What sci-fi Book or series would you most like to see ported to the big screen?

Personally, Tad Williams Otherland series has my vote, I think that with the right people behind it, the visuals could be as incredible as the book felt.

What about you guys?

S. Lem - The invincible. It would be interesting to see the evolution of the cloud of metallic insects


PS: I heard a year ago that "Randezvous with Rama" was going to be ported to the Big Screen. Is this project still alive?

Starship Troopers. No, really.

Personally, Tad Williams Otherland series has my vote, I think that with the right people behind it, the visuals could be as incredible as the book felt.

I totaly agree. And I wouldn't even mind if they completely re-wrote and bastardized the ending. I love Tad Williams's books, but the man really can not end a series to save his life.

Neuromancer!

His endings were always awful, even his fantasy stuff. I wouldn't mind a changed ending, as long as it wasn't a Stephen King, "Needful Things" type change. There were 500 pages missing from the movie right out of the middle of the book, and barely anyone died in the end... it's a very sad thing when they ruin it.

That said, I've never been a fan of happy endings.

enders game / enders shadow
by orson scott card the greatest books alive in my opinions the "enders shadow " seris is good al lthe way through enders game just the first 2

They are already doing Enders Game. It's in production; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400403/

Eeeek, There actually are Orson Scott Card fans out there? I weep for the future od sci fi.
Anyways, without a doubt, I'd have to vote for Stephen R. Donaldson's 'Gap' series.
Best sci-fi written in the past 15 years.

No good book should be turned into a movie... it just isn't worth it...

I disagree. Occasionally, sci-fi movies that were originally books inspired some of the modern sci-fi writers of today to write some of their best stuff. Not to mention that it encourages people to read, when they want to find out the rest of the story. I have a lot of friends who read the Lord of the Rings books only after seeing the first movie, and I know a lot now that are reading the Narnia books because of the impending movie.

Some people like visuals to complete their experience. Who are we to judge them? Just because we have the gift of being able to create the visuals ourselves from what we read, doesn't mean that other people shouldn't be able to enjoy the authors hard work. Not all people can enjoy books or have trouble reading, but they should be able to enjoy the writing.

Faded Sun trilogy by Cherryh

I agree that Otherland would be a good one...

- KitNyx

I'd like to see another Naked Lunch, that would follow the book's disjointed storyline better. Also possibly some redwall series made into children's movies could be interesting :)

I said it on another thread, but I'll say it here too. I would love to see Joan D. Vinge's Alien Blood (Psion and Catspaw). Would make a Blade Runner type movie in my mind.

"Ringworld" by Larry Niven.

I'd like to see another Naked Lunch, that would follow the book's disjointed storyline better. Also possibly some redwall series made into children's movies could be interesting :)

why not make a new Naked Lunch by using the cut-up method on the old Naked Lunch, and other Naked Lunch type media?

'Book of the New Sun'
It would be a miracle if they could make the damn thing halfway coherent though.

Oh now that would be fun. Gene Wolfe's writing is so difficult for most readers to wrap their head around, but the story itself (all four volumes) is really an incredible journey once you can get past that. I've always thought that maybe he should write a precursor book that explains exactly how to read his stuff. I've suggested these books to friends and they've been baffled at what I see in it. You kind of have to make the journey to understand Wolfe before you can really enjoy them, which most readers don't have the patience or mindset to do. If they could get some great casting and writers, it could be a great movie considering how epic the story actually is and how thought provocing.

And if you like Gene Wolfe, 'Peace' is one of my favourites. So brilliantly written.

sister alice by robert reed.

I would like to see them trying to pull it off.

George MacDonald Fraser's "Flashman" novels. Obviously historical fiction and not sci-fi, but among the most informative, amusing and well-characterised books I have read.

Or, for future history: "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Miller.

The Foundation Trilogy by Asimov. That'd be another three-mobvie marathon like L.O.T.R. Perhaps we should get Peter Jackson to do it here in NZ :D

The Snow Queen Cycle by Joan D. Vinge.

Yes, those would be great one's too Xylene. :)

I do hope the Sci-Fi channel will continue the Dune series with "God Emperor of Dune". That is my second favorite Dune book after the first one.

The Lensman series by E.E. (Doc) Smith. The first of six novels was written in 1937.


http://www.sfhomeworld.org/exhibits/homeworld/scifi_hof.asp?articleID=78


http://www.jitterbug.com/origins/doc.html

Dianetics, that'd really rock :D

While we're on that tack, how about the classic "How to Win Friends and Influence People"?

Halo- The Fall of Reach. Most definently.

It might not be great literature... but 'Phule's Company'.
THAT would have me rolling on the floor.

if not maked by hollywood (that only makes S*** things) i would like to see Eden from Stanislaw Lem.

its a crazy different book.

The Serrano Legacy series, by Elizabeth Moon. Good SF.

"The Forge of God", by Greg Bear. Scariest Earth-gets-invaded novel ever.

Halo- The Fall of Reach. Most definently.

Allow me to silently wrech

Dude, what the hell, Halo was awesome. There is something seriously wrong with you if you don't want to see HALO become a movie.

I tend to view that sort of thing as indicating that something must be seriously right with him.

What the fuck is wrong with you people? Halo kicks ass. What is wrong with the novels? They kick ass.

The Lensman series by E.E. (Doc) Smith.Only problem there is how to represent the telepathy, mental battles and so forth.
The 'Night's Dawn' trilogy by Peter F Hamilton could be good, but something different, like 'Time Out of Joint' by PKD could be good as well.