The 10 Best Sci-Fi Books That Should Be Box Office Blockbusters

[Federa]

Instead of translating these books into movies, I would much rather see them made into television series. Movies (generally) cannot devote the time necessary for telling a complete novel, unless they are extremely long. Even then, not everything makes the cut. Dividing the story into a television series allows for a greater amount of freedom in traveling along various plot lines and subplots. While I will most definitely watch movies such as Ender's Game, I cannot help but wish that it would have been allowed breathing room and told more of the story. The climate for novels being turned into television series is great right now, given the success of series such as The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, so now would be a good time to get a few of these made.

[NeonKnight]

How about Hyperion?

http://hyperionmovie.com/

Seems like a good idea. 2013 sounds about right.

[marshal atkins]

How about Hyperion?

http://hyperionmovie.com/

Seems like a good idea. 2013 sounds about right.

Simmons wrote about sitting in a meeting with the producers and screenplay writer. When asked how they planned on fitting the huge story of Hyperion into a movie they explained how they were going to show the personal stories of the main characters as told in the first book via a few flashbacks and webisodes and start the movie mostly with book two.

Simmons at that point wished them luck and backed out of helping them write the screen play.

[Periboob]

Something to challenge the guys at ILM Maybe "Ring World" or "Mote in God's Eye".

[JimF]

Something to challenge the guys at ILM Maybe "Ring World" or "Mote in God's Eye".

I second that motion.

[NeonKnight]

Simmons wrote about sitting in a meeting with the producers and screenplay writer. When asked how they planned on fitting the huge story of Hyperion into a movie they explained how they were going to show the personal stories of the main characters as told in the first book via a few flashbacks and webisodes and start the movie mostly with book two.

Simmons at that point wished them luck and backed out of helping them write the screen play.

He might have backed out of helping them, but Simmons himself just recently confirmed that there will be several films.

-- a treatment and screenplay are currently being written -- by an actor who wants to star in the movies! -- for the first of several theatrical versions of the HYPERION CANTOS.

http://forum.dansimmons.com/ubbthrea...138435&fpart=1

[ebusinesstutor]

I agree that Childhood's End would be very powerful if it did full justice to the second half of the story as well as the first.

And Mote in God's Eye would be an excellent one. Just imagining the battle with the Watchmakers for control of the ship now...;

[marshal atkins]

He might have backed out of helping them, but Simmons himself just recently confirmed that there will be several films.



http://forum.dansimmons.com/ubbthrea...138435&fpart=1

You are probably more up to date then I am. I can't access his forums for some reason.

[Pennarin]

There are mostly classic titles in this list, so it is incomplete without Tales of the Ketty Jay by Chris Wooding.

Funny, I never heard of that one

[ArtNJ]

God, who would wish such a fate on their favorite book? Almost everything gets butchered or doesnt translate well. Stuff like Lord of the Rings is just a happy accident, not something you can hope for any more than you can hope to find buried treasure.

[Kazz Wylde]

Still waiting on Altered Carbon........

[Steven L Jordan]

God, who would wish such a fate on their favorite book? Almost everything gets butchered or doesnt translate well. Stuff like Lord of the Rings is just a happy accident, not something you can hope for any more than you can hope to find buried treasure.

Doesn't mean you can't hope for better treatment for your favorite! Personally, I have a book that I think would make a great blockbuster, but since it would involve a large cast and fairly expensive SFX to pull off, part of me would dread the offer to buy the movie rights and put it on film (or TV, or whatever). Unless, of course, it was Spielberg on the line, with ILM on conference call...