ITT: Novels that still aren't films
I feel like I should shitpost, but I don't have the energy to do it.
Is there a term for this?
likely never will be, either
>>71154278
They already made a Neuromancer movie, its called The Matrix.
>>71154367
They already made a Snow Crash movie, its called The Matrix.
It wouldn't have worked in the 80s or 90s or 2000s because it would have looked like shit and it wouldn't work today because culturally it exists so firmly in the 80s/90s
At any rate, GitS is basically it in anime, in terms of setting and technology if not plot
>>71154278
And thank god it isn't.
>>71154367
pretty sure a mini-series is still in progress; which is honestly a way better way to do a stephenson novel than 1 film b/c of the 2million plot threads
>>71154389
>>71154447
no
>>71154389
>>71154447
epic xd
>>71154580
they're making a television series out of this
>>71154278
Is this actually worth reading?
It's been on my backlog for years
>>71155079
it's like 300 pages and not at all difficult
just fucking read it yourself and find out, it'll take like 5 hours total
>>71155079
if you're at all a fan of cyberpunk it's basically required reading
just pick it up
>>71154278
Didn't Gibson at some point say something along the lines of not wanting there to be a Neuromancer movie because people would assume it was a Blade Runner ripoff?
Hyperion.
And don't remind me of that fucking shit Sy-Fy is making. No way that'll be watchable.
>>71154330
>the unauthorized brendan frasier biography
hee hee...
There've been dozens of adaptations, but none of them get it just right.
>>71154305
''growing up''
Not sure if it would be adaptable
>>71154330
God IJ is so good. I don't think any adaptation would be kino enough. We did get the decemberists music video for escaton though.
>>71157248
I hope they never do
>my face at Tom Sawyer the whole book
Rifters
>>71158502
It's already been done
Too blasphemous I guess
>>71158594
I mean, that's the point of the novel
Ive just gone and bought this, thanks anon- im behind on clarke. P.s. ringworld = overated
>>71154580
>tfw Ian McShane is now cast as Mr. Wednesday
They literally couldn't have cast someone more perfect if they tried.
>>71155079
It's a pretty good novel. Feels a bit dated but still fascinating.
>tfw we will NEVER get Michael Fass ender as Riviera
Life is suffering.
>>71154278
I'm glad it didn't get fucked and bent over a theater by hollywood.
>>71159426
lol not sure if it's a troll or you're illiterate
>>71154278
big fan of gibson but you know what, his most recent ones would be better. like pattern recognition. neuromancer was never made into a movie but so many movies are rips/inspired by it... in some ways its antiquated or played out because of its imitators.
>>71154278
Goddamn shame too.
![51bE6SBNroL._SX318_BO1,204,203,200_[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/dc91JQN.jpg "51bE6SBNroL._SX318_BO1,204,203,200_[1].jpg")
>>71163785
That's being made right now
>>71155079
i liked it. although it gets a bit *unsheathes katana* at times though
![ubik[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/FfBHy6o.jpg "ubik[1].jpg")
It would be pretty hard to adapt this one.
>>71155079
nigga you can read that in one day
it's pretty cool and a mark for how we should look at cyberpunk
>>71155079
It's alright.
One of those books I prefer listening to on audiobook while i do shit instead of reading.
>>71154305
ennui
Why does everyone on this board only read young-adult genre fiction?
>>71158502
If they don't keep the nudism and fuck parties its not worth adapting.
Adapt heinlein's short stories, like menace from earth, or by his own bootstraps.
This would trigger little shits today. Whole idea is similar to Royale
>>71163995
>Terry Gilliam's Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich will never exist outside of my head
>>71163785
fuck that book
>>71164762
Why do people watch capeshit? It's easily digestible escapism.
>>71163995
just finished this, I'd almost prefer a miniseries
You know all the goddamn phonies in Hollywood could only fuck it up.
>>71164890
Was a series. But it was shit.
I want an R Rated proper movie for it. Fucking love Redwall.
>>71161296
I remember talk on websites about Morgan freeman playing the lead. But that was 10 years ago. A lot of nerds talk about it but it has nothing in it of interest.
Rama enters the system then it leaves.
>>71163785
Literally references: the book.
>genre fiction
Does anyone here have the mental capacity to enjoy Hemingway or Joyce?
>>71161296
Fuck that would be boring
>>71154278
Count Zero is better than Neuromancer in every possible way
>>71158725
10/10 setting, maelstom is best rifters though
>>71165042
>not liking both
I bet the only novel you read last year was City on fire, ya twat
>>71165042
>its a "insecure 20 year old virgin signals to strangers on an anonymous anime image board to show how smart he is" post
>>71154305
>>71164995
>Fucking love Redwall.
This is /v/ related but you should check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZIcZUUTv6M
This would be badass
>>71154278
>No Country for Old Men
Amazing movie, even stuck close to the source material
>The Road
Pretty garbage, although very close to the book
Will there be another good McCarthy adaptation?
>>71164927
>edgy teenager in highschool
>read this for class
>remember feeling so betrayed at the ending
>remember trying to argue to class that there was nothing wrong with him
geez, anon. I didn't need to feel this pain today.
>>71155079
It's one of the worst books I've ever read, but supposedly it created the cyberpunk genre so that's pretty cool.
>>71165071
that aint Mona Lisa Overdrive
or Aidoru
>>71165366
gave me my siscon fetish so its aight
>>71165337
>>71165342
Oh shit, twenty seconds apart
I don't know exactly why, but I always read Wu's dialogue in Dr. Ventures voice.
this would be a fun as fuck movie to watch, imagine 80s era Jim Henson effects for Speaker and Nessus.
>>71165545
There were a couple of games in the late 80s that were all right. I've always wondered why they don't make a movie. They made a Wing Commander movie for god's sake, and Kilrathi are just kzinti with the serial numbers filed off.
>>71165440
>siscon
>>71164927
It could never work it film-format though people would get sick of the constant narrating by first the 30 minute's. Also Holden rape Phoebe.
a man can dream
I feel like the adaptation has been in development hell since it was published.
>>71155079
The writing isn't that good and some of it has aged poorly tbqh, but the ideas and universe are pretty cool and interesting.
>>71154278
>>71154367
These have been circling around studios for ages.
Deltora Quest or whatever those are all called as a series still haven't been attempted although they're not good enough to be anything but books anyway. Plus the Nips made an animoo out of them and it sucked dick so no one else will probably try ever again to adapt it. Ah well.
>>71165042
I like Joyce.
Hemingway not so much.
There will probably never be a film adaptation of the Aeneid. jdimsa :/
>>71166810
Pratchett is our Shakespeare.
>>71166754
>The writing isn't that good and some of it has aged poorly tbqh
What the fuck dose 'ninja like a monk' even mean?
>>71166976
he's a badass ninja killer, but he's like zen too
A proper high budget movie that isn't 3D, please.
>>71154278
Have you seen Johnny Mnemonic? It's alright, not to great. Has Keeanu in it.
>>71167268
we got 13th warrior. based on eaters of the dead, which is beowulf and the writings of ibn fadlan. not amazing but not bad
>>71154580
Cast the hooker with the maneating vagina, lads?
>>71163785
how are they going to put in all the 80s references in the movie?
>>71155079
everyone got my expectations way too high and then it wasn't great, so it ended up feeling like a big let down
I could tell that it basically coined the future-noir narration style, but other books have done it a lot better since.
>>71155079
I read it in college, and thought it was pretty good, but not amazing. A little underwhelming considering the hype.
Re-read it last year (about 10 years later), was a totally different experience. These feels, I didn't ask for them. The emotional symbolism didn't hit the first time. It did the second.
Ur all plebs
>>71154367
or his other book, the Diamond Age
>>71158502
Top choice water brother
>>71166886
>Nips made an animoo out of them
Holy shit thanks anon, I'll probably never watch but that's great. I stole the series from my library because I never finished them as a kid.
>mfw I understand what DELTORA is and how the covers are designed .
>>71170154
please
>>71171091
pic didn't post
>>71154278
Obsolete and irrelevant, >>71154367 would be better. Besides we already had Tron.
>>71159469
Adapt everything Zelazny. He's so adaptable it's bizarre there's nothing out there besides Damnation Alley and Dreamscape. Those are both horrible btw.
>>71163995
There NEEDS to be an Autofac adaptation. Probably best as a miniseries, like Childhood's End.
>>71165545
THE RINGWORLD IS UNSTABLE! He he! But seriously, skip Ringworld and adapt The Ringworld Engineers. The Niven/Pournelle collabs are what really should be adapted, they're all great.
Good thread everyone, but if you've been shitposting: please, try your best to make better posts! This is a thread for everyone to enjoy, let's make the thread a better place.
Mobster assassin in a fantasy setting. Short enough to fit everything in the movie without having to cut anything. I really don't know why this series isn't more popular.
>>71169403
By only keeping the ones related to Spielberg, since he's directing it.
>>71164927
Salinger turned down all offers to make it into a movie, including an offer by Spielberg, as he felt it wouldn't be suitable for a film treatment but he lamented that if his family needed money to make it into a film after he's dead, he said he would be happy he wouldn't be around to see it made.
>>71170154
>>71171117
Both pleb shit compared to his true greatest work.
>tfw I actually own this
>>71154278
Good, it would be garbage. Some books should never be made films.
Scarlett Johansson would make a good Molly Millions OP
>>71173039
No she wouldn't.
>>71172655
I would have loved to see Jerry Lewis' version.
>>71172261
He's removing all of those.
>>71164971
Only if they managed to keep the high budget atmospheric world building and keep it sexy.
How come no one has picked up Leviathan in the YA lit adaptation craze of the last 5 years?
Not even Tom Crusie could make this happen
>>71172081
holy shit I thought I was the only person who liked these books. ? though who do we cast as Loiosh's voice?
>>71173989
I'm sure the movie would be shit but at least it'd help finally get the last fucking novel translated.
>>71174252
I dunno, Edge of All You Can Kill Tomorrow was alright.
>>71158725
Would be perfect
>>71158725
That series is fascinating, but frankly pretty bleak. I could see it as a mini-series. They'd have to tone down some of the torture porn at the end of Maelstrom.
I'd like to see a movie version of Blindsight.
Not a perfect book but enjoyable enough.
I think it would adapt well to a movie, Interesting setting, great action scenes. It somehow feels as if the author thought of writing it as a film first
>>71166703
I don't think this could be a movie.
Miniseries would work best.
>>71174308
Blindsight fucked me like a bitch. Loved that book.
![latest[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Cu3JM6d.jpg "latest[1].jpg")
>>71164876
>>71154278
i hope it doesn't get an adaptation, the perfect age for that to have been adapted have long since passed
>>71174365
The Culture Series is the best Sci-Fi series ever written. They need to do these right.
If they could get a genius writer to do Use Of Weapons, I could die happy.
>>71164828
>whole quality of a show/movie relying on the acting abilities of teens
nah
You'd think this would be the Alpha & Omega of teenage action movie, moreso than Labyrinth or Percy Jackson.
I don't know what happened
>>71174174
Thats a tough one. Its hard for me to think of anyone since i heard the audio books and the reader does a Mexican accent for him for sone ungodly reason.
It would need to be someone with charisma and great comedic timing.
>>71155325
Im sorry to remind you
but what is the "fucking shit Sy-Fy is making?"
>>71155079
If your answer to this is anything but yes definitely you are a complete asshole
>>71174945
the expanse and killjoys, killjoys being notably shittier
>>71174365
>>71174849
The State of the Art could be done for budget, and might be a good way to establish the basics of the Culture (they aren't 'Earth in the future') before dealing with the much larger scope of The Player of Games, Use of Weapons, and Excession.
>>71166810
I loved this book. Preachy at times but the combination of humour and bad assery was great
The Dice Man
Grunts!
That one book about orcs
The illuminatus trilogy
Quantum Trigger too
The Turner Diaries
The Plague, The Fall, or The Stranger
Notes from Underground
The Brother's Karamarzov
>>71155272
What I remember is that he saw Blade Runner when he was almost done with Neuromancer. Realizing the movie did a lot of similar things to his story in a better/more visual way he decided to rewrite a lot of the book. Even after rewriting he was still afraid people would call him a hack/copycat.
>>71171839
Didn't know Childhood's End had a miniseries. How is it?
Movie or miniseries based on pic related would be cool but that will never happen.
Miniseries on some of The Canterbury Tales would work well too, especially if they keep the frame narrative.
>>71173874
JGL as Severian
It'd be visually astounding if done right.
>>71175785
>Didn't know Childhood's End had a miniseries. How is it?
When I saw the trailer I thought it was going to be lame, and that it would shit all over the story; I was wrong. Because it is an adaptation of a 60 year old novel for modern TV, it deviates a lot from the original story. However, although some of the changes are really hit-and-miss, it manages to stay true to its main themes. Karellen is masterfully portrayed by Charles Dance, and the ending is really good. The VFX are also stunning for a Syfy series. It is worth a watch.
>>71166631
I think it could work, the narrating might seem weird at first but I think people would get used to it quickly, especially if it used direct quotes from the book as they have a certain realistic speech like quality.
>tfw even on /tv/ I can't escape the Holden rape meme
inb4 weeb
>>71176794
Pleb
>>71176742
I didn't recall that and read a plot outlien but found nothing. What is this meme?
>>71176794
there's an animated movie
>>71176672
Thanks. I'll check it out sometime.
>>71154305
depression
>>71158725
the fuck is this? redpill me pls
>>71176868
Some guy(s) on /lit/ always post about the theory that Holden rapes his sister. There is a multiple page PDFs of this theory full of reaching and mental gymnastics about how he shortens conversations like he's leaving incriminating things out, and how he has "Freudian slips" like Catcher in the rye=Catch Her in the rye. There's also some shit about how that is why he was sent away. Lots of focus on quotes like the one about how Phoebe dresses really nice and can really "knock you out" or how he pinches her butt in that one scene. There's some shit that's even stupider but it's so stupid and convoluted that I wasn't able to remember all of it.
Holden doesn't rape Phoebe.
>>71154305
Enlightenment.
>>71176794
im autistic im autistic im autistic im autistic the end
wow what a great movie it could be
>>71166641
This looks and sounds interesting, is it any good?
>>71161296
Looks like the starship enterprise. Did that artist jew that coverart from trek?
>>71176987
A biopunk future where people are genetically augmented to perform certain jobs. Exiled prisoners are altered to live underwater and operate deep ocean geothermal plants. Things start getting bad.
The writer was a marine biologist.
We need some proper Neanderthal kino
>>71177112
Sounds cool. Love future technological settings. I'll add it to my ever extending reading list.
>>71172968
The book titles are pretty hilarious
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Tingle
>Turned Gay By The Existential Dread That I May Actually Be A Character In A Chuck Tingle Book
>Slammed In The Butt By The Living Leftover Chocolate Chip Cookies From My Kitchen Cabinet
>>71169373
Haha, really? This would NEVER work as a movie. I read it almost fifteen years ago and it's clearly not adaptable.
>>71154278
The Matrix steals its namesake and main premise from Neuromancer. Trinity is basically Not-Molly.
>>71163995
More like impossible. It's my favourite, but I think Flow My Tears, The Policeman said would be a better choice for adaptation.
>>71177198
>novels
>>71177297
It'd just be a documentary
>>71175747
No one is adapting The Turner Diaries as a film.
Sometimes people try to adapt it to real life though.
>>71167268
Stick around.
>>71176672
The nigger and his BLACKED space gf ruined it.
>>71167435
Starring Zach Galafinakis
>>71154305
ennuiposting
>>71177297
Multiple adaptations already pleb
>>71173961
But it did happen, anon.
>>71177434
Did you even read the novel, retard?
>>71171839
>A work of fiction
>Obsolete and irrelevant
Wat
It's not an iphone nigga
>>71154278
>>71154367
They'd just fuck these both up anyway - I'm glad they never got made.
>>71177460
Only TV movies though, not proper films
>>71177484
Yes, Jan Rodridks isn't a nigger in the novel.
The visitors also end black persecution of whites in South Africa (prescient because the book was written before the blacks took over and did the exact same thing)
>>71154367
Would love it if there was a good movie of this - it's one of the two books I re-read every year.
CGI makes it possible.
>>71162066
I always imagine Jack Nicholson as Mr. Wednesday.
>>71177470
Noomi Rapace as the Soggoth was GOAT casting
>>71177575
>Jan Rodridks isn't a nigger in the novel
He is, you gigantic moron.
>The visitors also end black persecution of whites in South Africa
How is this relevant?
>>71177722
Heh, that would really work. He could do Wednesday's feral ape grin 100% perfect.
>>71177665
This so much.
>>71165337
>>71165342
James Franco is making a Blood Meridian movie lmao
Nada the lily
>>71177845
It would actually be pretty boring, just looking at lights and planets for long stretches.
>>71177875
>It would actually be pretty boring, just looking at lights and planets for long stretches
For a millennial with little to no attention span, I guess.
>>71177913
It would be like the Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite section of 2001.
>>71154580
>Fantastic premise with awful writing and plot
I was recommended this book a year ago. I was excited to read it but damn was it a tough read if only because of how juvenile it was.
The show will likely be better than the book
>>71177941
How's that a bad thing?
>>71159469
>>71171839
>Adapt everything Zelazny.
Fund it. Seriously, why isn't there an Amber miniseries?
all these recommendations and no one has yet posted pic related.
It could be interesting if Fincher will be the director.
>>71177438
This need to happen.
>>71177002
>Holden doesn't rape Phoebe.
he does tho
>>71173534
Because they're too busy trying to plot out franchises for Uglies and Peeps.
>>71169360
Anna Kendrick
>>71155079
It's agreat bookandit's fun.Get on it! Life's too short.
>>71158594
That was Huckleberry Finn you asshat. It's the better book of the two.I guess you thought it was a "racist" book because it said nigger. You missed the point. Oh boy did you miss it so bad. I'd explain it but you are just too thick to get it m8.
>>71181113
I'm talking about tom Sawyer's appearances in Huckleberry Finn, he is a moron that makes simples things needlessly complicated because he's a daydreaming fucktard.
>>71155079
Its pretty shit actually but so is most sci fi and fantasy. You might enjoy it anyways.
>>71154278
>William Memeson
thank fuck tbqwhy
>>71165042
Hemmingway is fantastic. But after reading finnegans wake all i can say is fuck joyce.
>>71178472
Nice. But would it work as a movie since its really just a bunch of short stories?
>>71185790
Jonathan Nolan has been set to adapt it as a TV series for HBOor so it would seem, because there haven't been any news ever since it was announced
>>71154447
Not enough linguistics, t b h
>>71185790
I mean no offense, but I found the first book in the Foundation series to be really, really boring. I dropped the rest of the series. Does it actually get better?
Some serious shit taste in this thread
It would give everyone at cannes an Aneurysm
>>71154278
>wonder what is taking Vincenzo Natali so long
>evidently was dropped last year
Well, fuck.
Was looking forward to the latter half of this decade being a good half decade for scifi, where Natali made a Neuromancer movie and Saman Kesh made a Cube remake.
>>71178347
I wonder what's going on with the rights to Zelazny's stuff. I never see his books in major chain bookstores, besides Half-Price Books. You can't buy Amber ebooks in the Kindle store, except for the Betancourt abominations.
Development hell.
>>71164876
>>71174466
Fuck, Reilly's books would make great fun action flicks
>>71187566
>In April 2002 the SCI FI Channel had issued a press release that gave a listing of all their ambitious miniseries projects. One of those was to be a 4-hour miniseries based on the “The Complete Amber Chronicles,” written by the late Roger Zelazny.
>Since that original, one-time notice, little or nothing has been said about SCI FI’s plans for the series.
>>71173874
>Book of the New Sun
Oh yes.
And I'm so glad.
>>71177665
>Hodgson
Oh boy.
I'm surprised no one picked up the edge chronicles, I reckon it would make a killing, and there's so many books for them to squeeze money from.
>>71173874
Finished the first book and didn't really enjoy it. Does it get better? I ended up getting Soldier in the Mist instead of the second.
>>71175514
>tfw reading Surface Detail right now
Iain's dead though (rip) so rights might be difficult.
Just finished this today
>>71158502
Meh. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is better anyway, aside from the "DUDE LIBERTARIANISM LMAO" themes.
>>71189367
Oh shit, I just got a huge nostalgiabomb from seeing this cover. Thanks anon.
>>71187098
If you went in expecting a traditional narrative with strong character development and visceral prose, then it's disappointing. But that's not the point. Asimov was inspired by the history books he read and the Foundation Trilogy was written to be a sort-of science fiction history text.
>>71165342
Cities of the Plain is in the works.
All The Pretty Horses was pretty lousy.
Child of God was pretty lacking in substance. Lead actor wasn't bad though.
Wheel of Time.
They'll fuck it up though. Only way I'd ever get excited about is if Peter Jackson directs it, otherwise it's hopeless.
Now that we got the /lit/ meme trilogy out fo the way, this book. Something actually close to the book (with little combat or romance).
Though I'm afraid it would be too kino for a Hollywood release. Perhaps Terence Malick could do it.
>>71181407
you're supposed to think literally that exact thing, the point of the book is to show how much of a dumb fucking asshole tom sawyer is
>>71154580
Also, the Ocean at the End of the Lane by Gaiman
>>71177343
i know, but an anon can dream right?
i would also like another book in the series that goes more in depth into the robot sentience, that seemed like a fun plot thread
>>71192257
>Pynchon Cinematic Universe
>>71187289
>Nothing short of divine vision or a new cure for the clap can possibly be worth all that circumambient peripherisation.
>t. Ezra Pound
I fucking hate that book.
>>71169373
Mah nigga
>>71187098
Based Mule?
qt3.14 arkady?
Second Foundation?
Its pretty good, but Asimov has his own style. Its not about action and pew pew at all. Its about the world and the characters. The first two foundation novels were published in installments for magazines originally. So they had to be short and simple enough to pick up and put down between issues. But I'm a sucker for that old pulp sci fi, so its just icing on the cake.
>>71173534
too much work to make all those costumes and sets and shit.
Hunger Games worked because it pretty much just looked like it took place in present day
I'm glad Hollywood hasn't touched Delaney, but his novellas and short stories are the right length to be adapted into some really solid movies.
>>71192529
Honestly, I think the only way it could be done right is in animated form. It would take years to film everything, while all the actors got older and older. A non weeb animated series would be great.
>>71177025
this would be Narration: the movie
>>71192257
I think this would work only if it was half live action half animation.
>>71197916
I would love to see it adapted into a ken burns style documentary. Get a bunch of great voice talent, and artists, and lorefags and just put it into 6 parts.
>>71198122
Which would the cunny slothrop nails on the boat be?
>>71155079
audiobook
>>71166641
I read this back in high school. It's pretty good, yes.
>>71171839
>skip Ringworld and adapt The Ringworld Engineers
Ringworld is the better book of the two and introduces the characters and setting. Teela's fate doesn't have the same impact without Ringworld to set it up.
>>71197868
>mfw this book is real
lmao
>>71154278
I'm actually surprised since they are pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel vampire-wise. I fucking hate vampires, but these books were fun in my teens, and the cover art was fucking rad for the time.
>>71200583
you ain't seen shit
>>71189518
It sounds odd but you need to read all 4 or you wont get it
>>71201336
>Dinosaur Erotica
fucking kek
>>71201423
Jesus christ I have to have that audiobook.
>>71201423
Well I know what I'm buying for my brother on his birthday.
>Ravished By The Triceratops
>Warning: This is a tale of monster sex. This story was written to unlock your darkest fantasies and innermost desires
He'll think it's some sort of brutal Jurassic Park thing.
