Remainder by Tom McCarthy - should be directed by Burton or Jonze

also - Raw Shark Texts - i think there is a movie version coming but it could be VERY cool - definitely should be gilliam

Ex Machina by Brian K. Vaughan et. al.

Its a very cinematic comic book...it'd be perfect on film. I'd love it if they held off production for about 15 years though, when I'm A) a successful actor, and B) old enough to play Mayor Hundred. Man, that'd be a dream role.

Speaking of dream roles...Catcher in the Rye desperately needs to be made. I'm sure thats been brought up countess times in this thread, but it has to be repeated. Stupid Salinger and his hatred for Hollywood, depriving us all of what has every potential to be one of the best movies of all time....

He can be brought around. Frank Miller was the same way and look at Sin City.


As for The Biggest Sandwich Ever, I dunno who'd play the guy. I originally envisioned a Jack Black type, but the look isn't right. I'd have to say Jim Broadbent would be perfect.

Another Roadside Attraction

and

The Illuminatus Trilogy

Still waitng for A Confederacy of Dunces and I really want to adapt and direct Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory

like i keep mentioning :

War of the Worlds.

It's never had a faithful adaptation.

I want someone to do Jurassic Park just like the book, and not sugar coat it for families like Spielberg did. It's still a fantastic film, but from the context of the book it was severely ruined.

I dunno if you have this in america but it's the first of one of my favourite book series.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...-JosephDel.jpg

My boyfriend picked this book up on a whim, though he hasn't read it... I'm assuming that it's a good read? Do tell. I'm curious to hear about it.

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As for me, I always wanted to adopt The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, make the story a bit more linear and make a really good, dramatic existential scifi film.

Posh - Good call for a more faithful Jurassic Park. The book was fantastic and there were some pretty gruesome parts that I would have liked to see on the screen.

The Wasp Factory would make a great flick!

they did a TV miniseries years ago ..

i think i have it on VHS

I'd LOVE to adapt "The Killing Joke" not really a book novel-wise, but yeah.

I'm working on just that for an English project, as a matter of fact. Just in the planning stages right now, but I'm getting pumped about it.

I'm also kind of thinking about turning Neil Gaiman's short story "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale" into a stage play...Killing Joke is starting to look like a little more than I have time to take on.

That I did not know - Any good?

It was worth watching.

I read jurassic Park not that long ago. It would have been nice if it was a bit more faithful, but there was also a lot they would have had to put in. I thought with a bit more character development on Ray Arnold and Dr. Wu, they could have given them good death scene (though wu doesn't even die in the film) and it was a shame they made regis and gennaro into one guy. But anyway, I'd say it's still a superb film.

I DO have it on VHS and I love it! Chrono, I think you'd like it.

If they could make it, I d love to see the Dune series being made into films. I adored the Lynch one and loved the mini-series "Children of Dune" back in 2001? I think...

Got both of em on DVD.

Someone like Paul T Anderson with his unique view, or maybe Neil Marshall, Frank Darabont, Ridley Scott...could do justice.

Urge mentioned once that the series got progressively un-filmable, but with the development we have made in CGI these days, I think it can be done very effectively. Each of the books - Messiah, Children, God Emperor, Heretics & Chapterhouse are very close to my heart.



Edit - There was talks about remaking Dune last year, and I posted it here too...

http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31088

Seems like it never got off the ground after initial talks.

as much as i love Lynch's Dune,

i'd like to see Peter Jackson take a 6 - 8 hour shot at it

Well, iw ould like to see a good movie made out of one of the existing Dungeons and Dragons novels. Dragons of Autumn Twilight was supposed to be out last year, but here it is May of 08 and still nothing.

I think a screen adaption of Dean Koontz's Watchers could be good, as long as it was faithful to the book and didnt include corey haim...

the only Deen Koontz i kind of liked was one that took place at a roadside diner - something to do with the moon.

more sci-fi than horror.

that would make an entertaining movie i think

I think they gave a decent shot at Phantoms.

Thing is, it actually wasn't scary. As for Ben Affleck...:rolleyes:

sorry, i hated phantoms. they deviated unnecesarrily from the story and en\ded up with something that was just another supid teen horror flick.

re phantoms ..

Liev Schreiber was good .
i have no problem with Aflect,

and Rose McGowan makes me get a tingle

I didnt hate it per se, although I was disappointed at the end product. It had so much potential but went downhill rapidly.

And the miscasting only added to the movie's woes. One of those which could definitely benefit from a remake with a better director at the helm, ala Frank Darabont maybe?

Off Season by Jack Ketchum

I heard rumor of a Cell movie, not sure if its true though. i'd like to see that.

There was a production of it showing here the last two weeks, I really wanted to go, but was broke, I might be able to catch it in another city in the next few weeks though hopefully.

james herbert's fluke but not like the kiddie version they did.

Most of Richard Laymon's books. Savage, In The Dark, The Beast House Series, The Traveling Vampire Show, Island, Funland...just to name a few.

I realise you posted this a long time ago but please can you tell me more about this-I've never heard of any production of The Wasp Factory-it was based on the Iain Banks book right?-it would be mind blowing if done faithfully.

Besides holding out for Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness to eventually get made I plump for Insomnia by Stephen King, ditto whoever said Imajica by Clive Barker and The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice but obviously without the bits included in the woeful Queen Of The Damned film that was made.

I don't understand why they made that version with practically next to nothing of the novel in it-I really wonder what the filmmakers were thinking I've lost count the number of the people who have said this put them off James Herbert.

the book is one of my fave,but the movie was just awful,the book is not gory or anything but just a good grown up story.

i thought the girl next door was better than off season.

Exactly I wasn't expecting a gorefest cos the book wasn't like that either but I just felt the film was a waste of a budget.