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What books/stories would you like to see adapted as films?

xxixii 10 years, 2 months ago at Feb 24 10:57 -
i would love to see some more Philip K Dick stuff - Ubik in particular, which at one point had John Lennon trying to finance a version - maybe The Man In The High Castle and weirdly a faithful adaptation of Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep as Blade Runner ( though great) isnt that faithful...The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch would be kind of contraversial and cool

Philip Pullman's - His Dark material series - yes we had The Golden Compass/Northern Lights but that was a bit of a mess...it would be nice to see the other 2 books adapted

And lastly stuff by Philip Jose Farmer ( this has turned into the 3 Philips!!!) - Lord Tyger would make an excellent twist movie, Image of the Beast could push the sexual/horror membrane and Nothing Burns In hell could be a great quirky modern noir thriller



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Michael S 10 years, 2 months ago at Feb 24 20:16 -
The Dungeon series, which was written under the auspices of Farmer, would make an excellent series of films. Richard A Lupoff, Bruce Coville and the incredibly talented Charles de Lint were some of the authors involved in writing them.

Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber would make an amazing series of films, as well. Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series, likewise would make for amazing cinema; each far better than most of what is put out today - if the right cast, director and so forth were chosen for them.
xxixii 10 years, 2 months ago at Feb 25 19:29 -
I vaguely recall reading the Richard A Lupoff start book of Dungeon which was very Farmer-esque and now I remember Lupoff also wrote Circumpolar a neat little scifi/fantasy heres a great description courtesy of it by David Bonesteel on the goodreads site

"On an alternate Earth that is shaped like a torus rather than a sphere, Charles Lindberg, Amelia Earhart, and Howard Hughes race against a team led by the Red Baron himself to be the first to travel completely across the planet's unknown side. Along the way, they encounter monsters and lost civilizations."

New Alabama Space War Blues by Lupoff was kind of wayyyy out there too

Back to Philip K Dick Ubik - I would love to see it actually filmed here in Switzerland as most of the story takes place in Zurich (though it could be set anywhere tbh)
shini 10 years, 1 month ago at Mar 16 20:51 -
More Philip K Dick stuff would be good. Well-done Gibson stuff would be good too.

For a more teenage audience, The Midnighters series by Scott Westerfeld (think Persona 3 setting) or his Peeps novel and its sequel, The Last Days (vampires, not the glamorous type though).

Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan would make a great series, though it might be hampered by the presence of a teenage female protagonist without an immediate love interest. They could change that, I guess, or make her younger, more family-friendly, and go for a Harry Potter approach.
browser 9 years, 4 months ago at Jan 5 23:07 -
I'd like to see a film based on Michael Moorcock's Elric stories and some Arthur C Clarke adaptations, I don't know why his stuff has been ignored since the 2001 and 2010 movies.