To ask what book you'd like to see adapted for TV or film?

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They keep remaking Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Little Women.

What book would you like to see adapted?
I'd love to see The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (and I know, there is one TV series from ages ago), Evelina by Frances Burney, who was said to have inspired Jane Austen. Oh, and The Power by Naomi Alderman.

One of the odd things about watching Life On Mars was always that although Sam was clearly the better catch on Paper, Gene was altogether more shagable

I would have been quite happy with either or both :)

I agree with Nevil Shute books - I liked "No Highway".

I suppose a lot of older books now will have "outdated" attitudes and won't be remade for that reason. I also liked the Chalet School books but have actually never read the Chalet School in Exile, might see if I can get a copy. The School at the Chalet was the first time I heard the expression "furlough" ;)

Another story which was good but wouldn't be acceptable now because of Empire and "having no more trouble with the Indian" was Susannah of the Mounties, set in late Victorian Canada. I loved the book but - well - very much of its time and simply wouldn't fly now.

Definitely Rivers of London and Secret History by Donna Tartt

I read somewhere that the film rights to Secret History had been bought but the film hasn’t been made.
I didn’t watch the film of the Goldfinch as I loved the book so much I didn’t want to spoil the images I had in my head.

I’d ditto The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - except that it seems that nowadays they just can’t resist sexing things up, mucking about with plots and making the dialogue incongruously modern - as if it wasn’t perfectly intelligible to anyone with half a brain cell anyway.

There’s a wonderful children’s adventure story I had as a child and still enjoy re-reading now and then - only nobody else ever seems to have heard of it - Chalky, by Howard L Apps.

It’s set in Essex and on the Essex marshes - the story of two boys who go on a search for a very valuable lost diamond. Lots of twists and turns and quite funny in places. Although it was written in the 1950s, oddly enough it doesn’t read nearly as ‘dated’ as so many of that era.

It’d make a brilliant film.

Just read "She Came to Stay" by Simone de Beauvoir - I'd love to see that as a film.

I suppose a lot of older books now will have "outdated" attitudes and won't be remade for that reason.

Or worse, they make them but adjust what they consider to be outdated. Goodness knows you can't have people on tv thinking or saying things that people might actually have thought or said.

All of mine.

That way I could give up working behind the till in the Co Op and actually have the life that everyone seems to think that an author should have!

Pretty please...

Martin Walker’s series about Bruno Chef de Police would make a great tv series in the style of Morse, Lewis, Montalbano and co.

And please please let there be a remake of "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" that isn't crap

God the book was rubbish I can’t imagine how the film made it worse!

Also, as PP said, any Nevil Shute book.

As an aside, for all the Nevil Shute fans, “A Town Like Alice” is the Kindle Deal of the Day for today.

A bargain at 99 pence, if like me, it’s years since you read it, and you’ve lost track of your original copy!
“Requiem for a Wren” is my favourite Shute.

Floatyboat do you know the film of the Fountainhead with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal? One of my favourite films

There’s a series of books about magical folk in New York by an author called Shanna Swendson, I’m rereading them now. They’re not high brow literature or anything, but it’s entertaining and feel good, and I always think it would make a good tv show when I read them!

Naomis room
For children the secret of platform 13

Has anyone seen the new film of Rebecca?

@Davros if it's the one that has popped up on my Netflix, I'm a bit scared to look

I haven't seen it yet either, but the NY Times review of it is headlined:

'Armie Hammer, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas and a lot of nice clothes star in a new adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel.'

(Can I just freak out mildly that the beautiful and gifted KST is now in 'death's head older housekeeper' roles? Though admittedly virtually all the reviews say she's much the best thing about it...)

Mind you, all the reviews compare unfavourably it to the Hitchcock adaptation of the same novel in 1940, but don't say that the Hitchcock version changes THE key plot point about what actually happened to the title character, and therefore makes the entire film a much cosier, safer affair, where the motivations of the second Mrs de Winter after the key revelation are far less ambivalent and troubling.

It kept me happily occupied for the duration but at the end I realised it was awful in so many ways. You just can't beat George Sanders as Favell for a start. I'd like to know what others think, I know the book and the Hitchcock version very well and thought it was dire by comparison

I've just watched the very start, as I'm waiting for a call, and what is striking me most is that they seem to have made Mrs Van Hopper English? Or at least her accent isn't any US accent I've ever heard! Which seems to partly remove the point of her deciding to go back to the US for an indefinite period at the end of the Monte Carlo section.)

And that (admittedly, as with any adaptation of Rebecca, including Hitchcock's), Lily James is far too beautiful to be remotely credible as dowdy and juvenile, despite a terrible hat and downtrodden expression.)

I’d love a high-budget Netflix Harry Potter with lots of series so they can stay true to the books and not miss much out (and better casting than the film)

cologne4711 - did you read the sequel "Susannah of the Yukon" ? Susannah finds a goldmine. I loved those books. There is a film of Susannah of the mounties starring Shirley Temple, but I have never seen it.

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

The Foundation series is being made by Apple TV.

Wide Sargasso Sea was done a few years ago - I enjoyed it.

There was a Flashman film in the seventies (Royal Flash, with Oliver Reed as Bismarck) but apparently GMF didn't like it and didn't let any more happen. Google tells me that Ridley Scott was playing with the idea 5 years ago and Dominic West is talking about it now.

I've always thought Heyer's The Talisman Ring would make a great film.

The Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich. Totally trashy and guilty pleasure. I hated the Katherine Heigl abomination.

In my mind Gabourey Sidibe is Lula and Dwayne Johnson would be Ranger.