Top Ten Tuesday (26)
Top Ten Tuesdays is a meme hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. This week we are listing
Top Ten Books You’d Like To See Made Into A Movie
1. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld: An exciting read that would fit right into the dystopian craze.
2. Camille by Alexandre Dumas fils: An often over-looked classic romance.
3. The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale: One of my favorite fairy tale retellings.
4. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale: A great story with a spunky protagonist.
5. The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine: My second favorite of her books after Ella Enchanted.
6. Pat of Silver Bush by L. M. Montgomery: Less well known than Anne or Emily but still delightful. I love Hilary!
7. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien: A difficult task, but at least some of the stories could be adapted.
8. Divergent by Veronica Roth: This will probably happen.
9. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern: Again, difficult, but it would be beautiful.
10. My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok: The Chosen is a movie, so I picked this one!
Posted on 05/01/2012, in Memes and tagged TTT. Bookmark the permalink. 30 Comments.
The Goose Girl would be interesting. Divergent made my top ten list as well. What can we say? ;o) Great List. My Top Ten Books to Movies!
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I love Shannon Hale’s books! I think any of them would make a great movie. Thanks for stopping by!
oooh The Night Circus would be absolutely amazing. And I want Divergent SO bad. I am in love with your list. So many good ones. Happy Insurgent release day!
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Thanks! Sadly I won’t be reading Insurgent for a couple weeks. (End of the semester workload in the way. sigh)
I just saw on someone else’s list that they are turning the Uglies series into a movie! It would be interesting, and I’d love to see how they create all the settings (specifically The Smoke). And while I haven’t read Night Circus yet, if they could make a movie as beautiful as the cover, I’d see it!
That’s great! I read on Westerfeld’s blog awhile ago that Uglies had been optioned, but I admit I haven’t been following the updates. It’s so exciting it’s actually going to happen (but I think it was a safe bet since The Hunger Games was so huge!).
I *almost* put Uglies on my list. I think I would love it, but also I’m worried about them doing too much of a Hunger Games spin since that’s the recent dystopian movie. There’s so much potential to get that one wrong.
Several people have put The Night Circus, and I’m wishing now I’d thought of that one. It’s written so beautifully with so much description that I think it would make a perfect, almost artsy, film!
And Divergent? Well yes. I think almost everybody has that one, but give us some time and we’ll get the following big as Hunger Games and they *will* make a movie, right? =P *crosses fingers desperately*
Interesting. I think Uglies is actually very different from The Hunger Games–in terms of concept, plot, characters, and setting–that it shouldn’t be too much of an issue.
Exactly! I was thinking artsy film, not necessarily summer blockbuster! But it would still do well people so many people like the book.
I think I’ve read there’s already really strong interest in a movie for Divergent, so I am very hopeful! HarperColins has also done amazing marketing for Insurgent.
I just read on tumblr that Divergent will be a movie in 2015, but I’m not sure if it’s true.
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I’ve been seeing hints about official interest in a movie for awhile, so it’s quite likely! I’ll have to look into it!
Totally agree with Divergent. Awesome list!
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AHh I had The Night Circus on my list as well!! It would have to be done really well though because it was so awesome in my head :]
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Yes! I think it would be beautiful if done correctly, but it would be easy to mess up quite badly!
You know, I’m actually surprised The Uglies ISN’T a movie yet!
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That’s true, They are fairly popular!
I love that we both had Uglies and Divergent on our lists. Divergent has been optioned so hopefully that will come to fruition! And yeah, Uglies is apparently in pre-production with a screenplay already written (or being written) and the effects team Lola will not only be doing the special effects, but they’ll be the production company as well (or so I’m told). I loved Lola’s work on other movies so I think they’ll really have some great effects in Uglies!
Great list, Briana!
That is so exciting! Now I just have to get Krysta to read the books!
I think this is the first time you’ve mentioned I should. ;D
I said they were really good. I thought that naturally implied you ought to read them.
Yeah, but I understood that meant I could read them sometime in the vague future. All of a sudden this sounds so much more pressing, like I have to read them before this rumored movie comes out.
I hadn’t thought of The Two Princesses of Bamarre, I’d imagine if done right it would be a very cute movie.
Yes, unlike the Ella Enchanted movie!
I liked the Ella Enchanted movie… as long as I forget that the book is just so much more awesome.
I actually enjoy the movie as a movie. I think it’s really fun. It just doesn’t have much in common with the book. So if I think of them as two separate stories, everything is good!
Silmarillion should be a television series!
That’s a good point! Now whom do we contact about doing this?
Well, not HBO because they’ll just turn it into a porno.
Oh dear. Are you referring to A Game of Thrones? Because I thought the book had its own moments of being one. It’s essentially the reason I haven’t watched the series. Otherwise, I think the story would be a much better show than it is a book because my second major problem is that the plot moves so slowly.
What you need is a friend telling you when to leave the room and then A Game of Thrones is actually really good. I guess you could say the plot is slow in the sense that some of the storylines are still in the exposition stage, but a decent amount of action happened overall. That being said, I would never watch the series as it’s airing because there is so much I just do not need to see. The show would be so much better without it. Plus, there’s no way to avoid it without someone warning you because there’s no build-up like you get in other shows. Scenes change and you’re immediately in the middle of awkwardness. Or one moment you think you’re innocently a ten-year-old kid sit next to a pond and the next moment your friend is yelling at you to look away. And most of this could be cut out and the plot wouldn’t suffer in any way.
So, yeah, I think you’d like the show, but I can’t warn you of the awkward moments because I didn’t see them and hence don’t really know where most of them are.
The goose girl! There are never enough fairytale retellings
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