Top Books That Should Be Movies
Submitted by lukeprog on Tue, 06/22/2004 - 01:47
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- Calvin & Hobbes
- Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy
- The Hobbit
- Batman: Knightfall
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Neuromancer or Cryptomonicon or Snow Crash
- This Present Darkness or Piercing the Darkness
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Taken from lukeprog.blogspot.com - which includes more thorough analysis and pictures (as well as other articles and news, of course).
http://lukeprog.blogspot.com/2004/06/rts-top-books-that-should-be-movies...
I would definitely see any Neuromancer, Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon productions.
Nice. I'd probably want Hollywood to leave Calvin & Hobbes alone though (Garfield, anyone?).
That's the problem. Anything that is great both has strong potential to translate well to other mediums, and great potential to damage its own image and history. Not that Garfield was all that great, but I'm trying to forget the movie.
which do you think is the best 'Book to film' so far? i like Stand by me
Hmmm... sounds like another LIST to me... I'll start cracking (you do your own to, if you like, I'd love to see what you think) :-)
OK Will do
SNOW CRASH is overrated. Try AMBIENT by Jack Womack.
Never heard ot it. Thanks!
A Wrinkle In Time was a TV mini-series. Did you see it? I did not.
no, I hadn't heard of it!
I saw it, I think........
What was it like? Was it any good? Did it have much of a budget? Are you familiar enough with the book to know how similar it was to the book?
Yeah, it was very simular to the book as far as I can remember, and it looked pretty good for a made for TV movie. It didn't have bad acting either. The thing that I didn't like about it was that I always imagined things in the book looking differently than they did in the movie........
Yes, that's always an issue with adaptations of those kinds of books.
But it was so different than the way I imagined it. Like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter pretty much matched up with how I imagined it, but A wrinkle in time was so different.....
ok. I'm still hoping for a big-budget film version.
But it was so different than the way I imagined it. Like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter pretty much matched up with how I imagined it, but A wrinkle in time was so different.....
Okay, I actually watched the TV mini of A Wrinkle in Time!
It's a kids TV movie, and it certainly never transcends that. The direction, writing, and score, and especially the acting and special effects, are quite bad, but if I was ten years old I'm pretty sure I would've found it exciting and magical for the first 1.5 hrs, and then confounding for the rest. However, there was enough here to show me that the book could make a good movie, but that would require much better writing and directing, and a much, much larger budget. Maybe if The Chronicles of Narnia is successful...
BTW, though the special effects weren't so great in general, there were a few really cool visual elements.
I'm glad to know that. I was thinking of doing a Netflix friends referral of that title. Now I won't.