Books that should definetly be made into a movie

I think the gone series by Michael Grant should be made a movie

I love to see My Side of the Mountain made into a movie.

2 - It already is.

3 - Oh! Now I have to go track it down! Thanks for letting me know. :)

The Hunger Games, which already is in production, Unwind, which is being pitched to studios right now (without much success, last time I heard) and Divergent, the film rights of which have already been sold. I'm a pretty happy camper, really. =)

>5 girlfromshangrila Unwind looks quite interesting. Is the book one you'd recommend?

>6 Do I recommend it? Do I recommend it?! HECK YEAH!!

Ahem. Sorry. I think the little fangrrl in me had a tad too much candy this morning. =)

Seriously, though, Unwind is one of my favorite YA books and a compulsive re-read. It is so good it never ocurred me to think that you might not had read it, otherwise I would have recommended it sooner.

It has a slower pace than, say, The Hunger Games, but I find it has a lot more to offer, intellectually, than all the other YA lit out there. By all means, read it!

Will do, gfs. I'm glad I asked. I'll poke around downtown today and see if I can find it.

>8: Great! Crossing my fingers here. When you do find it and read it, please let me know what you think of it.

>9 I found it, girlfromshangrila. Thanks for the tip! I'll let you know.

=)

Definitely hoping to see Divergent played out on the big screen.

Rita Williams-Garcia's One Crazy Summer. I especially adore Delphine, of course, but I also get a great kick out of Fern with her doll Patty Cake, and even out of the boy-chasing drama queen Vonetta. And the book's dust jacket design is also just so out of this world!

The Adoration of Jenna Fox and The Boy at the End of the World!

Anything written by Melina Marchetta ought to be made into a movie. I know her first book, Looking for Alibrandi came out on film in Australia, and I think she's currently writing the screenplay for Jellicoe Road, but I don't know if it will be a movie that will be released worldwide. I think Saving Francesca and its sequel The Piper's Son could also work well.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox and Unwind. I wouldn't mind seeing them take a shot at filming Marcelo in the Real World.

>16 I'm with you!

I'd love to see a Marcelo in the Real World movie, too. Such a great book.

Another favourite from a few years ago, My Most Excellent Year, would also work well on the screen.

I'd love to see someone else get the rights to Chronicles of Narnia and redo the movies so they stick to the books. Of the recent remakes, the first was good, but after that they went from taking artistic license to just naming the movie after the book and keeping the basic idea.

I Loved Divergent!!!!!!!

Agree with you, DeusExLibrus! Though I loved the Narnia movies and they touched me in ways that the books didn't at times, I have had to treat them as entities to themselves, like... fanfiction or fanmovies or ... whatever you want to call it.

I would love to turn The Telling Pool into a play. Not a movie, a play. I sit and read it and I can see it all happening in my mind, right up on a stage.

Right now I'm reading The Golden Goblet and that has had me thinking that with the Mummy out for adults, there must be an Egyptian story that can be made for kids that's as good and entertaining. Doesn't have to be this one, I'm just saying it should be done. :)

21>> "an Egyptian story that can be made for kids"

I'm not sure whether this qualifies (it's fantasy, not historical fiction), but what about Rick Riordan's new Kane Chronicles? Personally, I don't care for it as much as Percy Jackson (mainly because I love Clarisse LaRue), but still, Sadie does have a snarky tone to her. Another advantage is that Sadie and Carter are mixed race children, which is something we don't usually see in the mass media.

22> Haven't gotten to that series yet since I've had piles of early review and member givaways to read.. I left a lot of things in the dust. :p It's still near the top of my pile.

How about City of Thieves? I liked it very much, and I think the author is a screenplay writer himself.

Or are there enough Nazi-regime-survivor films out there already?