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Rene A. Moncivais

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Re: Books that would make good movies...
« Reply #40 on: March 19, 2007, 11:47:05 AM »
Has anyone ever read Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley (he also wrote Thank You For Smoking)? I've always thought that would make a great film.

Any other ideas?

Yes, this book should be made.  It's really funny.

I would make the rest of the Border Trilogy by Cormac Mccarthy.  The long version of All the Pretty Horses needs to be released to, stupid Weinsteins.
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Re: My Books
« Reply #41 on: March 19, 2007, 12:43:21 PM »
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  Favorite book from my favorite author tells an unconventional and touching love story filled with quirky characters and touches of magic.  

Mike Newell's making an adaptation of this.  There's an interview with one of the producers recently on KCRW's The Business about getting Gabriel Garcia Marquez to allow them to film it and then the difficulties of trying to film it in a place with multiple revolutionary armies afoot.

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Re: Top 5 Books that should be movies
« Reply #42 on: March 19, 2007, 11:58:50 PM »
Neuromancer by William Gibson - probably won't happen as The Wachowskis stole judiciously from this for The Matrix
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Re: Top 5 Books that should be movies
« Reply #43 on: March 20, 2007, 03:33:06 AM »
Neuromancer should have been made about 16 years ago.

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Re: Top 5 Books that should be movies
« Reply #44 on: March 20, 2007, 05:02:54 AM »
Good call on Jinx.  I think everything Brian Micheal Bendis has done should be adapted.  Goldfish is awesome, but I'm particularly glad that Fincher is aparently directing Torso.  YAY!  Torso is my favorite of Bendis' books.  He's a great writer who cribs from other great media, like the Good the Bad and the Ugly.
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Re: Top 5 Books that should be movies
« Reply #45 on: March 20, 2007, 04:00:22 PM »
Neuromancer should have been made about 16 years ago.

  The effort to bring it to screen is a film in and of itself. After the horrendous butchering of Johnny Mnemonic - I don't think it will ever happen....however Pattern Recognition is supposed to be in pre-production...I think.
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Re: Top 5 Books that should be movies
« Reply #46 on: March 20, 2007, 04:52:36 PM »
Pattern Recognition is in development - to be directed by Peter Weir.

Normally I wouldn't be excited about Gibson being adapted - but I get excited about any Peter Weir films.

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Re: Top 5 Books that should be movies
« Reply #47 on: April 14, 2007, 02:44:52 AM »
Pattern Recognition was fairly good, but there was a LOT of internal monologue-  hard to translate to film.

The fact that Neuromancer never got made is just weird-  it could have been serious Sci-Fi, it could have been action, it could have been a lot of things....  I should go back and read it now, it's probably wonderfully dated.  Johnny Mnemonic was terrible, though.

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Re: Top 5 Books that should be movies
« Reply #48 on: April 14, 2007, 04:00:31 PM »
1. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet
2. The Watchmen - Alan Moore
3. House Of Leaves
4. Shadow Of The Dragon
5. Black Hole

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Re: Top 5 Books that should be movies
« Reply #49 on: April 23, 2007, 11:39:13 PM »
I don't read much but there are some ideas.

The Giver-Already in the works I guess

The U.S.A Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money) by Dos Pasos -Reading it right now, really good but could be tough (lots of storylines).

The White Mountains by John Christopher

 

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