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I would love to see Dan Brown's Inferno made into a movie. I love his books and thought Tom Hanks was fantastic as Langdon.
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SeaNymph wrote:I would love to watch The Black Jewels Trilogy turned into a movie, or a series of movies. I am sure a movie can't reach the depths of the books but I would love to see all the handsome men of these books on screen.
YES! If they can make a 50 Shades of Grey movie, then they can definitely make some Anne Bishop movies. I would even enjoy some of her shorter stories or the Shadow Queen books.
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"A Great and Terrible Beauty" by Libba Bray. That could be incredible. I would love to see that.
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I would have to say The Outlander series.
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I would love to see the wheel of time books made into a movie (or, more practically, a tv show or animation). It frustrates me that books like Game of thrones (which are long, drawn out and often tedious) get made into a great show, but wheel of time has been left out.
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I think The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion would be a good romantic comedy.
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I know it already was a movie but I would like to see a re-make of Fahrenheit 451. It's definitely one of my favorite books. I think I'd also like to see An Abundance of Katherine's or Looking for Alaska. I think that because The Fault in our Stars is getting a movie they should too.
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haines_drew wrote:I know it already was a movie but I would like to see a re-make of Fahrenheit 451. It's definitely one of my favorite books. I think I'd also like to see An Abundance of Katherine's or Looking for Alaska. I think that because The Fault in our Stars is getting a movie they should too.
I agree, I think a remake of Fahrenheit 451 would be a good one; that is a good story. Although it might end up too Hollywood-ized today, come to think of it. :?
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None! i really believe that turning books into movies lowers their value.
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Sonia Galloway wrote:Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series (time travel)
I am surprised this isn't already a movie. I haven't read it, but i have heard so much about it.

I recently finished the Star-crossed series by Rachel Higginson. I would love to see that ad a movie. I have been waiting awhile for Colleen Houck's Tiger's Cursor to come to the big screen.
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Favorite childhood book and deserves a movie.
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I would absolutely LOVE to see Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes made into a movie. There was talk awhile back but it all just kind of died down.
Also, Splintered by A.G. Howard though for that I would like to learn how to make movies myself. Unless Tim Burton did it, he could probably do it justice.
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Matched by Allie Connie oh that would be the best movie but i am afraid that because it is not too popular it would not be very popular
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Id like to see tham make a movie of a book Im reading now, Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard. Its the sequel to King Solomons Mines. They could combine the two films or make two movies from it. The books are loaded with epic battle scenes, exciting life and death situations and I think it would make a great film, maybe done by Peter Jackson in the same style as LOTR.
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