what's a sci-fi book that you always wanted to be made into a movie?

I really want to see Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light turned into a film.

I also want to see Ridley Scott direct or produce a film of Philip K Dick's Flow My Tears, and have it be set in the same world as Bladerunner.
 
Talking of Star Trek, in my opinion The Ashes of Eden by the Reeves Stevens was arguably the best book set in tos universe. It
r would make a terrific film.
(Yeah, Shatner took the writing credit but we know better.)
 
But, the TekWars ... are all ... such great reads. It must ... have been ... done by Bill
D4mm1t Bill, you're an actor, not a writer!
 
I always thought Shatter wrote the Tekwars books, but obviously not the Star Trek novels.
 
Gotta be any and hopefully all of Iain M Banks culture novels - in no particular order - the hyrdogen sonata, surface detail, matter
Would need a big budget, lots of wonderful inception / existenz reality / virtual worlds and lots of stunning far future ships and alien landscapes and alien lifeforms... the ultimate sci-fi movie series !
 
Oh yes - and definitely a vote for Neal Asher - Just read the first one of the owner series and its bloody amazing - breakneck speed and great sci-fi ideas and tech. Would make a great movie. I have to move on and read the rest of his stuff now and catch up with the rest of the world (y)
 
2DaveWixon said:
So just as in theater you sometimes have people doing Shakespeare in modern settings and costume, so science fiction movies sometimes try to tell an old story with new tech, etc. -- that seems okay. On the other hand, is it okay if they "update" the political ideas? the ethics?
Whatever the answer to that might be, it calls for someone among the filmmakers to add to/"adapt" the underlying story. Is that "wrecking" it?
IMHO, if the filmmakers pay the story's author for the right to "use" or "adapt" (rather than faithfully reproduce) that author's story, and the author agrees, who am I to argue?
I may not like the result -- but then again, I often don't like the original story, either...
Click to expand...

Further: Gordy Dickson, over the year, turned down several offers from people who wanted to make a Dorsai movie. Generally, Gordy could really have used the money, but he refused to let anyone film the Dorsai stories -- they were his baby -- unless he could be confident that he would be able to ensure the movie(s) would be done right.
It was Gordy's choice, and I don't blame him for standing on what was to him an important principle. But I also note that no Dorsai movie was ever made...

Everyone involved has to balance the equities.
 
NotePad said:
I really want to see Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light turned into a film.

I also want to see Ridley Scott direct or produce a film of Philip K Dick's Flow My Tears, and have it be set in the same world as Bladerunner.
Click to expand...

Heinlein's DOUBLE STAR. Zelazny's DAMNATION ALLEY and LORD OF LIGHT. (I know that DAlley was once filmed; it was so bad that I don't count it...)
 
2DaveWixon said:
Heinlein's DOUBLE STAR. Zelazny's DAMNATION ALLEY and LORD OF LIGHT. (I know that DAlley was once filmed; it was so bad that I don't count it...)
Click to expand...

I agree The Damnation Alley film is a cinema travesty. One of the worst film adaptations of all time.
 
Spares by Michael Marshall Smith.

Warner Bros bought the rights, sat on them for a while, then made the film The Island, which is a major rip off of spares, but without the history and backstory of the war in The Gap, and focussing the story solely on the clones.

Very disapointing, but not really surprising.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Thread starter Similar threads Forum Replies Date
HareBrain What's happened to Goodreads book pages? Book Discussion 12
D Anybody help? What's the title of a book about a few different men each being in crisis Book Search 0
Busdrvrjim What's the book? Book Search 4
Glisterspeck What's your decision process when considering books by authors unknown to you? Book Discussion 31
rnsrus Internet consciousness What's the book? Book Search 1

Similar threads


Back
Top