Which book should be made into a movie? Tell us and win the new Murakami novel
Post your answers in Comments. The winner will be announced on 12 December.
Books we’d like to see on the big screen
The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
How To Be Both by Ali Smith
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December 9th, 2014 at 00:06
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.
December 9th, 2014 at 05:59
Bel Canto and State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
December 9th, 2014 at 10:59
I’m reading Middlesex right now, and have been imagining Calliope’s grandparents as Cersei and Jamie, so there’s that….
December 9th, 2014 at 11:11
It might be almost impossible to turn into a movie but I want A Confederacy of Dunces on the big screen, dammit!
December 9th, 2014 at 18:15
Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. The modern world owes a lot to its cyberpunk vison of the future. Besides, we have the technology now for the Metaverse scenes.
December 9th, 2014 at 18:43
“Sabbath’s Theater” bida si Al Pacino dapat; batang Mickey Sabbath naman si Fassbender dahil kailangang dramatik na mag-bold sa ilang eksena.
Sa lokal naman
“Tutubi, Tutubi, ‘Wag Kang Magpahuli Sa Mamang Salbahe”
nakakalimutan na kasi ang pinsala ni Macoy
December 10th, 2014 at 00:53
I know it would be difficult, given the demands of the story, but I’d still love to see a film adaptation of Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore. I’d like to see talking cats as well as Col. Sanders appearing all of a sudden. Ever since I finished reading the book, I have always been curious about how it can be turned into a comprehensible film. I am curious about how people would react to it, too.
PS. I don’t know what to expect of the bed scenes of Kafka and Miss Saeki, though. Or, maybe those scenes could be skipped. The creators may opt to just imply things or something else. I don’t really know.
December 10th, 2014 at 02:48
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
College Nerds. Mysterious Book. Murder. Ciphers. Book Burning. Florence.
Stars Logan Lerman, Paul Dano, Michael Cera, Miles Teller
December 10th, 2014 at 13:46
The Trese Books by Budjette Tan and artist Kajo Baldisimo. It would really make a great horror/action flick. Enough with the “Shake Rattle & Roll” and “politicians as action stars with a pretty leading ladies” films.
December 10th, 2014 at 14:59
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki
Music: Trent Reznor
Cast: Casey Affleck as either one of the Navidson brothers, Jeff Bridges as the blind writer Zampano, and Oscar Isaac as the deepshit crazy annotator Johnny Truant.
December 10th, 2014 at 15:29
Hmmm.
James Salter’s Light Years (as always).
Runners-up:
Ben Marcus’s The Flame Alphabet
Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles (I’m curious as to how it can be produced, acted, & directed as YA-ish, bildungsroman-ish but not sickeningly glucose; nothing as ‘quotable’ as “Pain demands to be felt” and such BS [yes I’m talking to you John Green])
December 10th, 2014 at 19:29
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell directed again by The Wachoskis and Tom Tykwer. Epic kung epic epek! Chos.
December 10th, 2014 at 20:32
Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr. Fox.
Wes Anderson can adapt and direct the screenplay. It’s sure to be his most experimental work: equal parts funny and dark, with stories within stories and characters within characters. Scarlett Johansson can star as the sexy-smart imaginary muse. The charming douchebag writer must be played by someone with Chris Evans’ classic good looks, but skinnier and dirtier. The writer’s wife, Carey Mulligan.
December 10th, 2014 at 23:38
El Filibusterismo! Ipoprodyus ng Hollywood upang bigyang-buhay si Imuthis, ang mahiwagang ulo! (Aminjn, di pa ito achieve ng Pinoy visual epeks.) May ika-cast ako na Padre Camorra ngunit tunay na pari. Patay tayo diyan.
December 11th, 2014 at 00:21
JRWL: You just want to see Hugo Weaving in drag (again).
December 11th, 2014 at 00:48
We need to see “The Silmarillion” on screen. We need to see some Ainur of course. It can’t just possibly end with “The Hobbit.”
December 11th, 2014 at 10:26
Hahahahaha!!!
December 11th, 2014 at 13:21
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer. With Todd Haynes directing and capturing the lyricism of the novel on film, a la Far From Heaven.
December 11th, 2014 at 16:24
Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s Shadow of the Wind. Alfonso Cuaron can capture the 30’s Spain….
December 11th, 2014 at 17:25
Martin Amis’ London Fields
Edit: The movie gods have heard me. Apparently it’s already been made into a movie.
James Ellroy’s American Tabloid nalang
December 11th, 2014 at 18:43
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, just because the book was written using a first person POV of the autistic child. Meryl Streep as Christopher Boone. Joke lang.
December 12th, 2014 at 00:28
The God of Small Things. by Arundhati Roy
El Juego del Ángel by Carlos Luis Zafón
December 12th, 2014 at 02:34
I’m going for something that was said to be unfilmable: One Hundred Years of Solitude. Elwood Perez can do it! He can turn it into something crazier. The Buendias can be played by the Estradas? NO?? Or another showbiz family.
December 12th, 2014 at 08:14
China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station deserves a live action movie adaptation because the weird world of New Crobuzon is something we absolutely need to see onscreen. I love/hate to see Zack Snyder helm this. He was the first person I thought of, though, when I encountered “dreamshit” in the novel. But, maybe it’s best to have Wingnut Films do this. Oh, I can’t wait!
December 12th, 2014 at 09:37
Mass by F. Sionil Jose
December 12th, 2014 at 09:39
The Goldfinch
December 13th, 2014 at 13:23
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt. I want to see the installations. Especially the Suffocation Rooms. And the novel is mostly based on the fictional journal of the main character so I guess there will be lots of writing. There’s just something about paper and pens that makes me all excited.
I also second the one who suggested Trese by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo.