Books into movies...

[fajrdrako]

From March 12, 2009: Tami inspired this week’s question: What book do you think should be made into a movie? And do you have any suggestions for the producers?

I think my favourite series should be made into movies, or perhaps well-made miniseries:

1. The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett. Well-nigh impossible, probably, because what actor could ever adequately portray Lymond? On the other hand, I never thought anyone could adequately portray Aragorn son of Arathorn till I saw Viggo Mortensen in the role. These things can be done.
   
   
2. These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer. I'd like to cast Johnny Depp as the Duke of Avon - not that he is anything like my mental image of Avon, but wouldn't he gorgeous? And camp? And dangerous?
   
   Alternately, I'd like to see just about Any Georgette Heyer novel as a movie, done with the skill and care they've given to Jane Austen in the past. No, not the one with Keira Knightly - something true to the period.
   
   
3. The Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold. Again, finding someone who could adequately portray Miles Vorkosigan would be a challenge, but not impossible. Given today's technology, I think David Tennant could do it.
   
   
4. Karin Lowachee's series about pirates, orphan boys and the battleship Macedon that starts with Warchild. Space opera with a psychological twist. Difficult because much of the action is interior (and with suspect narrators at that); but what gorgeous results we might get.
   
   
5. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, because I want to see Sam Vimes onscreen.
   
   
6. Megan Whalen Turner's series about Gen that starts with The Thief. Difficult because the writing is so devious, but... colourful, exciting, beautiful.
   
   
7. An artful remake of Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger, or any of his books.

For the second part of the question: I wouldn't stop anyone from making anything into a movie. There are lots of movies I wouldn't - and won't - go to see, including a rather high proportion of the ones that do get made. No big deal.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I just read the Wikipedia article on Adam Ant; interesting.

I have mixed feelings about La Femme Nikita. Saw an episode or two and thought they were good, but I have such reservations about the premise (a woman being forced to do something, rather than choosing to do it) that I don't much like it.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Oh, gad, yes. That entire show was S/M of the non-consensual sort. I both loathed it and couldn't stop watching it. Alas, what does that say about me? [heh]

I was captivated by the character named Michael. As the seasons progressed, the actor (Roy Dupuis) turned his character into something elegant and dangerous, and on top of that he was physically delicious. He ended up having a very odd way of delivering dialogue: at the end of something he said, he'd drop his jaw a little tiny bit, thus opening his mouth for no real apparent reason at all. And he did it all the time. Every time he spoke. And he walked like someone trained in ballet; and he ended up wearing only tights-like trousers or leggings. All very, very subtle, never calling the audience's attention to it.

Apart from that, I was deeply in crush over one of the two people in charge, Madeline. She was ... very scary. But lovely. And so in balance.

Yeah. Weird show. I also hated their very premise: an invisible organization that fights terrorism by using the terrorists' own methods. Ugh! how repulsive. But the character interplay... mesmerizing.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

That entire show was S/M of the non-consensual sort. I both loathed it and couldn't stop watching it. Alas, what does that say about me? [heh]

Okay, now you make it sound like fun. [g] Maybe I'll try watching it again. Others are trying to get me to watch Supernatural, if I can get over the squicky bits.

Lots of people were captivated by Michael, if he was the one played by Roy Dupuis. Wonderful actor.

an invisible organization that fights terrorism by using the terrorists' own methods. Ugh! how repulsive.

Scary and repulsive but oddly plausible. After all, it's what we've seen happening.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Heh! Yes, you should try that show, definitely. Now I'm doubly motivated to pick up the DVDs.

Yes, that was Michael to whom I referred. He was leonine.

Scary, repulsive, plausible... but it never works, in real life.