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Philipp
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Okay, let it roll...Flash forward (Robert J. Sawyer) As an experiment fails, the whole mankind is thrown 20 years intothe future, but only for two minutes...
Dir: Steven Spielberg
Music:John Williams
Cast: Bruce Willis, Michelle Yeoah, Jeff GoldblumYour choices?
Philipp
np: clear and present danger (james horner)
posted 02-20-2003 10:37 AM PT (US) Crono/Kyp
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The Dragonlance Chronicles
Written by: Margaret Weis and Track Hickman
Director: Peter Jackson (or myself)
Music: ??
Cast: Well a few of the ones I wanted back when I was like 14 are all in LOTR, so I need to think of a few more
--Brian
[Message edited by Crono/Kyp on 02-20-2003]
posted 02-20-2003 04:09 PM PT (US) Timmer
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LEGEND (no not that one) by brilliant story teller and top fantasy writer David Gemmell, Brian Blessed would play the aged warrior Druss called out of peaceful retirement for one last great battle.I'll direct
and Basil Poledouris will be given a huge budget and a year to compose the score. 
Very recommended book for those of you who love the sword/sorcery/fantasy genre.
posted 02-21-2003 05:54 AM PT (US) justin boggan
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Deathwatch
By: Robb White
Paramount or dream works
Cast: unknown. Will ahve to read the book again.
SCore: Goldsmith
Director: Not sure. It's a serious tale. A serious director that isn't going to make 2 dementional characters and put songs in the the movie. Just score and good acting and writing.I haven't read a book in a long while.
posted 02-21-2003 01:38 PM PT (US) Graham Watt
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I always used to read books "cinematically". I mean that when I was younger I always took my time, read dialogues at speaking speed, soaked in descriptive passages enough to conjure up slow landscape shots in my head, all backed up with a music score of my own making (somehow mostly similar to existing works. I'm not THAT brilliant).I used to read a lot of SF. I inherited all my dad's "Science Fiction Book Club" books and went through them one by one. It was awesome reading these things. EARTH ABIDES, I ROBOT - I could really "see" those as films, and generally I'd imagine a very spiky soundtrack like Jerry Fielding would have done, or that other Jerry circa THE ILLUSTRATED MAN.
Since then I've been told that I should "speed read", because before, I wasn't seeing the woods for the trees - too much mulling over small details. I've got the bigger picture now, but I think I'll go back to reading slower like I used to, really savouring the words, and hence creating a more vivid picture (for individual scenes anyway).
Funny how most people have so far mentioned mostly horror/fantasy/SF stuff as ripe for filmic adaptation. No more versions of Dickens? Well, the fantasy genre seems to hit a nerve, but it's also easy to be disappointed, because we do tend to create our own very personal visions of those things. As regards "real" SF, I think that Spielberg did well in both A1 and MINORITY REPORT, and I have high hopes for SOLARIS, but it's probably more difficult to satisfy an SF fan than anyone else. Dickens is easier to adapt, I think, because the mechanics of the story are so concrete. Mind you, it's not easy to do Dickens justice either. I suppose it's not easy to make ANY film great.
So, what books are crying out for filmic treatment? Oh, I don't know, or I can't remember, or both.
posted 02-21-2003 03:21 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB