What Would You Most Like to See Adapted for TV or Cinema?

Post Reply New Topic

What stories from other media would you most like to see on TV or the big screen? They can be from anywhere: books, games, comics, ancient myths...

I'd love to someday see a TV series made from Charles Stross's "Laundry Files" books. They're about an IT guy who battles horrors from beyond our universe on behalf of the Civil Service. Clever, funny, and a bit disturbing.

That sounds really interesting, I may have to check it out. Been looking for a new book series.

I would like the chief inspector Gamache novels by Louise Penny to be made a show. They did a movie in Canada but it wasn't that great. Liam Cunningham totally needs to play Gamache. The first time I saw him in a movie I felt like the character from the books came to life.

And maybe the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger. They are hilarious. It's steampunk with werewolves and vampires and all kinds of crazy shenanigans. It's just a fun story. I think it would translate well to film.

Oh, hell YES. I've only got hold of the first two books, but they are just gloriously over the top.

Gonna be honest, film adaptions of books rub me the wrong way a bit. Not to say that other people can't enjoy them - that's fine - but especially when they make major changes (How to Train Your Dragon, the latest Little Women film), it seems... off to me. So I can't really say I have anything I wanted adapted.

Guillermo Del Toro's adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness produced by James Cameron, but if not a remake of Slaughterhouse 5 from a script by Charlie Kaufman.

An adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic The Metamorphosis by either Tim Burton or GDT.

Oh. That would be genius! I think any Kafka book directed by one of those two would be great. Also, The Thief of Always by Clive Barker would be awesome directed by one of them. I've always wanted paintings of some of the pictures before each chapter to put on my wall.

The amalgamated universe of Dr. Isaac Asimov...

The Robot series:
• The Caves of Steel. 1954. ISBN 0-553-29340-0. (first Elijah Baley SF-crime novel)
• The Naked Sun. 1957. ISBN 0-553-29339-7. (second Elijah Baley SF-crime novel)
• The Robots of Dawn. 1983. ISBN 0-553-29949-2. (third Elijah Baley SF-crime novel)
• Robots and Empire. 1985. ISBN 978-0-586-06200-5. (sequel to the Elijah Baley trilogy)

Galactic Empire novels:
• Pebble in the Sky. 1950. ISBN 0-553-29342-7. (early Galactic Empire)
• The Stars, Like Dust. 1951. ISBN 0-553-29343-5. (long before the Empire)
• The Currents of Space. 1952. ISBN 0-553-29341-9. (Republic of Trantor still expanding)

Foundation prequels:
• Prelude to Foundation. 1988. ISBN 0-553-27839-8.
• Forward the Foundation. 1993. ISBN 0-553-40488-1.

Original Foundation trilogy:
• Foundation. 1951. ISBN 0-553-29335-4.
• Foundation and Empire. 1952. ISBN 0-553-29337-0. (also published with the title 'The Man Who Upset the Universe' as a 35¢ Ace paperback, D-125, in about 1952)
• Second Foundation. 1953. ISBN 0-553-29336-2.

... and many more.

I need to read Asimov at some point...

I would love to see a series made of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn": they always screw that one up There's so much going on in that book that leaving almost anything out defeats the purpose of the message.

Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3472

https://librivox.org/merton-of-the-movi ... on-wilson/

"Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to Hollywood to become a serious actor. How could Merton fail in attaining his dreams after finishing a correspondence course from the General Film Production Company of Stebbinsville, Arkansas, certifying him to be a competent screen actor?

Harry Leon Wilson, the author, was a very popular humor writer in the first decades of the 20th century. This book was made into film several times, the last in 1947 starring Red Skelton."

I find Red Skelton anything but funny

DIVAIR

"The Caves of Steel" would be particularly fine to see. Maybe the IACU (Isaac Asimov Cinematic Universe) could be the next big thing...

Good point- there's so much fiction that has already been adapted, but has yet to get a GOOD adaptation!

Ray Brown's Reformed Sufi series.

How about some of the works of James P. Hogan?

Asimov was almost certainly an Aspie. He is definitely one of the greats and one of my favorites. I once thought I found another author just as good: Paul French....

Me too.

That would be awesome and Harlan Ellison. I wish someone would do a short story series for Ellison and Asimov like they did for Philip k Dick.

Villette

I think it was attempted before, but the nature of the text made it hard to film.

Asimov was far too social, and (aside from his intellect) showed none of the classic "Aspie" behaviors.