Swamp Thing (Alan Moore) – Guillermo Del Toro
^ hmmmm interesting choice I like :)
K.Dicks’ DR BLOODMONEY by David Cronenberg
Murakami’s SPUTNIK LOVERS by Julio Medem
Murakami’s SOUTH OF THE BORDER, WEST OF THE SUN by Wong Kar Wai
Ellroy’s THE GREAT NOWHERE by Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino
I thought eight years ago than “The Black Dahlia” would be perfect for De Palma…
Bela Tarr – Crime and Punishment
David Lynch – Metamorphosis
Just about any Ellroy by David Fincher; wish his Black Dahlia had happened. The HBO series idea would be great for the Underworld USAs. Gui Bry may be right about Tarantino for Big Nowhere. They should let him at a Superman or Bond already.
I think Rob Zombie may do well with a subdued Elmore Leonard (City Primeval?) or spastic Jim Thompson.
Someone in an earlier thread on it said for Blood Meridian to work, it would have to play like Apocalypse Now. I don’t think Coppola has it in him; did somebody say Herzog? I was openminded about Ridley Scott, but not betting on success. I’ll also say it will have to be NC-17 or done without a rating, for tone as much as violence.
I think it may be unfilmable. I think the Pynchon canon is too, though I’ve always found Kubrick comparable, he may be too much so.
I’ve long thought Kubrick & Kurt Vonnegut may have matched up well. Or not. Stanley may have dropped the humanity and just kept the bitterness. William Gibson & Bruce Sterling’s Difference Engine may have fit him too.
I just read Pynchon’s college buddy Richard Farina’s Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up To Me; I kind of thought Ralph Bakshi would be a neat fit.
The Man without qualities directed by Micheal Haneke
The Lord of the Flies- Terrence Malick
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich- Nicholas Roeg
Our Lady of the Flowers- Jean Cocteau
As I Lay Dying- Werner Herzog
The Power and the Glory- Bresson
The Things They Carried- Andrew Dominik
The Catcher in the Rye- Wes Anderson since he pretty much already did it with Rushmore
Infinite Jest- Soderbergh
Blood Meridian- Jim Jarmusch based on Dead Man, he’s my guy for the job
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle- Wong Kar-Wai
A Winters Tale- Sorsese
Waverley by Walter Scott – cinematic adaptation by Manoel de Oliveira
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy – cinematic adaptation by Sally Potter
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri – cinematic adaptation by Chantal Akerman
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf – cinematic adaptation by Hou Hsiao-hsien
“I thought eight years ago than “The Black Dahlia” would be perfect for De Palma…”
And see how THAT turned out to be…
Gus is directing his long-planned film adaptation of “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”
A film about the “Howl” trial (produced by Gus) is being made starring the gorgeous James Franco as Allen.
I would love for Patrice Chereau to make a film of Gaddis’ “The Recognitions’ and for Todd Haynes to film Jane Bowles” “Two Serious Ladies.”
My Name Is Red (Orhan Pamuk) – Terry Gilliam
Leviathan (Paul Auster) – David Fincher
Ha, people are beating me to the punch left, right and centre! Murakami is pretty much covered, especially with the real-life promise of Anh Hung Tran’s interpretation of Norwegian Wood next year. I’d like to see Kafka On The Shore tackled by someone like Shunji Iwai.
If Béla Tarr makes any films after The Turin Horse, I hope he takes a gamble on one of the stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners. Araby would be sweet, and I’ve always wondered how his interpretation of The Dead would go.
Counting dead directors, I’d give Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow to Djibril Diop Mambéty, as it seems they both have a great sense of satire. Living, it’d be Abderrahmane Sissako… although it might completely change tone.
id like to see . . . junk by melvin burgess the handmaids tale margret atwood and jemima.j by jane green
oh a venus as a boy cant remember who thats by but it was really somthing
and century by sarah singleton
How Much Land Does a Man Need?- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
And I know it isn’t a book, but if the musical Next to Normal ever becomes a movie, P.T. Anderson is the way to go.
“A Song of Ice and Fire” series by George R.R. Martin. Directed by Peter Jackson perhaps.
It would be interesting to see Cronenberg or Gilliam direct the space trilogy by C.S. Lewis.
His Dark Materials (includes The Golden Compass) by Phillip Pullman could certainly make an interesting film if it was done correctly. The film version of The Golden Compass which came out a couple of years ago was sorely disappointing, I’m not sure who good director for that would be though. Any ideas on this?
Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King directed by Terry Gilliam
His Dark Materials – cinematic adaptations by Michael Haneke,Qauy Brothers and Carlos Reygadas,for each part respectively
Ehh..nevermind
I would want to see either Richard Linklater, or Paul Thomas Anderson, direct Crime and Punishment. Frankly, I want to direct that movie, but if it couldn’t be me, I’d trust those two.
I want to see someone do The Fountainhead (me, again…), but I cann’t be sure as to who. Maybe Bertolucci, for some reason…
Maybe David Lynch could direct The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, although, while the ending could be considered incredibly Lynch-ian, I don’t know if he’d want to make it. It woudl be cool, though.
Savvy
J. M. Coetzee’s Foe directed by Jane Campion.
Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Garden of Forking Paths” directed by Chen Kaige.
David Mamet does the Diary of Anne Frank and let it be produced by Disney. Oh shit, that’s actually happening.
Herzog directing ‘What is the What’ would be fantastic. Apparently it is in development, Tom Tykwer currently set to direct.
“David Mamet does the Diary of Anne Frank and let it be produced by Disney.”
worst Mamet film ever… :P
The Quoran by Gaspar Noe
The Bible by Peter Greenaway
The Torah by Bunuel…
Novel without Title (Doung Huong) directed by Terrence Malick and Dang Nhat Minh
only with vietnamese actors
but cinematography by Emanuel Lubezky
CITY (Clifford D. Simak)
directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Anime)
The Stars my Destination (Alfred Bester)
directed by Christopher Nolan
I Have The Right To Destroy Myself by Kim Young-Ha, directed by Hong Sang-Soo.
X.A. Coronel
@ Petronius: I think the man for Rendezvous with Rama is actually tha man who was in talks for it, David Fincher.