What book would you like to turn into a film, who would you hire to direct it and who would you cast? I like to see the kinds of people others imagine when reading. Sorry for the potato quality, I had a template but lost it
Why would you want a hack like Nolan to direct it?
Phenomenology of spirit directed by james franco
Crime and Punishment starring Christian Bale, directed by Wes Andersen.
Wes Anderson would make an absolutely fantastic Infinite Jest
>>8248714
>not Paul Dano
pls
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius directed by Kevin Smith with Lindsay Lohan as Dave Eggers.
>>8248676
who the fuck plays queequeg then?
>>8248729
terrible thread desu senpai
>>8248741
an unknown
>>8248764
boo hiss.
No budget?
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Josef K: Emile Hirsch
Fräulein Bürstner: Natalie Portman
Fräulein Montag: Scarlett Johansson
Frau Grubach: Glenn Close or Judi Dench
Uncle Carl: Christoph Waltz
Herr Huld: Kevin Spacey
The Chief Clerk: Alec Baldwin
Leni: Rooney Mara
The President: Gary Oldman
I don't know. I have to think about the rest. I just think Winding Refn would do a good job with Kafka.
>>8248676
>>8248676
>Tom Hardy
>Not the Whale
>If I stabbed that eye, would you die?
>It would be extremely painful...
>You're a big whale!
>...For you.
>Sinking this ship...WITH NO SURVIVORS!
>>8248714
Ever seen The Machinist?
>>8248676
Although I don't think it'd be good. It can't have been worse than Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea.
>>8248913
That was exactly what I had in mind!
>>8248807
>refn
no way
>>8248883
Why the fuck would you think Herzog if anybody would be an ounce capable of pulling off 100 years in style?
Tereyama is the closest cinema has come a Marquez equivalent and even then there are great magic realist directors like Ruiz and Monteiro.
>>8248676
>>8248807
Horrendous. Don't post here. Any ounce of artistic sensibility you think you may have is a lie.
Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible. Direction Denis Villeneuve. Cinematography Roger Deakins. No casting ideas for Rohan, preferably someone who isn't well known. Maybe Tom Hardy as the captain.
>>8248957
because he wouldn't even try to do it in style
The Castle
Short (no Twin Peaks filler shit) TV series directed by David Lynch. Maybe in black and white.
>>8248807
Refn does not do narrative, that's what's so good about him.
I'd like to see him pull together something based on something more open, like Revelation, though OGF may have in some ways been exactly that
>>8248957
>Horrendous. Don't post here. Any ounce of artistic sensibility you think you may have is a lie.
>Doesn't offer an alternative
Classic /lit/. So much fun.
Gravity's Rainbow with John c Reilly as slothrop
>>8248981
rubbish
Lynch would fuck it up completely
>>8248991
Have you seen Eraserhead?
>>8248998
if that's the kind of vulgar surrealism you're seeing when you read Kafka your brain has turned to slop from hearing the word 'kafkaesque' one too many times
>>8248998
Unfortunately yes.
>>8249014
Lynch is brilliant though, it's just that Eraserhead is not an especially good film, which is expected from a young inexperienced director without a clear vision.
>>8248985
>Refn does not do narrative
What sort of retard are you? Refn is illustrated narrative fiction like the majority of film. Maybe step out of your pleb zone sometime and actually watch some experimental shorts.
>>8249033
He doesn't, he only does theme.
With the exception of Dovzhenko, formal "experimental" crap does nothing, goes nowhere because it never started. pure masturbation
>>8249026
it's not that at all. I have nothing against lynch, but his artistic vision is downright incompatible with anything kafka. lynch does not engage abstract or intellectual concepts, his films are quite conventional up to the point that he applies his own surrealist style.
lynch doing kafka would be too literal an adaptation that misses the intangible terror of his writings with added scenes of people acting weird for no reason other than lynch's hand hit a hot car on the way to the set and he felt like barnabas should be up to his neck in water or something when he meets k
>>8249068
This post is very accurate.
>>8249026
>>8249068
You must have a very superficial understanding of Lynch's works if you think it all boils down to "scenes of people acting weird for no reason" and lacks terror. Eraserhead is probably the one that has the absolute least of "acting weird for no reason" and it absolutely on point thematically, maybe the clearest his vision has ever been. Probably due to the personal investment in it.
But feel free to disagree. Wouldn't mind hearing about directors that would be more suitable to Kafka, just to add something to my watchlist. And by the way, did you read translations?
>>8249113
no, I agree with what you say about eraserhead, but that's Lynch's student film. he's not that filmmaker anymore. look at Inland Emprie. now imagine that man handling kafka. he gets his ideas from meditation and probably hasn't read a book in his life.
adapting literature requires precision, it's not the a direct equivelence to Kafka but look at Lynch's Dune, if nothing else it shows what happens when elements of story are out of his control.
>>8248703
This. What actors would play the master and the slave?
>>8248676
I actually think this is good desu senpai, especially Starbuck stubb and flask
>>8248676
The Stranger directed by the Coen Brothers
>>8248988
beat me to it
>>8248676
Peleg and Bildad took off before the Peqoud set sailed. So, they'll be in the movie for five minutes
>>8249131
Fair enough, I guess I want his student film self to make that series and I think he could manage it. Stuff like the family dinner scene is very close to what some of the more surreal elements of the Castle feel like to me.
I haven't read Dune, so I can't judge if it's a good adaptation but it's pretty at least.
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>>8248741
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>>8248676
Tom Hardy as Ishmael. Shutup fangaybay. He would be a shit Ishmael.
Pic related would be much better. And Djimon Hounsou for Daggo. Pleb
>>8249217
>the rock as Queequeg
Close, but no dice
>>8249240
Queequeg was a Malaysian cannibal, not a nigger.
Go back to /tv/ and rejoin your circle jerk over that no talent hack that has been shit since the wire.
yeah
>>8249131
>Lynch's script for Eraserhead was influenced by his reading as a film student; Franz Kafka's 1915 novella The Metamorphosis and Nikolai Gogol's 1836 short story "The Nose" were strong influences on the screenplay.[8]
>>8248676
I've never seen Ishmael to be a big guy, it doesn't fit his character at all
>>8248883
kek
I'd love for this to finally get made but I wouldn't be surprised if Kevin James starred as Ignatius or something
1984 in the style of The VVitch
Blood Meridien
Directed by Alfonso Cuaron
Cinematography by Lubezki
Vincent Donofrio as Judge Holden
Christian Bale as Glanton
Introducing [unknown] as the Kid
Paul Dano as Tobin the Expriest
Jerome Flynn as Toadvine
>>8249557
tobey mcguire would be the perfect fit if he hadn't already played nick in Gatsby
>>8248883
Wasn't it already made?
>>8248906
>Nolan would CGI that bitch to no end
Nolan's notorious for using practical effects when most other directors would've used CGI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PhiSSnaUKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I4291XXZJw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRgq12XOhjc
You can make a lot of criticisms of Nolan as a director, overuse of CGI is not one of them.
>>8249417
wow, and that diarrhea dump I just took was influenced by proust, the holy bible, and leo tolstoy
>>8250512
(this does not mean my bowel movement actually captures the artistic qualities of any)
>>8249139
james franco and james franco
>>8248741
Idris
>>8250494
Adding to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BfWd-jJ_8c
>It's a depressing day when you have to shoot green screen.
No one's made a 1984 film in a long time, I'd like to see an updated version.
Haven't put a lot of thought into the director, but maybe Alex Garland or the Wachowskis.
face of Big Brother: Colin Farrell
Winston: Shaun Evans
Julia: Alia Shawkat
O'Brien: Andy Serkis
Mr. Charrington: Christoph Waltz
Parsons: Robbie Coltrane
Dante's Inferno by innaritu.
Michael Keaton as Dante.
Edward Norton as Virgil.
Emma Stone as Beatrice.
Done in one tracking shot.
>>8250315
>toby mcguire as ishmael
wow that's pretty much perfect
>>8249152
The Man Who Wasn't There is the closest to a modern adaptation of The Stranger you're gonna get bud
>>8250688
>Dante's Inferno by innaritu.
Yes.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Tao Lin as Paul
Megan Boyle as Erin
>>8249139
James and Seth
>>8250512
Wow, I guess you have to admit you are wrong about him not reading though.
>>8248981
Michael Haneke already did it
>>8250809
tao and megan would be terrible actors.
>>8251077
Thanks, familia, I was completely unaware. Looks good too.
>>8248676
>Forgets Queequeg
Fuck off
>Tfw Queequeg faded into the background
This is such a shit thread.
>>8251081
thats the point
PTA would get them to forget about the camera and just be themselves
>>8251116
just watch mumblecore then
>>8251123
but with the PTA visuals. and score. would be amazing
>>8250318
Keke I was thinking of 120 years of sodom
>>8248676
For the love of FUCK don't have Nolan direct Moby-Dick. He'd compress it for time and he'd add his weird cinematic symmetry to it, and it would be awful.
I actually think PTA would be a great Moby-Dick director. The final cut should be five hours long and should come with a twenty minute intermission.
>>8251265
I'll add that Terrence Malick would also be a fantastic Moby-Dick director. Above all else it can't be a pop director. It has to be someone that knows how to depict the passage of time, since that's a huge part of Moby-Dick.
>>8251268
>someone that knows how to depict the passage of time,
linklater desu
del Toro/Cuarón
JGL as Severian
Michael Mann
Johansson as Molly
Jack Kirby production designs ftw
I'm not sure about director, but Ethan Hawke would make a good Continental Op
And incidentally, why has this never been made into a film when every other Hammett was in the 30s and 40s??
Dune could be made, split in two at the point where Paul and Jessica go into the desert
This gives you enough time across two films to do the whole story
Russel Crowe as Duke Leto
Cate Blanchett as Lady Jessica
Simon Callow as Baron Harkonnan
Alexander Siddig as Stilgar
>>8251106
>faded into the background
You meansinks into the ocean
>>8250301
Not familiar with the director but that's a good lineup. Paul Dano would be a good expriest for sure, but he could also make a good Kid.
desu
>>8248733
Nah, Spike Jones + Charlie Kauffman
>>8251903
Is he even jewish.
>>8251903
I volunteer to play Blazes Boylan.
>>8249589
I know it might conflict with the story because he's black, but I feel like Hannibal Burress is the best candidate for Ignatius.
>>8248676
> Christopher Nolan directing Moby Dick
Do you lack any actual sense or taste, OP? What the fuck, go watch some actual films.
>>8248676
> implying Werner Herzog isn't the only director who should tackle Moby Dick
You know 1970s Herzog would have the film shot on a giant whaling vessel and he would only shoot scenes with Moby Dick if there were actual sperm whales found in the water.
>>8248807
Refn is a hack desu
Thomas Hardy's The Withered Arm, directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Starring Tom Hardy.
>>8250301
Vincent Donofrio would make a perfect Judge actually. Shave his hair, eyebrows and go full method-actor and get him to shave his whole body and pubes and it'd be perfect.
Not Christian Bale though. He's not a bad actor but I don't think he'd fit in Blood Meridian.
>>8250659
Colin Farrell should be Winston, he's much better as a down-on-his-luck type.
>>8250659
Big Brothers should be an animated corporate logo, or an attractive celebrity with a reality show.
>>8251931
the pusher trilogy is goat, can't argue with that.
>>8248883
lel i love this
>>8251909
> don't worry about not being Irish
>>8249304
>black guy narrating a russian
>>8248733
>>8248807
No
>>8249131
he gets his ideas from meditation and probably hasn't read a book in his life.
What an actual fucking pseudo you are.
Lynch says Kafka is his favorite novelist, and biggest authorial influence.
>actually uses Dune as evidence
The studio raped Lynch. Ever seen Mulholland Drive? Remember the ENTIRE plot with the director having no say in his production?
Just.... Don't make shit up. You have no idea.
Master and Margarita directed by Terry Gilliam
The Master - Michael Fassbender
Margarita - Eva Green
Woland - Gary Oldman
Behemoth - voiced by H. Jon Benjamin (seriously)
Azazello - Steve Buscemi
Hella - Marion Cotillard
Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz - John Hurt
Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyryov/Bezdomny - Paul Dano
They'll probably Americanize the names and not bother with the accents but it'd still be great
>>8252274
Oh, and Pontius Pilate would also be Fassbender, and Jesus would be a no-name
>>8252274
The only Master and Margarita you'll ever need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t6W9hkXV6g&list=PL5F53D266E7688852
Fuck your Hollywood bullshit.
>>8252291
Did not know about this. Thanks for the rec, unnecessarily edgy closer aside.
>>8252301
>unnecessarily edgy closer aside
Fair enough, it is a fantasy thread after all. But believe me, this is the best version. Russians know their shit when it comes to book adaptations. Except for LotR.
do people here actually like nolan or i'm being rused?
>>8252307
I'll keep that in mind. And admittedly most of the actors I chose epitomize Hollywood bullshit, though Gilliam is pretty far from it
>>8250728
That's the movie I had in mind.
>>8252354
Looks like we can be friends nonetheless. Fun fact: for russian actors Master and Margarita is what MacBeth is for the british. All of them are scared of it because every time they tried to make a movie out of it, someone died or something else terrible happened.
>>8252346
Rused
Watching The Revenant made me think Inarritu could make a good Blood Meridian
>>8252476
Only if he had the script forced on him and he had a producer strong willed enough to have a good handle on the editing process. Inarritu has style but not much else, but if he were treated as a tool (a talented skilled tool) you could use him to make a great film against his will. Also Lubezki would have to be on the team as well.
>>8249557
for you
>>8252575
Inarritu has made two of the best films I've seen in the past decade I don't know how on Earth you could think he's that shallow
>>8250301
Tye Sheridan as The Kid
>>8249589
>>8251920
I always visioned John Candy as Ignatius. He's dead but still.
None.
>>8251950
Yeah but he's too good-looking and robust.
>>8248676
>Nolan
Absolutely why
I expect better from you, /lit/.
I wasted my time with this and now actually don't want it made, but i still think cianfrance could do something with it
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Movie is black and white apart from fleeting moments of explosive color and beauty
Rieux - Daniel Day Lewis
Tarrou - resurrected Albert Camus
Grand - Mark Margolis
Rambert - Paul Dano
>>8248676
Moby Dick has already been made into a movie several times.
>>8254004
Oh, man we're unaligned. For me, I'd have...
>>8254750
Dude, Samuel Hamilton can't be played by anyone but Jeff Bridges
>>8254756
oh fuck, good call
>>8250301
Nah man, Alejandro G. Iñárritu for director.
Maybe Karl Glusman as the kid?
>>8252274
Im impressed that you filled out all of these actors with really well known ones but it still doesn't look like Avengers part four, celebrity showdown - unlike some other ideas in this thread.
>>8252229
>Refn
disgusting, why do people like his stuff?
>>8248676
>Moby Dick
>cast consists entirely of meme British actors
Starbuck's casting is good. Stubb might work. Zach Galifianakis is a meme.
Casting Tom Hardy as Ishmael is all sorts of retarded. Tom Hardy plays overly theatrical "big guys", Ishmael is quiet, conscientious and philosophical.
Whoever they picked as Tashtego looks nothing like an East Coast Native American.
The "Welcome to Qarth" guy is a poor choice for Daggoo, who is a native African. "Welcome to Qarth" guy, from the only role I know him from, is a mild banker which is antithetical in character to the warrior-savage, although solemn, harpooner. I think someone darker in hue and more impressive physically would be preferred.
Bildad and Peleg's choices are too Spaniard looking to be Nantucketers, who in Moby Dick are the extreme manifestation of puritanism.
Daniel Day Lewis is cast in roles like Ahab's too often, the central role of the movie would seem redundant.
If I had to pick a director, it would be Paul Thomas Anderson since he seems to have a mature grasp of literature. Christopher Nolan has a good eye but his writing and storytelling is pretty shitty except for the occasional soliloquy.
>>8255136
>casting by skin colour
If Heimdall can be played by a darkskin nigga then Quequeeg can be played by Rhys Ifans or some shit don't be racist fuck
>>8255143
I didn't know who Heimdall was until I googled it, and even now I don't fucking care.
Yes they should be cast according to race, race is a part of someone's character. To change someone's race or to cast someone that doesn't approximate that race, is to do a disservice to the text. This my ideal Moby Dick, not some high school stage play.
So yeah, I want a tough, dark skinned, mandingo motherfucker to Daggoo. With all his desert Sahara wisdom. If I could get a native African, good. If I can get a guy who looks like Seal, alright. I don't want some blatantly Europeanized negro, especially a flabby one.
>>8255160
>He thinks "African" is a distinct genetic and cultural group
Moroccans are more closely related to Europeans than they are to Kenyans.
>>8255168
We're getting off track, I'm not interested in discussing the various ethnicities of Africa. The sort of dark negro I described fits the character of Daggoo, who is described as being very dark and being picked up of the cape of South Africa, not as a Moroccan.
Also, Zahn McClarnon for Tashtego.
>>8255136
>Hardy plays overly theatrical "big guys"
For you
waiting for godot
directed by Carey Fukunaga
need some ideas for cast though
>>8252575
Well duh, you can't make Blood Meridian without Lubezki now.
>>8251939
underrated post
>>8255202
Me as Godot.
>>8255143
>comparing capeshit to mody dick
>>8251293
Who (working today) would you have as Dr Talos? For some reason Gene Wilder is the only person that comes to mind for me.
>>8250809
There's already a Taipei movie with those actors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcj0wrLBDoE
>>8255108
It's pretty. That's about it.
