Films Screwing Books

[AngeloMichael]

Remec:

I'm still waiting for Gilliam to get back on track making Alan Moore's The Watchmen, however...but this will do for now, I suppose. (The way The Watchmen shifts from view, style, and tone, though, it might make for a better miniseries. They still make miniseries, don't they?)

Yeah but only HBO can make them well nowadays since they can take more risks not having to deal as much with network censors. I would love to see HBO make a mini-series based on The Watchmen, I loved that series, which for me is saying something as I loathe the comic book format and it is rare for me to ever really like a story done in that style.


About Stephen King:
I find it interesting that while just about all the movies adapted from his novels are not as good as the original novel, and in a lot of cases pure dreck, the movies based on his short stories are, IMHO, some of the best movies of our time.

The Body AKA Stand By Me, Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile are all incredibly wonderful films.

 

[kellycummings]

About Stephen King:
I find it interesting that while just about all the movies adapted from his novels are not as good as the original novel, and in a lot of cases pure dreck, the movies based on his short stories are, IMHO, some of the best movies of our time.

The Body AKA Stand By Me, Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile are all incredibly wonderful films.

I agree. While some of his short stories have been turned into pure gargage, some of the best movies are from them. Shawshank is generally considered one of the great films of our time now. It's too bad that it took so long to catch on. I remember seeing it in the theater and there was hardly anyone there. Then a few years later it catches on on home video and people realized what they missed.
I also think The Dead Zone is forgotten about. It was one of his strongest novels and made a very good movie but people seem to have forgotten all about it.

 

[SadieRose]

Re: Got an address?

Coolness! I love that book.

Hey hey,

From your AV you do look like the kind of guy who would appreciate Neil Gaiman.

Please take that as the compliment it was intended to be.

Any of the Pratchett Witches books would make a good movie however. And that's not just cos I'm hot for witches right now!



Sadie.xx

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Re: Re: Got an address?

Any of the Pratchett Witches books would make a good movie however. And that's not just cos I'm hot for witches right now!

I second that!

 

[oggbashan]

Trader Horn (1930) and the modern remake which was worse.

The book was a fascinating real-life tale about a young man going to Africa to make his fortune.

Among other exploits he rescues a kidnapped princess and loses her in a bet to his colleague. He conducts a river war to get his trade goods back and becomes an "Admiral".

The film turned the princess from black to white and made her a swooning starlet which the real princess wasn't. I think Trader Horn "lost" her because he couldn't keep up with her sexuality. Writing for the 1920s he couldn't be too explicit.

The film was an early talkie famous for its on location African wild life shots which had nothing to do with the plot but sold the picture.

The book is still great reading. The film(s) were and are dire.

Og

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Elizabeth George is a truly great writer, but the TV-series they made on her books, "The Lynley Cases", or what they were called originally, were awful. In one, they even removed the whole motive (incest), and replaced it with a more "decent" one (sibling rivalry)!