On another note, some of the 2000AD stories could be made into films.
2000AD is a UK comic book series that is released weekly and monthly, and features the well-known Judge Dredd as one of its main characters.
The Judge Dredd movie wasn’t done all that well - but there is definitely a lot of material in those books that could be made into movies, as long as they are well done. I’ve got a whole pile of them at home, tattered and teared, which I used to read every week as a teen.
There are lots of great ideas for movies with characters such as Rogue Trooper the Genetic Infantryman; ABC Warriors, with the robots Ro-Jaws, Hammerstein, Deadlock, Joe Pineapples etc.; Slaine the Celtic Warrior King; Johnny Alpha; Zenith; Bad Company…
[quote]mntnbiker wrote:
David Gemels drenai series featureing the character Druss.Hes like a more realistic version of conan,very cool books.[/quote]
Oh yeah, I just read Sword in the Storm by David Gemmel which is about the Rigante, who seem very similar to Scottish Highlanders. The main character’s name is Connavar and he becomes a king.
[quote]boatguy wrote:
JohnnyBlaze-That’s an interesting take on the movie. I know very little about it, other than the very little I have read about it, and what other people have talked about. You may have changed my mind on that one…
As for the original question, I really was looking forward to a movie version of ‘Point of Impact’…and then they made Shooter.
I know they can’t always follow the book exactly, and in that specific case it would have made for a really long, complex and detailed movie with multiple subplots, but it would have been worth it compared to the garbage they shit out. I would have sat through a 3 hour version of that movie without blinking.[/quote]
I know how you feel about “Point of Impact” and the movie, “Shooter”. I enjoyed the book much better than the movie. The students in my classroom really enjoyed the movie, and had never read the book. I feel bad for kids who can’t read a good book, and have to take the movie version.
With that being said, I think that the Stephen Hunter novel, “Dirty White Boys” would make a great movie.
I generally don’t like the mixing of great books and movies. It’s like trying to make a great sculpture out of a great panting. They are two different mediums, one visual, the other based on the written word.
The Film version can be great when the book it is based on was only mediocre. For example, Blade Runner was awesome, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? had it’s moments, in my opinion, but over all was dull and anticlimatic. Most of the Dracula movies are pretty good, but Bram Stoker’s original novel was a chore.
The other option is to divorce the film entirely from the book and just say it was “inspired by” not “based on.” Then the filmmakers can respect the differences in the mediums, and won’t feel obligated to include every scene and detail from the book. You will still have to listen to the fans of the book bitch, of course.
The fans of books always bitch about the movie. You can’t please everybody.
The thing is, the way a person reads a book is totally personal and they create their own vision based on that book, which gives the book its ‘flavor’ - the total sights, sounds, smells, feelings in the book. The film producer may have a somewhat different vision than an individual reader’s interpretation, and this may produce a different flavor to the film.
So this is one reason for the bitching. Also, if you put in an actor for lead role that doesn’t suit the role, this can lead to a bitch. There are a thousand and one ways to lead to a bitch about a film - the truly obsessed fans would even quibble over minor details.
[quote]kelleyb wrote:
Although it might be impossible to do it justice I would like to see a film verision of The Long Walk. [/quote]
That could be an excellent movie, but I think it would lose most viewers. I would have loved to have seen The Rage in theaters, but ever since Columbine, that would be career suicide for anyone in Hollywood to be associated with it.
Also, I had heard they were working on another Hobbit movie but something happened with Peter Jackson to where he refused to do it(or something like that, haven’t heard anything about it in awhile). There was an old BBC film made of The Hobbit, starring the same guy who played Bilbo in LOTR. Haven’t seen it, just heard about it when the other movies came out.
