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

[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.

[LoBaron]

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'.

[John 3rd]

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...

[Lokasenna]

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.

[Lecivius]

Pern would be awesome [8D]
 
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

[Kwik E Mart]

...Pearl Harbor by Newt Gingrich...it could have Ben Affleck and some super hottie leading lady...erm...wait...uhmmm...never mind...[:-]

[ilovestrategy]

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.

[Canoerebel]

Red Storm Rising would indeed be a good choice!

[Lokasenna]

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.

[mdiehl]

Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James Hornfischer
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

[Canoerebel]

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.

[AcePylut9]

50 Shades of Grey

[:D]

[Kitakami]

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

[Cribtop]

Small Ship, Big War, by Cuttlefish.

[Commander Stormwolf]

Small Ship, Big War, by Cuttlefish.

[:D] definitely

[Commander Stormwolf]

Also

Eagles of Mitsubishi

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

[Canoerebel]

How about Small Ship, Big War by Cuttlefish plus The Power of Inexperience by GreyJoy?

[Apollo11]

Hi all,


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"

[Bullwinkle58]

"Starship Troopers."

[Empire101]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

"Starship Troopers."

Good one!![:D]
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!![:'(]