{"id":1425,"date":"2008-11-21T07:11:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T11:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2008-11-18T11:37:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T15:37:48","slug":"books-that-should-be-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Books That Should be Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considering all of the unnecessary remakes of classic SF movies, you&#8217;d think that there was no new material available for adaptation.  <I>Au contraire<\/I>, says Topless Robot, now that it&#8217;s had a foreign language upgrade.  They&#8217;ve put together a list of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2008\/11\/the_8_scifi_and_fantasy_books_which_most_desperate.php\">The 8 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Which Most Desperately Need Movies<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?  Could these be successfully adapted for film?  Are there any obvious ones that the list overlooks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering all of the unnecessary remakes of classic SF movies, you&#8217;d think that there was no new material available for adaptation. Au contraire, says Topless Robot, now that it&#8217;s had a foreign language upgrade. They&#8217;ve put together a list of The 8 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Which Most Desperately Need Movies. I&#8217;m not sure that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}