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BTT: Book to Movie
What book do you think should be made into a movie? And do you have any suggestions for the producers?
Or, What book do you think should NEVER be made into a movie?
I had a super hard time answering with question, and had to go through my entire library on LibraryThing to even think of anything, but here’s what I’ve come up with. Any book title links go to my reviews.
- The Lace Reader – “The Lace Reader” was a great summer time read and could be a great summer time movie with lots of flashbacks. They’d have to do the first lines as a voiceover, I think, but it would be a very dramatic mystery. It seems like a Sandra Bullock type of movie.
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Let’s be honest, there’s a good chance they’d turn this lovely book into a really cheesy movie, but with the right director it could be great: young love, war, racism, regret in old age – what more could you want?
- Water for Elephants – Think how gorgeous the circus scenes could be! And the nursing homes scenes could be quite poignant.
- The Aviary Gate – If the whole ‘modern day’ portion of this story was just omitted, this could be a good movie with gorgeous sets.
- Sunne in Splendor – I’m actually sort of surprised there aren’t any movie execs cashing in on the Richard III thing already, actually. Of course, they’d have to condense so much of this that it would probably just end up annoying me. Maybe they can turn this book into a movie trilogy?
- The Dracula Dossier – What a great Halloween movie, it is a spooky, spooky period piece. I’d see it.
Have you read any of these? What kind of movie do you think they’d make? What other books would you love to see as a movie?
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March 12th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized
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Having recently finished three of Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat books, I would love to seem them as movies.
And the forthcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies would be amazing!
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Super choices! I wasn’t as taken with The Lace Reader as others were (maybe because I’m lacemaker?), but I could definitely see it on the big screen.
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I’d love to see Water for Elephants. Favorite book ending I’ve read in a while.
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Water for Elephants would be a great movie! The Lace Reader and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet are on my tbr list.
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I haven’t read any of those titles. My title is different; it’s here:
http://bookcritiques.blogspot.com/2009/03/booking-through-thursday-movie.html
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Water for Elephants is a great choice!
I agree with how lovely it would turn out.
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You came up with some really good ones. I was a film student at one point in my life so when I read, I see everything as a film. I did that with The Road but now I heard that movie was scrapped. I hope not because it was looking really good from the pics that I have seen of it.
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devourerofbooks Reply:
March 12th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
That’s neat, Ti! I didn’t know you were a film student once. It would be sort of cool to be able to see how a book would be as a movie while you are reading, I just c can’t do it.
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You’re 100% right about The Aviary Gate – it would be much better without the modern day portion. I’d love to see more historical fiction as film, really, but I’d definitely have to set aside history for the movies. I love to visualize the way things might have been.
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Love your choices…Water for Elephants..now that would make a great movie!!!
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Loved Water For Elephants. Just finished Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and agree if not done right, it could be cheesy.
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I agree that Water for Elephants could be a wonderful movie. It would take a good director to preserve the parallels without making them too obvious and (to use Nise’s word) cheesy.
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