft fan!!


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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 9:51:05 PM   
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Warfare/History:
Pigboat 39 by Gugliotte
Wahoo by O'Kane

Fiction/Fantasy:
Tigana by Kay

Fiction/Science Fiction
Parafaith War by Modesitt



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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 9:53:22 PM   
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ORIGINAL: AcePylut9

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

If you made a movie none of them would go see it.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 10:10:09 PM   
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Maybe I should read that?

Red Storm Rising would be good.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 10:21:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		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.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 10:40:50 PM   
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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...

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 10:47:37 PM   
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 11:34:31 PM   
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 11:52:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		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

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/13/2012 11:55:10 PM   
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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.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 12:01:12 AM   
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