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Name a book you want made into a movie
#1
One book that's been a favorite read and I think would make an amazing movie is Heinlein's "Orphans of the Sky"

Orphans of the Sky (Wikipedia)

Hopefully it's only a matter of time as Hollywood is slowly running out of ideas and many of his other works have been scripted for the big screen.

What say you?

P.S.  - my second choice would be Swan Song by Robert R MacCammon
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#2
The Necrosope series by Brian Lumley.



 
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#3
Shibumi by Trevanian, would I think be fantastic.

Tecate
If it’s hot, wet and sticky and it’s not yours, don’t touch it!
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#4
"Phantom Warriors" -
- Gary A. Linderer

Always thought this would make a fantastic movie!  What these LRRPs did, and what they endured, is just an incredible story.  (LRRP stood for 'Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol')  Not even the Navy SEAL teams do stuff like this.  The way Linderer writes; you were there, living it, right next to these guys.

These guys would go out for sometimes weeks at a time into the jungles of Vietnam, moving for hundreds of miles, in complete stealth, often behind enemy lines, and never fire a single shot (for them, firefights were a bad thing).  They were true real-time reconnaissance.  They saw the real Vietnam war, which was far different from the CIA's, and the administration's, fantasy version of the war.  They were so effective they ultimately had to be disbanded/dissolved because they were stealing the thunder of most of the other far more glorified Special Forces units (early SEAL and Green Berets).  It's an incredible story about soldiers whom most people never even knew existed.

edit - On an anecdotal note, many people don't realize that the real life and famed "Ninja's" of 17th century Feudal Japan were really more about stealth and reconnaissance than they were about exotic fighting techniques.  Their trained fighting techniques were only employed when they had failed at their primary mission of staying hidden.  The LRRP's were modeled after this philosophy.
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#5
How about "sixth column" by heinlein? that would be great. a big underground cave like zion in the matrix.  have you seen the movie version of by his bootstraps? it was actually pretty good. i think musk would like to see the man who solld the moon made as a thinly veiled biopic about him haha he has the harriman ego

macroscope by piers anthon;y

goldfish bowl (the dead past) by asimov

the business', by iain banks, i think player of games is in the works!

'ubik' by phil dick. it would need  a really great director though

'the fifth science' by xurb1a -messages from the future! you could make like a dozen movies just from one chapter of that guy

i bet theyre going to do a movie of the laundry files by charilie stross someday try and start off big series but then never make a sequil haha

as for movies they have made from books "the portable door" from tom holt is new movie released on my to watch, looks pretty good actually, i'm hopeful!

(09-19-2024, 09:22 PM)Tecate Wrote: Shibumi by Trevanian, would I think be fantastic.

Tecate

looks like your in luck https://deadline.com/2022/08/chad-stahel...235095335/ i havent heard of the book but it looks slappin added to my readlist thanks!

(09-20-2024, 05:30 AM)FlyingClayDisk Wrote: "Phantom Warriors" -
- Gary A. Linderer

Always thought this would make a fantastic movie!  What these LRRPs did, and what they endured, is just an incredible story.  (LRRP stood for 'Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol')  Not even the Navy SEAL teams do stuff like this.  The way Linderer writes; you were there, living it, right next to these guys.

i first read this as 'litrpg' which is a genre like rpg video games in a narative with stats and classes and levels and such and it made me think this would be a fun way to watch a recon infiltrate story, from the pov of the squad. i bet in twenty years theres a movie genre that tries to combine visual narative with litrpg with those gamer streams milenials seem to love watching, hollywood'll find the nostalga money irresistable i bet but they'll probably stink it up unless theres some genius directors-to-be in genalpha, wow that would be nice our culture needs it
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#6
Would really like to see a good (non political/woke) version of this book.



'The Player Of Games' - Iain M. Banks



Also cheers to 'Necroscope' lol - read that decades ago. Beer
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(09-20-2024, 09:00 AM)Karl12 Wrote: Would really like to see a good (non political/woke) version of this book.



'The Player Of Games' - Iain M. Banks

well the whole empire of azad is thinly veiled anticapitalism/colonialism allagory so the nonpolitical might not be possible, but hey, aliens with tthree sexes! is that woke? gender politics for sure, apices=toxic masculinity. but at least banks spent exactly one sentence discussing gerguhs skin color.
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#8
Ha reckon you know what I mean mate - just hope if they ever do transition the Culture series to film they stick to Bank's vision and not try to interject their own political agenda.

It's definitely been going recently in movies and looks like the ones that tried 'flopped'.

Contrary to the CIA reckon entertainment (and objective journalism) is no place to pimp radical ideologies (left it right) on anyone.

You've obviously read the Culture series - which one do you like best?

Beer
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(09-20-2024, 10:01 AM)Karl12 Wrote: Ha reckon you know what I mean mate - just hope if they ever do transition the Culture series to film they stick to Bank's vision and not try to interject their own political agenda.

It's definitely been going recently in movies and looks like the ones that tried 'flopped'.

Contrary to the CIA reckon entertainment (and objective journalism) is no place to pimp radical ideologies (left it right) on anyone.

You've obviously read the Culture series - which one do you like best?

Beer

ha maybe banks is 'woke done right' because even though its definitely like lefty liberal commie genderfluid weirdness in there its first and foremost darn good stories with characters that are complex and selfrealized and not shallow cutouts which is the big problem i have with most of the stuff people complain as being woke is that its shallow garbage where the agenda is more important than the story and noone would act like that and it lives in a simple world thats all some weird kayfab and it makes it suck where its just so silly that theres no suspension of disbelif like. and thats whats annoying with woke, not the actually liberalism in a classical sense because star trek tos and tng did that really well and presented stories that showed both side and made you think and didnt feel like propaganda although maybe it was. its the woke idea now that to have social change youve got to destroy old tropes and ways of thinking and architypes and yeah maybe thats true but its done by replacing with something better not silly deconstruction that rings false and i sure hope they dont try to use the culture series as a vehicle for that kind of crap. and part of that deconstruction is deliberately creating controversial stuff like burn the old ideas in fire of opposition, provoke to create two camps and pit them idealogically against each other, and really all that does is paralyze and support old power structures that can maintain themselves by manipulating as they always have behind the scenes outside the circus which is where i think your getting to with like the cia supporting wokeness, not as a tool of change itself but as a tool of cultural paralysis to tie up and distract where change might occur so the change that happens can be what tptb or whoever want.

and as to the culture series by banks that reminds me of the group that splintered off the culture, i forget what they were called, because they saw special circumstances as meddlesome and the minds as playing a grand chess game and using everyone as pawns, and haha perhaps theyre banks version of deep state truthers.  hadnt thought of that before. and well if so then certainly hed agree the affront is like the maga movement, lefty that he was if he were alive today.  but hed be actually intelligent about it i bet instead of reflexive tds criticism.

for a long while excession was my favorite culture book because i really like the shiptosihp intreague and the feeling of vast galaxywide scope to it, the whole powers beyond ken of the excession itself lotsa turbulance from it just being even though to an extent nothing really happens hah it moves by existing. great book.

and against a dark background is great because i love the idea of the lazy gun and its a great story but whats really been in recent years my favorite is surface detail, the entire idea of the war on hell and its a nightmare story in some ways but banks was really ahead of the curve with simulation theory and pseudognostic inception reality layering and again, its foremost another great story and not contrived bs really benefits from rereading and not just twice!

anyway what ones do you like?

edit oh and along the lines of the surface detail simulation i wanted to mention neil stephenson 'fall dodge in hell' which would be an interesting movie although very hard to present visually i would imagine but a pretty good matryoshka reality story too although as someone said it has the same problem that alot of neil stephenson books have in that (haha) as soon as the main ideas are explored and you start to get near the ending, it
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(09-19-2024, 09:05 AM)Raptured Wrote: What say you?

P.S.  - my second choice would be Swan Song by Robert R MacCammon

Would pay good money to watch a decent rendition of 'Swansong' as the author wrote it.


'Imajica' by Clive Barker is the one book/film I would make if I were a billionaire lol.

Beer
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