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Bullwinkle58 -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/14/2012 6:11:30 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

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.



Quick to start wars with Great Britain . . .



oldman45 -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/14/2012 6:35:30 PM)

Team Yankee was Red Storm Rising.



Bullwinkle58 -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/14/2012 6:37:42 PM)


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ORIGINAL: oldman45

Team Yankee was Red Storm Rising.


I read them both and not even close. TY was land warfare. RSR was much more about naval and amphib operaitons.



USSAmerica -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/14/2012 7:45:17 PM)

Yep, and Coyle mentioned that Team Yankee was "set" in the story from WWIII.



Cuttlefish -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/14/2012 7:53:59 PM)


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ORIGINAL: mdiehl

How about an HBO series about Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser?


That might be enough to convince me to hook up my cable service again. Even some 60 years later they remain among the best fantasy stories ever written.







crsutton -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/14/2012 8:07:55 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


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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?



I thought you guys already knew. I actually "am" the illegal love child of Donitz.

Fox is making a movie of the whole thing. Neal Patrick Harris plays me and Larry Hagman plays Donitz. Thing is he is called Donneritz in the movie. My lawyer tells me that they do not have to pay me any royalties that way...

I really have to update my profile one of these days....



crsutton -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/14/2012 8:09:31 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

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!


Yes, and we southerners are more likely to marry our first cousins as well.[;)]



crsutton -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/14/2012 8:09:44 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

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!


Yes, and we southerners are more likely to marry our first cousins as well.[;)]

Guess, I had to say it twice just in case some of you missed the joke....



Cap Mandrake -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/14/2012 8:46:49 PM)


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ORIGINAL: crsutton


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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


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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?



I thought you guys already knew. I actually "am" the illegal love child of Donitz.

Fox is making a movie of the whole thing. Neal Patrick Harris plays me and Larry Hagman plays Donitz. Thing is he is called Donneritz in the movie. My lawyer tells me that they do not have to pay me any royalties that way...

I really have to update my profile one of these days....



I hope you took after your mom, then. No offense, but his forehead seems really big.

[image]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/D%C3%B6nitz.jpg/220px-D%C3%B6nitz.jpg[/image]



geofflambert -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/14/2012 8:56:08 PM)

Verne's Off on a Comet. It was hilarious. Kids would love it.

Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar. Very timely. Mombasa was actually part of Zanzibar not Kenya when Barack was born there. [:D]

On Gettysburgh, the cable show was great, but I missed any portrayal of action at Culp's Hill etc.. Also maybe throw in a narrator here and there with a map. I think it was hard for non military buffs to follow, perhaps.

Also it's appropriate to follow a letter missing the umlaut with e. Doenitz.



crsutton -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/14/2012 9:30:14 PM)

Oh, how silly of me. That would be Doenneritz.



geofflambert -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/14/2012 9:43:19 PM)


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ORIGINAL: crsutton

Oh, how silly of me. That would be Doenneritz.



Doernnerblitzen?



Cap Mandrake -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/14/2012 9:50:11 PM)

Gettysburg was based on Killer Angels (an absolutely sublime book, btw). Much of the emphasis was on 20th Maine and Longstreet. Shaara used Longstreet's memoirs. That's why Culp's Hill isnt in there.



John 3rd -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/14/2012 11:21:47 PM)

Just makes you more angry at the USELESS Early and Ewell!



SuluSea -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/15/2012 3:02:26 AM)

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand--being made and looking forward to it.

Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James Hornfischer

Pacific Alamo by John Wukovits



mike scholl 1 -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/15/2012 5:30:06 AM)

Shiloh, BLOODY APRIL.



John 3rd -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/16/2012 5:14:16 AM)

How about Larry Bond's Red Phoenix? Hypothetical 2nd Korean War?!! The book ROCKS!



LoBaron -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/16/2012 7:23:54 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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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.


Wow, one of the favourite books from my youth (Ender´s Game) combined with (back then) favourite actor in a SF movie (Harrison Ford in Blade Runner).
Thanks, will keep an eye on that!



warspite1 -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/16/2012 8:33:39 AM)

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol. I think this would be great subject for a film.



ilovestrategy -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/16/2012 10:03:17 AM)

E.E. Doc Smith's The Lensmens Series over a series of months, like an HBO or Showtime series.



LargeSlowTarget -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/16/2012 1:24:52 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11
#3
Haie und kleine Fische ("Sharks and Small Fish")
By Wolfgang Ott


Has been made into a movie in 1957 - can be found on youtube.

My candidates:

- Run Silent, run deep by Beach (includes a love story, so perfect for Hollywood - but it would probably be turned into another movie that shall not be named...)
- Japanese destroyer captain by Hara
- The Arnheiter Affair by Sheehan (The Caine mutiny was fiction - the Arnheiter affair was real)
- With the old breed by Sledge
- the Bolitho series by Douglas Reeman (aka Alexander Kent)



Apollo11 -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/16/2012 3:43:56 PM)

Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11
#3
Haie und kleine Fische ("Sharks and Small Fish")
By Wolfgang Ott


Has been made into a movie in 1957 - can be found on youtube.


WOW - unbelievable!

I never knew that there was a movie (albeit black and white and from 1957) about that book (and I have read the book many many times in past 30+ years)... [X(]

Thanks for info!


Leo "Apollo11"



rockmedic109 -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/16/2012 4:55:21 PM)

How did I forget Red Phoenix!

I'd love a whole series of Bolitho movies but you can't stop at only 1......or 5.



mdiehl -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/16/2012 5:05:16 PM)

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Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol. I think this would be great subject for a film.


[:D][&o]



Skyros -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/16/2012 8:37:31 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I understand remake of "Damnbusters" is in the works.

I lay 10:1 they change the name of the squadron commander's dog.

I wonder if the younger generation will accuse them of ripping off dialog from Star Wars instead of it being the other way around.



msieving1 -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/17/2012 7:50:30 PM)


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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

quote:

ORIGINAL: Apollo11
#3
Haie und kleine Fische ("Sharks and Small Fish")
By Wolfgang Ott


Has been made into a movie in 1957 - can be found on youtube.

My candidates:

- Run Silent, run deep by Beach (includes a love story, so perfect for Hollywood - but it would probably be turned into another movie that shall not be named...)
- Japanese destroyer captain by Hara
- The Arnheiter Affair by Sheehan (The Caine mutiny was fiction - the Arnheiter affair was real)
- With the old breed by Sledge
- the Bolitho series by Douglas Reeman (aka Alexander Kent)



Run Silent, Run Deep has been done. 1958, starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. Don Rickles has a role as well.

With the Old Breed was one of the sources for The Pacific mini-series.



GreyJoy -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/17/2012 8:44:01 PM)

- Guns of the South (Turtledove)
- Samurai (Saburo Sakai)
- The blonde knight of Germany (the bio of H. Hartmann)
- The night watch (by S.Pasini....i bet you don't know him[:)])
- The Gates of Fire (by S.Pressfield)




JWE -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/17/2012 9:20:57 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
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.

So sorry to move the thread back to the OP question, but ...
While I love Hiero's Journey, I think I would'a died and gone to Heaven if somebody righteous would do:
3. Arundel (by Kenneth Roberts)
4. Rabble in Arms (by Kenneth Roberts)
Two of the greatest books in our National Heritage. They are so flatly and completely historical, that they are perfect. But they contain, within themselves, a radically revisionist concept that rings utterly true. And you know just what I mean, yeah CR?.

For that alone, if somebody righteous did these, they would blow the doors off Star Wars or Harry Potter, or anything else. I'm not smart enough to be Steve Nason or Peter Merrill, not big enough for Cap Huff, but I'm old enough for Doc Means. I just might apply.

[ed] must say I'm impressed with your choices.



danlongman -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/17/2012 10:01:09 PM)

Xenophon's ANABASIS which Coyle like totally ripped off for Ten Thousand.
Farley Mowat's "And No Birds Sang" a gripping autobiographical story of a young, idealistic Canadian Infantry Officer in 1943-44 Italy.
John Harris's "A Covenant With Death" which would break the hearts of the biggest warmongers. Probably wouldn't go. I picture thousands of movie-goers walking out in tears and a quick trip to dvd for a wonderfully tragic story.
Thomas Keneally's (Schindlers Arc) "Confederates" a superb story of Jackson's corps in the Antietam campaign written by the masterful Austalian!! author. An incredibly authenic narrative of ordinary men at war.
The last a must read, IMHO, as a current Canadian, for ACW buffs.
cheers



RevRick -> RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies (6/17/2012 11:10:05 PM)

I have to agree with "HMS Ulysses," "The Lensman series," and "Ender's Game."
I'd add "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and for Heaven's Sake do an accurate version of "Starship Troopers." The original version of ST was almost as bad as the first "Dune."
I'd also love to see A&E do a continuation of the Hornblower series.



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