Notable Books I'd Like to See Made Into Film (Provided They Don't F**k it Up!)
Submitted by slipkid71 on Thu, 07/25/2002 - 04:46
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- White Noise, by Don DeLillo
- Underworld, by Don DeLillo
- A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy O'Toole
- Independence Day, by Richard Ford
- The entire Rabbit series by John Updike (hey, if Peter Jackson can do it for the "Rings" trilogy...)
- The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
- Post Office, by Charles Bukowski
- The Alienist, by Caleb Carr
- On The Road, by Jack Kerouac
Author Comments:
To be continued. Feel free to add some of your own.
I'd like to see "Thank You For Smoking" by Christopher Buckley made into a film, and also "Ender's Game" - but actually, they probably would f**k up an Ender's Game movie, so we can hold off on that one.
They are already making Ender's Game into a movie. Card is writing the screen play himself. I think that he is combining Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow and cutting out all the stuff on earth done by Ender's siblings. I don't think any dates have been set yet so it will probably be two or three years in coming.
Confederacy of Dunces would make a great movie provided they find the perfect person to play Ignatius.
You'd have to find someone who'll both convey the pain of being a genius in their own mind and the pain of being trapped underneath a mountain of flesh and fat. Not the easiest task, and, no, fat padding won't work either.