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Best Sci-Fi Novels that should be made into movies

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Possessed Freak said:
No, that is not Ender's Game. That was a movie that sort of resembled Ender's Game in the broadest sense.
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Fair enough. I haven't seen it precisely because Ender's game is one of my favorite sci fi novels and I don't want to see someone else's interpretation of how the characters look/sound/act.
 
Kadarin said:
I wonder if Dan Simmons' Hyperion novels could be made into decent movies? I'm guessing they're a bit complex for that though. Another possibility: Iain Banks' Culture novels... Not sure which one, though.
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I would love to see the Culture in films, but I fear it would either be butchered, or never made because most people will be unable to relate to the culture.

Think about it - America is more conservative than most countries, and the Culture is a hedonistic, socialist society with no money, no work, no laws and virtually no concept of ownership. People would accuse it of being socialist propaganda.

MagickMan said:
Not into a movie, but The Wheel of Time would make a great cable series.
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I agree! There are often rumours about a live action wheel of time movie or series. Funnily enough, I think WOT could translate better than most. I mean, look at Game of Thrones.

How would they handle the polygamy though?
 
+1 for a Hyperion Cantos HBO series, that would be awesome.

Finished reading The Sparrow, would make a great movie. I read that Brad Pitt wanted to and that there are scripts written up and whatnot, but that ratings and subject matter made things tricky.
 
Ancalagon44 said:
I agree! There are often rumours about a live action wheel of time movie or series. Funnily enough, I think WOT could translate better than most. I mean, look at Game of Thrones.

How would they handle the polygamy though?
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I'd say they would just leave it as it is, it wouldn't make much sense without Rand's harem and the Aiel culture (sister-wives). They could leave out all the running around in the desert for 3 books, that was lame.
 
They can also leave the part out where Perrin runs after Faile for like 1000 years. In fact, they can leave out Faile completely.
 
Roger Zelazny - The Chronicles of Amber series

Philip Jose Farmer - The World Of Tiers series

Piers Anthony - Bio of a Space Tyrant series
 
loki8481 said:
I think WOOL would make a great movie or three, although they'd have to streamline a lot and probably cut back on some of the ancillary stories.
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I thought about that while reading it, and honestly think it would make a better series (or at least mini series). ~4-6 45 minute episodes per book depending.
 
Naked God trilogy.

But it would need a long ass miniseries to do it justice, like 6 two-hour episodes for each book.
If you compress it you mostly lose the point behind its greatness.
 
maniacalpha1-1 said:
Bring back Legend of the Seeker but do it better. Bruce Spence is good for Zeddicus but frankly Nathan Fillion seems like Richard.
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He's too old for Richard now. I really liked the show and was pissed when it was cancelled. I think the problem was that for a while it devolved into a baddie-of-the-week instead of sticking closer to the book plots, which they could have milked many seasons out of.
 
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