|
Yeah - but the "rub" is being sure the movie is "true" to the book!! Look at the liberties taken with the Bond movies. Awful!
I always thought the Rex Stout series about Nero Wolfe would be great. Timothy Hutton did a great job with the TV series - stayed true to the books - and we were absolutely **devastated** when A&E discontinued it! We bought the entire set of DVDs and watch them all over again about 6 times a year! Love 'em!
Lillian Braun's "The Cat Who..." series is another one that would be good. And why hasn't anyone made the entire 26 story Tarzan series into movies - that were true to Burroughs' original concepts?? and what about the rest of the Thomas Clancy "Jack Ryan" series?
Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series?
Diane Mott Davidson's "Catering" series?
Dorothy Gilman's "Mrs Pollifax" series?
Now that we have all the incredible computer-generated graphics and stuff, there are lots of more fantastic books that would be good to make movies of. Things like
Robert Aspirin's M.Y.T.H series
Jean Auel's Earth's Children series
Glen Cook's "Metal" series
Phillip Jose Farmer's "River world" series?
Raymond Feist's "Riftwar Series" and the "Daughter of the Empire" series?
Alan Dean Foster's "Pip and Flinx" novels?
Randall Garrett and Vickie Heydron's "Gandalara Cycle?"
W. Michael Gear's "Way of Spider" series?
Obviously I could go on and on and on.
Cheerio!
Elizabeth
*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
Forbidden fruits create many jams.
*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
|