What book would you like to be made into a movie?

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Posted: 4/20/2014 6:53:00 AM EDT

Was thinking about this today and came up with two;

Chris Cock's Fireforce
and Clancy's Red storm Rising.

I think the only way to make Red Storm Rising would be through animation / CGI.

Any thoughts or ideas?

Posted: 4/20/2014 6:55:24 AM EDT

[#1]

One Second After.

Posted: 4/20/2014 6:56:44 AM EDT

[#2]

Ringworld. It's been talked about for years, but I don't think it will ever happen.

Posted: 4/20/2014 6:57:00 AM EDT

[#3]

Can't think of many. Most book I read I like too much to be ruined by Hollywood.

Posted: 4/20/2014 6:57:27 AM EDT

[#4]

Matt Bracken: Enemies Foreign/Domestic

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Posted: 4/20/2014 6:57:57 AM EDT

[#5]

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. Just change the crappy ending.

Posted: 4/20/2014 6:58:04 AM EDT

[#6]

Twilight. The books were so inspiring.

Posted: 4/20/2014 6:58:15 AM EDT

[#7]

Flight of the Old Dog by Dale Brown.

Posted: 4/20/2014 6:59:59 AM EDT

[#8]

Recent non-fiction? House to House

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:00:36 AM EDT

[#9]

The Afrika Reich needs to be made into a 1970s "Wild Geese" style action movie.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:01:33 AM EDT

[#10]

Ringo's "Kildar"

Williamson's "Freehold"

Ross' "Unintended Consequences"

Of course none of these will ever be a movie.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:02:07 AM EDT

[#11]

Vince Flynn's Transfer of Power

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:04:27 AM EDT

[#12]

Mistborn Trilogy, if it could be done well!

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:07:07 AM EDT

[#13]

Without Remorse

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:07:52 AM EDT

[#14]

The Count of Monte Cristo.

CORRECTLY, for once.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:08:05 AM EDT

[#15]

Tunnel in the Sky by Heinlein. Its one of his juveniles but properly done, it could be awesome.
For those not familiar, its basically a Stargate meets Les Stroud scenario. A bunch high school/college students go on a short, true survival test via portal and a star goes supernova and strands them on a planet with an Africa-ish feel.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:09:45 AM EDT

[#16]

Day
By
Day
Armageddon

And I would remake WWZ into a mini series so it would play out like the book.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:10:36 AM EDT

[#17]

The Forever War, but only if they don't fuck it up like they did with Starship Troopers.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:11:21 AM EDT

[#18]

Dragonlance

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:12:37 AM EDT

[#19]

Ringo's "The Last Centurion"

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:14:10 AM EDT

[#20]

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors.

I hear though there is already a movie in the works

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:14:25 AM EDT

[#21]

http://www.amazon.com/Contempt-Court-Turn-Century-Federalism/dp/0385720823

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:16:17 AM EDT

[#22]

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:16:26 AM EDT

[#23]

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A member here has his picture in that book.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:20:38 AM EDT

[#24]

A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Gift Upon the Shore
Dies the Fire
Farnham’s Freehold
The Forever War
Lucifers Hammer
Vandenberg
The Wild Shore
Wolf and Iron

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:20:44 AM EDT

[#25]

The Last Open Road by BS Levy

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:22:40 AM EDT

[#26]

Run For The Trees - James Rand

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:22:52 AM EDT

[#27]

A Higher Call. True story about how a German fighter pilot helped a wounded B-17 back to the coast of France. Years after the war the pilots of both planes reunited.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:23:46 AM EDT

[#28]

None. They fuck'em up every single time....

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:24:02 AM EDT

[#29]

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A Gift Upon the Shore
Dies the Fire
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The Forever War
Lucifers Hammer
Vandenberg
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Farnham's Freehold would be one fucked up movie.

I like the Ringworld suggestion by another poster. That could be an epic scifi movie. I think it would be very doable with modern CGI.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:25:52 AM EDT

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Flight of the Old Dog by Dale Brown.

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Storming Heaven by Dale Brown (anything by Dale Brown would be a good movie)

P. T. Deutermann:

Train Man

John J. Nance

The Last Hostage

Sky Hook

Blackout

Nelson DeMille

The Lion's Game

Plum Island

Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block

Mayday

Michael Crichton

Prey

Airframe

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:26:49 AM EDT

[#31]

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Farnham's Freehold would be one fucked up movie.

I like the Ringworld suggestion by another poster. That could be an epic scifi movie. I think it would be very doable with modern CGI.

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I'm thinking that a living version of Stanley Kubrick would do interesting things with that one
It wouldn't have to be an exact rendering. Look at how they mangled the Postman by the time that one made it to the big screen

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:27:13 AM EDT

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The Forever War, but only if they don't fuck it up like they did with Starship Troopers.

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Fo Rizzle. Ridley Scott is supposed to be on this project but we got Prometheus instead.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:28:01 AM EDT

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This gets said in every thread, and it's fucking true. I'd love to see it.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:28:35 AM EDT

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That would be excellent if done correctly.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:28:51 AM EDT

[#35]

Ameritopia by Mark Levin

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:29:28 AM EDT

[#36]

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None. They fuck'em up every single time....

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They made the Jack Reacher movie better than the book.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:29:32 AM EDT

[#37]

He was blind the whole time...

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:29:34 AM EDT

[#38]

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour... especially if it were done on the same scale as "Saving Pvt. Ryan"

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:29:56 AM EDT

[#39]

The Wheel Of Time series.

But it isn't going to happen, you just can't turn 12,000 pages into a movie. Or even a series of movies.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:30:07 AM EDT

[#40]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Or Glory Road, or an honest attempt at Starship Troopers that doesn't leave out the important parts and flip the rest.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:30:17 AM EDT

[#41]

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah.

Posted: 4/20/2014 7:30:23 AM EDT

[#42]

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I'm thinking that a living version of Stanley Kubrick would do interesting things with that one
It wouldn't have to be an exact rendering. Look at how they mangled the Postman by the time that one made it to the big screen

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Farnham's Freehold would be one fucked up movie.

I like the Ringworld suggestion by another poster. That could be an epic scifi movie. I think it would be very doable with modern CGI.

I'm thinking that a living version of Stanley Kubrick would do interesting things with that one
It wouldn't have to be an exact rendering. Look at how they mangled the Postman by the time that one made it to the big screen

I'd want to see what Tarantino would do with it.