The books I'd most love to see filmed...
Jan. 20th, 2024 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI 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
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
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Date: 2024-01-21 10:04 pm (UTC)Also the appeal of Cronenberg has always been lost on me.
And it's probably worth noting that I kind of fast-forwarded through 90% of S1 of the Good Place? It bored me. The only good episode was the first and last ones. I'm also not a fan of Beckett plays - which I'm guessing you are?
So you can go watch those if they ever get made, I'm going off to watch Crystal Singer. ;-)