What novels would you like to see made into a mini-series? My choices would be:

1) The Forever War
2) RingWorld
3) Foundation
4) The Number of the Beast by robert Heinlein

Carefull what you wish for. Ursula K. Le Guin speaks:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2111107

yeah , i was only able to watch about 15 minutes of Earthsea before i had to change it . too bad .
hb

Mission Earth-L. Ron Hubbard (you either love it or hate it)
The Spider Trilogy-W. Michael Gear
Forbidden Borders-W. Michael Gear
Hyperion-Dan Simmons
Star of the Guardians-Margaret Weiss
They Thirst-Robert R. McCammon
Strangers-Dean Koontz

Peter Straub's "Ghost Story" was made into a movie in the early 80's. It featured a great cast (Fred Astaire, John Houseman, Melvyn Douglas, Douglass Fairbanks Jr., Alice Krieg) but they couldn't overcome the dreadful screenplay and uninspired directing. I'd love to see a faithful, two-part adaptation of the book.

William Gibson's "Sprawl" trilogy:

Neuromancer
Count Zero
Mona Lisa overdive

Well My votes would be for these three

Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders of Pern" series

"Starship" by Wiliam Aldis I think was the name of the author

"Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Nevin and Jerry Pournele

John Davis
AZbuilder

Peter Straub's "Ghost Story" was made into a movie in the early 80's. It featured a great cast (Fred Astaire, John Houseman, Melvyn Douglas, Douglass Fairbanks Jr., Alice Krieg) but they couldn't overcome the dreadful screenplay and uninspired directing. I'd love to see a faithful, two-part adaptation of the book. Completely agree. I read the book after seeing the movie and it distroyed the movie for me. Same thing happened with Starship Troopers. While I like certain elements of it, I felt Paul Verhoven went too far with the material to serve his own political message and didn't trust the book enough. I'd love to see an faithful and artful interpretation on ST.

John O.

Anything by Alfred Bestor (Sci-Fi Channel, are you listening?)

Peter Straub's best supernatural thrillers may not translate well to film, but I'd love to see a high-budget translation of Koko. Shadowlands is far too ethereal and poetic to make it, too much would be lost. Floating Dragon might work, having plenty of Stephen King-esque elements.

I want a Shogun tratment for James Clavell's Gai-Jin. Actually, I never got around to reading it, but Shogun is my favortie min of all and I would love more of the same. Noble House was enjoyable.

I'm still disappointed that Dune Messiah is not to be rendered for Sci-Fi channel. That was my favorite sequel in that series.

Ringworld!!!
If they can do Gollum, they can do Puppeteers and Kzin.

Sci Fi is doing Robinson's "Red Mars," and I'm worried they'll screw IT up too.

Some Hammer's Slammers stories would be fun. Heck, it'd make a good tv series.

The Man / Kzin wars. Now your're talking ma language

ENDER'S GAME

If you haven't read it... DO It's awesome!

Childhood's End. It's a little too big to fit in as a feature unless you did some radical restructuring.

Other SF novels that COULD fit as a feature length film rather than miniseries would be:

PASSAGE AT ARMS by Glen Cook - one of the best space war novels (in DAS BOOT vein) I've ever read

YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN (longer version only) by David Gerrold -- another great space war novel, but much more psychological ... was actually developed to be a film called STARHUNT in 1980 but it fell apart in development.

alternate past future story
Bova's MILLENNIUM - set in 1999 on the moon where USSR and US forces must team up to stop ww3 from happening by taking over all the antimissile lasersats.

Ellison's screenplay for I ROBOT ... did justice to Asimov and was really cinematic ... probably as far above the Will Smith ROBOT on the evolutionary scale as we are above the amoeba (as Spock would say.)

I would like to see Paramount use "The Final Reflection" Star Trek Novel#16 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743496590/qid=1105818492/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-1052411-5377663?v=glance&s=books) for the next Star Trek movie - or mini-series. Great characters and lots of action! And - GASP - a plot!

Just keep Berman and Braga away from it!

"Knight Life" (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441010776/qid=1105818695/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/002-1052411-5377663) or "Howling Mad" (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441346634/qid=1105818742/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/002-1052411-5377663) by Peter David. Can you see Daniel Stern as a vampire? Danny DeVito as a werewolf?
And Arnold Schwarzenegger as a reverse werewolf???

-Leelan

ENDER'S GAME

If you haven't read it... DO It's awesome!

ENDER'S GAME is great. What was the second book called? XENOPHOBIA? Been a long time since I read them.

Robert Ludlum has several novels that are great. His stuff usually gets botched on the screen though. THE PARSIFAL MOASIC is great. Also THE HOLCROFT COVENANT which was a crummy movie with Michael Caine.

Still waiting for the big screen version of GREEN EGGS AND HAMhttp://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/images/icons/icon10.gif

I would like to see Paramount use "The Final Reflection" Star Trek Novel#16 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743496590/qid=1105818492/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-1052411-5377663?v=glance&s=books) for the next Star Trek movie - or mini-series. Great characters and lots of action! And - GASP - a plot!



Awesome novel, it'd be too much to hope for!

If you ever come across the ORIGINAL st spaceflight chronology book (the one done in 1980), you'll see that some of the events mentioned in the text are actually dramatized in Ford's book, suggesting there was some slight notion of continuity at Pocket in the early years.

Duh. What I meant earlier was God Emperor of Dune, not Dune Messiah.

Anyway. This is a great thread - I've no hope that any of these will be done (or done justice, at least), but it makes for a great reading list.

I have always wanted to see DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES by Margarer Weis and Tracy Hickman. Over 10 years ago at an fantasy convention when TSR owned the books, I was told that they were going to make animated movies. I would have liked to see it, but a live action is better.

Carefull what you wish for. Ursula K. Le Guin speaks:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2111107

I'm glad she is still alive to voice her disatisfaction over this. Unfortunately, many authors are no longer around to rebutt such atrocities commited by Hollywood suits.

A couple of more come to mind. I can't believe I forgot them

RAMA
Stranger in a Strange Land (for those of you who are more into drama).

Contest Mathew Reilly
Ice Station Mathew Reilly
(Both a bit pulpy but would make great action films)
Altered Carbon Richard Morgan
(Ultra violent, would need calming down a touch. Would make a TV series too!)
Liege Killer Christopher Hinz
Virtual Light trilogy Gibson
Spares Michael Marshal Smith
Airborn Kenneth Oppel (Alt. reality victorian airship. Usualy found in young adult fiction though)

Just off the top of my head. Are you listening Hollywood executives?

Thought not.

Jim

Anybody else ever read THE DEATHLANDS series? Group of survivors of some type of apocalypse(can't remember what). There is a series of transporters inside government facilities/bunker scattered around the country. They transport from place to place and encounter different threats in each location. They pick up people along the way and lose others. Bought the first 15 books at a flea market for $1 apiece around 10 years ago.

I'd love to see a good adaptation of King's Dark Tower series now that the books are complete, but I think some of it needs the big screen to be done justice. King describes having been inspired, in part, by The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- and how that movie is just not the same on television. Clearly, some parts of the story are meant to evoke that same vast, epic scale, and could only be adequately shown on a big screen.

However, there are seven books and most of the story takes place within a span of a year or two at most. It would probably be impossible to do that with theatrical films, so a miniseries would be the only way to go without gutting much of the story -- although the first and fourth books could probably be condensed a good bit and still give you the important stuff.

Qapla'

SSB

I AM LEGEND.

By the book.

I've got several I'd love to see, but won't mention them all since most everyone else has already covered them.

And after some thinking, the only one I'd rally like to see made in to a mini-series is a Trek novel in two books: The Left Hand of Destiny - a Post-DS9 pair of books dealing with Chancellor Martok and a betrayal of the Klingon Empire. It has a BUNCH of TNG and DS9 characters in it and I think it'd make for an awesome mini-series in two parts.

I would like to see Paramount use "The Final Reflection" Star Trek Novel#16 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743496590/qid=1105818492/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-1052411-5377663?v=glance&s=books) for the next Star Trek movie - or mini-series. Great characters and lots of action! And - GASP - a plot!
I'll third th is! In fact, I just re-read it (for like the 12th time!) not too long ago. One of my favorite Trek novels of them all. They could do it as a two-parter, no need to make it a week long deal. Plenty of other, longer novels have been made in to simple two-part mini-series, so I'd love to see this novel get that treatment.
Just keep Berman and Braga away from it!
Amen! :thumbsup:

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