What book would you like to be made into a film?

Loretta Damage
Loretta Damage Posts: 270
edited February 2013 in The cake stop
I only ask because I thought about this while out on a ride yesterday and was curious to see what everyone else thinks. Obviously, choose a book that hasn't already been dramatised. My choice is "Skinheads" by John King, not a very glamourous setting in Slough and West London but the soundtrack would be amazing. Ray Winstone would be a great Terry English.

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  • VTech
    VTech Posts: 4,736
    Gazza's life story.
    Could you imagine that rollercoaster !
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  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    VTech wrote:
    Gazza's life story.
    Could you imagine that rollercoaster !

    Would need subtitles for those who speak English
  • mr_poll
    mr_poll Posts: 1,547
    The Truth Machine

    No one has ever read it, picked it up for 99p in a newsagent book bin once. It's a great idea and story and would make a brilliant film.
  • byke68
    byke68 Posts: 1,070
    Orwell's Down And Out In Paris And London. Brilliant book. Could be a good film as long as Hollywood didn't get hold of it!
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  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Would love to see the CJ Sansom 'Shardlake' books made into a series of films. However immersing oneself into a damn good book is better than any film.

    The best recent book to film I can think of is Headhunters (Jo Nesbo). Excellent book and the Scandinavian film makers did it justice. Unfortunately Hollywood has got hold of it and doing there own take - Just like they did with Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The Scandi film was better than the Daniel Craig remake.
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  • markos1963
    markos1963 Posts: 3,724
    Sentenced to Prism by Alan Dean Foster, as a si fi fan this would make an interesting film
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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    The Rider by Tim Krabbe.
  • dindondan
    dindondan Posts: 11
    The Highway Code!
  • crom7
    crom7 Posts: 83
    The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
    The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

    ...oh and The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carl
  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    Personally, there's few books I have read and enjoyed that I wish to see on film.

    Very few films can possibly live up to your own imagination or picture the scene how you see it in your minds-eye.
    ...or miss-out the important scenes that would be too expensive to film / end up on the cutting-room floor, but you personally feel are essential.

    ...there have been very few exceptions to the above that I have seen.
    Just IMHO.
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    The Woman and the Ape by Peter Hoeg. Just to see if they include the sex scene between the 2 main protagonists.
  • GiantMike
    GiantMike Posts: 3,139
    byke68 wrote:
    Orwell's Down And Out In Paris And London. Brilliant book. Could be a good film as long as Hollywood didn't get hold of it!

    Only if it's done with a narrator rather than additional dialogue. It's the observation that makes it so good.
  • GiantMike
    GiantMike Posts: 3,139
    ANY religious text. With proper CGI and SFX.

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