|
|
 
Rank: Matriarch
Joined: 12/6/2006
Posts: 22,687
Location: Sydney, Australia
|
Which book would it be?
Let's assume they don't make a total hash of it...
|
|
Rank: Constant Gardener
Joined: 9/30/2009
Posts: 9,560
Location: Cakeland, United States
|
Sh*t My Dad Says
 The best thing you can do for your fellow,
next to rousing his conscience, is - not to give him things
to think about, but to wake things up that are in him...
to make him think things for himself - George MacDonald
|
|
Rank: Lurker
Joined: 11/30/2006
Posts: 332,034
|
The Stephanie Plum series I just loved. Awesome if you're looking for a fun read..would make great movies.
|
|
Rank: Her Royal Spriteness
Joined: 6/18/2010
Posts: 9,085
Location: My Tower, United States
|
LittleMissBitch wrote:The Stephanie Plum series I just loved. Awesome if you're looking for a fun read..would make great movies. Actually, they are working on a film right now - Starring Katherine Heigl. http://www.movieinsider.com/m1037/one-for-the-money/
 Blondie's been itching to share another adventure sometime soon...
|
|
Rank: Lurker
Joined: 11/30/2006
Posts: 332,034
|
ohhh yayyyyy!!! but i was hoping for Sandra Bullock! oh well. such a great series! p.s..i watched Tangled yesterday for the first time and totally thought of you!! :)
|
|
Rank: Her Royal Spriteness
Joined: 6/18/2010
Posts: 9,085
Location: My Tower, United States
|
LittleMissBitch wrote:ohhh yayyyyy!!! but i was hoping for Sandra Bullock! oh well. such a great series! p.s..i watched Tangled yesterday for the first time and totally thought of you!! :) lol - hopefully, not for the last time - i intend to get EVERYONE here hooked on it :) ok, so... first off, i want to see a series, ala Harry potter - the Wonderland books - all of them - there's like a million (ok, more like 15) but i'd love to see them all in movie form, and perhaps a little bit more adult and darker? i just love the stories - sometimes i wish i'd been a film maker, i think i'd be a good one - sort of a Tim Burtony-Terry Gilliamy-David Lynchian type!
Blondie's been itching to share another adventure sometime soon...
|
|
Rank: Lurker
Joined: 11/30/2006
Posts: 332,034
|
sprite wrote:LittleMissBitch wrote:ohhh yayyyyy!!! but i was hoping for Sandra Bullock! oh well. such a great series! p.s..i watched Tangled yesterday for the first time and totally thought of you!! :) lol - hopefully, not for the last time - i intend to get EVERYONE here hooked on it :) ok, so... first off, i want to see a series, ala Harry potter - the Wonderland books - all of them - there's like a million (ok, more like 15) but i'd love to see them all in movie form, and perhaps a little bit more adult and darker? i just love the stories - sometimes i wish i'd been a film maker, i think i'd be a good one - sort of a Tim Burtony-Terry Gilliamy-David Lynchian type! ooo yesss...i love the dark side of fairy tales. mmmm would love to see the dark side of you up on a big screen ;)
|
|
Rank: Lurker
Joined: 11/30/2006
Posts: 332,034
|
Pastoralia by George Saunders.
|
|
Rank: Forum Guru
Joined: 11/23/2009
Posts: 274
Location: United States
|
Anything by Thea Devine. They're so raunchy and dirty but still have a good plot... I think they would make great films. :)
Right there. Oh yeah baby. Right there.
|
|
Rank: Lurker
Joined: 11/30/2006
Posts: 332,034
|
WellMadeMale wrote:Sh*t My Dad Says There is an american sitcom based on that called the same. It has ermm the dude from star trek who played Kirk in the sixties
|
|
Rank: Lurker
Joined: 11/30/2006
Posts: 332,034
|
It was, Anne Rice; Queen of the Damned. It was turned into a movie, and then Hollywood got a hold of it. The proposed history in that book, the lineage, the parts of the book that shows the true diversity in those that are damned and how they came to be and what they did with that experience.
Unfortunately, the female lead died in a plane crash, the sound track was overproduced, and the characters were severally under developed.
Such a great piece of writing, in my view, and it was raped.
I vote for a re-do.
|
|
Rank: Forum Guru
Joined: 1/9/2011
Posts: 137
Location: United States
|
I would have asked that the George R.R. Martin "Fire and Ice" series be turned into movies. But HBO made it into a TV series! Great so far (Game of Thrones.)
Writer of amateur erotica since 2011.. For an example see http://www.lushstories.com/stories/reluctance/the-alpha-male-part-i.aspx
|
|
Rank: Lurker
Joined: 11/30/2006
Posts: 332,034
|
1984- George Orwell
|
|
Rank: Forum Guru
Joined: 4/3/2010
Posts: 3,340
Location: California
|
Dolpha732 wrote:1984- George Orwell They made one! It was okay, not great. 
|
|
Rank: Moderator
Joined: 6/15/2010
Posts: 1,288
Location: State of Confusion
|
The Day After Tomorrow, by Allan Folsom. This book has nothing to do with the 2004 movie.
|
|
Rank: Lurker
Joined: 11/30/2006
Posts: 332,034
|
Birdsong = Sebastian Faulkes
|
|
Rank: Advanced Wordsmith
Joined: 11/28/2008
Posts: 2,594
Location: Newcastle, United Kingdom
|
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin
|
|
Rank: Lurker
Joined: 11/30/2006
Posts: 332,034
|
The Stand by Stephan King
That crap they made and put on TV sucked.
The War of the Worlds by H.G.Wells
Not the Tom Cruise mess or the 1960s one. But a better one that follows the book/books with all the high tech CGI stuff we have, it could be interesting.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
I loved the old black & white version. As long as they don't get people like Jolie/Pitt to do it. I'd like some unknowns that can Really act.
|
|
Rank: Lurker
Joined: 11/30/2006
Posts: 332,034
|
Yup, it funny, any time King is actually part of the production, the movie of his book sucks. But when he has nothing to do with it, it totally rocks. I can't explain it, it just happens.
|
|
Rank: Lurker
Joined: 11/30/2006
Posts: 332,034
|
I'm looking forward to seeing how King's, The Dark Tower movies turn out. With Ron Howard directing I am hopeful also I've had a lot of fun 'casting' the movie with my friends...
They seem to have run into some problems, but hopefully it will happen...
|
|
Rank: Forum Guru
Joined: 4/25/2011
Posts: 1,134
Location: São Paulo , Brazil
|
|
|
Rank: Author
Joined: 10/22/2011
Posts: 2,005
Location: Expat in, Russia
|
"Uhuru" which is the Swahili word for 'freedom by Robert Ruark in 1962 would be my choice. He earlier wrote "Something of Value" which became a movie in 1957 with Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter and Sidney Poitier. Both of these books had a profound effect on my life and my values.
|
|
Rank: Forum Guru
Joined: 11/1/2011
Posts: 3,244
Location: Seattle, United States
|
Does TV series count? I could totally see Chelsea Handler's two books 'Chelsea Chelsea bang bang' and 'Hi Voldka it's me Chealsea' turn into TV series. It will be kind of like 'Two and Half men', the main character is an alcohol/drug/sex addict, except she's a sexy blonde.
|
|
|
Guest |