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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 12:11:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		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.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 12:41:09 AM   
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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.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 1:18:57 AM   
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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.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 1:19:40 AM   
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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!!!


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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 1:27:16 AM   
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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.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 1:33:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		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. 

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 1:42:45 AM   
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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?

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 1:47:33 AM   
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 1:53:21 AM   
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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.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 1:56:29 AM   
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The book is worth reading, IMO. It was a lot of fun with a couple of very good heroes involved.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 2:56:17 AM   
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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.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/

2013 release. Harrison Ford starring (not as Ender of course.)

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 3:20:03 AM   
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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.


It is.

Edit: Slow.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 3:38:33 AM   
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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.


It is.

Edit: Slow.


The South does that to a man.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 7:23:30 AM   
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Aw shucks, thanks. If I remember correctly, there was some talk of that in the AAR, with speculation about who would play which roles.

Personally, I wince whenever I see that one of my favorite books is being turned into a movie. But a British production of "HMS Ulysses" would get my vote. Or how about a well-done movie of "Japanese Destroyer Captain"? For a non-WWII flick, I think Fred Saberhagen's "Empire of the East" would make a great movie.


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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 7:57:37 AM   
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 8:04:05 AM   
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2013 release. Harrison Ford starring (not as Ender of course.)

Ahh, I thought you were referring to my comment about HMS Ulysses. Thanks for the update.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 12:38:56 PM   
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The 10,000, Team Yankee, and Red Storm Rising would be great but don't forget WWIII by Sir John Hackett.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 1:40:49 PM   
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David Eddings - The Belgariad/The Malloreon series. Written in the 80's and I think some of the best fantasy story lines written in a long time.

The 10,000, Team Yankee, and Red Storm Rising would be great but don't forget WWIII by Sir John Hackett.


WWIII was one of the first books I got from the old Military History Book Club as my 'book of the month' in the early 80s - I loved that book, fond memories.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 1:42:33 PM   
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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.


It is.

Edit: Slow.


The South does that to a man.


Been here 10 years, so I guess the process is starting.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 1:47:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		Poultry Lad has it all wrong.  It's New Englanders who are slow.  Remember?  They are reserved, laconic, and staid.  Slow to form alliances, slow to develop affection, and disinclined to shows of emotion.

Southerners, on the other hand, fly off the handle.  We're quick to see; to evaluate; to decide; to jump on you like Early jumped on Sheridan at Cedar Creek!

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 1:55:50 PM   
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Poultry Lad has it all wrong.  It's New Englanders who are slow.  Remember?  They are reserved, laconic, and staid.  Slow to form alliances, slow to develop affection, and disinclined to shows of emotion.

Southerners, on the other hand, fly off the handle.  We're quick to see; to evaluate; to decide; to jump on you like Early jumped on Sheridan at Cedar Creek!


And how did that work out for Early?

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 2:04:08 PM   
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 2:42:21 PM   
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 2:56:28 PM   
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I lay 10:1 they change the name of the squadron commander's dog.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 3:29:25 PM   
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 3:34:38 PM   
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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 3:39:02 PM   
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I had forgotten about that series, it was one of my favorites.


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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 4:44:08 PM   
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Don't remember Capt. What was the dog's name?




Imagine the most ludicrously politically incorrect name for a black Labrador

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 4:46:18 PM   
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To bad that in the mid 90's you could have rented the Red Army to play itself.

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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies - 6/14/2012 5:35:14 PM   
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