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Old 02-17-2012, 06:50 AM   #16
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Harry Turtledove-i understand most of his output is hardcore alternate history series but something like Guns of the South couldn't be turned into a movie?

Piers Anthony- the Xanth universe is just begging for an animated film.

Terry Brooks-why no Magic Kingdom for Sale movie?
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Old 02-17-2012, 07:46 AM   #17
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I could be wrong but I don't think any of Saul Bellow's books were made in to a movie.
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Old 02-17-2012, 07:53 AM   #18
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One infodump of his would take up a whole movie.
Oh.So.True.
(I wonder if the TV Show project collapsed over the infodumps or the casting.)
Or they could excise them all and end up with a nice, fast-paced, and *short* movie. (I'm minded of the Tom Clancy movies; they strip off Clancy's infodumps and it turns out there's usually a decent short story inside most Clancy novels.)
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Old 02-17-2012, 08:59 AM   #19
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Oh.So.True.
(I wonder if the TV Show project collapsed over the infodumps or the casting.)
Or they could excise them all and end up with a nice, fast-paced, and *short* movie. (I'm minded of the Tom Clancy movies; they strip off Clancy's infodumps and it turns out there's usually a decent short story inside most Clancy novels.)
Yes that would work, strip the pages of exposition down to the bone, lighten up on the political browbeating to focus on the action. Hire a good showrunner to pace the seasons, hire a good effects company to do the CGI and throw away some of the realism in favor of the rule of cool (times and distances will have to be compressed, objects in space will need to make sound, its an audio/visual medium)
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David Brin!
I'd love to see "Kiln People" as a movie.

( Oh damn, I forgot about "The Postman"! Still, Keven Costner movies don't really count, do they? )
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Old 02-17-2012, 09:15 AM   #21
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Andre Norton.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083630/

It was turned into a Conan like fantasy instead of SF.

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Old 02-17-2012, 09:52 AM   #23
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Old 02-17-2012, 12:51 PM   #24
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Has anything by James Patterson been made into a movie?

I do think that a lot of sf/f is better suited to a TV/miniseries format.
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Old 02-17-2012, 01:44 PM   #25
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I don't recall any movies

OOPS! I didn't see the previous posts

How about William Shatner or Newt Gingrich? Both have produced works of fiction
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Has anything by James Patterson been made into a movie?

I do think that a lot of sf/f is better suited to a TV/miniseries format.
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David Brin!
I'd love to see "Kiln People" as a movie.

( Oh damn, I forgot about "The Postman"! Still, Keven Costner movies don't really count, do they? )
Maybe, but he did have one book adapted into a movie... though I suspect most Brin fans would like to forget it (Postman).

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I don't recall any movies

OOPS! I didn't see the previous posts

How about William Shatner or Newt Gingrich? Both have produced works of fiction
Salinger did have a story adapted once.. but according to wikipedia, it was responsible for never allowing any of his novels to be adapted. Since the post specifically says books, I imagine he does qualify

BTW, I know this because I was checking him out before I suggested him

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I don't recall any movies

OOPS! I didn't see the previous posts

How about William Shatner or Newt Gingrich? Both have produced works of fiction
Shatners TEK novels have been made into low budget TV movies. I just saw one again a couple weeks ago
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