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post #1 of 87
11/4/05 at 10:00pm
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Give the book, the author, a short summary and why you picked the actors you did.

EVERYBODY DIES by Lawrence Block

An un-known person is orchestrating hits against career criminal Mickey Ballou and he calls in his best friend of 20 years, alcoholic P.I. Matt Scudder, to get to the bottom of it

Directed by Michael Mann: The violence in Everybody Dies is sparse but fierce and people actually get hurt. There's lots of talking and if Mann brings his A game like he did with Heat and Collateral, this could be a crime movie classic.

Scudder: Bruce Willis. (Yes, I know he might be doing Scudder in A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES, but EVERYBODY DIES is the better book if only because it has a TON of scenes where Mick and Scudder talk, plan, and share old war stories from the streets of New York)

Why Willis?: Sixth Sense proves he can do quiet and thoughtful and Sin City's Hartigan reminded me a LOT of slowly broken down Scudder. Imagine John McClane. He saves the day a couple times and then something bad happens and he picks up the bottle and never looks back. I think he'd be a great Scudder

Ballou: Mickey Rourke

Why Rourke?: In the novels, Ballou is described as a large man with a face like one of the statues on Easter Island. Rourke has weary seen it all eyes and looks like he could just as easily share a drink with you as break your neck.

T.J.: Matt's black surrogate son. He loves Scudder with all his heart and is eager to be a P.I. like Scudder. I choose http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1478045/


Why Daggs?: Have you seen Veronica Mars? He plays funny, occasionally tough, and smart. He's easily one of the best things about Veronica Mars. T.J. is a rapid-fire speaker and Daggs is quick in his dialogue every week. Like T.J., you can't help but like him.

Elaine: She's a classy lady. She knew Scudder when he was a cop and she was a hooker. They hooked up again when Scudder left the NYPD and she was still a hooker, but also invested in real estate. She has more class than most of the people in Scudder's world. I pick Michelle Pfieffer


Why Pfieffer?: She showed multiple times in movies how tough and smart she is. As Catwoman, there was a fierce intelligence in her eyes without sacrificing her sex appeal. I could totally see her as Scudder's girlfriend and equal.

I realize I'm not casting the villain, but in like most Scudder novels, the crime is almost an after-thought. The beauty is the world of these characters and how they interact.
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post #2 of 87
11/4/05 at 11:54pm
I know there's been at least one TV movie, but I would like to see, or make really, an adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time.

Also, Freaky Deaky, one of the few Elmore Leonard books to not be adapted, would be a good choice, but it should be set in the late 80's like the book.
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post #3 of 87
11/5/05 at 1:42am
Speaking of Elmore Leonard, I'm still waiting for someone to go ahead and do LaBrava. That book is so awesome, and the characters just have a life all their own. I can't really think of anyone to play the parts; I think that'd be the great difficulty in doing the film. No one really comes to mind when I think of Joe LaBrava. There a few possibilities that come to mind for Jean Shaw, but nobody who I don't think could real "nail" it. I think the Coens were trying to adapt this with Dustin Hoffman in the lead. I think that would've sucked.

F.T.W. Kid
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post #4 of 87
11/5/05 at 1:56am
I haven't read "Everybody Dies," but I have read several of the other Scudders (including the latest, which is dedicated to CHUD favorites Koppleman and Levin--makes you go hmmm).

Daggs is a great choice for T.J. I actually hadn't considered him.

As for Scudder, it's almost impossible to get Harrison Ford out of my head. Bruce Willis would be pretty good, though.

I say, for Mick Ballou, you need an Irishman or a Scot. Connery's name was floated someplace, I think he could do it quite well. Billy Connelly could also do interesting things, I think.

Don't quite see Pfeffer as Elaine, but that's a pretty good choice.

Mann's a great idea for the director.
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post #5 of 87
11/5/05 at 2:16am
Speaking of Scudder, you've all seen 8 Million Ways To Die, right? Jeff Bridges was an excellent Scudder, althought I know that was nearly twenty years ago now.
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post #6 of 87
11/5/05 at 2:25am
Yeah, and isn't "Everybody Dies" one of the later ones? Because Scudder ages through the series, so Bridges would be right around the same age to play him again.
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post #7 of 87
11/5/05 at 3:37am
to the white sea - dickey

directed by the coen brothers

almost happened with brad pitt, then funding was pulled and project shelved. could have been amazing... maybe one day they will get their budget and make the movie they want to make. one can hope.
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post #8 of 87
11/5/05 at 3:45am
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Originally Posted by RathBandu
I haven't read "Everybody Dies," but I have read several of the other Scudders (including the latest, which is dedicated to CHUD favorites Koppleman and Levin--makes you go hmmm).

Daggs is a great choice for T.J. I actually hadn't considered him.

As for Scudder, it's almost impossible to get Harrison Ford out of my head. Bruce Willis would be pretty good, though.

I say, for Mick Ballou, you need an Irishman or a Scot. Connery's name was floated someplace, I think he could do it quite well. Billy Connelly could also do interesting things, I think.

Don't quite see Pfeffer as Elaine, but that's a pretty good choice.

Mann's a great idea for the director.
You gotta get EVERYBODY DIES. Its brilliant.

I thought about Ford, but he hasn't proven worthy in years. I thought of Willis because of the burned out drunk he was in The Last Boy Scout.

Russel Crowe would be great for Mick, but he's too young. We need a guy roughly Scudder's age. I think Mick is 3-5 years older. A real Irishman for Mick? How about Gabriel Byrne? He was certainly menacing in Miller's Crossing. He has a unique face and you need that for Mick.

My other choice for Elaine was Kim Basinger mainly because of L.A. Confidential.

I haven't considered Danny Boy. Jamie Foxx? He's(Danny Boy) a black albino.
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post #9 of 87
11/5/05 at 4:08am
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Originally Posted by TheCynic
to the white sea - dickey

directed by the coen brothers

almost happened with brad pitt, then funding was pulled and project shelved. could have been amazing... maybe one day they will get their budget and make the movie they want to make. one can hope.
Damnit! You beat me to it.
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post #10 of 87
11/5/05 at 4:17am
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.

God, I can't tell you how bad I want to see these made into movies. Then again, most of the best stuff in the books is internal so it's almost impossible to show the whole arc in a few hours.

I guess my ideal would be to see it as a 3 year tv series (one year per book). A movie, or even 3 movies, would (by neccesity) be forced to eliminate too much of the meat.

So, yea. My dream would be to see the mars trilogy but not as a movie, definitely a tv series (ideally someone like hbo). Sorry if I went out of bounds for the thread but I think tv has more potential for telling complex stories, they just have more time available.
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post #11 of 87
11/5/05 at 5:47am
"the Running Man" by Richard Bachman(aka Steven King). Yes, I realize it's already been made, with good ol' Arnie, and that movie is decent for what it was...
BUT, the short story is fantastic, and totally reflects the reality TV craze we're in(unlike the film, which was more a bloodthirsty game show). Also, Hollywood loves remakes, so much so that even a film "closer to the book", with someone flying a jet into a skyscraper, could go over.

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Originally Posted by buffys
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.

God, I can't tell you how bad I want to see these made into movies. Then again, most of the best stuff in the books is internal so it's almost impossible to show the whole arc in a few hours.

I guess my ideal would be to see it as a 3 year tv series (one year per book). A movie, or even 3 movies, would (by neccesity) be forced to eliminate too much of the meat.

So, yea. My dream would be to see the mars trilogy but not as a movie, definitely a tv series (ideally someone like hbo). Sorry if I went out of bounds for the thread but I think tv has more potential for telling complex stories, they just have more time available.
If you're talking "Red Mars", "Blue Mars", etc., I think James Cameron owns the rights to them. Granted, it's been a while since I read that(maybe as long ago as ten years).
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post #12 of 87
11/5/05 at 7:29am
Although Banks himself doubts whether his books could ever make good films, I'd say pretty much anything by Iain M Banks, set in the Culture. I think the natural one to adapt would be Consider Phlebas cos, with a judicious prune and title change, it would make one helluva sci-fi action film.

You'd have to lose at least one of the early episodes (its a bit patchy for the first 100 or so pages), probably the crystal temple section, and truncate the last act (there's a lot of interior alien monologue and wondering around). What would be so cool, though, is that as well as there being a shitload of action - the escape from the Megaship on Vavatch would be awesome - the main character would be played by two different actors, maybe even three if you include the gerentocrat at the beginning. And there's some wicked religious and social allegory in there too. I've always seen the Eaters as America and Fong-Swi as government/big business, while the Idirans are more like Muslim fundamentalists.

I wouldn't know where to start casting it - you'd need someone super-hot but in a smart way for Balveda (Selma Blair?), someone well-built for Kraiklyn/Horza (Mark Wahlberg would actually be excellent in a few years), dunno about the rest. As for a director - pure fantasy, gotta be Cameron, or maybe even Michael Bay if anyone ever lets him near a "serious" sci-fi project again.
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post #13 of 87
11/5/05 at 8:06am
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Originally Posted by Nexus-6
"the Running Man" by Richard Bachman(aka Steven King). Yes, I realize it's already been made, with good ol' Arnie, and that movie is decent for what it was...
BUT, the short story is fantastic, and totally reflects the reality TV craze we're in(unlike the film, which was more a bloodthirsty game show). Also, Hollywood loves remakes, so much so that even a film "closer to the book", with someone flying a jet into a skyscraper, could go over.
Reality shows are all the rage on tv these days, so it would make sense to remake Running Man.
Although they would have to change the ending, it would remind people too much of 9/11.
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post #14 of 87
11/5/05 at 8:42am
Catcher in the Rye

The Dun Cow

The Dark Tower Series

Shadows of the Empire
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post #15 of 87
11/5/05 at 10:15am
Anything from Ballard. That's all. all showed in a row, if you want.

Martin Amis: Money.
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post #16 of 87
11/5/05 at 11:23am
Shadows of the Empire, being that Star Wars book that takes place before Jedi? I always thought that would be a nice animated film..hell, since Han's not in it, I'm sure you can get Mark and Carrie to come back and do the voices.

I know it's kind of in the works but I want to see Enders Game done well, and also well, the Dragon Lance books are pretty damn good...how about those.
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post #17 of 87
11/5/05 at 11:36am
I don't know about Dragonlance -- anything connected with Dungeons and Dragons is probably cinematically dead after the movie.

Personally, I think it's about damn time somebody did Good Omens.
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post #18 of 87
11/5/05 at 12:26pm
James Ellroy - The Big Nowhere.
To be made in the same vein as LA Confidential. That'd be... something.
A pretty harsh story; The Wolverine, Communist witch hunts, Dudley. But it could make a perfect companion piece to LAC if the same approach is used as for that film. I'd use the skeleton of the story, merge multiple characters into one, tie the story to a couple of significant events from the book. IIRC, they changed both the reason for and the perpetrators of the Night Owl Massacre and it still worked great. I guess it's pretty obvious that I'd like to see Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson take a stab at it.
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post #19 of 87
11/5/05 at 1:16pm
The Dark Tower series cannot be simply be turned into a series of films. It is way too complicated.
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post #20 of 87
11/5/05 at 1:30pm
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Originally Posted by detonathor
The Dark Tower series cannot be simply be turned into a series of films. It is way too complicated.
The first few would be pretty easy (well, not easy, but straightforward) to make. The last three would need a major overhaul, though. There's some good stuff there, but it's kinda floating in a sea of red herrings and metafictional nonsense.
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post #21 of 87
11/5/05 at 2:37pm
Oh, and by the rules of the thread I'd pick Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons and James Gandolfini for Upshaw, Considine, Meeks respectively. And Colm Meany for Dudley. All decent actors who fit the general physicality I imagine for their respective roles.
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post #22 of 87
11/5/05 at 3:02pm
-"Good Omens" (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett): Id kill for seeing Terry Gilliam bring this one to the screen...it would be the first film with footnotes.

-Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman): There was a BBC series, but after watching "Nightwatch", I think this book could be translated in a great movie.

-I have no mouth and i must scream (Harlan Ellison): Just have Cronenberg or Lynch do this one as a short film.

-Neuromancer (William Gibson): Why this one still isnt a movie vexes me.

-I am legend (Richard Matheson): I want a GOOD version of this one, without any changes from the novel.

-Focault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco): One of my favorite books, but adapting it would be a near impossible task.

-A fall of moondust (Arthur C. Clarke): Great potential for making a different kind of Sci-fi movie.
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post #23 of 87
11/5/05 at 3:07pm
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Originally Posted by Peter Venkman
I know it's kind of in the works but I want to see Enders Game done well
Ender's game would be a fantastic movie if it keeps the brutality and psychological torture that is featured in the book.
Just dont do it a kid's flick, but an adult, mature dark movie with kids.
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post #24 of 87
11/5/05 at 3:17pm
Ever since seeing Liev Schreiber do Mr. Clark in The Sum of All Fears, I've been jonesing for a Without Remorse film. It's terribly thick so I imagine the cinematic version would only include about half of the content.

It's also a vietnam-era setting, so I'd hate to see that modernized even if it is possible a la Operation: Iraqi Freedom. Liev could do it.

Director... I don't know. Joe Carnahan? Someone gritty, but not too gritty. Ahem! [cough]Tony Scott[/cough].

And the lack of a good adaptation of A Farewell to Arms is still bugging me. That book killed me.
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post #25 of 87
11/5/05 at 7:31pm
I'm still waiting for Comanche Moon to be made by McMurtry's production company.

Get Matthew McConaughey or Woody Harrelson to play Gus McCrae and Bill Paxton as Woodrow Call and it's all good for me after that.
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post #26 of 87
11/5/05 at 9:41pm
I Am Legend shouldn't be touched. I love that book. I'd say Stephen King's Insomnia. Would be 3 hours with codgers as the main characters, so there's a hard sell. Cold Six Thousand and Benjamin Button, though the latter is being made with Pitt.
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post #27 of 87
11/5/05 at 10:47pm
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Originally Posted by Nexus-6
If you're talking "Red Mars", "Blue Mars", etc., I think James Cameron owns the rights to them. Granted, it's been a while since I read that(maybe as long ago as ten years).
yep, those books. Cameron you say? well, he'd be a pretty good choice and he even has a little tv experience. I hope he does something with it.
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post #28 of 87
11/6/05 at 2:01am
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Originally Posted by Cameron Hughes

Russel Crowe would be great for Mick, but he's too young. We need a guy roughly Scudder's age. I think Mick is 3-5 years older. A real Irishman for Mick? How about Gabriel Byrne? He was certainly menacing in Miller's Crossing. He has a unique face and you need that for Mick.

I haven't considered Danny Boy. Jamie Foxx? He's(Danny Boy) a black albino.
Ford was attached to star in "A Walk Among The Tombstones," directed by Joe Carnahan, but he dropped out because he's a big girl.

Byrne's a good choice. I also like Brendan Gleeson, although he's still pretty young.

As for Danny Boy, how about Jeffery Wright?
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post #29 of 87
11/6/05 at 2:45am
I've been daydreaming about The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay as directed by Steven Spielberg. I think he could do a bold job of bringing the period to life, and the story elements dealing with Jewish families on both sides of the Atlantic during WWII are right up his alley.

I don't know who should play the leads, but, incidentally, as I read it I pictured some actors that are too old to actually play the parts: as Joe Kavalier I pictured a young Jude Law, and as Sammy Clay I pictured a young Armin Shimerman, who played Quark on Deep Space Nine. As for Rosa, I never pictured anyone from Hollywood, mainly because as she's described physically-- ripely voluptious, a refreshing change from the ubiquitous tall and slender female leads authors typically fantasize into their books-- she doesn't fit the picture of the modern anorexic actress, but I imagine a young Helena Bonham Carter type, I suppose (because of her fiery personality).

Anyway, Kavalier & Clay, that's my pick.
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post #30 of 87
11/6/05 at 5:33pm
The Devil's Alternative by Fredrick Forsyth. Which is essentially about Soviet-sattelite terrorists taking over a supertanker on it's maiden voyage and parking it in the middle of the North sea, holding the oil and crew hostage while demanding the release of their leader by the KGB. The problem is that the Russians can't afford to release the leader, so the MI5 and the CIA have to come up with a plan to disable the situation. It's an older book that needs some updating to the modern world, but the underlying story and the idea of terrorists holding a supertanker hostage would make for a thrilling film. Put McTiernan behind the camera, he's still got the goods with a decent enough story to work with.
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post #31 of 87
11/6/05 at 6:36pm
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James Ellroy - The Big Nowhere.
To be made in the same vein as LA Confidential. That'd be... something.
A pretty harsh story; The Wolverine, Communist witch hunts, Dudley. But it could make a perfect companion piece to LAC if the same approach is used as for that film. I'd use the skeleton of the story, merge multiple characters into one, tie the story to a couple of significant events from the book. IIRC, they changed both the reason for and the perpetrators of the Night Owl Massacre and it still worked great. I guess it's pretty obvious that I'd like to see Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson take a stab at it.
Nick and Chris Kazan did an adaptation of The Big Nowhere back the late 90's but nothing ever came of it. You can check out a review of the script here:

The Big Nowhere script review

One major change from the book is that they combined Considine and Meeks into one new character.
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post #32 of 87
11/6/05 at 6:45pm
I was going to post Ender's Game when this thread first started, but I got lazy. I know that this has been in developmental hell for awhile, but I hope if they do it, it gets done well. Originally that douche Haley Joel Osment was being approached but thank god for small favors when they moved on. As long as its not Jake Lloyd or Freddie Highmore I don't really care who plays Ender as long he can convey the right type of brutality.
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post #33 of 87
11/6/05 at 7:02pm
For the Scudder novels, I'd say Ford and Connery - or even give Bridges another shot at it. Brian Cox or Gleeson would make a suitable Mick.

But I'd start with an earlier novel - Out On The Cutting Edge or A Walk Among the Tombstones. Establish their relationship first.
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post #34 of 87
11/6/05 at 11:15pm
Give the book, the author, a short summary and why you picked the actors you did.

Clive Barker, Imagica


Summary from Amazon:
John Furie Zacharias, known as Gentle, a master forger whose life is a series of lies. Judith Odell, a beautiful woman desired by three powerful men, but belonging to none of them. Pie'oh'pah, a mysterious assassin who deals in love as well as death. These three are united in a desperate search for the heart of a universal mystery, and will find the truth that lies in a place as mysterious as the face of God, and as secret as the human soul. They discover the Imajica. Imajica is many things: an epic novel of vast panoramas and intimate, obsessive passions, embracing ghosts and reflections as well as the human and the divine. A book of revelations.

Actors

Gentle: probably Keanu Reeves (though closer to his Constantine acting rather than Bill and Ted )

Judith: maybe Julianne Moore

Pie: Jimmy Mistri
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post #35 of 87
11/6/05 at 11:15pm
Give the book, the author, a short summary and why you picked the actors you did.

Clive Barker, Imagica


Summary from Amazon:
John Furie Zacharias, known as Gentle, a master forger whose life is a series of lies. Judith Odell, a beautiful woman desired by three powerful men, but belonging to none of them. Pie'oh'pah, a mysterious assassin who deals in love as well as death. These three are united in a desperate search for the heart of a universal mystery, and will find the truth that lies in a place as mysterious as the face of God, and as secret as the human soul. They discover the Imajica. Imajica is many things: an epic novel of vast panoramas and intimate, obsessive passions, embracing ghosts and reflections as well as the human and the divine. A book of revelations.

Actors

Gentle: probably Keanu Reeves (though closer to his Constantine acting rather than Bill and Ted )

Judith: maybe Julianne Moore

Pie: Jimmy Mistri
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post #36 of 87
11/7/05 at 11:18am
The Alienist, by Caleb Carr. Although I believe it's been in development hell for years.
Another terrific adaptation could be The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson. The fact that it's a true story would make a movie all the more grand and horrific.
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post #37 of 87
11/7/05 at 1:58pm
Darren Aronofsky has said that he wants to make a movie based on Frank Millers Ronin.
Hopefully that will happen some day.
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post #38 of 87
11/7/05 at 4:21pm

hmmmm

While on the topic of Aronofsky - may I suggest CLOUD ATLAS.

Quite simply, The Fountain meets Magnolia....



COME ON!!!!
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post #39 of 87
11/7/05 at 6:25pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Randolph Carter
Darren Aronofsky has said that he wants to make a movie based on Frank Millers Ronin.
Hopefully that will happen some day.
Yeah, that would be great. With the success of Sin City maybe he'd have an easier time getting funding for it too.
Just watch, if it gets made people will say it's ripping of Samurai Jack, hehe...
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post #40 of 87
11/7/05 at 7:38pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yas
While on the topic of Aronofsky - may I suggest CLOUD ATLAS.

Quite simply, The Fountain meets Magnolia....



COME ON!!!!
Christ, I hope not. One of the best things about Cloud Atlas is the shifting narrative style from section to section. It's all about the ways of conveying information (diary entry, written correspondence, memoir, mystery novel, trial transcript, spoken narrative). I don't think this would be as clear if represented visually, plus certain segments would certainly get short shrift. Also, I doubt the stories could be unified plot-wise and thematically onscreen with the style that Mitchell did.

Certain novels just shouldn't be adapted.
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post #41 of 87
11/7/05 at 7:39pm
Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire, an excellent novel about the battle of Thermopylae. I've also read Frank Miller's 300, and it is a more poorly written account of the battle. I've always thought Anthony Hopkins would make the perfect Leonidas.

note: I just checked on amazon.com, and it seems the movie rights have already been sold to Universal Studios for George Clooney and Robert Lawrence's Maysville Pictures.
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post #42 of 87
11/7/05 at 9:18pm
Been waiting for someone to say The Alienist. I always thought a great combination of players for that would be John Cusack as Moore, the reporter, John Malcovich as Dr. Kreisler, the tititular Alienist, Russell Crowe as Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt, and Kate Winslet as Sarah, the feisty police secretary. Couldn't figure out who would play the other roles (the maid, Cyrus, the Issacson bros.)

And I think Pat Conroy's "The Lords of Discipline" is due for another go, perhaps starring the O.C.'s Benjamin Mackenzie as Will McLean and somebody good as "The Bear" (Alec Baldwin or John Spencer, maybe.)
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post #43 of 87
11/9/05 at 6:17pm
I think Leonard Maltin's Guide to Movies would make a spectacular film, but you'd have to edit out massive chunks of drek.
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post #44 of 87
11/10/05 at 1:11am
Across the Nightingale Floor and other books of the Otogi - Samurais, ninjas, Ken Watanabe. Tell me this wouldn't be good. Go ahead, I dare you!

The Fall of Collossus I can imagine this wouldn't have a mainstream market but would be a decent Sci-Fi channel movie. It need some changes to make it better cause I found it a little weak.
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post #45 of 87
11/10/05 at 11:10pm

Possible Movie Adaptation: Fevre Dream

Hi there.

I've been pestering people for years about turning George RR Martin's Southern Gothic vampire novel into a movie. Great queasy atmosphere, unusual locale and loads of period detail. Anyone else read this?

Cheers.

Iain

Hair in the Gate - reviews of artefacts from the world of B-picture, exploitation and DTV enterainment: http://:www.geocities.com/hairinthegate2005
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post #46 of 87
11/12/05 at 5:00am
Thread Starter 
I can't believe I didn't think of it, but how about Terrence Stamp for Mick Ballou?
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post #47 of 87
11/12/05 at 6:53am
I'd love to see 'American Tabloid' adapted by Scorsese. The dream cast would be George Clooney as Kember Boyd, Willem Dafoe as Ward Littell, Michael Madsen as Pete Bondurant, Bob Hoskins as J Edgar Hoover.

I think Liam Neeson would make a great choice for 'Mal Considine' if they ever go forward with an adaptation of 'The Big Nowhere'
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post #48 of 87
11/12/05 at 11:17am
I was thinking about either Neeson or Irons for the role, I had just seen Kingdom of Heaven. I thought Neeson had been in a lot of mentor-type roles lately and figured Irons was a more unconventional (though not completely out of left field) choice. But Neeson would no doubt be very good as Considine.

Bob Hoskins as Hoover is inspired casting.
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post #49 of 87
11/12/05 at 3:05pm
I still want to see The Iliad(Troy does not count)
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post #50 of 87
11/12/05 at 4:16pm
Carter Beats The Devil by (I think) Andrew Gold. With Paddy Considine as Carter. That would be an awesome period mystery/character piece, but with The Prestige on its way out there's probably too many similarities for it to get a shot.
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