What happened to the film adaptation plans for pic rel (Lord of the Flies meets The Thing on crack)? Was it the animal abuse scenes?
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ITT: post books that doesn't have film adaptations, but should
The turtle scene is unadaptable unironically. The whole point of the story hinges on it too. Also the fact that you'd need at least 4 kid actors who can carry multiple scenes. I don't see it ever getting a half decent adaptation.
They would unironically ruin it
yeah, I guess that and the cat scene would have to be adapted out.
It would be neat to see some cool body horror and mutation on screen again though
glad to share senpai
What was the turtle scene? I remember the psychopath kid but not any turtle
there's a scene where two of the kids tries to kill a turtle for food, but it turns out to be way harder takes way longer to kill it than thought. Lovingly and distressingly described in detail for two or three pages
Oh wow, weird how I didn't remember that.
From wiki:
>In August 2019 Deadline reported that film rights to The Troop were optioned by James Wan’s Atomic Monster Productions. E.L. Katz has been named as director, while Wan and Michael Clear will serve as producers. Noah Gardner and Aidan Fitzgerald have been picked as the film's screenwriters.[5]
Yeah I suspect it'll just focus on the body horror and severely cut down the animal stuff. I also suspect it'll be terrible since child actors are almost always bad to mediocre.
If it works it could be a big hit a la It 2017 though, I'm surprised they haven't gotten around to making it yet
There's a lot of stuff they'd have to cut, or at least tone down a lot, there's also the chimp experiment scene, the scene where the psycho gets a boner while drowning a kitten, the scene where the psycho gets turned on psychologically torturing the other boys, the mutilation scenes... yeah maybe a movie adaptation won't be so easy to make after all
You can show edgy stuff it's just the fact that I don't think they have anyone talented enough to actually get it on screen. Especially these days where everything is a cgifest
Two of the boys find a turtle and think to kill it for meat.
they dont actually know how to cleanly dispatch an animal let alone a turtle because they're still in adolescence not the adults they see themselves as and end up mutilating it so badly they end up desperately trying to mercy kill it then bury it because they're so disgusted and traumatized they couldnt eat it anyway
It's quite a long scene and one of the most genuinely disturbing things I've read in fiction. Way worse than any of the Thing body horror for me.
There are some scenes in this book that could never be put on screen. Personally the true terror comes from not the gore and violence but the other ideas so if some scenes (scenes involving babies for example) got cut I wouldn't mind personally. Also I'm putting that book on my reading list, thanks OP.
sadly unadaptable
Oh frick. I’ve heard about this meme book from Cinemaphile. This is the schizo book where Stephen King and JK Rowling get kidnapped by a satanic cult and a kid has to save them.
CotC is absolute insanity.
Based
This would be extremely kino
Unfilmable. Would be impossible to do due to the meta twist
generally I am very much against any book I enjoy getting adapted in current year but pic related is actually perfect. a literally genderfluid black assassin prostitute and their white painter friend travel 5 magical realms in a quest to kill god and destroy the patriarchy.
speaking of Clive Barker: I'm still pissed HULU shat on pic rel
I don't know why they didn't do it yet. It's even more relevant than when it was written. It would have some really badass action scenes. I wish James Cameron would produce an adaptation or something
I read another book from this writer that was about a cult and some weird entity in the woods that kills and assimilates animals. So you get these disgusting creatures that are like a ball of various animal limbs and heads.
The book was ok, but ultimately didn't hold my attention that much and I didn't finish it. Is this one better?
I can't say I haven't read his other stuff. The Troop absolutely held my attention, I read it in one day
His books are kind of all like that but The Troop has more substance.
The deep is pretty good honestly. Takes place like 30 miles underwater in an underwater lab and there's only like 4 characters. The atmosphere is insane.
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Almost no books should have film adaptations. The mediums are just too different. Any book that lends to a 1:1 film adaptation and doesn't blow ass probably was a pretty weird book that didn't capitalize on that medium and likely should have been a screenplay in the first place. I'm ashamed to say that it took the mini-series adaptation of Pillars of the Earth to finally realize that most books should stay books and that adaptations are for people who never read. I'm a lot less disappointed now that I don't go in expecting film/tv adaptations of books to be anything but shit. Occasionally I'm pleasantly surprised but mostly I don't end up wasting my time.
Would love to see someone try
Stalker does not count
>stalker doesn't count
>posts the book cover that has a scene from stalker
arent you a clever boy
a clever clever boy
who's a clever boy?
you are!
I look like that lol
mite b cool if they upped the scifi nanomachine shit
Josephus' account of the siege of Jerusalem
The King in Yellow
A Canticle For Leibowitz