Which SF book would you like to see as a film.

[Callum91]

I think that the Horus Heresy books would make a fantastic triology of films , but I can't see George Lucas being too pleased about it...

 

[Stigmata]

But HE FIGHTS CROCODILES

 

[Stigmata]

I think that the Horus Heresy books would make a fantastic triology of films , but I can't see George Lucas being too pleased about it...

Maybe George Lucas can sue for plagiarism, and get Frank Herbert's estate to provide a character reference.

 

[DotCommunist]

That's why 40k is essentially unfilmable, the universe robs so heavily from established sci fi it is fucking insane.

You could do an Imperial Guard vs Tyrannid action film tho

 

[8ball]

Spares by Michael Marshall Smith would make a great flick if done right.

I heard the rights had been sold but that was about 10 years ago . .

 

[DotCommunist]

So, we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.

 

[Stigmata]

How about VALIS by PK Dick.

 

[Mr Moose]

Alien is all about fear of the cock

/psueds corner

You're on form this weekend are you not?

 

[DotCommunist]

You're on form this weekend are you not?

I am simply on my normal quest to have Sci Fi taken as the visionary and important genre it so is

 

[8ball]

Spares by Michael Marshall Smith would make a great flick if done right.

I heard the rights had been sold but that was about 10 years ago . .

'Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks purchased the film rights for Spares, but a film was never made. When the rights lapsed, Dreamworks did produce The Island, whose plot had strong similarities to Spares, though Marshall Smith did not consider it worthwhile to pursue legal action over the similarities. He now considers it unlikely a Spares film will ever be made.'

 

[Mr Moose]

So, we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.

DOTT is such a rich book - The Triffids are really only one aspect, there are a number of layers.

Unfortunately dramatised productions focus on the schlock rather then the slow creep in the book and leave out the ideas - the economics, the cold war etc. altogether.

You could start from so many different points in the book and weave something very mysterious and melancholy.

 

[Mr Moose]

All the titles mention suffer from that curse of old skiffy, they are so uncomfortably masculine in places.

Red Mars perhaps, but Asimov's politics and sexual politics are more interesting than that and Wyndham's cast of characters is broad enough.

The women in DOTT for example often behave, or express themselves as stereotypes, but the book suggests that just as in WW2 when women worked in munitions factories the imminent collapse into barbarism, (caused by a world of blinded or dying people getting chomped by rampant shrubs), would not indulge indulgent gender stereotypes no more. No sir.

Phew.

 

[Stigmata]

I am simply on my normal quest to have Sci Fi taken as the visionary and important genre it so is

It's more about male and female fears of motherhood

 

[Mr Moose]

I am simply on my normal quest to have Sci Fi taken as the visionary and important genre it so is

I know and fair play to you. In fact I came across this picture of you and some of your pals doing just that earlier

 

[DotCommunist]

Red Mars perhaps, but Asimov's politics and sexual politics are more interesting than that and Wyndham's cast of characters is broad enough.

The women in DOTT for example often behave, or express themselves as stereotypes, but the book suggests that just as in WW2 when women worked in munitions factories the imminent collapse into barbarism, (caused by a world of blinded or dying people getting chomped by rampant shrubs), would not indulge indulgent gender stereotypes no more. No sir.

Phew.

Asimov could rarely conceive of a woman who was not either a bitter scientist (calvin) or a fluff head.

Wyndhams female characters while strong were inevitably in thrall to the plans and ambitions of the male characters.

 

[starfish]

Consider Phlebas anyone.

 

[DotCommunist]

It's more about male and female fears of motherhood

balls, the phallic nature of Alien implantation directly reflects male fear abhorrence rgarding reproduction. The 'kill me' line from Aliens is a very direct utterance that exposes male fear of the reproductive process.

 

[Stigmata]

balls, the phallic nature of Alien implantation directly reflects male fear abhorrence rgarding reproduction. The 'kill me' line from Aliens is a very direct utterance that exposes male fear of the reproductive process.

The penetration is only the beginning. Then there's the incapacitation of pregnancy, the bloody and traumatic birth, and the realisation that what you've created is a monster that you have no control over. It's Frankenstein for the 20th century. Double

 

[DotCommunist]

The penetration is only the beginning. Then there's the incapacitation of pregnancy, the bloody and traumatic birth, and the realisation that what you've created is a monster that you have no control over. It's Frankenstein for the 20th century. Double

except that the moral of frankenstein is an essential re-affirmation of 'let us not play god' and has nothing at all to do with the idea of males being used as incubators in the way females constantly are. Frankenstein is about the fear of technology, and has little to do with the underlying cock-fear of Alien

so triple

 

[Mr Moose]

Wyndhams female characters while strong were inevitably in thrall to the plans and ambitions of the male characters.

True.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Consider Phlebas anyone.

^This. Horza is the perfect amoral antihero. And I bet the Idirans would look fucking cool on screen.

 

[xenon]

It's a cracker. He's written other books with the same main character, but that's the first one.

YOu read 13? Not got hold of it yet.

Altered Carbon's pure hard boiled distopian fun. Highly derivative in it's style but Morgan admits as much on his site.

As for the OP. I'm not sure. Need to widen my SF reading.

 

[Mungy]

the belgariad and the malloreon

 

[xenon]

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

As a romcom.

 

[DotCommunist]

the belgariad and the malloreon

 

[xenon]

Consider Phlebas anyone.

It would have to be a CGI wankfest. Imagine the necesary budget.

 

[FoxyMKII]

How about a proper version of War of The Worlds, original setting, keeping to the plot, not setting it in America and loosely basing it on Wells' story and getting some cunt of a Scientologist to fuck it up even further than it already was?

 

[SpookyFrank]

It would have to be a CGI wankfest. Imagine the necesary budget.

Obviously it would have to be directed by Terry Gilliam.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Consider Phlebas.

 

[the button]

YOu read 13? Not got hold of it yet.

Didn't even know he'd written another one, let alone read it.