What film do you want them to make?

[Welshman]

Hi,
I was just wondering what film you guys want made. Try and refrain from using something in the pipeline and just give us a little synopsis of the film.

As Hollywood are fresh out of ideas and the market seems full of Remakes, reboots and sequels. I decided to against that and go for... High Society.

High Society is a book from Ben Elton, it is set in a diary format that follows 5 different people, during a time when drugs are legalised by the british government.

Each person has their own story and their own agenda to legalise the drugs. ranging from a politician using the law to gain promotions, to a drug abusing rockstar who ruins almost everything he touches.

It is a lot better than I have described it.

[loudboy]

not a bad shout, welshman! its a good book for sure, but have you read "this other eden" by the same author? its an eco-disaster book, and very funny too. i read it many years ago, and even then it seemed it would make a great film. (or fillum, as the heroine would call it)

i just finished reading a book called "the last secret of the temple" by phillip sussman, and it was super! i couldnt help reading it like it was a movie, and i imagined it like a hybrid of munich, zodiac and the da vinci code. even if it never gets made into a movie, i heartily recommend it as a book...

[MaxTJL]

I want to see Jim Jarmusch take on Cheaper by the Dozen 3 as he joked on The Simpsons. Would definitely pay to see THAT!

[Tamnvs]

High Society is a quality book! & I reckon this could be made into an amazing feature film that intertwines each story as well as the books does! I reckon a director like James Mangold (who did Girl, Interrupted) would do it great justice as he is real good at stroy-telling that jumps back and forth

[Anarckitty]

Chuck Palahniuck's novel, Survivor, should be made into a movie!

Excellent book.

[Ancient One]

Two spring directly to mind.
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. A man is hideously burnt in a crash and while in hospital a woman appears who tells him she knew him in a previous life. Its a strange, soul searching tale with action, romance and drama. Would make a great movie.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. This was supposed to be being filmed but Ive heard that its now not going ahead. Big shame as it's an ideal book for filming. It would lend itself well to an adaption along the lines of The Corpse Bride.It's the story of a young boy who is raised in a graveyard by it's ghosts after his parents are killed my a mysterious stranger.
Tim Burton would LOVE it.

[IronMaiden]

I'd love to see them do a big budget film of North and South written by Elizabeth Gaskell.

It was written around 1850 and covers the social economical issues of the time and the division of classes and regions. It follows the lives of Margaret Hail and her family as they move from South England to Northern England and is a very powerful book.

It's been done for TV but never for the movie screen!

[Jonesy]

In order to do an Elizabeth Gaskell novel, you'd need to make it relevant to the here and now. Gaskell was very much writing about the issues of Victorian England, particularly regarding women's plight in society. I'm not saying you couldn't make it relevant, but whereas Dickens, for example wrote about universal themes, Gaskell's novels are very much products of their time.

[dglthrawn]

I'd like to see the Dirk Gently novels up on the big screen, although rumour has it that the BBC is going to make them into TV series.

[thedude]

My films!!! They would rock....actually they would be emotive, grand epics that stir the soul and the heart.

I wouldn't mind seeing something done with Preacher too.