Books you would like to see made into films

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I'm not sure if these have already been mentioned since I didn't look at everybody's posts, but here are ones I'd like to see and some are actually in the talk of being made into a movie:

Max Brooks; "World War Z"
Brian Keene; "The Rising"
"City of the Dead" (sequel of The Rising)



amateur pianist
The man was such a sickening bastard,
they need'nt add anything to darken the script.


Geoffrey Wansell / An Evil Love: The Life of Frederick West


Fred and Rose West had 7 children and led a discreet life.
They were in fact insatiable perverts and cruel murderers.


The first young woman Fred would kill was his 18 year-old pregnant mistress.
He established a pattern: cut the body in pieces, cut all fingers, cut all toes.

Then Fred met Rose; he was 27 and still married, Rose was 15.
She was the one... he even let her have his baby.

She didn't care about his two elder daughters, a natural and an adopted one.
The first soon condemned to abuse, the latter was not allowed to live.
West got rid of his wife thereafter, before she'd report her missing child.

The family moved to a larger home, the gruesome 25 Cromwell Street.
There, twelve girls would be raped, tortured, killed and dismembered
through the seventies and eighties; often lodgers, whose inquiring parents
were told they had picked up their things and left town.

In 1987 Fred strangles his teenage daughter Heather to avoid denunciation.
Until '92 her young siblings were to believe she had a new life abroad.
That year an inquiry was launched, at last.
Police found Heather's bones and some other's buried on the property.

Stricking title given to another book on this case: The Corpse Garden







summary taken from: my mind.



the last templar



angels and demons



the sanctuary



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There are so many books I'd love to see get made into movies. Namely Tomorrow, When The War Began. It's only a matter of time.



angels and demons
Lucky for you, Opie's a fan of Dan Brown's mediocre writing. Check IMDb.
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Haunted Heart, Beautiful Dead Soul
house of leaves by mark danielewski
remake flowers in the attic by vc andrews

(on a side note, if anyone has read house of leaves-please send me a pm and tell me what the music notes in it mean-ty)



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I think JJ Abrams is already doing this, but I would really like to see the Dark Tower translated to film. If the new Trek doesn't suck, then I'll trust Abrams to do it.



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The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue, I think it'd make an even better movie than book. Island of the Blue Dolphins, not too much dialog to work with but it could be amazing if done by the right director.



Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.
OK, I'm assuming you either don't know about or don't rate the film versions of Island of the Blue Dolphins (1964) and The Old Man and the Sea (1958). The latter film won an Oscar and was nominated for two others. I'm sure that better versions could be made of both though.

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David Weber's Mutineer's Moon Or even his Oath of Swords
Oh, Hell anything by him would be O.K.



The books I'd like to see transferred into film are:

A) Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Life of Three American Families
by J. Anthony Lukas
This particular book was transferred into a 2-part TV series, which grossly oversimplified a very complicated part of history, which was not liked or appreciated by the (late) J. Anthony Lukas at all.

B) Lonesome Dove:

C) Buffalo Gals

D) Buffalo Afternoon
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I would love to see the book Demon In My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes made into a movie. I think it has a lot of potential to be a quality movie. The characters are just so in-depth, and complicated.
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Outlander by Diana Galbaldon.



i think i love florence nightingales history to seen on movie, because until now its not so clear how florence nightingale pursue to take care of the sick people, nurses would relate to that movie in case it will be shown.