One of the things that struck me as the actors and producers and directors and everybody came on stage to accept the awards is... they're all players on a stage, in a world, created by writers. It's easy to forget sometimes that when we settle into a theater chair and the lights dim and the projector begins to roll, that everything on that screen - the characters, the world, the very words - all came from the pen of a writer. Without writers there would be no movies. Actors would stand mute. Directors and Producers would have nothing to direct nor produce. Our entertainment - be it in movies or on tv - all starts with the written word. It all starts with a writer.
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That led me to ponder what books by my favorite authors I'd love to see hit the screen. One such fantasy is (knocking wood) supposed to hit TV screen soon. Carly Hiaasen's fabulously awesome, funny, and revenge-driven story Skinny Dip was picked up by HBO and slated to become a mini-series directed by Michael Keaton. Cannot wait for this. (And no, don't go by that adaptation of his early novel Strip Tease with Demi Moore because that movie totally did the book no justice at all.)
Another has hit the screen a few times, one adaptation just recently that I've yet to see, is the King of the Crime Caper Donald Westlake's novel The Hunter. You might know it as the 1967 film Point Blank, or the 1999 film Payback (with Mel Gibson) or the 2013 film Parker (with Jason Statham that I'm dying to see).
So what books should be made into movies but haven't been yet? I'd pick Lori Wilde's romantic contemporary romances and turn them into hit Romantic Comedies (RomComs). I love a good RomCom and lately it feels like we're really short on options. My top 3 picks would be:
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Casting any of these romantic, actiony, comedic awesome books would just be too much fun!
~ Julie
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Hmmm....books into movies. Let's see. In no particular order:
1. 19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult
2. Anything by Sandra Brown!!!
3. One of Suzanne's Brockmann's Troubleshooters novels...though after reading so many with so many continuing characters, I've got them all in my head. So any movie would probably make me mad because I'd insist so-and-so didn't look or act anything like THAT in my head!
I know that feeling. It's hard when a book you love is made and then the movie just ruins it all. sigh. But great picks! I'm familiar with #2 and #3. Your #1 I don't know and now much look up! :)
Julie
I love #1. It would be a really timely movie - in a nutshell, it's about a middle school student who kills some classmates (think Columbine) but lives. It delves into his history and what drove him to act out - his parents, his friends, his life. But it switches points of view to his victims, the judge invovled in the case, etc. It's really intense, really thought provoking.
I think it would make a great--and timely!--movie!
But really, truly, I would rather see Sam Starret in the flesh!
Ouch that's a topic that's definitely timely. I wonder if audiences would have a hard time sitting through that given the current climate in the country. But I bet it does get made into a movie for that exact reason.
J.