BOOKS YOU WISH WERE MOVIES

[Randomgold]

I think Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series would make great movies. Well, provided they were handled correctly, but that's true for just about every movie.

[zerofire2905]

One book that I would love to see being made into a movie or maybe even a mini-series would be “The Luminaries”.

For starters, it is the Man Booker Prize winner for 2013, by Eleanor Catton which made this the longest book (at 832 pages) and her the youngest author (at 28 yrs.) to pick up the prize (and much deservedly so). Sometimes when I pick up these award winners, I am inadvertently apprehensive that the book will never match up to the euphoria surrounding these prizes but this was a tremendously pleasant surprise.

At the heart of it this is simply a murder mystery set in 1860s New Zealand against the back-drop of the gold rush. The story starts with the arrival of a gold prospector, a certain Mr. Moody in Hokitika in New Zealand, only to get embroiled in the biggest scandal to hit its shores. Very soon, he finds himself in a room of 12 men who have a joint secret involving an opium den, a drugged whore, the ghostly ship, a dead drunk, a missing fortune and a young man’s disappearance.

And my personal favorite quote:
“Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.”

[Chitopogi]

I would like to see the trilogy Raven's Peak, Raven's Fall and Raven's Rise made into movies. With a good director, I think it would equal the greatness of Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings movies.

[CassTheBean]

Lux Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout

[tlandrade]

My favorite book of all time, The Shellseekers by Rosamunde Pilcher, would make a wonderful movie. I'm afraid it would be a "chick flick" of the best (or worst) kind, but the characters are rich, the settings beautiful, and the feelings invoked run the gamut.

[Emma RW Dickson]

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. It is my favourite book and I would love for it to be made into a movie or miniseries.

-- 25 Apr 2017, 16:30 --

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. It is my favourite book and I would love for it to be made into a movie or miniseries.

[lilytepait]

Throne of Glass and Red Queen.
craving for it

[Rannoush]

Le petit prince
Unless there is a movie that I don't know about

[sadya]

There is this animation I haven't watched yet either:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfTOBhAIArQ

And this 1974 movie based on the story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIJ348IxvaE

[Ninetimes]

Insidious things I like

-- 07 May 2017, 20:38 --

More scary books more scary movies

-- 07 May 2017, 20:39 --

Creepy crawly booka

-- 07 May 2017, 20:39 --

Hollow grave

-- 07 May 2017, 20:39 --

Booo

-- 07 May 2017, 20:40 --

More scary books more scary movies

[KNewton]

The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks would make a fantastic series.

[Jaime Lync]

The Pilgrim's Regress by C.S Lewis so that I could watch it right after the Pilgrim's Progress.

[Gingerbo0ks]

Lunar Chronicles series

[csimmons032]

I actually would like to see the Cape Light series by Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer be made into movies. More than likely, they wouldn't make it to theaters, but I think they would make cute tv movies, maybe for the hallmark channel.

[AmeliaLovesBooks]

The Count of Monte Cristo- THE REAL BOOK. The 2002 movie of the book was loosely based on the story. That book really needs to have a movie with ALL the characters. Maybe even a mini-series on Masterpiece theatre.