If you could have one Book made into a Movie...

[mugwump]

With any director you'd like..

What Book which you choose and Why?

I'm almost done with "Geek Love" by

Katherine Dunn:

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Geek Love is the saga of a traveling carnival, the owners of which try to save it from financial failure by using ingested chemicals and toxins to create the birth of amazing freaks for the show. The outcome is a family that is both proud and vain about its specialness. The narrative unfolds the intricacies of greed and jealousy that tear the family asunder, resulting in the deaths of some members, the madness of others, and the escape of one.

I heard rumors that D. Lynch and Burton

bought the rights to the novel a while back..

However if I had full control of choosing

a Director I'd go with: CRONENBERG!

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I think he'd handle this subject PErrrfectly!

How bout you?

[rdancer]

Dragonlance Novels .

[gothzane]

[gothzane]

To direct it: Steven King (because "The Stand" was extraordinary)

[Codica3]

I would love to see The Cold One turned into a movie by Christopher Pike.. that book fucking wacked up my head..

[roha3000]

'A View From Above' the autobiography of Wilt Chambelain. Particularly the section where he details his sexual exploits with 20,000 women. Now this is just something you just have to see.

[Crackorn]

The Catcher in the Rye.

[loch]

"the travels of loch: a fictional autobiography"

similar to the unfolding 1,000 pages of blank space in the book, the movie will be a 6-hour saga of that annoying blue screen and that annoying, constant tone that beeps at the end of a videotape and you were just too damn lazy to shut off, except it will play for the ENTIRE 6 hours.

[daveespa]

Originally posted by Crackorn

The Catcher in the Rye.

def agree.....great book!.........i just wish j.d. salinger gave up the rights to this book.

[mugwump]

Originally posted by daveespa

def agree.....great book!.........i just wish j.d. salinger gave up the rights to this book.

Gooood choice..

But it would have to be done just right!

(Perhaps GUN VAN SANT would do

it justice..)

Another possibiltity:

HITCHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE

(A better version than that stupid 80's TV show)

[dr0ne]

[dirtyepic18]

Originally posted by Crackorn

The Catcher in the Rye.

yeah, im with you on that one.

[brickhouse]

I'd LOVE to see The Sound and the Fury made into a movie, but I think the only two directors who are cracked out enough to possibly do it any justice would be Alejandro Jodoworsky (El Topo, Santa Sangre) or Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Pi), or MAYBE David Lynch. Also, it would probably end up being about 4 hours long and everyone would just walk out confused as fuck, but still....

Also, I wouldn't mind seeing Invisible Man made into a movie, although once again it would end up being way way too long. Spike Lee would definately have to direct that one.

Oh, and BTW, Mick Garris (a TV director) directed the Stand, not Stephen King. The only thing King has directed was that Emilio Estevez rendition of Maximum Overdrive.

[trancerxn112]

I would say Count of Monte Cristo but they already made a movie... Cristo is my favorite book... I just wish they stuck more with the story the movie was good but couldve been better...

[zeeker]

Orson scott Card's Ender's game. With the movie-making technology we have now, they could turn that into a really cool movie.

[brickhouse]

http://us.imdb.com/Tsearch?count+of+monte+cristo

Movies

Count of Monte Cristo, The (2002)

...aka Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) (USA: complete title)

Count of Monte Cristo, The (1913)

...aka Monte Cristo (1913)

Count of Monte Cristo, The (1908)

Count of Monte Cristo, The (1934)

Amir el Antikam (1951)

...aka Count of Monte Cristo, The (1951) (International: English title)

Comte de Monte-Cristo, Le (1955)

...aka Count of Monte Cristo, The (1955) (USA)

...aka Tesoro di Montecristo, Il (1955) (Italy)

Comte de Monte Cristo, Le (1943)

...aka Comte de Monte Cristo, 1ère époque: Edmond Dantès (1943) (France)

...aka Comte de Monte Cristo, 2ère époque: Le châtiment (1943) (France)

...aka Count of Monte Cristo, The (1943/I) (USA)

Conde de Montecristo, El (1954)

...aka Count of Monte Cristo, The (1954) (International: English title: informal literal title)

Conde de Montecristo, El (1942)

...aka Count of Monte Cristo, The (1943/II) (USA)

Monte Cristo (1922)

...aka Count of Monte Cristo, The (1922)

Monte Cristo (1912)

...aka Count of Monte Cristo, The (1912)

Comte de Monte Cristo, Le (1961)

...aka Count of Monte Cristo, The (1961)

...aka Story of Monte Cristo, The (1961)

...aka Story of the Count of Monte Cristo, The (1962) (USA)

Uznik zamka If (1988)

...aka Count of Monte-Cristo, The (1988) (International: English title: informal literal title)

...aka Prisonner of If Castle, The (1988) (International: English title: informal literal title)

...aka õÚÎÉË ÚÃÃËà éÆ (1988) (Soviet Union: Russian title: original Cyrillic KOI8-R title)

TV-Movies

Count of Monte Cristo (1964) (TV)

Count of Monte Cristo, The (1975) (TV)

Count of Monte Cristo, The (1958) (TV)

TV series

"Count of Monte Cristo, The" (1955) TV series

"Count of Monte Cristo, The" (1973) TV series

"Comte de Monte Cristo, Le" (1998) (mini) TV series

...aka "Conte di Montecristo, Il" (1998) (mini) (Italy)

...aka "Count of Monte Cristo, The" (1999) (mini) (USA)

...aka "Graf von Monte Christo, Der" (1999) (mini) (Germany)

Just causing more drama...

[mugwump]

you know what other book I'd like to see

made into a Movie:

PERFUME by Patrick Süskind

In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"-the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.

And this one DOES have BURTON all over it!

What a great story this is..

I think I'll re-read it agin starting

RIGHT NOW!

(runs to grab book from bookshelf)