I met a girl at the Rainbow Bar/She asked me if I'd beat her

[rolanni]

So, Scrabble (and Mozart, too) had fancy wet canned cat food by way of birthday cake, which they both seemed to enjoy.

Yesterday (or the day before; not tracking time too well at the moment), there was an exchange in matociquala's LJ that got me thinking about which of our stories I'd like to see Hollywood take note of (with an appropriate check written to the auctors, naturally).



While I still think it would be very cool to, yanno, actually see all the Jump ships popping in to roost over Liad,

I think that I would most like to see Carousel Tides as a movie, because, after all -- hunky Native American hero, cool wooden carousel, batwing horse, leviathan, interworld gates, snallygasters and the hokey-pokey. What's not to love?

So -- what's your favorite story that you'd like to see made into a movie, and why? Doesn't have to be one of our stories. Go ahead; I'm interested.


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Comments

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Funny that I listened to Warren Zevon's greatest Hits and Enjoy Ev'ry Sandwich all day today! George's favorite was always "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner"; mine will ALWAY be "Werewolves of London".

Happy Birthday Scrabble!

I too want "I Dare" on film (though I would settle for Its sequel in print...). The whole thing will be easier now that Linix has made CGI so great.

[ramblin-phyl.livejournal.com]

When will Carousel Tides be out? I loved the bit I read of the early draft.

I'd like to see "Hounding The Moon" picked up by Hollywood. Hunky Native American semi-villain, A sarcastic cigar-smoking imp, and sweeping high desert landscape, when we aren't visiting cons. Oh, and Donato did the cover. Hope it helped tip the voting.

[chappysmom2.livejournal.com]

Assuming it wouldn't be butchered by Hollywood? I've always wanted to see Anne McCaffrey's Pern on screen. And Jack Finney's "Time and Again" would be wonderful, and so would Patricia Kennealy-Morrison's "The Copper Crown"....

[xengar.livejournal.com]

Hmm, good question. Looking over at my bookshelf, it seems like a lot of the books I like wouldn't make the transition from page to screen very well. For example, while I'd love for Roger MacBride Allen's "The Ring of Charon" to be filmed because it is so rich with imagery, the pacing and structure just wouldn't lend itself to a movie, without a rewrite that would most likely wreck it.

I agree that "I Dare" is the most cinematic of your books that I've read, but I think I'd have to go with Lynn Flewelling's "Luck in the Shadows" if I'm stuck with choosing just one. While I really want a good Sci-Fi movie, I think Luck could just be translated directly, scene by scene and end up with a movie that's only problem is that it's too long. I Dare probably switches viewpoint too frequently to make a really easy transfer to screen, although I think that a high budget mini-series like Dune would probably be best in either case. They both have too much going on in them to fit into two hours without chopping pieces out, and people's attention spans seem to be dropping back again now that Lord of the Rings is finished.

[(Anonymous)]

Burton from Montreal

I have different book into film idea. The chronicles of Miri would be the segments of our favorite petite redhead's life. It would start from her childhood on Surebleak to being drafted as Delmae of Korval. Especially interesting will be her time on Klamath during the breakup. I think current movie making technology is capable of depicting the Klamath environment. There might be a slight problem with the Clutch Turtles.

[reedrover]

Does it have to be a movie? If the choice included a miniseries style presentation (or no-so-mini series like B5), I would love to see Shards of Honor (Bujold) done on the bigger screen.

If I have to pick a 2-hour movie, it would be Robin McKinley's Sunshine.

Books into movies

[(Anonymous)]

Anne Bishop's The Black Jewel's trilogy

Tisha

Agent of Change as movie

[(Anonymous)]

I was thinking about this overnight (I just read the message yesterday) and my choice for a movie (and pray they'd do it justice) would be Agent of Change. It has it all: great beginning, spy stuff, action, romance with boy and girl thrown together and not sure at first they like that, space travel, aliens ... I love the Turtles, and would like to see them come to life and shared with the whole world ... if they do them well. And Miri and Val Con are one great, sexy team. One can dream ...

Barbara Karpel (Baltimore)

Novella, perhaps?

[(Anonymous)]

Most of the novels I like, yours included, have so much internal and external stuff going on in them that they'd make much better mini-series or series-length works than movie-length works. To make a movie out of the novels would risk either leaving out My Favorite Bits, or would risk making a long mish-mash.

So that leaves novellas and short stories. And I have bunches of those that I think would be just extra cinematic.

Several of Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy stories
Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold

Day at the Races/A Certain Symmetry by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller ( Possible prologue of Heirloom, but it would be hard to find a twelve-year-old who could chew carpet, erm, scenery, well enough to do justice to the story. But it fits well and works.
On the other hand, it would be possible to base an entire movie on Day at the Races, and do it right, but that would involve scripting much of the implied action. But that jump to the feet of Nova, Anthora, and Pat Rin just has to be captured on the screen.)
A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber (Which, considering the closeness of the action, might also be done as a stage play, to very different effect.)
St. Dragon and the George by Gordon Dickson
Who Goes There has been already done how many times? I think the first was the best of the lot, but it could always be done again, if done well.
A Night at the Inn by Georgette Heyer. (Again, much of the implied action would need to be scripted, but this could either be done as a suspense novel - will the policeman catch them before yet another young man goes missing - or as a mystery/horror movie. Either would work. )
And only now are special effects good enough to even think of doing Leiber's Ill Met in Lankhmar without being laughable. And I've always wanted to see Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser on the screen.

Please don't get me started on what I think of the adaptations of Conjure Wife. None of them work as well as the book. Please also don't get me started on the adaptation of Zenna Henderson's People stories. I think a much better People movie could be made.

Laura
Now listening to Boom-Boom Mancini, darn it.

I shudder to think what Hollywood would do to our favorite clan

[(Anonymous)]

While I would love to see a Liaden movie, I don't think there is any way Hollywood could do justice to it. Some of my favorite parts include the subtle switching between Terran, Trade and Liaden etc. And with Liaden, you have not just High and Low, you have all the various modes (I love the bits where Daav and his sister joust with mode). NONE of that could be conveyed across the silver screen. There have been too many attempts to make SF movies that resulted in me leaving the theater shouting to myself “THEY TOTALLY MISSED THE POINT!”.