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Top 8 SciFi/Fantasy Books Which Most Desperately Need (to be made) Movies
Any changes?
Personally, I'd switch Niven's Mote in God's Eye with Ringworld. Ringworld is the perfect Hollywood Epic -- a quest, strange aliens, a 200 year old human, and lots of fun gadgets, including the ringworld itself.
Also, I'd switch out Stephenson's Snow Crash with Gibson's Neuromancer (though I love Stephenson). Neuromancer is much more cerebral, but there also more of the anti-hero with Case, and a tough martial-arts babe with occasional lapses of vulnerability never hurts. And rastas. Plenty of rastas.
Stranger would be interesting. In a sense, it's a book that was very anchored in the 60s/70s. On the other hand, Across the Universe did really well last year. Not to mention the Scientologists just epitomize the Fosterites these days, so there may be a modern angle there -- what if a real prophet came along who was taught by the real ghosts of real aliens?
Top 8 SciFi/Fantasy Books Which Most Desperately Need (to be made) Movies
Any changes?
Personally, I'd switch Niven's Mote in God's Eye with Ringworld. Ringworld is the perfect Hollywood Epic -- a quest, strange aliens, a 200 year old human, and lots of fun gadgets, including the ringworld itself.
Also, I'd switch out Stephenson's Snow Crash with Gibson's Neuromancer (though I love Stephenson). Neuromancer is much more cerebral, but there also more of the anti-hero with Case, and a tough martial-arts babe with occasional lapses of vulnerability never hurts. And rastas. Plenty of rastas.
Stranger would be interesting. In a sense, it's a book that was very anchored in the 60s/70s. On the other hand, Across the Universe did really well last year. Not to mention the Scientologists just epitomize the Fosterites these days, so there may be a modern angle there -- what if a real prophet came along who was taught by the real ghosts of real aliens?
