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Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:12 am

Hope this topic doesn't already exist somewhere... though I've been stupid before and I'll be stupid again.

OK, well lots of SF fans (not all) also tend to like Fantasy (either pure fantasy, which has little to do with wizards and elves and stuff like that), or "Swords and Sorcery" books that tend to get lumped into the Fantasy category.

For me, I'd like to see Elric of Melnibone turned into a movie. It would be successful either as a slightly divergent fanboy pisser-offer action film, or as a true-to-the-book exploration of an interesting character.

Some of Moorcock's other stuff is even more interesting, but not as film-friendly (ie. Blood).

So what are yours?

Greg

[edit: I just posted this to the same topic as the SF thread, but I realized it should be in the Off Topic section... hope nobody minds]

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:17 am

Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny

Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever - Stephen R. Donaldson

The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien

progfusion74 · Post by **progfusion74** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:21 am

Shadow of the Torturer
Claw of the Conciliator .. you get the Gene Wolfe drift

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 5:02 am

The Silmarillion would be horrific as a movie.

Thomas Covenant would be good.

Glen Cook's Black Company could be worthwhile.

Greg

tetraplan · Post by **tetraplan** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 11:09 am

Comics:
The entire Aleph Tau series.
Hmmm. treading the fine line between fantasy and scifi (and gnosticism).

And of course En Quete de l'Oiseau du Temps (1).
Because it is beautiful and deeply tragic.

Groet, Erik

(1) no idea what the English title is. (2)
(2) no, I don't read French, either. I had too look this up.

Zoing · Post by **Zoing** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 11:16 am

Thomas Covenant!!!

And, a little while ago I read a Tad Williams book called 'War of the Flowers' that would be great as a movie.

I guess the Hobbit would be fun, I hear Mr Jackson may be making it at some stage.

penguinfuz · Post by **penguinfuz** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 11:59 am

Lunch Money wrote:What Fantasy books are you waiting for films to be made

Anything from the Diskworld series will do.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:06 pm

Zoing wrote:
I guess the Hobbit would be fun, I hear Mr Jackson may be making it at some stage.

apparently some other company has the rights,they want far too much money so it may never be made

or it may be by some other crappy company

austere · Post by **austere** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:07 pm

the less sci-fi / fantasy books they convert to the silver screen the better. for example, the lord of the rings. something I truly adored it in book form, beautiful & elegant. that beauty & elegance is raped, twisted, mangled for a Hollywood audience. I had the displeasure of seeing these films and I think they are one of the worst films I have seen..

I, Robot. I’ve only seen a making-off of this and I can already say that it holds no valid reference to the book by Isaac Asimov at all. If only because they bombarded Will Smith as the main character.

I understand that these two films are adaptations and that they need to be easy pieces to be fed to the Hollywood audience to generate enormous amounts of ca$h... but still I can not help but feel attacked when they rape my personal imagination with the Hollywood imagery.
Okay, I’m guessing it's already clear but I must stress the fact that I do not like Hollywood films at all.

There are some sci-fi / fantasy adaptations that I do like.

Anthony Burgess’ “A Clockwork Orange” by Stanley Kubrick
The ending of the movie is very different then the original ending of the book but Kubrick didn’t know the original ending. Still I think that it is a very faithful adaptation of the book giving it a very dark atmosphere.

Arthur C. Clarke’s “2001 – A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick
I think you need to have read the book to truly appreciate this adaptation but if you have it is one marvellous film.

Frank Herbert’s “Dune” by David Lynch
Not my favourite adaptation but I am just very fond of David Lynch films. Plus that he does stick with the story. Though just like with “A Space Odyssey” you do need to have read the book to make sense of the film, I guess.

Bleh, sorry for my ranting…

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:26 pm

Pratchett.

Could be done terribly or well. I'm sure the former would happen. I would be enraged at the adaptations and wouldn't see them.

Meffy

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:28 pm

that would be the bible again

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:31 pm

spaceman wrote:that would be the bible again

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:33 pm

Meffy wrote:
spaceman wrote:that would be the bible again

jens · Post by **jens** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:35 pm

Sorry Greg, but:

everything else wrote: Anything about MAKING MUSIC but not about Instruments, Effects or Hosts....

off topic wrote: If it's not about music it belongs here! Please try to keep it civil and decent....

come on, an english-teacher like you...

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 5:29 pm

jens wrote:Sorry Greg, but:

everything else wrote: Anything about MAKING MUSIC but not about Instruments, Effects or Hosts....

Lunch Money wrote: [edit: I just posted this to the same topic as the SF thread, but I realized it should be in the Off Topic section... hope nobody minds]

It's been there since 3 minutes after I posted.

back atcha.

The SF thread has made it to double digits in this area without any forum police busting it up. At least I apologized.

Greg

What Fantasy books are you waiting for films to be made of?