Who Should Be the Next Novelist to Have His/Her Work Adapted to Film?

I'm thinking here of someone with a fairly substantial, at least, body of work. Someone good for a couple three movies, if not more, based on their books &/or stories, not a brilliant one off writer.

I'm tempted to say Jack Ketchum, considering how much I adore his work. But Movie versions of "The Girl Next Door" and "The Lost" have already been made. Granted, TGND was a very, very limted theatrical release, and can almost be considered as having gone DTV, and "The Lost", which I think did go DTV, was seriously flawed (but still eminently watchable, IMO). But those, along w/ Off Season &/or Offspring, are probably his best works, and a movie version of "Offspring" is also in the works, so most of his best stuff has already been filmed. So I guess Jack Doesn't really qualify.

Who then should be next? I think I'm gonna say Brian Keene. "The Rising", "City of the Dead", and "Terminal" could all be made into really good movies. "The Conqueror Worms" has potential, too, but that whole wacky Cthulhu-esque middle part will make it harder, IMO. I'd be a little less excited to see "Dark Hollow" get made, & haven't read any of the others yet (Although Ghoul just arrived from B & N & will be getting its turn very soon).

So whose work do you other Corner Creatures want to see adapted, and which of said works should be committed to celluloid?

This saddens me. The trailer, which Alex posted some time ago, looked really good.

I kind of had horror authors in mind, specifically. Not that Vachss is a bad choice, but I respect your opinions in most other things, Judas, and I'd like to know if there's a horror guy you'd like to see adapted.

You too, Ratty.

I'd be in favor of that. It was a pretty good story in & of itself, but it just felt tacked on & weird given the rest of the book.

Can you link to that? I can't find it. Don't know how I missed it. . .

Thanks. It's disappointing to read the film was so flawed, but as "a gorehound with questionable taste" AND a Ketchum fetish, I'm sure to pick this puppy up.

I also noticed tonight that this is available on Verizon Fios On Demand. I'll be watching it soon.

Ellison is an excellent call. We could probably do with more Matheson, too.

Pulled the trigger and watched this on On Demand last night. It was no classic, but I didn't think it was utterly horrible, either. I kind of enjoyed it. I agree w/ the assessment that the lighting's too bright. It could have done w/ being a BIT darker. But y'know what? I vastly prefer this than it being so goddam dark you can't see anything (such as the end of "The Midnight Meat Train" or any scene w/ the creature present in "Unearthed", one of the After Dark Horrorfest 07 offerings). Pretty faithful adaptation, and that always scores points w/ me. Good gore, but I expecetd a bit more, having read the book. And Jack Ketchum actually got a line in his cameo this time. Good for him. I will never understand why they opted to make this film before Off Season. This film really came off like a sequel, newspaper clipping aided backstory at the beginning notwithstanding, which feels so odd when there ISN'T a first film it's succeeding. Truth to tell, I have no reservations about picking this up and lining Jack's coffers with yet a bit more of my money. And I do hope they make a version of Off Season. I know I'll go see it.

The ending of Meg was ridiculous. But I HAVE to see that surfer get et in one fell swoop, among other humongous giant shark inspired goodness.

BTW, have you seen the cover for his latest, Meg: Hell's Aquarium? The one on Amazon is different from the one I'm thinking of (which I saw at my local Borders). The one at Borders has a kid standing in front of a glass wall looking at a Meg, as does the one on Amazon, but the one in Borders has the Meg facing him & not swimmming by. There's something so awesomely creepy about this stuffed animal carrying, beshorted youngster looking at a wall of teeth the size of a combine floating in front of him, with that inscrutable Oriental smile sharks are so well known for. I don't like Alten enough to buy his books until they come out in paperback, but I'm considering buying this hardback just for the cover art.

Seriously: how fucking cool is that?

I second the love for the Moorcock adaptations as well (I regret typing that; it sounds vaguely gay. Ol' Mike musta been the toughest kid in his school, in a "Boy Named Sue" kinda way).

Am I mistaken, or are R.E. Howard's Solomon Kane stories being made into films? If they aren't, I'd like to see THAT franchise cash in on the John Carter success.