The books I'd most love to see filmed...

[shadowkat]

I swiped this from someone else on the correspondence list, which books would I most like to see filmed?

There's all these book series that are filmed that I've no interest in or have film rights, that I've even less interest in. Or one's that have been done over and over again, *cough*Austen*cough* and sigh Turn of the Screw and Haunting of Hill House, although those may be due to either public domain or the apparently easy acquisition of secondary film rights.


Here's mine:

1. The Chronicles of Lymond by Dorothy Dunnett - this would make an excellent series. Following the exploits of a classical but deeply flawed hero, and his various family members during the 16th Century in Scotland.

2. The Sparrow and Children of God by Maria Doria Russell - another interesting mini-series could be done from these science fiction novels, with their layered characters and political themes.

3. The Vicky Bliss Mysteries by Elizabeth Peters - about an art historian and museum co-director in Germany, who solves mysteries with a Gentleman Art Thief, who she pursues as a thief but also falls for.

4. Anne McCaffrey's Dragon Rider's of Pern Series or her Crystal Singer Series

5. Agatha Christie's Curtain

Comments

[iddewes]

I definitely agree there are some books that have been filmed way too many times! Wuthering Heights is another one.

[yourlibrarian]

I've got good news for you, Curtain was done with David Suchet as Poirot back in 2014! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2119589/

[wendelah1]

I downloaded volume one of The Vicky Bliss mysteries.

[colls]

The Sparrow and Children of God could be SUPER interesting. It could also lean into some horror tropes as well, but agree some of the political themes would probably be more nuanced.
At least, I remember some of the scenes being horrific and traumatizing (for the character(s), not for me). It's been a while since I read it.

And the Crystal Singer Series! Oh! I would totally watch that, too. I'd probably check out all of these series, to be honest.

[spiffikins]

Oh I loved the Crystal Singer series - that would work so well in a visual medium, too!

[cjlasky7]

My five:

1. Either L'Etranger by Albert Camus or No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre. The Coen Brothers have done their own versions of the French existentialist classics, but I'd like to see somebody take a crack at the originals.

2. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Directed by David Cronenberg. (Come on, he's been warming up for this one his entire life!)

3. Another Country by James Baldwin. Or, really, anything by Baldwin starring Jeffrey Wright as Baldwin.

4. City of Glass by Paul Auster. For the film noir fanatic and New Yorker in everyone.

5. To Marry Medusa by Theodore Sturgeon. The integration of mankind into a cosmic hive mind.

[kerk_hiraeth]

Have vague memories of having heard of Elizabeth Peters; possibly because I nearly bought a book that some wag had deposited amongst the Elizabth Moon's & I believe a radio production has been done of at least one Dorothy Dunnett story, but one of the first books I bought from an old secondhand market stall in Newton Abbot, Devon was what turned out to be the second in the Pern series, though it was truthfully the Menolly Dragonsinger books that made me a fan.

I think I'd like to have seen an animated version of the Pern books; most especially those Dragonsinger books ~ not a fan of Menolly & Sebell as a couple though. Possibly a mix of animation & live action made in Northern Ireland; New Zealand & North Africa.

Not that I've put a lot of thought into it of course...

kerk