Books to Movies --> what should be next?

[milamber]

Martin - A Song Of Ice and Fire

They'd have to split it into 12 long episodes as a mini-series.

 

[Brian G Turner]

I'm still waiting for a proper treatment of HP Lovecraft.

 

[littlemissattitude]

I think Kage Baker's Company novels would make fine films. Or perhaps a limited series for cable or public television, so that the whole series could be stitched together for the sake of continuity. That would make the jumps through history make more sense, I think, than having stand-alone films, which could get a little confusing.

 

[dwndrgn]

I agree that The Company would make a great idea for a series not a movie. It would be too condensed and confusing as one movie. As a series, done perhaps in a similar way to Quantum Leap, it would be very interesting. Maybe we ought to write to the good folks down at the Sci/Fi Channel?

 

[littlemissattitude]

I agree that The Company would make a great idea for a series not a movie. It would be too condensed and confusing as one movie. As a series, done perhaps in a similar way to Quantum Leap, it would be very interesting. Maybe we ought to write to the good folks down at the Sci/Fi Channel?

Not a bad idea at all.

 

[dwndrgn]

I recently posted a list of upcoming (maybe - some are just in development and my never make it to production) movies based on some of our favorite books, tv series and comics. It's located in the TV and Film forum. I'm very excited to see some of them and was disappointed to see that some that were in development years ago are still there - haven't gotten off the ground yet. Notably of those is Battlestar Gallactica and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and of course, Doctor Who.

 

[dwndrgn]

I recently posted a list of upcoming (maybe - some are just in development and my never make it to production) movies based on some of our favorite books, tv series and comics. It's located in the TV and Film forum. I'm very excited to see some of them and was disappointed to see that some that were in development years ago are still there - haven't gotten off the ground yet. Notably of those is Battlestar Gallactica and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and of course, Doctor Who.

Can't edit after 30 mins? In any case, here is the direct link to the forum post I mentioned:
http://www.chronicles-network.net/forum/showthread.php?t=641

 

[Brian G Turner]

Sorry, I put that in for the sake of continuity - I've seen communities allow edit without limit that ended up with big gaps where people had removed their content, making threads and the posted replies quite unintelligable.

If the limit seems to low then feel free to ask for soemthing different - same with any issue on these board. I'm happy to work with feedback.

 

[milamber]

How about a 1 hour limit?

 

[Brian G Turner]

Sounds reasonable to me - I'll change the settings now.

 

[dwndrgn]

I don't have any problem with the limits on the edit time-period. I just thought the 30 mins was an odd amount of time to use. One hour is fine. In case I haven't mentioned it, I really like the additions and changes to the forums. Once I get used to the new stuff, maybe I'll be able to figure out what all the new bells and whistles do!

 

[Brian G Turner]

Once I get used to the new stuff, maybe I'll be able to figure out what all the new bells and whistles do!

Same here!!!

 

[Whoknew5]

I recently posted a list of upcoming (maybe - some are just in development and my never make it to production) movies based on some of our favorite books, tv series and comics. It's located in the TV and Film forum. I'm very excited to see some of them and was disappointed to see that some that were in development years ago are still there - haven't gotten off the ground yet. Notably of those is Battlestar Gallactica and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and of course, Doctor Who.

Battlestar Gallactica and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Nice. I have seen the trailers for the Battlestar Galactica (version 2.0) and it looks great...even if Starbuck is now a woman...who smokes cigars.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Starbuck is now a cigar smoking woman?? OH, lordy - talk about changing cultural expressions!

Oh - and welcome to the chronicles-network, Whoknew5.

 

[dwndrgn]

Battlestar Galactica has been made into a mini-series for tv. Starts here in the US on the SciFi Channel on Dec 8th. Already marked on my calendar.

I was surprised that it wasn't advertized as much as it could have been.

 

[Incognito]

Is the mini-series related to the film at all??

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Now that Tolkien has been succesfully filmed, how about other fantasy classics, maybe Moorcock's Elric books, the Thomas Covenenant books or, if that's a bit too heavy, some Eddings? I suspect most of the classic Eddings work would make for very entertaining cinema.

I guess there is no hope at all of anyone ever filming ER Eddisson's Ouroboros books, though.

 

[dwndrgn]

Is the mini-series related to the film at all??

I've no idea whether they abandoned the Hollywood script and then adapted to a miniseries or if they created the miniseries outside of the Hollywood movie concept. Maybe I can find out. We'll see.

 

[jerchar]

I would also bet on the David Eddings serie The Belgariade.

 

[dwndrgn]

I've no idea whether they abandoned the Hollywood script and then adapted to a miniseries or if they created the miniseries outside of the Hollywood movie concept. Maybe I can find out. We'll see.

This miniseries was not done by the people trying to get their BG movie script made so that means there is still (a slim) chance that a full-length feature film will be made based on the series.

From the stuff I saw over the weekend about this miniseries, it looks like they've made some major changes that seem to work well. They've changed the Cylons and they've given us the reason why they are the only survivors from their world. The Cylons are their creations gone wrong. They evolved into human-like robots that are virtually indistinguishable from humans and they want to destroy their creators.