Aren't they supposed to be making a Neuromancer?

Also DeLillo's Underworld would be good if extremely epic. As would American Tabloid.

I think Toy Cemetary by William j Johnstone or even Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons. Actually anything by Dan Simmons would be awesome. Hes one of the most underrated authors out there.

The Peculiar Memoirs Of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson. If you’re fan of Robinson’s Withnail and I then you’ll know his talent for comedy and dialogue. If only Bruce himself could make the film.

I've always been curious about seeing a film version of Kerouac's "On the Road" however I wouldn't hold out too much hope for it being good. I think I read somewhere once that either Coppola or Johnny Depp own the rights to it. Still it's got to be better than "The Last Time I Committed Suicide". I think if it was half as good as "The Naked Lunch" I'd be happy.

I agree. "On the Road" is one of those books that I both dread and look forward to seeing. In the hands of the right person it could be great. In the hands of wrong person it's the dog and pony show that so many biographies are and have always been.
I think the thing to do is not try to attack the whole thing. I am not sure I want the total post-modern anti-sentimental cold art treatment either.
I suppose it has to be someone young with a new vision for it.

Maybe it should be Malick? He's the only established director who would intrigue me enough to go and he understands America like few do.

Perhaps I should start a thread on Books that you don't want to see adapted.

I'd like to see Meditations in Green by Stephen Wright made into a film. It can best be described as Catch 22 in Vietnam. Very good book, but no one i've ever met has heard of it, which kind of makes it unlikely that it'll get turned into a film, which is a shame as it's my favourite book

I also would like to see The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester turned into a movie. Seeing things in the main characters world disappear gradually, would be something cool to see on the big screen. Most people into science fiction novels have heard of this one, so a film adaptation seems quite likely at some time

I LOVE me some Stephen Wright!

Christopher's Tripod Trilogy

Apparently Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption") is working on this, but I don't know if he's directing or producing, or both.

-CSJ

Frank Darabont is directing The Mist which is shooting at the moment. There are some video diaries of the making of up on AICN.

Could be a great movie. The story is probably the most frightening thing I've ever read.

On another note Phillip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle would be cool to see on the big screen.

I would love to see somebody make a successful translation of Muriel Spark's The Drivers Seat. Giuseppe Patroni Griffi had an attempt at it with his film Identikit but the film doesn’t really achieve head-strong sense of isolation, casual extremism and troubling ambiguity that so strongly define the novel. Lynch's Inland Empire was about the closest I've ever seen to a film-maker successfully capturing this literary tradition of a woman losing her grip on reality (and the societal repression that is often the cause: be it casual sexism, a change in class or the burden of fading celebrity). Other works that tackle the issue (which read like Lynch novels anyway) are Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop and obviously Charlotte Perkins Gilman's terrifying masterpiece The Yellow Wallpaper; neither of which have been represented on-screen with the same kind of bite as the novels themselves.

Come on cinema, keep up!

Shaun Hutson's "Assassins" wuld make a fantasticly entertaining film. Zombie gangsters, East End hardmen, splattertastic gunfights, maggot blowjobs and an uber-cool killer for hire who slams 'Iron Maiden' on his walkman (now in ipod of course) to soundtrack his assassinations!

A faithful and actually good version of the excellent "The Long Firm", Jake Arnott's very clever mixing of fact and fantasy, gangsters, murder mystery and pop culture expose.

The first 2 books in the (now rather hit and miss, but then very good) Michael Slade 'Special X' serial killer catching Candian Mountie series "Headhunter"and the goth tinged, London set "Ghoul" (which is as clever as all hell!)

I'm excited that Max Brooks' World War Z had been optioned for a movie. There's real potential there to produce an intelligent and interesting zombie movie. It's a fantastic book. I'd highly recommend it.

In a fit of nostalgia, i bought a bunch of Guy N. Smiths' Crabs books off ebay a few months ago. Complete trash, but i'd love to see a fun goretastic monster movie based on them!

YESSS! Teen faves! Always great to read on seaside holidays! Should have stopped with "Crabs on the Rampage".
The later ones that followed were prenty damn lame!