Ah, I see your previous post now. Sorry Pogue, you’re just so easy to overlook!
That would be a total winner, but how is it offbeat? In many ways, it’s standard summer blockbuster fare.
Lord of Light. But only as a lovingly done enormously expensive trilogy or series slavishly following the plot of the book and making use of super-high quality FX and CGI. I hate it when a favorite book is raped by Hollywood.
Also, +1 for the Illuminatus trilogy. Could be done much more cheaply and still work, even with a hacked for-the-movies script. It would be tough to incorporate all those sex scenes without devolving into porn.
You know, I just came back here to post that. Lord of Light and the first Chronicles of Amber series would both be amazing. An HBO Amber production would be drool-worthy.
I’d love to see Forever War on the screen. I hear that there is an option that was picked up by Ridley Scott which simultaneously intrigues and terrifies me.
That’s what she said! Wait, that didn’t work out the way I had it planned.
J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise and Concrete Island. David Cronenberg was born to adapt these.
Tim Powers’ The Anubis Gates.
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. That movie would be unwatchable, though.
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman could be cool.
If we’re nominating Greg Bear stuff, I’m a fan of Eon.
Lanark basically a massive sprawling magic-realist/surrealist novel set in Scotland and a second surreal dimension. It’s amazing but probably unfilmable. The author did do storyboards for it at one point though.
Having just finished reading it, I’ll throw out there Susanna Clarke’s Jonthan Strange & Mr. Norrel If done right, I’d imagine it would make a fairly successful movie, though I suppose that applies to almost all movie ideas.
Hard to argue with that. Perhaps we should feed that marked up bench to Smaug.
I think that the Christopher Moore books would be actually a pretty good candidate nowadays, with urban fantasy being mainstream-ed,but without the comic potential of it very well tapped yet.
Bloodsucking Fiends and Coyote Blue being my favorites out of those.
Good Omens would be great.
I’ve been waiting to see Rendezvous with Rama for years now.
I love Blood Meridian, but yea, I don’t think it would make for a watchable movie. So much would have to be cut that it just wouldn’t be the same story.
Glasshouse by Charlie Stross. The body-morphing and mass cloning would probably make it a fairly high-budget production. You could even do a prequel exploring Robin’s past.
The whole Change series from SM Stirling could make for some fun films, but you’d need a James-Bond-length series to fit it all in. Dies The Fire/Protector’s War/Meeting at Corvallis would probably fit best in cinematic format.
Speaking of Stirling, his Shadowspawn series could make for some decent vampire films (the real stuff, not the glowy kind).
Well they are doing Enders game finally…now next is Isaac Asimov foundation…
I would love to see Stone City as a film. But editing the novel down would probably kill it.
I had completely forgotten about Slob, time to find it and read it again.
Do for the Gormenghast Trilogy what was done for The Lord of the Rings.
And the first Flashman book.
BBC just announced they were adapting it as a miniseries to be directed and written by some Who/Sherlock and Wallander vets. This seems like a good decision to me, given the thickness of that tome.
I’d like to see this as a movie, but not really sure what the chances are of that ever happening. http://tinyurl.com/ursallemann
I had heard the etrade baby was in talks over this.