>ITT: UNfilmable books
ITT: FILMable books, but will cost a pretty penny
>>223557000
this will do billions
>>223557000The first book is still unfilmable. The recent movies were like desktop wallpaper versions of the book
I still don't understand why Stranger in Strange Land hasn't been made yet? Probably didn't help that Charles Manson based aspects of his cult on it. Tom hanks tried to adapt it apparently.
>>223557000piers Anthony's best book
>>223557369
BLood Meridian is 100% filmable, that said I'd much rather see an adaptation of Suttree though I think that would take a 10 episode miniseries to truly grasp
>>223557216bullshit, the Incarnations of Immortality was his best work and On a Pale Horse was a belly full of laughter to read from start to finish.the fact that film makers arent tapping the vast pool of works by Piers is testament to their lack of competence
Morgan Freeman has been trying to produce an adaptation of this book since before I was born.
>>223557000Everything is filmable thanks to AI now.
>>223557000it's unfilmable because the book is unreadable
>>223557000Neither is the original Dune and all the "adaptations" prove it.
Unfilmable books are really books where the writing is the main ingredient. They have tried to adapt The Great Gatsby for instance but it just comes across as simple or shallow on film. There's a Paul Newman movie called Sometimes a great Notion. It's okay but I read the book andi thought what was the point of the film? It's all about how the book is written making film as an option obsolete.
>>223557445Terrence Malick did it.
>>223557646its a great read faggot, the god emperor is peak chud hero
>>223557731God Emperor is leftwing coded though. The entire series is. That's why liberals love Dune. I've read all these books and I am a conservative. But if you read Frank, it's obvious that he was mocking us.
>>223557000Too based to be adapted.
The scale required would be far too costly for any potential earnings
>>223557397I always pictured Suttree would work well as a Robert Altman esque movie
>>223558000This book was absolute kino, well worth slogging through the previous two sermons.
>>223558083Personally I liked Perelandra best.
>>223557000Is that cover art deliberately phallic, or only accidentally?
Theoretically filmable, but nobody would ever commit the necessary SFX/VFX budget to a movie that would surely get handed a NC-17 for nudity.
>>223557819>obvious he was mocking usThen why did he make us look so cool. This is lefties problem. They make the right-wing villains too cool and the heros dumpy. There's a reason why people like the Empire. It looks cooler.
All of it will be done by some autist through AI sooner or later.
>>223557497On A Pale Horse was good, I was just being a bit jokey with posting Pier's pedo book
>>223558410True. Verhoeven did the same thing with Starship Troopers: supposedly mocking fascists, but all he did was make the military look hella cool.
>>223557000So if he slowly becomes worm-like over centuries, and he's the most powerful human, is this meant to imply that mature sandworms are just lightyears ahead of even the best human, psychologically? Lorefags please explain
>>223558663NoBeing a worm just makes him immortal/very long lived.He was born the heir to a galactic empire with all the knowledge of the humans who he is descended from before he started the transformation.
>>223557149>Lynch>Villeneuve FACT.
>>223558722You positive? Because doesn't melange also have extreme pschoactive properties and come from worms? Seems to imply that every one of them is like a kwisatz haderach x100 and just doesn't have the will for galactic expansion. Are you saying they are basically just dumb animals?
>>223558410What about Leto's empire was cool? All his top positions were held by lesbian women. The average person lived in some shit hovel and had an awful peasant life.
>>223558772The Spice does come from worms, but they aren't shown to have any intelligence, at least before Leto II. It's been a while since I read the last two books, but I think Leto's consciousness is somewhat inside the worms that descended from him. It never amounted to anything since Herbert died before exploring it.
>>223557000>UnfilmableThe ultimate midwit cope
>>223557060Lmao
Never let the Hollywood faggots touch this. Except maybe HBO.
Too much of a deep existential slog.
The ultimate blackpill
>>223557390I loved this book.
>>223558884I never got what this meant, that the future Worms would have some aspect of human intelligence or that aspects of Leto's consciousness would be trapped inside a giant animal
>>223558419It unadaptable because the book is just Leto thinking about the past and future. Not very good movie material when people already rejected the inner monologs of Lynch's Dune.
>>223559136Malick style solves that easily.
That's right you Venusian gook-rotten niggers. Show you something
>>223559136And he's such a pretentious cult-leader too, can't take him seriously after Suicide Squad
>>223557216My dad saw me reading this one day (we both liked the Xanth books) so he posted it up. He banned me from Piers Anthony after that. I was 9. Lol.
>>223557000My vote.
>>223559023The better option.
>>223558305I have some news for you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carter_(film)
>>223559813I know this author.
>whats an unfilmable book?>/tv/ nerds - oh ya definitely 'The Skars of Etruscus' by Sander Branderson, ya ya that's got crystalsMy goodness
>>223559968BrandySandy is the most bankable Mormon fantasy author in all of entertainment. He’s who you read if Mr Rogers is too racy for you.
>>223557000Is this thread unfilmable books in the sense that it is impossible to adapt them (definitionally you can adapt anything) or that it would be impossible to adapt them because of market/audience willingness to sit down and watch?
>>223557000Camp of the Saints
>>223559023I couldn't finish this. I feel like every time I read a great book I feel more isolated from society.
>>223560211I got to the part where the poor dunce in the beginning got an arrow through his skull. I read a little further but it was really jarring.
penis ass motherfucker
>>223558136>Strips his Tolkien insert naked and has a hot green lady laugh at himJack was one cheeky mick.
dont have a picture but the rose of the world
>>223557060>body horror>monsters>sex (disgusting kind)>Holomeme (have to bypass tabu by involving kikes)Cronenberg could do it.
>>223557216Guy came up with one of the best monster concepts ever and chose to waste it on this drivel.
>>223559076?? whats unfilmable about this? the first one would be much harder to film.
Blood Meridian
>>223557725>They have tried to adapt The Great Gatsby for instance but it just comes across as simple or shallow on film.The broadway musical version was good
>>223558136Use one image per frame
>>223558305The book itself is self-contradictory with the nudity. Sometimes ERB seems to have forgotten about it.
>>223559076Loved the first book, DNF this one. Very lame followup.
Ever had a book where this happened?The Green Knight for me. I didn't care that they cast an Indian guy as Sir Gawain. What bothered me was basically everything else. The book isn't a spooky A24 horror story like the movie. It's fundamentally a tale of chivalry about a heroic knight, even if it is unusual in that the hero personally considers himself to have failed his quest, even though outwardly he succeeded and notably survives at the end unlike in the movie. The Gawain of the movie bears almost no resemblance to the one of the book in backstory, character, or motivation. The Green Knight was made by people who either didn't like or didn't understand the source material. So why adapt it at all? Was it like Starship Troopers where they already had a script in hand and then just slapped the name onto it and added some proper names from the book?
>>223557217I don't want BoTNS adapted, however.Normalfaggots don't deserve to know about it.
Many have attempted and some have gotten close, but it's ultimately a narrative of silent observations and inner thoughts that simply can't be translated in their full meaning to a visual medium.
>>223557629Don't look what Dennis Villeneuve's next flick is
>>223557000They made a Billy & Mandy episode of it.
Cast the god emperor movieI keep thinking of good actors that are already too old>>223557000The worst part is how they cast momoa as duncan, it should have been oscar isaac, he fits the description and is a good actor.
That spic Netflix show that released recently was alright, I guess, but we are talking movies
>>223559023They wouldn’t know how
>>223562349I really like the John Hurt adaptation. I think that does a good job of visually creating the London of 1984 as Orwell imagined it, even if it has other flaws compared to the book.
>>223559862Yes and there have been three attempts at Dune as well, none of which have done it justice. Every attempt at a John Carter adaptation has been a travesty.>>223562170No it's really not. They wear some decorative silks and jewelry and leather harnesses for carrying weapons, and wrap up more when they need protection from the elements, but they don't bother at all with covering specific body parts for modesty. There's no way to adapt it faithfully without pretty frequent full nudity, and more or less constant partial nudity.
>>223564194>you humans are so weird why do you cover up your bodies? You should just be naked all the time like me, the exotic hot alien princess. I watched humans through my telescope, what are those weird things you have on your heads? A hat? No we don't do that in Germany.50 pages later>martians are wearing cloaks to survive the cold>martians are wearing helmets in battle to protect their headsERB was a hack, and John Carter is a complete Mary Sue. There's literally no tension whatsoever, because you know that no matter what combat situation he gets put into ERB is going to drop his favorite line "because of his superior speed and agility due to Earth's higher gravity" and John will just win for free. I enjoyed the first book, but by book 2 he was already just phoning it in.Also the movie was a completely fine adaptation.
>>223564272>"because of his superior speed and agility due to Earth's higher gravity"meant to say strength and agility
>>223557629That's so boring though
>>223557629There's a cool computer game based on the Rama serieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu4n5YXPaMQ
>>223558419Yeah, it's gonna be trash >>223559136so is most of dune but DUNC has no inner monologue. I trust it could be done.
>>223557965You can't just post that picture.>The Gor series repeatedly depicts men abducting and physically and sexually brutalizing women, who grow to enjoy their submissive state. According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Norman's "sexual philosophy" is "widely detested",[1] but the books have inspired a Gorean subculture.[2]
>>223557000>supposedly an anti-authoritarian book>the message is that tyranny is justified if it's a means to a greater goodalright I'm gonna keep toiling at a labour camp then surely the party knows best
>>223557217logh is already an adaptation of the light novels and its arguably better than the original booksI don't get why adaptation only counts if its life action
>>223564655Dunc is trash.
>>223557725Tell me about Sometimes A Great Notion. My ex got me that for my birthday and I wanna know if it's worth checking out
>>223558770ftfy
>>223559076>let's bring all these dead characters back to life for no fucking reason: the seriesEvil space catholics using demonic parasites is cool and all but simmons is a hack
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>>223557629The sequels were so ass>On a trip to somewhere completely unknown>Woman: Just assumes they're on an inter-generational voyage>Decides this means she not only needs to have kids, but these kids will also need to breed>Decides she needs to get pregnant not just with her husband but with the old man living with them to increase their genetic diversity>Her husband is upset about this>We're supposed to like her and think the husband needs to mature>It wasn't even an inter-generational voyage all along
>>223557000Can't be done, because the moment you pitch it to anyone they're going to tell you to go fuck yourself.
>>223557000That book cover is, um, suggestive.
>>223557728Great book. Simple story written densely with an experimental style. For instance, conversations from different parts of the town overlapping in the same paragraph or narrative breaks to reframe events. Give it a try. The movies actually pretty good too
>>223565246>>223566279Replied to wrong post
>>223559065Kino
>>223566167This was done
Christian doomsday rape gangs led by Black Panthers assault the last standing nuclear power plant and the free men and women trying to survive and rebuild after a comet destroys civilization.Aint no fuckin way ((((they)))) could pull it off.
>>223559696>shapeshifting main character on ayahuasca and heroin>deludes himself into thinking he’s a secret agent sent to hunt down homosexuals, but is really just a self-hating prowler who hospitalizes the men he anonymously fucks >featuring a modern Roman child trafficking operation where they film youths having orgies while on laughing gas, play those films back to the youths while theyre still dosed with laughing gas, then switch the laughing gas out for Zyklon when the cops show up>discovers time travel through the process of drugging and raping a non-english speaking youth and then killing him during orgasm to travel back to Ancient Maya, where the narrator fucks his was into the ruling Priests’ gay pederast sex cult and breaks and steals their mind control machine, causing the entire civilization to burn itself down, and then brings it back to present day>boss at the reality-controller newspaper factory tell him to quit being such a nigger, so he puts ‘destroy yourself’ into the newspaper which destroys current reality and physics>all sex and gender get fucked and go to war so now humans are born through the Semen Market and Flesh Exchange where queers of all nations slaughter eachother trying to win the best semen and flesh and all end up making fucked up kids anyways Yep its kino
>>223564733Yeah, there've been two movies but they completely avoid that angle, even compered to other S&S movieshttps://mindstalk.net/houseplants.html
>>223557217I haven't watched the anime but I don't see any issue with a live action adaptation of Monster, though casting Johan would be pretty hard.
>>223566167I don't know how close of an adaptation it was.
>>223557000I read this, and despite being one of the world's most popular fantasy fiction books, I found it an incredibly laborious read. Started off interesting but then got bogged down in exposition. Overall it kinda slumped in the middle, and when a new and interesting character was introduced in the second half it was like an entirely different story with basically a new set of characters. The ending was action-packed by pretty weird, like it was straying too far into some kind of experimental arthouse territory.Just the length alone makes it unfilmable, but how you'd even get the different chapter tones to match makes it impossible. 2/10
>>223567869Waka waka!
Good luck.
>>223557131>from the author of Apeshit
>>223557000Why is the worm making the stop laughing Speed meme face?
>>223557646People come to this website just to announce they have a low IQ. They will type stuff that carries no other possible meaning than "Hey guys, I'm just not that bright." and then just go ahead and click Post. Idk what they get out of it.
>>223568535>how dare he talk shit about my favorite scifi genreslop!
>Anthony Hopkins as Leto II>Tim Robbins as Moneo>half the movie is just them bantering
>>223566047>picks up other humans from Earth>one daughter gets into drugs>becomes druglord's cocksleeve>kills him then herselfGod that was depressing. I love the first book and wish I hadn't read the others.>>223559023Could work as a 3 part miniseries, they did that with Childhood's End and it was pretty good.Pic related could be awesome in the right hands but it never will get done and if it were it would be done poorly.
>>223557998done alreadyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0-FS0UhKg0&list=PLNVUnSdNPmGrKtLkpQHx-l92R6UFP3TfQ
>>223568632>Harsh MistressThe only problem is that libertarian douches are attracted to this kind of material and usually make shitty movies
>>223568632>God that was depressing. I love the first book and wish I hadn't read the others.Same. Clarke put that sequel bait line at the end of the first book and left lots of things ambiguous, so I thought the sequels might have cool ideas. There's almost nothing, it turns into a drama. I found out later out the sequel bait line was a throwaway and he had no other ideas for a sequel. I wish I knew that before.
>>223566047Rama 2 is alright but a big step down, but yeah it becomes ass after that. Why are the humans so fucking stupid and psychopathic, they're astronauts.
>>223567869>despite being one of the world's most popular fantasy fiction booksDune 1 fits that description, not the sequels. God Emperor is just that weird book with the giant worm guy.
>Imagine if Guys I stead of Griffith was tortured in the dungeon only to escape and lead a revolt against the kingdomCan't imagine them making a movie where the main character eats the remains of wife and child to survive and is missing parts of his body. That's the least of it.
>>223569561>>Imagine if Guys I stead of Griffith was tortured in the dungeon???
>>223569561>Guys I stead*Guts instead
>>223557819Like all his books Dune is critical of state authority, this is a right wing position.
>>223557000Who could play Siona? Anya Taylor Joy? That's a good idea, me. Atreides all look alike right? She's too old though? Maybe.
>>223557059I read the first two when I was scrapping the bottom of the barrel for fantasy, before realizing asian webnovels existed. It's reddit as fuck.
>>223557000Dune became a worm?
>>223559023The idea that a Jew would convert to Catholicism under any circumstance is deeply antisemitic and brave Jewish activists in Hollywood will never let a screen adaptation see the light of the day.
>>223560082The objective of western politics (specifically the U.S., UK, and Canada) has been to keep India infantilized as another source of cheap manufacturing labor a la China in the 80s and 90s. If they stopped empowering Hindutva radicals that want to ethnically cleanse India in exchange for the ‘promise’ of cheap labor, India could actually develop in a sustainable way. I’m not saying it’s the fault of the west that India is stuck as a third world shithole but it is a huge factor in why things won’t change until Europe and the U.S. rightfully fall into the multipolar world order that they’ve been fighting against for the majority of my adult life.
>>223557216Never read it. What's erotic or wrong about it?
>>223569498>>223566047Jesus, i just got into book 2 and you're telling me the nothingness of book one was the good part
>>223571457Try Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds, you might enjoy that more than the rest of the Rama series.I also enjoyed House of Suns, guy loves his vast stretches of cosmic time.
>>223570323>asian webnovelsHow much of a manchild do you have to be to read this garbage>realize it's reddit after the firsst book>read the second bookyou need to go back
>>223570174yet everyone on the right praises trump and state authority... Same as Reagan during Frank's time.
>>223571779Anon, if you say individual rights matter leftists will call you a Nazi, the subjection of the individual to the collective is the core of left wing ideology, Left wing 'anarchists' are liars, they still want property to be controlled 'collectively'.
>>223572150Nazis were left wing and hated individuality as well
gatsby might be unfilmable because the movie adaptations have sucked ass. they dont capture the feeling of the book at all.
>>223572581I can only remember the book being boring as fuck
>>223572598pleb,
>>223570382it's pretty filmable thoughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkR2hnXR0SM
>>223557000AI could make it work but it'll still be slop
>>223572581The broadway musical adaptation is good.
I vote for Lord of Light. Concept too wild and to jeetified.
>>223573511>GRRM quote on coverShan't be reading.
>unbookable films
>>223573511I listened to this last week, it was fun but the ending was so confusing
>>223558305I think it’s very filmable. Even the Disney movie did a decent job capture of some of the visuals. It’s definitely possible to get the visuals down, just needs proper writing.
>>223564272NTA but dude, it’s not supposed to be some deep novel. It’s a >what will happen if Chad Gentleman went to mars, punched aliens to death, and bagged a red princessAnd it fucking rocked. It’s okay to Mary sue when that’s the point of the story.
>>223571779>>223572150>>223572571>assuming that between left and right one of those two must be in favor of individual rights and opposed to state authority
>>223561986first one would be a mini series that is just a another story per episode
most books are unfilmable. a major value of books is seeing characters internal monologue and the authors narration. without that a lot of it is lost
>>223557000Good luck making this film but a totally real sex CULT in New York
>>223570174>critical of state authority, this is a right wing position.Lmao
>>223570476There is a short sequence in the book where a 5 year old defends having sexual intercourse with adult male.
>>223557217Hyperion is perfectly adaptable and even has enough brown people for today's studios but since it has been picked up by Apple you know there will be some gay shit and allegories for evil white males that have nothing to do with the source material and degrade any potential the show might have otherwise
>>223557000There are no actors hung enough to play these characters
>>223559023>feralhistorians Iron Lung It'd be a pretty easy ~40 minute short film, or shorter, it'd just not be all that interesting. The multifaceted point of the monks not knowing the purpose/value of the original, the illumination "saving" it from being stolen might be a bit hard to get across but not really for a visual medium. the actual story is pretty crude and expositional by just telling him it was the copy being pretty that saved the real one with it's real value (as a grapplegrommit cutoff switch or something). To drive it point home subtextually you'd likely have to make the endpoint "church" just a bunch of visually identifiable scientists to juxtapose to the monks and their copying of circuit diagrams without knowing what it is, then you can have him feel like he's failed at the same time the techpriests are deeply thanking him within the same scene.
Probably better animated, live action and it'd end up looking like a bloody Chronicles of Narnia.
>>223574930That’s where you’re wrong
>>223574972Wow. I forgot this series existed.
>>223569655I actually think it could be done. It would just become more generic. An old Sevarion writing a book of his life. Perhaps as an unreliable narrator. Visually, I would go for a 1970s matte painting and puppet/miniature vibe. Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, etc.
>>223575587People tend to remember Animorphs more but Everworld was even more brutal.
