Altered Carbon is, in fact, coming to Netflix: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/11/16878562/netflix-altered-carbon-trailer-watch-richard-morgan
General / Off-Topic What book would you like to see made into a film?
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Altered Carbon is, in fact, coming to Netflix: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/11/16878562/netflix-altered-carbon-trailer-watch-richard-morgan
Oh wow.
Wish fulfilled.
I hope they get it right.
I've never actually read the book(s). Might have to see about that after I've cleared my current stack.
Horrendous literature has the most room for improvement in the translation to film.
I'm usually dissapointed by the film version of good literature, but all that would need to happen here is something suitably vile to land an NC-17 rating, get banned in most places with lax protections for freedom of expression, and have a production values higher than a Jesús Franco flick.
Humanx Commonwealth saga by Alan Dean Foster.
Been re reading these and was lucky enough to see the Stage Play with Paul Darrow of Blake's 7 playing the lead.
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"Metro 2033" by Dmitry Glukhovsky.
Already a brilliant game from it, with more to come. I think a good director could do it justice.
I would like for it to have Russian actors speaking Russian. Same way as I play the game. Russian voice, English subtitles. Obviously I read the book in English.
Already a brilliant game from it, with more to come. I think a good director could do it justice.
I would like for it to have Russian actors speaking Russian. Same way as I play the game. Russian voice, English subtitles. Obviously I read the book in English.
Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga would be interesting - I find his space opera style a bit boombastic and generally prefer darker and/or harder SF, but yeah. The battle scenes in Pandora's Star would make good viewing, relativistic projectiles coming out of wormholes and all.
That would definitely need the Expanse-style TV treatment to do it justice.
The series I'd like to see done, either through netflix, or whatever, would be the Incarnations_of_Immortality series:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnations_of_Immortality
As I hadn't read it since the 90's, and I had to google it to remember what it was called, I had no idea there was another book added.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnations_of_Immortality
As I hadn't read it since the 90's, and I had to google it to remember what it was called, I had no idea there was another book added.
To be directed by Chris Nolan please!
Or Seven Eves, by the same author. Not the easiest material to translate to film, but would be visually spectacular.
YES!!!
Like some have said - not a movie but in extended series productions.
Foundation series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series
Lensmen series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lensman_series
Pliocene Exile and Galactic Mileu series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_May
and for a one-off:
Stranger in a Strange Land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_May
Foundation series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series
Lensmen series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lensman_series
Pliocene Exile and Galactic Mileu series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_May
and for a one-off:
Stranger in a Strange Land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_May
