What’s a book that you can’t believe isn’t a movie yet?
For me it’s Philip K Dick’s Ubik. I was absolutely blown away with the story and can imagine a really good movie adaptation of it but alas, there is nothing bar an old 90s video game of it.
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. A classic for me.
Opus-the-Penguin on
*The Anubis Gates* by Tim Powers is ridiculously cinematic. Once Hollywood discovered his book *On Stranger Tides* and gave it the Pirates of the Caribbean treatment, I figured this one would be next. Ideally, at this point, a 10 to 13 episode limited series would be the way to go. But a movie would be fine too.
*The Dueling Machine* by Ben Bova is another one with a crowd-pleasing premise where you can just picture the scenes and the characters.
HectorVK on
There There by Tommy Orange. I really expected it to be an HBO series.
sd_glokta on
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Opus-the-Penguin on
*Ubik* is a great thought. Hollywood has always loved strip-mining Dick’s stories for plot elements. Why not this one? Give it the *Blade Runner* treatment and change everything around while still retaining the spirit of the original. Or give it the *A Scanner Darkly* treatment and actually do a reasonably faithful adaptation. (*Ubik* would look great in rotoscope.) Even the *Minority Report* or *Total Recall* treatment would be fine.
*Ubik* may be the most screen-adaptable Philip K. Dick story that hasn’t been done. It’s definitely more cinematic than *VALIS*, which would be a tough nut to crack. *Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said*, might be equally good for the big screen. I’d love to see that one as well.
Ginger8682 on
It sucks though even if a studio buys the rights to a book sometimes with intentions to make a movie and sometimes just so another studio will not. I believe it happened to Liane Morarity The Husbands Secret.
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The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. A classic for me.
*The Anubis Gates* by Tim Powers is ridiculously cinematic. Once Hollywood discovered his book *On Stranger Tides* and gave it the Pirates of the Caribbean treatment, I figured this one would be next. Ideally, at this point, a 10 to 13 episode limited series would be the way to go. But a movie would be fine too.
*The Dueling Machine* by Ben Bova is another one with a crowd-pleasing premise where you can just picture the scenes and the characters.
There There by Tommy Orange. I really expected it to be an HBO series.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
*Ubik* is a great thought. Hollywood has always loved strip-mining Dick’s stories for plot elements. Why not this one? Give it the *Blade Runner* treatment and change everything around while still retaining the spirit of the original. Or give it the *A Scanner Darkly* treatment and actually do a reasonably faithful adaptation. (*Ubik* would look great in rotoscope.) Even the *Minority Report* or *Total Recall* treatment would be fine.
*Ubik* may be the most screen-adaptable Philip K. Dick story that hasn’t been done. It’s definitely more cinematic than *VALIS*, which would be a tough nut to crack. *Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said*, might be equally good for the big screen. I’d love to see that one as well.
It sucks though even if a studio buys the rights to a book sometimes with intentions to make a movie and sometimes just so another studio will not. I believe it happened to Liane Morarity The Husbands Secret.