Hi everybody! (Hi Dr. Nick) Joey here, and the question I want to put forth for discussion is the following: which books would you kill to see adapted into (hopefully) good films?
I gotta say that a few jump out for me:
Tietam Brown by Mick Foley (think Catcher in the Rye on an acid trip)
Hope by Glen Duncan (character study about and English man addicting to porn)
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk (thriller about a children's lullaby that kills)
Which pieces of literature would you guys like to see made into feature films?
I gotta say that a few jump out for me:
Tietam Brown by Mick Foley (think Catcher in the Rye on an acid trip)
Hope by Glen Duncan (character study about and English man addicting to porn)
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk (thriller about a children's lullaby that kills)
Which pieces of literature would you guys like to see made into feature films?
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No Exit Jean Paul Sartre
ReplyDeletegood choice as well
ReplyDeleteIf anybody's read A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore, that would be an excellent one.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I would kill to see The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy done right (the latest version left me somewhat cold.
I love everything Douglas Adams, and actually liked the version of Hitchhiker they did recently, but yea, I would kill to see all the books in the series adapted
ReplyDeleteI don't know if there's anyone here who's read The Girl Who Played Go, but it's a wonderful book, by the Chinese author Shan Sa. It takes place during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. The main characters are a 16-year-old Manchurian girl and a Japanese soldier - both are nameless in the book. The soldier is sent into the girl's town to smoke out revolutionaries, since he can speak the Manchurian dialect fluently. He ends up meeting the girl in the main square, where men meet to play the strategic game of go (it actually has another name in Chinese, weiqi, but the Japanese word is used in the title). The girl is the lone female who plays the game and she's excellent. She and the Japanese soldier end up playing on a regular basis, but she doesn't realize that he's the enemy.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how easy it would be to adapt. The book is told in first person, alternating between the girl and the man, and there's a lot of internal stuff going on. However, there is also action.
It could be a really interesting movie in the right hands. Maybe Zhang Yimou or Ang Lee. Tang Wei would be great as the girl. Zhang Ziyi would probably be fitting as well, but I think Tang Wei would be closer to the age of the girl in the book.
Since the soldier is Japanese, possibly Takeshi Kaneshiro could play him. He played Jin in House of Flying Daggers who is half-Japanese and half-Taiwanese.
Maybe someone will make this in China and it will come here. :)
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz, if done properly, would be a beautiful film adapted from a (nearly) perfect novel
ReplyDeletethe Odd Thomas series of books (which I love) could make for either a really good or really cheesy movie, or three.
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