what book do you wish they would / are turning into a movie?

top of my list are two oldie but goodie action novels:

John Carter of Mars (Pixar), and Solomon Kane

Kane already has a trailer starring the excellent James Purefoy of Rome (Marc Antony)

http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=solomonkane

of course we also have the never ending rumors of adaptations of classics like Rendezvous With Rama, Foundation, and Neuromancer but who knows if they'll ever get finished.

Foundation or Revelation Space, but they'd both be awful.

i hope neuromancer never sees the light of day.

i wouldn't mind seeing Porn, the sequel to Trainspotting get off the ground with a 15 yr older cast, i'm sure some have not aged well. also, they need to flesh out the rest of the Douglas Adams books, Disney seems to consistently acquire excellent properties, then abandon them bc they're to "high concept" or some shit, they just bring on more terrible animated 3D movies.

I think Atop and I would agree that if it were possible to make a successful screen adaptation of "A Voyage to Arcturus" it would be incredible.

I'd also like to see the pagan fantasy novel Mythago Wood get adapted, and Michael Shea's short story about his character Niift the Lean's journey into hell could also make an incredible film.

Did the film version of Ecstacy ever finish production?

My little pony.

I'm reading the last of C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy, and the first two books would be interesting to see on screen in well-made animated films, especially Out of The Silent Planet. Very surreal.

Other than that, Audacity of Hope. Haven't read it and at most I would only netflix it or stream it online.

george's marvelous medicine

Confederacy of Dunces by, John Kennedy Toole

  On 9/19/2009 at 7:23 AM, yek said:

george's marvelous medicine

That book is fucking amazing and rather surreal.

opps i forgot to mention The Hobbit.

the hobbit

  On 9/19/2009 at 5:42 AM, Lascaille said:

Revelation Space, but they'd both be awful.

this would be wicked if it worked, so many scenes I visualized as a movie when I read it. maybe chasm city would work better.

sirens of titan

the hobbit is in production isn't it?

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.

The Great Brain.

would love to see a movie version of if you give a moose a muffin

I got really excited about Guillermo Del Toro doing "At The Mountains of Madness", but that seemed to have fallen through with his involvement in The Hobbit.

radio free albemuth

oh wait

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1129396/

The Sword of Shannara (2010)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1047529/

islands in the stream

Wigfield

House of Leaves

The Oxford English Dictionary.

And I'm not kidding, it should be done by Michel Gondry.

  On 9/19/2009 at 12:50 PM, fenton said:

House of Leaves

This and Rendezvous With Rama, finally. It'd have to either unrecognisable from the book or combined with the second though, as nothing really actually happens in it. It'd look great though.

  On 9/19/2009 at 10:55 AM, chaosmachine said:

The Sword of Shannara (2010)

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1047529/

peep this..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051220/