Amph How would you turn your favurite book into a movie?

Two pages in and Ramza makes me realize that the OP in fact presents an interesting question.

My favurite book changes all the time. At the moment it's Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City. I'd do it like Russian Ark - one long shot that covers centuries - but instead of just using one location, I'd let it wander across the city. One person would like it: me

 

For me, it's Bible that's my favourite. The homoerotic undertones, the deliberate inconsistencies, the paper-thin characters - I can't tell but I think Paulo Coehlo ghost-wrote it.

 

And, honestly, they would have made pretty terrible movies if the movies had been faithful to the books. So, you know, I support artistic license.

 

Right, there's no point in adapting a book if you can't identify some aspect of the story that is uniquely cinematic and elevate it at the expense of elements that detract from the most movie-est bits. So many terrible adaptations never locate the story's cinematic hook.

 

Transmogrification.

 

wherever you want to go, Calvin and Hobbes have already been there

I want to see this book made into a movie. John Bellairs is responsible for sucking me into my lifelong love of end of the world thrillers. The movie Ghostbusters stole its major plot point: an evil wizard trying to bring about the end of the world.

 

oh, holy ******* **** balls

Eli Roth

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2119543/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Q: How would you turn your favorite book into a movie?
A: I'd start by not hiring Eli Roth to direct it

 

Wow Ken, you really fail fast.

My condolences.

 

In my head I'd pictured more of the Spielberg treatment. Whimsical and only a bit scary at a level appropriate for children. But I could also easily have embraced the Stranger Things/It treatment. Super nerdy kids take on Evil with the help of even nerdier adults in an atmopshere of a hip and semi-campy creepy nostalgia.

I'd even have tolerated the Tim Burton animated feature film treatment. Those Ed Gorey illustrations from the original publication almost demand that.

Also, this book has a sequel. It's franchise-able. You get two Eli Roth movies for the price of two Eli Roth movies. It's a heavy price.

 

Eli Roth, though...

He's going to do to your beloved book what his Inglourious Basterds character did to German soldiers.

 

Fav u rite.

 

seems inevitable right. This book is so completely ripe to ride the It/Stranger Things wave, and Eli Roth is going to **** it up beyond recognition.

 

Now Peter Pan . . . that was an adaptation that found the story's hook.

 

R1.5, you're a terrible person and I hope you feel terrible.

 

Directed by Tommy Wiseau

"I did not huff and puff, it's booowlshid, I did not blow house down, I did nooooot....oh hi piggie!"