Books that need to be films
A day after posting a list of the worst book-to-film adaptations, the A.V. Club has come up with a much more interesting and imaginative feature: 21 good books that need to be great films, like now.
The list consists of several recent literary hits – Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife – but there are also a lot of surprising, left-field choices, too, such as Don Rosa’s graphic novel The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck – which would indeed make an excellent kids flick – and David Rains Wallace’s based-on-a-true-story The Bonehunter’s Revenge, about two duelling 19th century paleontologists.
There’s also a bit of CanCon on the list, with Lydia Millet’s Oh Pure and Radiant Heart being nominated as potential material for Terry Gilliam, and Barbara Gowdy’s Mister Sandman as material for Tim Burton (!).
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