I know there are quite a few readers on these boards, and that quite a few of those are Fantasy and Science Fiction fans. Something someone said in another thread jogged a memory I have of mentioning to my husband about 6 months before we learned the truth of it, that I thought "we" (meaning the movie industry) cold now do a live-action Lord of the Rings. And we all know how that turned out
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I think we're to the point that ANYthing could be made into a movie. Supposedly some recent poll said that many people think that the movies coming out are worse than they used to be, and with things like "Starsky & Hutch" and "The Dukes of Hazzard" hitting the big screen, I tend to agree with them!
But there are hundreds, thousands of books that would make good movies. (Trivia: eight of the 10 top-grossing movies of all time are fantasy/SF.)
What books would you like to see made into a movie, especially that couldn't even really be considered until fairly recently?
Actually I've got so many I can't even begin, but probably the one that would be a top movie (although not necessarily my favorite) would be Niven and Pournelle's Ringworld, Zelazney's Amber series, McCaffery's Dragonrider series.
Cindy
I think we're to the point that ANYthing could be made into a movie. Supposedly some recent poll said that many people think that the movies coming out are worse than they used to be, and with things like "Starsky & Hutch" and "The Dukes of Hazzard" hitting the big screen, I tend to agree with them!
But there are hundreds, thousands of books that would make good movies. (Trivia: eight of the 10 top-grossing movies of all time are fantasy/SF.)
What books would you like to see made into a movie, especially that couldn't even really be considered until fairly recently?
Actually I've got so many I can't even begin, but probably the one that would be a top movie (although not necessarily my favorite) would be Niven and Pournelle's Ringworld, Zelazney's Amber series, McCaffery's Dragonrider series.
Cindy