What Book Would You Like To See On The Big Screen?

[Sprayber]

Assuming it would be done right of course. Better yet, what good book do you like but would be a disaster if made into a movie.


From my standpoint, I've found its usually better to see the movie first then read the book. That way, you can be pleasantly surprised by how much more detail the book has. LOTR was like this. I've watched all of the Harry Potter movies because the kids usually want to go see them when they come out but after looking at little into the books, they actually seem to be pretty good. Last week, we watched Ereagon sp? and it seemed like a lot of the story had been chopped out. The books might be better reading maybe..

[KrazyHorse]

Etiquette by Emily Post

[Admiral]

Rotational Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecules by John Brown et al

[lord of the mark]

Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, by Paul Kennedy

with Jonny Depp as Kaiser Wilhelm, Glenn Close as Empress Maria Teresa, and Jerry Seinfeld as the Gross Domestic Product of the United States.

[Addled Platypus]

Behind the green door

[Zkribbler]

Tolkien's The Hobbit, directed by Peter Jackson

All of Terry Prachett's Disc World books.

Poul Anderson's The High Crusade

...and I'd like to see Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles get turned into a 6-part TV mini-series. (It's too big to fit into a single movie.)

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
Jerry Seinfeld as the Gross Domestic Product of the United States.

That's the first time you've made me laugh in months.

[azzaman333]

The instruction book I got with my TV.

[Perfection]

Lord of the Rings!

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

The Bible - by various

[KrazyHorse]

The "begats" would be the highlight of that film.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

I had to read that as punishment during Sunday school for being a brat.

Shoulda punched the sunday school teacher.

[KrazyHorse]

Did you act them out?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Correction : Shoulda done the sunday school teacher after my Sean Connery b1tch slap.

[Pekka]

Divine Comedy