Books you would like to see made into movies

Frankenstein. I have a perfect vision as to how it should look, the 19th Britain, dark and gothic mood and architecture, etc.

I'd like to see a sixteen hour Middlemarch single cut film.

Dead Souls

I think GR could work in a multipart series. Three or four movies with a sharp director could do it justice, I believe.

I agree, also, works are fine too.

Many people have wanted to do The Knight Of The Sorrowful Countenance.

Most famously, Orson Welles struggled on it for years, filming snippets here and there; but eventually his leading actor died and he had to abandon it.
The Welles version could have been good, I think - he mixed present-day scenes in with literal Cervantes.

Terry Gilliam also wanted to do one, didn't he?

ik im a pleb but magicians nephew would be kino, esp. the scene where they wake up the witch

Blood maridian, but that shit ain’t going to fly these days
Also Dune, but that’s also impossible but just because of the vastness of it

Please tell me you're not serious
You basically described an hour and 30 minute documentary of JF and Richard Spencer with a shitty moustache getting maced by neon haired harpies.

Actually you know what that sounds amazing.

Confessions by Augustine could make a good movie. Think about it, it has all the sin people want but then continues his arch with his morals and such

I agree that would be a scary set-piece.

And what about the whole story of The Deplorable Word, told in a sort of horrifying apocalyptic flash-back? Would be great set-piece.

The main problem with Narnia is that talking animals, if done "straight", always end up twee and silly (think Babe). To get round that maybe you could do it animated or rotoscope or something. Or very expressionistic.

Isn't it obvious? JR

there are still tales of terry gilliam still working on it.

I would love to see a decent 1984, atlas shrugged, and brave new world. Despite these ideas being highly unoriginal, noone has done it. Why? Also, I would like to see the hitchikers guide series made all the way through, although that's probably asking too much. At least do the restaurant at the end of the universe. Bleeding edge is a pynchon book that might do well as a movie. Also, Johnny the homicidal maniac/ Z, the graphic novel, would be awesome, if you could get involvement from the creator. That guy is brilliant.

Neuromancer

JR?

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interesting. did you see it? how did it turn out?

math.cmu.edu/~bwsulliv/Pynchon - The Secret Integration.pdf

franny and zooey

You should watch L’inferno (1911). It’s great!

>franny and zooey
I would love to see more Salinger movies

by gaddis.
i think i will, thanks for the heads up!

imdb.com/title/tt1457742/
Enjoy, OP

I honestly think Infinite Jest could work as a film. Obviously some parts would be cut but I can picture a kino

...Money?

I was thinking this as well. DFW would make some interesting cinema. Other books too, like the broom of the system, could be made into movies fairly easily.

I want an HBO miniseries desu

Storm of Steel, but people who haven't read the book will say it's unrealistic how often Jünger escapes death.

>Also Dune
good news user, everyone's favorite kinographer denee villnoov is making a new dune film

It's currently in post prod.

Dead Souls has been turned into a movie a few time. You can watch at least one version on youtube

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I would watch the hell out of a movie that pulled together the stories Salinger wrote about the Glass family. It would an opportunity to see great actors of all ages interact with one another meaningfully, a perfect showcase for a director good with ensemble casts, and it would be a great opportunity for art and costume to flex their muscles.

Wes Anderson took a lot of inspiration, but I'd like to see someone who has less of an emotionally detached affect tackle those kinds of subtext rich interactions.

John Huston made a pretty compelling version, if encased in all the trappings of "important literary adaptation" that came in that time period

(re. Huston Moby Dick)

I'm not a fan. The Welles cameo is good. But the special effects are not good, and Gregory Peck is hopelessly out of his depth (ha, ha), and the direction is absolutely leaden-footed, and the whole poetic grandeur is missed completely.

(re. Glass family)
The trouble is that these stories only work (in so far as they do work) because of the particular appeal of Salinger's prose.
If you put the Glass family on the screen it would be starkly and immediately apparent just how insufferably annoying they are.

I'm so glad I'm not American.

Das Kapital

>There will never be a 23 1h long episodes adaptation of GR by David Lynch
just fucking kill me already

I think there's a lot in that movie to admire. For one, Huston's willingness to get dirty with the look of the boat the sea and the characters, the ugly color correction gives the photography and otherworldly vibe. Maybe it's not as good as I remember it being when I was 15, but I really enjoyed how streamlined and well-paced the story was. The scene with the knife followed by the technicolor glow in the sky worked on me. Which isn't to say any of your complaints aren't valid or true. (I'll go to bat for special effects though, not that they are good, but that the further back you go, the more you need look at a movie with the same generosity that one would give a play).

What I liked about Salingers's prose was the way that let us into the psychology of the characters. I have no doubt in my mind that it's possible for a screenwriter to empathy for even the most obnoxious actors who refer to their mother with their first name. It's in giving us access to the characters performances and in photography that a lot of the challenge lies.

This is the wrong board to post this, but Lena Dunham did an excellent job of making you understand and feel for some pretty annoying people in the first few seasons of Girls. It at least shows that the limits can be pushed cinematically for that kind of storytelling.

Just wait till Aaron Sorkin gets his hands on it.

The Lord of the Rings movies are amazing. I'd like to see the Hobbit redone though, maybe in just one or two movies.

Not a lot of frankenstien is set in England

The Stranger done by the Coen brothers.

White Noise

lotr movies are deeply flawed but still way better than anyone had a right to expect. Some of the scenes are genuinely awe-inspiring to me

this, in one 'continuous' shot

The Hobbit was meant to be 1 film by the creators but then they said 2 and then they announced 3. Sounds like some executive needed to sell more toys.

Instant classic.