#4457737 - 01/17/19 11:17 PM
Re: Scifi Books that should be movies.
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Dan Simmon's 'Hyperion', and 'Fall of Hyperion'. Never read a science fiction book in remotely the same class. Hyperion in particular would be a good one. I love Simmons' books Illium and Olympos even more, but those are a little TOO grand to put in a movie properly. Anyone else read the Bobiverse books? Really good scifi without being dry and slow to read. Filled with pop culture references and good humor. If you like 4x space strategy games, you'd LOVE it. 3 books that would be excellent as a movie or three. Solid, original scifi but with humor that would give it broad appeal. We Are Legion (We Are Bob) For We Are Many All These Worlds https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B06X15BL54
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#4458008 - 01/19/19 10:55 PM
Re: Scifi Books that should be movies.
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Yes Ive read a lot of Sci Fi Books. "The Forge of God is a 1987 science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear. Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks. The Forge of God was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1987, and was also nominated for the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1988." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forge_of_God
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#4482947 - 07/15/19 08:39 PM
Re: Scifi Books that should be movies.
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I would have liked to see someone like Christopher Nolan have a go at The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
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#4483159 - 07/17/19 10:39 PM
Re: Scifi Books that should be movies.
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Im surprised no ones mentioned Honor Harrington. Each book as a movie would mean what, 12 or 13 movies just in the HH series alone? Then you have the spinoffs. It’d really have to be serialized, and then it’d have a run longer than Lawrence Welk and The Simpsons put together LOL I’d definitely pay to see big-budget HH movies IF they were faithful to the books.
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#4483183 - 07/18/19 02:58 AM
Re: Scifi Books that should be movies.
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Im surprised no ones mentioned Honor Harrington. Each book as a movie would mean what, 12 or 13 movies just in the HH series alone? Then you have the spinoffs. It’d really have to be serialized, and then it’d have a run longer than Lawrence Welk and The Simpsons put together LOL I’d definitely pay to see big-budget HH movies IF they were faithful to the books. Only the good ones
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#4483185 - 07/18/19 03:47 AM
Re: Scifi Books that should be movies.
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I suppose they could distill several books into one movie, such as leaving out all the ground action in “On Basilisk Station,” make Grayson an existing ally and delete all the diplomatic stuff from “The Honor of the Queen,” and combine this with “The Short Victorious War” as one movie. But it’d be more action than DW wrote.
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#4483247 - 07/18/19 05:47 PM
Re: Scifi Books that should be movies.
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I don't know, I read that first Honor book and it just didn't do much for me. Probably need to get further into the series to give it a better chance. I know it's got a ton of books and very popular. I just finished my first book in Neal Asher's Polity series. I started with the first book, chronologically, Prador Moon. This was friggin AWESOME. For me, it hits on a lot: space battles and it's fairly cyber punk as well, with a very interesting society. It touches on at a lot of things that I look forward to being developed as I get further in the books. It would make a great Netflix series since he seems to write much of these as independent trilogies, that could be used as seasons.
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#4483270 - 07/18/19 09:15 PM
Re: Scifi Books that should be movies.
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I suppose they could distill several books into one movie, such as leaving out all the ground action in “On Basilisk Station,” make Grayson an existing ally and delete all the diplomatic stuff from “The Honor of the Queen,” and combine this with “The Short Victorious War” as one movie. But it’d be more action than DW wrote. The problem with that is you end up with a movie like Master and Commander where half the fans of the series like it, the other half hate what was cut or changed, and nobody else gives a rat's ass.
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#4483277 - 07/18/19 09:39 PM
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The problem with HH is that once you jmake one movie, you have basically made them all...
They are extremely formulatic.
That is true, but apparently it’s a formula people like! The books are just BEGGING to be made into CGI-heavy movies, if done exactly as DW writes them the battles would be spectacular. Can you imagine seeing 2 divisions of superdreadnoughts and their screens launching double broadsides of missiles at each other as they close? Countermissiles vaporizing them by the score and still they come, decoys and EW pulling even more off track and the remainder streak onward into the point defense clusters. Bomb-pumped laser warheads going off, with some hitting impenetrable wedges while others blast through the sidewalls or straight down the open ends of wedges. This is where they’d have to deviate slightly from DW and use visible lasers instead of his invisible X-ray lasers. And then getting to energy range and really tearing into one another!
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