Books That Should be Movies
Considering all of the unnecessary remakes of classic SF movies, you’d think that there was no new material available for adaptation. Au contraire, says Topless Robot, now that it’s had a foreign language upgrade. They’ve put together a list of The 8 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Which Most Desperately Need Movies.
I’m not sure that I agree with everything on the list; a couple of them are so complex that stripping them down enough to turn them into a movie would alter them pretty radically. Still, even a medicore stab at new material is preferable to evisceration of a classic.
What do you think? Could these be successfully adapted for film? Are there any obvious ones that the list overlooks?
From the comments under the Topless Robot posting.
Matt said:
Starship Troopers ruled because it, in my opinion, was actually better than the weak and overrated Heinlein source material. Never liked Heinlein, read most of his stuff to see what everyone else was saying, but it’s ponderous and poorly written. He was the Robert Jordan of Scifi to me.
Matt — Go play with your action figures and let mommy and daddy discuss cinema.
Re: The 8 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Which Most Desperately Need Movies. Most fans have a list like this somewhere — usually in their heads. That’s a good place to keep them.
Comment by Shadow — November 21, 2008 @ 11:40 am