Books you want to see made into films

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Just that, really. I wasn't sure if this was better off in the film or book topic! I love reading and watching films, so I'll start with my choice of adaptations.

Life After Life, by Kate Atlinson - I loved this book and recommend it to everyone.

In a similar vein, The 12 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.

Consider Phlebus

I've not heard of that one but I've had a quick search and that looks good. Also, apparently Amazon are turning it into a TV series. :)

Amazon will ruin it.

The power

The Blind Assassin

Summer Sisters by Judy Blume. I read it years ago. Not read it since but remember loving it and thinking it would be really good as a film

I would love to see Robin Hobb's books made into films/tv but I honestly don't know how the logistics of that would work

The Secret History.

I would love to see Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series as a TV series.
I'd also love to see someone do a proper big budget version of some of the Discworld novels without David Bloody Jason.

Persp Rivers is getting made!

And yes we need a decent Terry Pratchett film, not the sky crap!

There was a great thread years ago on Mumsnet of the dream casting of the night watch and the witches. Was super

I'm in a lovely FB Discworld group. Half the threads seem to be refining our perfect castings.

Fantastic!

The Chrysalids

@BertrandRusselI I hope not. :/

I would add 'The Goldfinch' but that's already in production. I've got her previous books on my list of to-reads!

Years ago I read a book called 'Elizabeth Street', which is about Italian immigrants to New York. It was a random free ebook but it was one that I loathed having to put down to do anything (eat, shower, sleep, etc). That would be another I would like to see.

The Chrysalids is my favourite John Wyndham novel, but then not sure a film could capture its portrait of that world.

My next favourite is Web, so maybe I'll go for that one.

Mark Lawrence has 2 sets of trilogies - the 'Thorns' series and the 'Red Queen's War' series. Both set in a time where all is not as it seems. The stories interact on occasion, giving a wry smile and reconsideration of the first. They'd make for great films, but you'd need LOTR duration to do them justice.
His following work - Red Sister is unconnected; but better still. I'm awaiting the sequel in paperback; and you'd be hard pressed to make RS into a stand-alone without some serious licence with the story

They recently made one of my favourite books into a TV series - the City and the City. For the first 15 minutes I watched it feeling indignant - Tyador doesn't look like that - the City doesn't look like that! But I started to enjoy it on its own terms and realised that if it had looked more like the book in my head there wouldn't have been any point in it.

So what I am saying I think is, don't listen to me when I say I want to see a film of the book, unless you are going to make a film that isn't anything like the book anyway.

I think Ken Follett’s century trilogy would make a great tv series (or 3)