Originally posted by hamactor1:
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Originally posted by Frank Sinatra's Bow Tie:
Excellent topic! I would love to see any Sue Grafton alphabet books
I've been saying for over a decade that G is for Gumshoe needs to be filmed. I'm also amazed nobody has hopped on board with Stuart Woods' VERY film-ready Stone Barrington franchise. They read so quickly and cinematically. I know they've been optioned before, but nothing's ever happened.
Supposedly someone's making a film of The Giver but I haven't heard anything.
I really wanna see Alec Baldwin's cut of The Devil and Daniel Webster but because of all that rights crap and him losing ownership apparently it's under someone else's control now and has been BUTCHERED and is being released this year under a stupid title and marketed as some kinda comedy. Someone who saw a very rough cut of the original version said it was dynamite and actually added that Jennifer Love Hewitt gave one of the most surprising performances of the last few several years.
I'm a big fan of the original Poseidon Adventure novel, and always held out hope that someone would one day make a version that was even REMOTELY faithful. The '72 version was about 60/40 maybe, and I won't even address that recent disaster.
Still waiting for The Perks of Being a Wallflower to be made finally.
I agree with Jake221 that all the And Then There Were None adaptations, though there've been several, have all been DREADFUL. (And yes, Identity rocked on a pure thrilling entertainment level, but it's a takeoff, not an adaptation.) It's one of my favorites and it's never been done real justice.
Wargrave: Alan Rickman
Claythorne: Amy Adams
Lombard: Robert Downey, Jr.
Brent: Maggie Smith
Gen. MacArthur: Peter O'Toole
Dr. Armstrong: Greg Kinnear, wearing glasses and looking a mess (like Brooce in Death Becomes Her)
Marston: Chris Carmack (I wanted to go with a really big up-and-coming young black actor but couldn't think of one who quite fit)
Blore: Delroy Lindo
Rogers: Gregory Itzin
Mrs. Rogers: Frances Conroy (whom I've ALWAYS pictured in that role for some reason)
Rickman, Smith, and O'Toole would get BAFTA nods. O'Toole would win the BAFTA; he and Smith would be nommed by the Academy, and O'Toole would win his mercy Oscar. Surprise Globe nod for Kinnear.
More than anything else, though, I just want to see someone FINALLY do a really solid adaptation of The Great Gatsby. The one from the '70s was SO bad. The Mira Sorvino TV version came much closer, but it just didn't have the epic oomph it needed. But I fear a really good one is never to be because so much of the novel's meaning and beauty comes from the narrative itself, and its descriptions of the most minor things, and then there's also the fact that the novel makes Gatsby fascinating by keeping him at arm's length and he doesn't actually have all that much dialogue...I fear any adaptation would automatically sort of fail because it would have to make him so much more tangible.
