Short Stories and Novellas that you want to see Filmed?
 

What are some some of your favorite short stories/novellas that you'd like to see adapted? I'd love to see a movie of George R. R. Martin's amazing werewolf tale "The Skin Trade". There are also quite a few Stephen King shorts I'd love to watch, like "The Ten O'Clock People", "Sneakers", "One For The Road", "I Am The Doorway", "Everything's Eventual", "Rainy Season", "Home Delivery", "L. T.'s Theory Of Pets", "In The Deathroom"...

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I'd like to see a proper version of H.G Wells' War Of The Worlds...


So far there's been two crap films and a crappier TV series...


Love to see the book turned to the screen rather than just the general idea of an Alien Invasion.
Which is all the films are, Alien Invasion films with little in common with the novella and slapped with the name War Of The Worlds so they can sell tickets.

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Short stories and novellas, bro. Sorry, there's already a thread for book adaptations somewhere around, IIRC.

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WOTW is a Novella...

The Death of Liberalism: The End of Abortion.


Not sure who wrote it. Love to see the movie. :)

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Ah, my bad then, Rodent. I tend to think of novellas as being collections like 'Different Seasons" which have fewer stories each of which are lengthier than average.

Totally irrelevant to the OP and obvious baiting. If you want to discuss abortion, do it in the appropriate place.

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There is no "appropriate" place. But I see your point. Wrong place for this.

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The appropriate place would be in Miscellaneous Chat. In the "Abortion; Why?" thread, for instance.

Do you have any short story adaptation suggestions or are you just trolling for attention?

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I remember a short story from many years ago involving a prisoner who gets trapped trying to escape. He digs a hole in the wall and craws down a very small tunnel only to find a grate at the end with a dead corpse. He can't get back to his cell and so he supposedly dies there.

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Alternate Shawshank ending?! :eek:

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The story I'm thinking about was written way before Shawshank. I guess it could be a re-write. It would be interesting to see a convicted murderer trying to escape only to find himself in a trap.


The story I'm thinking about was written in or prior to the '70s.

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Alrighty. Do you recall the author?

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No. Sorry. I read it in grade school.

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Well it sounds interesting, anyway. Pop back in and let us know if you remember.

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It was interesting, but I read the story in the 1970's. I just don't remember anything else about it. Sorry.

Don't everyone respond all at once. :(

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I'd love to see more faithful adaptions of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories. Red Nails, The Servants of Bit Yakin, Hour of the Dragon, and People of the Black Circle just to name a few are much better than the cheesy Aunold movies. :yup:

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Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find and Good Country People

The first two King shorts in Nightmares and Dreamscapes, (Dolan's Cadillac and The End of the Whole Mess if I remember correctly) are his two best IMO. Love to see adaptations of those.

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Dolan's Cadillac has been adapted already. Haven't seen it yet myself.

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Woah, you're right. Did not know that.

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Kafka's Penal Colony. Don't know how much you could do with it but who knows?

Young Goodman Brown or almost anything else by Nathaniel Hawthorne.