Two famous ones are Catcher In The Rye and A Confederacy Of Dunces. As far as I know anyway. That's the first two that spring to mind. Both have a history of various people trying to acquire rights, planning getting so far, then falling apart. I don't go along with the idea that every novel is suited to movie adaptation. I'm more in the Alan Moore camp that certain stories suit certain mediums.
No mention in the video of "A Confederacy of Dunces". The last time I heard anything about an attempt at a film version, Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney were mentioned. They had obtained an option or something.
You know, that's a story that really could be filmed. However, expecting the general public to catch the nuance of 1960s New Orleans is impossible. It COULD be done, but it won't be done well.
I would have loved to see Kurt Vonnegut's 'Cat's Cradle'. It has a very clear narrative and I'm surprised it hasn't been adapted to the big or small screen.
Please, there is one masterpiece novel that can be filmed, should be filmed, should be filmed by Del Toro, yet has not been filmed - "At The Mountains Of Madness" by HP Lovecraft. It MUST be done by GDT (or at a pinch John Carpenter), and to encompass the mind-blowing scale of the story's latter half it has to be in 48 fps 3D. If they can name a feature on Pluto after Cthulhu, they can surely film the most visually imaginative sci fi horror tale of the past century.
It's not unfilmable, but I would nominate C.S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces as the best novel never filmed. It probably could be filmed, it just hasn't, sadly. As for unfilmable, I'd have to go with Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. Great books, but they're convoluted as hell, and I just can't see anyone translating the narrative to the screen. Also, as several other commenters have pointed out, A Confederacy of Dunces. And we're all still waiting for Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.
I know a couple of Murakami books have been made into films, but I get the feeling that novels like A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, and 1Q84, if they were made into movies, would either be masterpieces or, well, excrement.
I know this video is old but for anybody watching that might be mounting a first attempt at Gravity's Rainbow it is imperative that you do NOT skip the first section of the book. If you're feeling lost there are plenty of guides, many of which are free (the Pynchon reading community on blogs, etc. is huge). Easily the least adaptable book I've ever read. And also the best!
It's not as if the rest of the book is some sort of breeze compared to that first section either. The first section is marginally more dense and esoteric, but that's about it. If you feel the need to skip it, you might as well skip the whole book, you weren't going to enjoy the rest of it much either.
Pynchon actually wants the novel to be seen in the mind's eye as if it were a film too. There are many scenes that actually have script notes like, 'medium shot' written as part of the text. Some of the set pieces are lifted from old black and white caper movies, like the chase through the tunnels containing the V 2 factories, the dog fight/pie fight in the sky and Slothrop on his mission to find the buried dope and they would make for fantastic cinema. The fact a book that pays so many references to the movies could never be filmed is Pynchon's joke.
I'm surprised to not see The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov in the comments. One of my all time favourites, blending dark satire with philosophy and an underlying critique of Stalinism. Polanski almost did an adaptation. Baz Luhrmann is apparently in the process of adapting it which makes me die inside. I don't think it could ever be properly adapted because of how unusual the novel is. Funnily enough given Mark's observations about Terry Gilliam being the answer to everything, he is probably the only director I would have faith in to make a good adaptation!
The Last Battle hasn't been skipped over. So far we have had The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader. Next would be The Silver Chair and then The Last Battle rounds things off. Yes The Magician's Nephew and Horse and The Boy haven't been touched but the five films they seem to be going for are the main narrative for Narnia.
Carpenter's film is about a book that turns you insane, it's not based on a specific Lovecraft story but it takes Lovecraftian horror conventions and makes a new story. I also am aware of Stuart Gordon's films like Re-Animator (which is awesome) and From Beyond.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini would be a fabulous movie. It needs editing but it's a fantastic story - humorous, inspiring, melodramatic, sexual, violent, spiritual, classical yet very contemporary.
"A Confederacy of Dunces" is another famous "cursed " Hollywood novel adaptation that has had names like Belushi and Farrell attached to it at times, but has never gone into full production.
The fact that the BBC had to skip The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carre (because they couldn't muster the budget to film it in Hong Kong) and instead went straight onto Smiley's People still makes me wonder what that could have been like. However, they did at least have the artistic integrity not to try to transpose the action too much, like they did with the Hong Kong scenes in Tinker Tailor being put in Portugal (which just about works). Therefore the novel is virgin filmic territory; somebody do it justice, please! And NO OLDMAN. Thank you.
Grotesque, yes, but what incredible images. Men unable to stop less their blood-saturated overalls freeze solid. There was something very surreal about the book. I am not sure if you are familiar with Spanish director Luis Bunuel but he would have been able to make a film of the book.
Bunuel is my second favorite director after Kubrick...but sometime Bunuel nudges him out. Yes, he'd be the only director who could possibly film this book, going beyond the grotesque surface to the surreal viscera. Bunuel is never shy to show social injustices and how people are degraded and debased---sometimes it is from an outer source and sometimes it is from the character's own shortsighted limitations. Bunuel had a couple projects that sadly were never realized. He wanted to film Johnny Got His Gun and Lord of the Flies. He liked when the social niceties were stripped away and the reality beneath the facade was reavealed as in his masterpiece The Exterminating Angel. As you might tell I am a huge fan of Bunuel. Sadly no one has really folowed in his footsteps and the word "surreal" is tossed around very casually to what is just munedanely weird or strange. L'age d'or is number on my list of all-time favorite films. It is still as potent as the scorpion's tail at the beginning of the film. Glad to encounter another fan. We are trapped in a Michael Bay world.
Any of Haruki Murakami's books really... although they could possibly do Sputnik Sweetheart, but I think the feel of "extraordinary in the ordinary" and all the interesting characters and concepts would be lost.
Also, you can't skip the first section of Gravity's Rainbow. The first line ties up with the ending. And is a killer. Not to mention the fantastic scene setting and atmos building.
Dear Mark, was it you who said Alex Garland's The Coma was a film waiting to happen. I loved the eerie little novella and have been waiting for it to appear.
I'd like to see Christopher Nolan make The Man Who Was Thursday, by G. K. Chesterton. If anyone can pull off a plot twist that relies so heavily on it's reader misreading or forgetting a key word in the title and a climactic betrayal of imaginative and emotional investment from the audience, it'll be Nolan.
Waverley: Sir Walter Scott, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: James Hogg. Not the most read novels, but both groundbreaking in their fields and deserving of adaptations.
Not so much can't be filmed, but more amazed they haven't been yet. Asimov's massive Robot/Empire/Foundation saga (the Will Smith film doesn't count). In an age where we love interconnected multistranded franchises like the Marvel cinematic universe and obscene levels of world building as shown in the Middle Earth pictures, isn't it about time somebody attempted this 200andsomething book epic?
I wrote this before seeing your post: No mention in the video of "A Confederacy of Dunces". The last time I heard anything about an attempt at a film version, Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney were mentioned. They had obtained an option or something.
This book is unbelievable, and I am a lifelong denizen of New Orleans. I need this movie in my life! I can only read the same book so many times (forever).
I'd like to see a film adaptation of Chuck Palahuik's Novel, Survivor. I think it's a really interesting book.....Could be directed by James Gunn or maybe Lynne Ramsey even. I also think Slaughterhouse 5 could be adapted again.....Might be a Terry Gilliam job, or Alfonso Cuaron or Darren Aronofsky. :)
It really saddens me that there's so much great sci-fi literature out there but when sci-fi films are made they either adapt trash or take a plot from another genre and set it in SPAAAAAAAAAAACE... Would love to see some adaptations of Iain M Banks, Stephen Baxter, Neal Stephenson or Larry Niven.
Steven Campbell Well there's that and the fact that J.D Salinger has stated in letters to his son he feels the same way about movies as Holden and asked his son to not sell the rights after his death. Don't believe me, google it.
I’m curious to see what a ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Multiplex’ film would’ve been like. I’m guessing something akin to ‘Adaptation’ mixed with the TV show ‘The Critic’. It would’ve either been terrific or total pants, no middle ground.
To be fair to hitchhiker's it was adapted faithfully, at least as faithfully as the books were to the radio plays anyway. What is unfilmable are the sequels because even if you could adapt the books plots to fit with the developments made in the film, the resultant works would be so obliquely faithful as to be unfaithful to his style, perhaps if Eoin Colfer wrote the screenplay?
they should make blood meridian properly on a low budget as an independant. even if a studio did take it on it would be a 15 at the most and would be rubbish. may aswel let someone make it properly on the horror/indie circuit and do a real job on it
Say, just to digress a little - while we alighted on the subject of Thomas Pynchon, it jogged my memory - did I see a Trystero symbol in Dirty Harry? I think it's seen as graffiti on the subway wall when Scorpio is running Harry all over 'Frisco (also 'KYLE' displayed prominently - Kyle being Eastwood jr.). I haven't got the DVD so I can't confirm this. I may have dreamed it. I dreamed last night about Roy Orbison - he didn't want to sing 'Crying' anymore, but instead only a song about a bear ... The night before, Romesh Ranganathan doing an impersonation of Hugh Griffith ...
An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England. It's not a particularly great or even good novel per se, but I can't help but see something in it that could be great; something that maybe the right director could really capture.
The wild boys by William Burroughs. Luca Guadagnino directs! James Ellroy’s American tabloid and cold six thousand would make an incredible pair of mini series’!
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is amazing
I imagine it's a light hearted rom-com
I can't believe this video didn't include "A Confederacy of Dunces". One of the most notoriously unfilmable yet popular novels I know of.
Two famous ones are Catcher In The Rye and A Confederacy Of Dunces. As far as I know anyway. That's the first two that spring to mind. Both have a history of various people trying to acquire rights, planning getting so far, then falling apart.
I don't go along with the idea that every novel is suited to movie adaptation. I'm more in the Alan Moore camp that certain stories suit certain mediums.
Funnily enough, I was thinking of Terry Gilliam to direct The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton.
Ubik by Philip K. Dick. My favorite novel of his. There has been rumors for years of a movie happening, but it seems to be all smoke and no fire.
You can read Dick's script for the film of Ubik. It's been published.
Weaveworld by Clive Barker. The most cinematic book I've ever read.
The Very Hungry Caterpiller
No mention in the video of "A Confederacy of Dunces". The last time I heard anything about an attempt at a film version, Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney were mentioned. They had obtained an option or something.
You know, that's a story that really could be filmed. However, expecting the general public to catch the nuance of 1960s New Orleans is impossible. It COULD be done, but it won't be done well.
I would have loved to see Kurt Vonnegut's 'Cat's Cradle'. It has a very clear narrative and I'm surprised it hasn't been adapted to the big or small screen.
Please, there is one masterpiece novel that can be filmed, should be filmed, should be filmed by Del Toro, yet has not been filmed - "At The Mountains Of Madness" by HP Lovecraft. It MUST be done by GDT (or at a pinch John Carpenter), and to encompass the mind-blowing scale of the story's latter half it has to be in 48 fps 3D. If they can name a feature on Pluto after Cthulhu, they can surely film the most visually imaginative sci fi horror tale of the past century.
It's not unfilmable, but I would nominate C.S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces as the best novel never filmed. It probably could be filmed, it just hasn't, sadly.
As for unfilmable, I'd have to go with Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. Great books, but they're convoluted as hell, and I just can't see anyone translating the narrative to the screen.
Also, as several other commenters have pointed out, A Confederacy of Dunces. And we're all still waiting for Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.
Infinite Jest, anyone?
+Johnny MacMillan impossible. i feel like you'd have to use narration straight out of the book, like they did in Inherent Vice
...maybe a mini series
All of Iain M. Banks Culture Novels - luckily there is a new one coming at the end of the year :D I am looking forward to that more than any movie.
Pale Fire and Blood Meridian
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House of Leaves is both begging for a film and impossible to adapt.
The Master and the Margarita.🌹
My favourite book. There have been adaptations, but not major or mainstream
Foucault's Pendulum or anything by Eco. Strange there hasn't been more adaptations of his books, given the Name of the Rose was such a great success.
Apparently Eco disliked the adaptation of Name of the Rose enough to turn down Kubrick wanting to film FP
Is there a film based on zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance?
I miss this
“His Dark Materials Trilogy” well... actually it did. And it’s great.
I know a couple of Murakami books have been made into films, but I get the feeling that novels like A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, and 1Q84, if they were made into movies, would either be masterpieces or, well, excrement.
'The Dice Man'.......timeless....and full of potential.
The Third Policeman by Flan O'Brien.
I AGREE 1000%..... IT WOULD BE SOME CRAZY SHOW!!!
I agree that TTP would make a great movie. When I was first reading it back in 1997, I thought it would be a perfect fit for ... Terry Gilliam.
p1mmolloybom Yes. I wonder if he ever considered it?
Loved the Dan Brown comments at the end.
I know this video is old but for anybody watching that might be mounting a first attempt at Gravity's Rainbow it is imperative that you do NOT skip the first section of the book. If you're feeling lost there are plenty of guides, many of which are free (the Pynchon reading community on blogs, etc. is huge). Easily the least adaptable book I've ever read. And also the best!
It's not as if the rest of the book is some sort of breeze compared to that first section either. The first section is marginally more dense and esoteric, but that's about it. If you feel the need to skip it, you might as well skip the whole book, you weren't going to enjoy the rest of it much either.
Pynchon actually wants the novel to be seen in the mind's eye as if it were a film too. There are many scenes that actually have script notes like, 'medium shot' written as part of the text. Some of the set pieces are lifted from old black and white caper movies, like the chase through the tunnels containing the V 2 factories, the dog fight/pie fight in the sky and Slothrop on his mission to find the buried dope and they would make for fantastic cinema. The fact a book that pays so many references to the movies could never be filmed is Pynchon's joke.
DUNE, 3 versions, one one has come close to doing it justice.
Great the BBC resurrected His Dark Materials as a TV series.
I'm surprised to not see The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov in the comments. One of my all time favourites, blending dark satire with philosophy and an underlying critique of Stalinism. Polanski almost did an adaptation. Baz Luhrmann is apparently in the process of adapting it which makes me die inside. I don't think it could ever be properly adapted because of how unusual the novel is. Funnily enough given Mark's observations about Terry Gilliam being the answer to everything, he is probably the only director I would have faith in to make a good adaptation!
The Last Battle hasn't been skipped over. So far we have had The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader. Next would be The Silver Chair and then The Last Battle rounds things off. Yes The Magician's Nephew and Horse and The Boy haven't been touched but the five films they seem to be going for are the main narrative for Narnia.
The Chronicles Of Ancient Darkness series by Michelle Paver.
Carpenter's film is about a book that turns you insane, it's not based on a specific Lovecraft story but it takes Lovecraftian horror conventions and makes a new story. I also am aware of Stuart Gordon's films like Re-Animator (which is awesome) and From Beyond.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini would be a fabulous movie. It needs editing but it's a fantastic story - humorous, inspiring, melodramatic, sexual, violent, spiritual, classical yet very contemporary.
Crime and punishment, voyage au bout de la nuit, notes from the underground, the diamond age, neoromancer, henry millars books
"A Confederacy of Dunces" is another famous "cursed " Hollywood novel adaptation that has had names like Belushi and Farrell attached to it at times, but has never gone into full production.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow Of The Wind. A journey of wonders and eerie enchantment. When I get there I will buy the rights myself ;)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino.
The fact that the BBC had to skip The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carre (because they couldn't muster the budget to film it in Hong Kong) and instead went straight onto Smiley's People still makes me wonder what that could have been like. However, they did at least have the artistic integrity not to try to transpose the action too much, like they did with the Hong Kong scenes in Tinker Tailor being put in Portugal (which just about works). Therefore the novel is virgin filmic territory; somebody do it justice, please! And NO OLDMAN. Thank you.
The Wasp Factory!
I'd add DeLillo's Underworld on this list, although I do think it could make a decent miniseries.
Fatherland by Rpbert Harris, the 1994 TV movie was decent, but its fully deserving of a big screen adaptation
Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War", widely regarded as the best sci fi novel ever written. It would make a great Trilogy for say Ridley Scott?
Mike drop finish. I miss Kermode Uncut!
Upton's Sinclaire's The Jungle. It would be too grotesque to be filmed.
Grotesque, yes, but what incredible images. Men unable to stop less their blood-saturated overalls freeze solid. There was something very surreal about the book. I am not sure if you are familiar with Spanish director Luis Bunuel but he would have been able to make a film of the book.
Bunuel is my second favorite director after Kubrick...but sometime Bunuel nudges him out. Yes, he'd be the only director who could possibly film this book, going beyond the grotesque surface to the surreal viscera. Bunuel is never shy to show social injustices and how people are degraded and debased---sometimes it is from an outer source and sometimes it is from the character's own shortsighted limitations. Bunuel had a couple projects that sadly were never realized. He wanted to film Johnny Got His Gun and Lord of the Flies. He liked when the social niceties were stripped away and the reality beneath the facade was reavealed as in his masterpiece The Exterminating Angel. As you might tell I am a huge fan of Bunuel. Sadly no one has really folowed in his footsteps and the word "surreal" is tossed around very casually to what is just munedanely weird or strange. L'age d'or is number on my list of all-time favorite films. It is still as potent as the scorpion's tail at the beginning of the film. Glad to encounter another fan. We are trapped in a Michael Bay world.
Igby Goes Down is the closet thing we'll ever get to a movie based on Catcher in the Rye
Any of Haruki Murakami's books really... although they could possibly do Sputnik Sweetheart, but I think the feel of "extraordinary in the ordinary" and all the interesting characters and concepts would be lost.
Also, you can't skip the first section of Gravity's Rainbow. The first line ties up with the ending. And is a killer. Not to mention the fantastic scene setting and atmos building.
What about The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant?
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
I would put that line about hating the movies in the trailer. It's like the book is challenging filmmakers to do it
The Maias by Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz. Some tv productions have been done, but a movie version would be very interesting to watch.
Lord Valentines Castle by Robert Silverberg.
Dear Mark, was it you who said Alex Garland's The Coma was a film waiting to happen. I loved the eerie little novella and have been waiting for it to appear.
On the Road. Because its more about how its said and the spirit that comes across from the stream of consciousness.
Absolutely it's Snow Crash
I'm with one of the responses in this blog. Not all books need to be filmed. Hey, books were invented long before the screen, try reading them!
I'd like to see Christopher Nolan make The Man Who Was Thursday, by G. K. Chesterton. If anyone can pull off a plot twist that relies so heavily on it's reader misreading or forgetting a key word in the title and a climactic betrayal of imaginative and emotional investment from the audience, it'll be Nolan.
Waverley: Sir Walter Scott, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: James Hogg. Not the most read novels, but both groundbreaking in their fields and deserving of adaptations.
I would be delighted to see the story in Chapter 1 in The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex adapted into a short film.
Not so much can't be filmed, but more amazed they haven't been yet. Asimov's massive Robot/Empire/Foundation saga (the Will Smith film doesn't count). In an age where we love interconnected multistranded franchises like the Marvel cinematic universe and obscene levels of world building as shown in the Middle Earth pictures, isn't it about time somebody attempted this 200andsomething book epic?
A Confederacy of Dunces (and I'm a Brit, gifted a copy by an American friend)
I wrote this before seeing your post:
No mention in the video of "A Confederacy of Dunces". The last time I heard anything about an attempt at a film version, Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney were mentioned. They had obtained an option or something.
This book is unbelievable, and I am a lifelong denizen of New Orleans. I need this movie in my life! I can only read the same book so many times (forever).
My childhood will never recover from that. I hope you're happy...
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock.....I would love to see anyone touch that.
I'd like to see a film adaptation of Chuck Palahuik's Novel, Survivor. I think it's a really interesting book.....Could be directed by James Gunn or maybe Lynne Ramsey even.
I also think Slaughterhouse 5 could be adapted again.....Might be a Terry Gilliam job, or Alfonso Cuaron or Darren Aronofsky.
:)
I'd super like to see Sandman by Gaiman turned into a series or films.
'Death is a Lonely Business' - Ray Bradbury
The Star of the Sea by Joseph O Connor. It would make a great film.
The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
It really saddens me that there's so much great sci-fi literature out there but when sci-fi films are made they either adapt trash or take a plot from another genre and set it in SPAAAAAAAAAAACE... Would love to see some adaptations of Iain M Banks, Stephen Baxter, Neal Stephenson or Larry Niven.
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester, Possibly the best sci-fi book ever written, just wouldn't work on the big screen
The whole Bible in one movie
Perdido Street Station by China Meiville
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison would be impossible, although it had been adapted for Broadway.
Did the recent Invisible Man film meet the mark?
If American Psycho could be made into a movie. I think Catcher In The Rye could be.
Steven Campbell Well there's that and the fact that J.D Salinger has stated in letters to his son he feels the same way about movies as Holden and asked his son to not sell the rights after his death. Don't believe me, google it.
That movie was inspired by the book, to put it generously.
Kafkas metamorphis or the old man and the Sea and perhaps Slaughterhouse 5? :)
THE WASP FACTORY!!!!
adapting don delilo's novels would be a great challenge
100 years of solitud would be heard to do
I’m curious to see what a ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Multiplex’ film would’ve been like. I’m guessing something akin to ‘Adaptation’ mixed with the TV show ‘The Critic’. It would’ve either been terrific or total pants, no middle ground.
No 'Confederacy of Dunces'.....
Still waiting on that one...
I thought the screenplay for Blood Meridien had been written.
I miss kermode uncut
How about something on why no video games should ever be made into movies?
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft. I hope Guillermo del Toro gets to work on it.
To be fair to hitchhiker's it was adapted faithfully, at least as faithfully as the books were to the radio plays anyway. What is unfilmable are the sequels because even if you could adapt the books plots to fit with the developments made in the film, the resultant works would be so obliquely faithful as to be unfaithful to his style, perhaps if Eoin Colfer wrote the screenplay?
Would love to see Brave New World on the big screen
they should make blood meridian properly on a low budget as an independant. even if a studio did take it on it would be a 15 at the most and would be rubbish. may aswel let someone make it properly on the horror/indie circuit and do a real job on it
That would be great :)
I was thinking of doing it as an HBO miniseries with a similar format.
Pale fire??
"Another Fine Myth" by Robert Asprin. How I would love to see this made into a movie.
'The 13th Valley' by John Del Vecchio.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
The Ian M. Banks sci fi novels are unfilmable.
Not seen any of those, nor have I seen Corman's The Haunted Palace, a Lovecraft adaptation disguised as a Poe adaptation.
Foucaults Pendulum. Kubricks masterpiece he never made
Say, just to digress a little - while we alighted on the subject of Thomas Pynchon, it jogged my memory - did I see a Trystero symbol in Dirty Harry? I think it's seen as graffiti on the subway wall when Scorpio is running Harry all over 'Frisco (also 'KYLE' displayed prominently - Kyle being Eastwood jr.). I haven't got the DVD so I can't confirm this. I may have dreamed it. I dreamed last night about Roy Orbison - he didn't want to sing 'Crying' anymore, but instead only a song about a bear ... The night before, Romesh Ranganathan doing an impersonation of Hugh Griffith ...
I don't think The Man Who Was Thursday has ever been filmed. That would be a rather weird film.
I'm amazed that Don Quixote has never been filmed.
I was DESPERATE to see Frank Schätzing's The Swarm on the big screen.
An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England. It's not a particularly great or even good novel per se, but I can't help but see something in it that could be great; something that maybe the right director could really capture.
The wild boys by William Burroughs. Luca Guadagnino directs! James Ellroy’s American tabloid and cold six thousand would make an incredible pair of mini series’!
Nicolas Winding Refn might stand a chance of giving Blood Meridian a good sound out.