lin

Shit they won't even make Neuromancer or Count Zero or Virtual Light. They're heads are hopeless up their butts.

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I agree 100%. But I do find it interesting also that seeing or hearing about a movie can actually introduce you to a book you would otherwise never read, much less know about. The Death and Life of Bobby Z for example; I heard about the film and thought I should read the book first. It's definitely not a book I would normally read, but it turned out to be really good.

OtherWorlds

Definately any of Robin Hobb's books. Also, the Wheel of Time books, although I recognize the impossiblity of such a huge project...

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But they did make Johnny Mnemonic...granted they butchered it but they did make it. Here's the thread about the Ringworld movie...no posts since 2003
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None of us will live long enough to see a Jack Vance movie, I don't think. I remember some years ago there was talk of Stranger in a Strange Land...I wouldn't mind seeing that done, and it would be ridiculously easy with decent scripting. Did find this article referring to it, apparently under option with Sean Connery considered as Jubal and Tom Hanks?! as Valentine Michael Smith. Bleccch! Go with McConaughey, he'd be far better in that role. Anyway it doesn't look likely. Neither does Ringworld. imdb has info on a Neuromancer movie in preproduction, with Joseph Kahn listed as director. He's more known for music video, with Blink-182 and Britney on his resume. No cast listed...so who knows how far that one's gone?
Really good sf movies are so rare...the last one I saw that I liked at all was the Dune tv-movie. Don't care for the recycled PKD in the Matrix movies and A Scanner Darkly was unwatchable. Otherwise I'd wish for the 3 Stigmata or Ubik or VALIS.
Crap...I'll have to settle for Marvel movies, which are mostly decent. If they can get to a battle between the Hulk and the Thing, I'll be happy.

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For some reason Phillip Dick is the guy whose books get made into films. Seems odd, but they all make money.

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Philip K Dick...yeah, there are quite a few films out there based on his stuff. Some good, some not so good, most of them not very faithful to the text. Blade Runner is superb in its own way. The atmospherics and Rutger Hauer's performance imo save it from being ordinary. Total Recall is scary until the air rushes in all at once, that bit was just too much for me to suspend my disbelief over. Next is okay...for what it is, a Nicholas Cage vehicle that doesn't really understand the story, roughly akin to his remake of the Wicker Man. Impostor I liked...though it's a minor Dick piece. Paycheck is silly, suffering from the wonky script and Ben Affleck's scenery-chewing. Likewise Minority Report. I can't stand Tom Cruise in anything and that ruins the film for me right from the git-go. Screamers isn't too awful...and I haven't yet seen Confessions of a Crap Artist. Three more of Dick's books have been optioned by John Alan Simon...one of which is VALIS, mentioned earlier. Radio Free Albemuth is in post-production with no release date scheduled as yet. Simon was largely responsible for the original Wicker Man, along with Equus author Anthony Shaffer, and also the remake of the Getaway and the Howling II, which is silly but has Sybil Danning ripping her top off repeatedly and good sfx.
The films based on Dick's work do seem to make money...you're right about that, and who knows that we won't get to have another Blade Runner out of those efforts. Given the current publicizing of autism, I wonder why someone hasn't optioned Martian Time-Slip, one of PKD's better works, with the autistic MC.

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lin

Most are merely different. Some are films are much better than the book. Blade Runner for one.

There are plenty of stories I wouldn't read again, but would watch the film over and over.

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tekp

Sabriel/Lirael/Abhorsen by Garth Nix might make a pretty epic film trilogy.

Prey by Michael Chrichton.

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The Count of Monte Cristo the way it's supposed to be

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Squishtof

Um.. The Belgariad by David Eddings would be good, I think trilogy, of course or Magician by Raymond .E. Feist.. sod the other books in that series.. just that one would be ace

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Yes.. to the former Meh to the Latter

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Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

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Damian_Rucci

The Last World War (don't know authors name) I would love to see that made into a movie. I'm reading it now, it's amazing.

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Hello.

Now that I have finished the Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix, I would like to see it turned into a movie by Goro Miyazaki actually. It is not as though this book series was my absolute favorite (though it ranks high), but I think it would work well with the budding style of Goro I noticed in Legends of Earthsea.