Literary works that need a film adaption.
I'll start; H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour out of Space".
le morte d'arthur
>>63285238
No one could ever adapt correctly Lovecraft's works.
>>63285238
I've got news for you, OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t-MxVyublk
>>63285266
shit nigga you stole my post
but nothing could beat Excalibur anyway
>>63285238
>acting as if that racist pedophile needs more recognition.
kek. fuck lovecraft.
>>63285341
Lovecraft very plainly describes his monsters, scenery, setting, etc. I'll admit TCOOS would be tricky, but I think it could be done.
>>63285364
too much shiny armour desu
needs to keep religious message
Infinite Jest. IIRC some shitty comedian has the movie rights
>>63285403
His descriptions are very helpful to an adaptation, that's true. But I believe no one could adapt the feelings he transmits when it comes to reactions of the characters to something monstrous. There's just no actor believable enough.
>>63285390
Ok i will bite. Lovecraft might have been a racist but where has there ever been proof he was a pedaphile? I've never even seen that alluded to before.
Replay by Ken Grimwood
It's similar to "Groundhog Day" except he relives his entire life instead of a single day
>>63285461
Thats always been the problem with many of Lovecrafts stories.
They're full of creatures and 'non Euclidean shapes' that are supposedly so large and fucked up looking that anyone looking at them immediately cracks and goes insane because our minds can't handle it
Sounds great on paper, but on screen? It'd be a tough thing to get right.
>>63285706
>Sounds great on paper, but on screen? It'd be a tough thing to get right.
Fucking this.
>>63285706
What if you just fuck with the sound enough so that it literally makes people sick
>>63285238
Just give me Risico as a feature length Bond movie.
Just play Bloodborne
>>63285823
b-but it's a really hard game...
>>63285854
It's not so bad you just have to concentrate. Once you get the hang of it it's fun as fuck.
Director: Edgar Wright (with a three-hour timespan)
Actors:
Eddie Marsan as Mason
Paddy Considine as Dixon
Zombie Philip Seymour Hoffman as Cherrycoke
>>63285238
It's already been made, and it's pretty good.
![bt_gantz265_007[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rgBAjGY.jpg "bt_gantz265_007[1].jpg")
>>63285238
>>63285238
The Black Company.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
KJ Parker's the Engineer trilogy (though this should be better as a tv show like on HBO)
Richard Laymon's Beast House series.
Bentley Little's the Store (already optioned for film but then sat on)
Edward Lee's Bighead (oh shit....http://www.thebigheadmovie.com/)
>>63286187
Hmmm...
>>63286277
It alredy have 2 live action films. Yes, they are shit of course.
>>63285341
Yeah because the movie would be: "I saw a horrible monster with 3,000 dicks! Then I passed out and the monster was gone."
>>63286439
>Hmmm...
?
>>63286663
Noice
DAMNED by Chuck Palahniuk
It literally can't be made, but so fucking should
>>63286663
Excuse me, but what is that listed there in the source material square?
>>63287054
Pickman's Model, another Lovecraft short story
tl;dr -
An artist draws very horrific, fucked up paintings of otherworldly shit. People think he's fucking nuts. Turns out he's painting shit he's actually seen for real.
>>63285854
Summon people like the little slut you are
>>63287054
filename, kin
>>63285461
I agree. The written word is the best medium for that. You can better connect with the character and how they are feeling and reacting. I will say that the PC game "Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth" does a fucking bang up job at giving you that feeling and connection with the character. More than and Lovecraft movie could ever ever hope.
>>63285706
Not just that, but the characters are reacting to something unheard of before. The best explanation I think is in the book "Rendezvous with Rama" where the characters have to keep checking themselves to stay sane while they are still on the staircase the first time during descent. And, that was just referring to how perception, spacial awareness, and gravity/inertia was affecting them. I think it is much the same as the Lovecraft thing, only it deals with realizations, conceptions, and trying to understand things based on previously rigid norms.
Audiences today wouldn't react like they did when Lovecraft first wrote his stuff and thus if Lovecraft were to write it today it'd be completely different.
>>63285238
>The Colour out of Space
I love the fact that's pretty much one of the VERY few stories where humans straight up win.
>>63285461
>His descriptions are very helpful to an adaptation, that's true.
are they really, though? because you can only describe something as "indescribable" or "writhing mass of tentacles" so many times before it loses all the charm.
>>63286064
YES
I want Gravity's Rainbow as a HBO miniseries
>>63287600
They are more helpful than the written feelings of the characters, I can tell you that.
>>63285238
Pretty much anything if it has at the very least this level of feeling and quality,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jp1CT1h6c
Night Work.
Austrian novel about a guy who wakes up one day and everyone is gone.
Absolutely fucking terrifying book.
Lord of the FliesAn arthouse rendition
>>63285238
How could you physically adapt the colour from out space? They'd be unable to show the color because in the story it's a color they've never seen before. So how the fuck would you haven portray that?
>>63287549
Meaningful introspection seems hard to portray in film where in prose pages at a time can be devoted to describing some abstraction. Different mediums just do some things better though I do think a competent director could offer an interesting interpretation, not so much an adaptation.
>>63288003
Have you seen this, >>63287748
>>63287573
>the 'color' literally sucks the life out of a farmer family and their lands and returns to space with a full belly
>humans straight up win
Uh, no
You're thinking about The Dunwich Horror.
>>63287837
Yeah. Same with the Erich Zann movie. How do you make music that sounds unlike anything known on earth?
I think to get started with a series of Lovecraft adaptation they should start small. Something such as The Thing at the Doorstep. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Something that can be shot on location and doesn't involve crazy CGI.
>>63286439
>Hmmm...
>>63287748
My nigga, that is by far my favorite fan-made adaptation of Lovecraft's work.
>>63288132
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAwSxtaD4II
>>63287771
Reminds me of The Quiet Earth,
>>63287837
>>63288132
The German movie Die Fabre went about it clever enough; they made the film black and white and have the color only thing colored. But I understand what you mean, you can't TRULY replicate something like that. The only thing I could suggest is that you (and this would piss people off savagely) is not show the color whatsoever. Only, you show people's facial reactions to it or something. That's probably the only true way to achieve it.
>>63288297
>Only, you show people's facial reactions to it or something.
That is essentially what Lovecraft does in the books. The reactions of the characters are what really hit home.
The best thing about the books is that they make you imaging it. Lack of specific information makes your mind fill in the blanks and you always fill it in with the worst thing you can imagine. That is why movies like Alien are far scarier than say Aliens where in the latter you can see the creatures all the time and the former is was always hidden in shadow.
Simply showing the character's reaction to something that you can not see is a very good method, because the audience will fill in what they can't see.
>>63288512
Every fucking story
>We saw the big spoopy thing at the end of the hallway
>The thing I've been teasing for the last fifty pages
>BUT IT WAS SO FUCKING SPOOPY THAT I CAN'T EVEN DESCRIBE IT
Btwhis best story is The Temple
>>63288132
>How do you make music that sounds unlike anything known on earth?
You create a new instrument for it. Not simply like stuff in >>63288252 but instead something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_LW-eUYt7Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45m0TkLpmQg
>>63288573
desu it's more like "danford saw the thing. his mind snapped and all he could do was mumble train stations, because the shoggoth reminded him of a train speeding fast through a tunnel." more often than not lovecraft doesn't describe the thing, but drops plenty of of hints like that to evoke some image in your head. as far as horror is concerned, i think that's a shitload more effective than just describing the thing.
>>63288296
Quiet earth has other people. Night Watch has no-one. Until he starts noticing weird shit going on and starts filming himself while he's asleep. It's as creepy as hell.
>>63288573
Well, as with everything human, we relate to other humans and their emotion better than anything. So, that type of narrative is normally key.
>>63288683
Sounds interesting, I'll check it out.
>>63288665
i got chills wow, i like this stuff...whatever the hell it is
>>63288665
Fuck. I want one.
Lovecraft is racist so that mean that his work is also racist
>>63288749
I wish there was more by that artist online.
>>63288856
You'll have to make one yourself. The two round things on the ends are hand drums (Frame drum). The things connecting them to the stringed part he is playing are really long springs. I'm not sure what his source is for the springs but you can DIY those from spring wire if you have the tools. I tried looking for springs from other sources like garage doors but without any like. The string part is just some typical instrument strings attached to some wood.
>>63288665
Imagine a good Dune adaptation with a soundtrack composed by that guy.
The Japs figured out a way to show a new colour that doesn't really exist.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gwoQRKCEHgY
>>63288898
>>63289058
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbeGtGTqNaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQEgSDuijVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm4ziVpV008
>>63289139
lol Yeah, I guess the only way you could do that is to somehow trigger synesthesia in everyone that views the movie.
>>63285238
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN0ucCc8TfAYeah, that's Stephen King[/spooiler]
>>63289139
>>63289226
>seeing the color might breaks your mind, give you seizures
sounds pretty lovecraftian, 2bh
>>63285238
Literally The Tommyknockers
>>63289317
King cameos are the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65GQg06SX90
>>63286187
Wonder if this would have been better if the meteorite was given a colour, and everything else was still black and white, as if the colour transcended the screen itself.
MOTHERFUCKEEERRRSS
>>63289446
The meteorite itself was regular-colored in the story.
The running man. I know its already as film but it is nothing like the book.
>changing the whole of the world to run in into a gameshow
The Long Walk would make a great miniseries as well
Not a literary work but Metal Gear Solid 2. Keep the plot the same but change certain aspects.
>>63289642
i've always though bale would make a good solid snake.
YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE
>>63285390
Walt Disney was an Anti-Semite and he's still considered one of the most beloved cartoon animators.
Eat shit, Liberal kek.
>>63289448
Slightly off topic, but a metal band called Holocaust did an awesome album based on these books.
>>63289642
>>63289725
can /v/edditors just fuck off?
>>63289529
can't seem to find this online
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
Is it just me or is this thread pretty comfy?
I heard there's a TV series currently going on, but I haven't watched it. This would make one hell of a sci-fi epic in sense of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
>>63289888
Literally cursed
>>63289667
That would be good casting
Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
>>63285341
but you are retarded. how many books have been said to be unfilmable that have been made successfully in the last 50 years? right off the top of my head, most Kubrick shit, Life of Pi, Amerian Psycho, and that's just a few
PLAYED LIKE A GODDAMN FIDDLE
>>63289841
This should work:
Die Farbe.The Color_DVDRip.x264-[MStalker]
Shit would be so cash.
But make it at least 4 hours long.
>>63285463
I've never heard about Lovecraft being a pedophile, wtf
also, in his time it was pretty common to be racist,, it was the fucking 20s/30s
>>63290242
Yeah, trying to vilify someone for that in the early 1900s is like trying to vilify someone who lives today and likes Star Wars, 100 years from now.
>>63290242
He wasn't a pedo. Misogynistic, racist hermit? Sure. Guilty.
Asimov's Foundation
Brothers Karamazov could make a good kino
>>63289446
It'd be better if the movie wasn't black and white but had a very limited color palette, and the meteorite was a color that had never been in the movie up until that point. Like if most of the movie was tan and grey and the meteor was bright blue
>>63285341
Spoken like a true Autist
>>63292379
They need to bring Grim Fandango, Bioshock, Doom, The Dig, The Curse of Monkey Island and Wasteland to the big screen senpai
>>63292305
>tfw no Tarkovsky Brothers Karamazov adaption
Would literally be the GOAT
>>63285341
Indeed. Lovecraft stories never have good closure
>>63292710
>forgetting Full Throttle
Blood Meridian. James Franco wanted to direct it, kek. It would have to be some sort of bizarre filmed landscape study for half the film in order to capture any of the detail with which McCarthy describes nature.
>>63292799
Holy shit, yes. All we got was some anime that never finished what it set out to do. The entire series needs to be done.
I'd like a good Peter Pan movie that delves in the consequences of Peter Pan happening in real life...... but just not Hook. Hook was great but another movie would be great.
I want an hbo series of Asimov's Susan Calvin stories.
>f3
>no mortal engines
Come on guys, it's the perfect mix of 'teen apocalypse movie' and actual good story and setting. I can see it happening because people wanna cash in on the market, but I can also see it being pretty great
>movie adaption
Just what I want Jewywood to butcher another one of my favorite books
>>63292850
Like a 12th peter pan movie?
...
>>63292710
There is already a doom movie. It's meh, except for that first person scene.
>>63292893
Yeah but more mature and feelsy. I want to see Peter as a victorian pauper being beaten in the london streets in the beginning before finding tinkerbell in a beautiful spielbergian moment, and the last scene to be him sitting on an old wendy's bedside in WWI during her final breaths.
Also I want to see a proper adaptation of Michel Strogoff.
>>63292998
Sounds gay
badlands would make a bretty good anthology series
>>63292840
Maybe after Star Wars is a big hit they'll be a space opera boom
The Talmud.
>>63285706
But then the color is perfect, its just a ball of light.
>>63292305
>3 hours of people exchanging monologues
An adaptation wouldn't really be necessary unless they were going to radically change the book.
>>63293199
Meh, edgy bullshit.
>>63293441
i dont disagree on the edgy bullshit.
it would be a nice changed of pace from the walking dead though.
if hbo picked it up and did a limited run of like 5 or six seasons 10 episodes each i would watch.
>>63293290
I really hope so. Skylark and Lensmen both need some love.
>>63293493
>it would be a nice changed of pace from the walking dead though.
I stopped watching that in the 3-4th ep.
>>63290100
Got it, watching now, thx.
>>63285390
>racist
>pedo
Nigga his wife was older than him, and a Jew.
He was racist as an angsty 20-something but grew out of it once he felt the warmth of a Jewess on his goycock.
>>63286663
i just got hard
>>63293501
Mah nigga
>>63289374
I imagine in order to adapt this, they would have to pull a Naked Lunch and make it about the creation of the book while incorporating elements of the book into the story.
>>63287648
God fucking knows how they'd pull that off.
>>63285238
>H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour out of Space"
>in a visual medium
I want this meme to die.
>>63285341
Fincher or Cronenberg probably could.
Del Taco did a pretty good job with Hellboy...
>>63285238
Candide
>>63292821
Just watch Wake in Fright. It's the same thing set in modern day central Australia. Donald Pleasance stars as "Doc Tyden", Wake in Fright's "Judge" figure.
Written decades before your shitty meme book btw
>all these H.P threads lately.
Am I the only one who wants his stories which don't have to do with the Cthulhu mythos or Dreamworld.
I want Old Bugs to be a movie. Could easily be fleshed out, but it's over done themes. The erudite no longer works in pop media anyway.
>>63289374
If I thought for a second that they could do it right, i'd agree with you, but odds are if anything gets made it'll just be a some found footage bullshit.
The Thing On The Doorstep would be the easiest story to adapt to film that doesn't already have a decent adaptation. The story is obscure enough that the big plot twist would take most people by surprise as long as the trailers didnt spoil it
>>63292151
>Asimov's Foundation
Fucking this. They'd fuck it up though.
Is Lovecraft overrated or what? He has some neat ideas but his writing sucks.
>>63290242
he was pretty racist even for back then, one of his short stories is just him complaining about how immigrants ruined his city
>>63301371
Immigrants did ruin his city
>>63301389
I said that he was racist not that he was wrong
>mfw my family from my mother's and father's sides immigrated here from Ireland as refugees of the famine and I'm now anti mexifat and Syrian
>>63301461
But you're still Irish which is no good.
>>63301516
I'm an American
>>63301516
Actually I'd rather have an Irish friend, than amerikek friend. At least there are men in Ireland.
>>63289374
Would be better as a HBO mini series desu senpai
>>63289374
People always talk about this as unfilmable, but it's really quite easy. Just add or replace one of the layers to be the feature film and you maintain the 4th wall breaking structure of the book.
It also would fall under Lovecraftian, add it to the list of other good non Lovecraft Lovecraft movies:
The Ninth Gate
In the Mouth of Madness
The Mist
The Thing
Cabin in the Woods
Hellboy
Anything else?
