Friday, March 23, 2012

Books That Should Be Movies


Assume that Hollywood would not do to your nominee what it did to "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "Ghost Story." Which novels deserve a fine film version?

My initial nominees:

"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
"Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel
"The Known World" by Edward P. Jones
"Rat Run" by Gerald Seymour
"Mendelssohn is on the Roof" by Juri Weil
"The Road Home" by Rose Tremain
"A Long Way Down" by Nick Hornby
"The Roots of Heaven" by Romain Gary
"Winter's Tale" by Mark Helprin

2 comments:

Kurt Harden said...

I want an animated Hollywood Blockbuster with big-star voice-overs and all the McDonald's Happy Meal and accompanying hype for another Dr. Suess classic: Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose. It will never happen.

We need a movie for Flannery O-Connor's "The Enduring Chill"

John Cheever's "Torch Song" would make a great movie.

I still wish One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch or Cancer Ward would get a Hollywood film.

How about Stephen King's "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut"?

Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson would make an incredible mini series.

Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine would also make a great movie.

Michael Wade said...

Kurt,

Great choices.

I think that "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch" was made into a film. I vaguely recall seeing it years ago.

Michael