Films from Books that should be made

a lot of David Gemmell books must be ripe for tv or movie treatment - Legend, Waylander and the swords of night and day.
the Belgariad could also be a cracker if they didn't cut too many corners. I'd like to see the name of the wind, but since he will never finish the trilogy that might be a stretch :)
 
I Am Legend, following the book's plot carefully and with the ending unchanged.

Replay, by John Grimwood. A man gets reincarnated back in 1963, with full knowledge of his past life (now the future). This keeps happening... but can he ever have the life he really wants?

The Death Of Grass, by John Christopher- a staggeringly bleak apocalypse tale. Keep the 1950s Britain setting, and don't change anything else, either!

I know it's not a book, but a lot of classic era Dredd stories would be very entertaining- portmanteau format would work well.
 
mattx4 said:
Being a SciFi fan I would love a TV or film based on the culture series I believe it almost happened but Amazon backed out. I think player of games would be a great for a film adaptation
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Definitely, the Player Of Games wouldn't be too hard to adapt.

Some of the ship-heavy ones would be tricky, and would rest heavily on the ability to get the ship minds into screen format....although I suppose the avatars give a good mechanism to do that.


Look To Windward would be the best short series form imo, the structure and spectacle, slow burn, flashbacks etc, would all adapt well, with a big emotional finale, and the heart of the book is what sets the Culture books apart, the philosophising about morality, interference and colonialism in a post-scarcity world....when you can interfere to prevent people being awful to each other, should you?
 
Think it was the estate of Iain Banks that pulled the plug as they was not happy with adaption. So.... if this was the case and they want to do a full JK Rowling on it and actually have a film as good as the books then i do not blame them. If they are holding out as a blatant cash grab then it should never get made.

Quick Google and come up with this, UTA Acquires U.K. Literary and Talent Agency Curtis Brown so its nothing more than a cash grab...... :( both before the takeover and after.
 
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One 48 said:
Often thought Rendezvous with Rama written by Arthur C Clarke would translate to a great film, but back in the day how to do that ... with CGI nowadays nearly anything can be done, just look at Avatar, love it or hate it looks stunning and is the highest grossing film of all time.

Rendezvous with Rama is a great exploratory yarn with tension going on as Rama gets closer to the planets in our solar system, it made it to 3 or 4 books but it was the first one I enjoyed the most, still give it the odd listen on Audio book format.
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It was announced in 2021 that this is Denis Villeneuve next project when he's done with Dune - if there is a director out there that can do a project like this justice, it is him.
 
I met Stephen Donaldson at a book signing about 20 years ago, where he did a talk and a Q&A beforehand and I asked him if there was ever going to be a film based on his Covenant or Gap novels. This was round about the time when Peter Jackson's LoTR films were coming out and he joked about a new film about a guy carrying a ring about and going to defeat a dark lord in a castle was probably not high on the list of ideas to pitch to film companies round about then, made everyone chuckle. Then he said that a film based on The Gap was a possibility and there were discussions etc. This was 20 years ago, so yeah, not exactly rushing it. I believe someone has actually bought the film rights to The Gap, but its probably always going to one of those where some chancers buy up the rights whenever they lapse, and just sit on them. I do think it would translate to film though, maybe over a couple. I want Scarlett Johansson to play Morn Hyland please. And Karl Urban for Angus Thermopyle.
 
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