If you could Make a book into a movie, which one would it be?

Well for starting out with Terry Pratchett, I would suggest The Last hero.. its good to start out with..

I would have to say the Golden Compass series, it is much better than harry potter , although it is not in quite the same mold, but luckily it sounds as if they are making it into a movie.

I have not read the Golden compass.. but i did read about it.. It sounds interesting, its amoung many of my books to read

Yeah, I would suggest reading that series, especially if you are into the fantasy genre of books.

Originally posted by big gay kirk
V for Vendetta, but only if its done properly, not turned into some Hollywood mess... also Watchmen, under the same proviso.... How about the Earthsea books...? Or the three witches books of Terry Pratchett.....

Well you should .. they are very fun to read

i would like to make a movie out of that book X-men mutant empire. or star wars rogue squadron or X-men emipres end.

X-men mutant empire sounds interesting 🙂

it is intresting i got that book like 8 years ago. and i finished the book this year. and when i went to my book store they laughed at my face when i asked to know when they would be getting mutant empire book 2 sanctuary.

I love x-men in general though

i wanna get this book x-men chaos triligoy but i can only find the last one. and in my dreams i finally found the first book but then i woke up.

I'm opposed to books being turned into movies in principal - howeva...

The Golden Compass (as you americans insist of calling the first book in the Dark Materials saga...) or Northern Lights to give it it's correct title - made a very fine play so It might just work as a movie, but lets face it I doubt that the USA is ready to send it's children to a movie franchise that advocates underage teenage sex and the murder of God. Pullmans other books - the Sally Lockheart series - would make fine period/detective drama.

Did someone say that sci-fi was turning V for vendetta into a movie? Please provide proof!!! Of all Moores work this is perhaps the one that would actually work best as TV/movie drama as it has a clear mostly linear narrative and is largely character based. I'd like to see it done well, but dread to think what a mess it would be done poorly. ("Whadaya mean we dont get to see the heros face? Whadaya mean he's not a HERO?) It could get very bad.

Originally posted by vaya_the_elf
I have not read the Golden compass.. but i did read about it.. It sounds interesting, its amoung many of my books to read

Only the first, Northern Lights, was any good.

Originally posted by shaber
Only the first, Northern Lights, was any good.

Oh how very wrong.

Well where was the merit in the Amber Spyglass, as a conclusion he gave us

Spoiler:
Puppy Love! 😘

Originally posted by shaber
Well where was the merit in the Amber Spyglass, as a conclusion he gave us ...

Spoiler:
A fitting (and very brave as an author ) example of young passion, and lets not forget the Murder of God...

The 1st book is the strongest, but I'd never agree that its the only good one!

Anyway - waaaay off topic!

Not sure about 'brave' really; it's not as if the church would try to kill him for it, in fact they were no more vitriolic than Gene Siskel would be as a matter of course. Salman Rushdie certainly was brave though!

Well I would read them anyways.. just so I found out for myself which one I like 🙂

I think america would accept them as movies, I mean there's been movies about little kids possesed by the devil and was very popular, so I don't think that's a problem. I don't think they would make the movie for a younger age group, most likely 13 and up. So why did they change the title for the U.S., I've only heard the series called the dark materials, and the book called the Golden Compass, never the Northern Lights.

any terry pratchett book... preferably 'the last hero'

... just need an actor to play Rincewind... no one's good enough schmoll