Adaptation Thread

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>>7537058
haha bad

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>Netflix original miniseries
>directed by Edgar Wright
>adapted into screenplay by Charlie Kaufman and Dan Harmon
>Mike Birbiglia as Tyrone Slothrop
>John Mulaney as Roger Mexico
>Hannibal Buress as Oberst Enzian
>Alison Brie as Katje Borgesius
>Bill Hader as Captain Blicero

The book is always better than the movie.

Proof: The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, The Life of Pi, Lord of the Rings, The Divergent Series... the list goes on.

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>>7537116
Had something similar in mind.

>miniseries (Netflix/HBO/whatever)
>directed by Edgar Wright
>Eddie Marsan as Mason
>Paddy Considine as Dixon
>Zombie Philip Seymour Hoffman as Rev. Cherrycoke

>>7537121
Counterargument: Fight Club, The Godfather, Dr. Strangelove, The Mist, The Graduate.

>>7537058
"No milkshakes exist without my consent"

>>7537121
A Man Escaped
2001
Shining
There will be blood (Oil! is great tough)
Beauty and the beast (Cocteau)
Nosferatu
These are just the first exemples that spawned in my mind

>>7537141
Jaws and Bladerunner too.

>>7537149
>that spawned in my mind

MASTER AND MARGERITA WHEN

>>7537058
>are you a member of the VARSITY SCALP TEAM?

>>7537030
tips fedora

>>7537133
PSH as Cherrycoke is an excellent idea anon, thumbs up from me

>>7537030
dear god, don't put vince vaughn in anything that's meant to be serious

There's no reason to want a film adaptation of a novel unless you're a film exec wanting some easy $

>>7537030
>arr rook same
But for real, choosing vince for anything

>>7537767
What about the psycho remake? He was great in that

>>7537767
>>7537792
Into the trash you go!

But seriously, he'd be perfect for Bondurant. Have either of you read AT?

>>7537058
How would anyone adapt the ending while keeping the kid's fate ambiguous?

>>7537797
>>7537811
Sure guys. He's got real range.

>>7537030
eh, don quixote played by Goodman.

devito plays sancho panza.

directed by woody allen.

>>7537159
I'm dying

>>7537783
So how exactly is this supposed to work when Bale is older than Gyllenhaal? nevermind the fact that Kubrick's dead.

>>7537058
No.

>>7537058
Everything aspect of this is wrong.

>>7537783
Terrible.

>>7538463
Whos the actress?

>>7538488
Lillian Gish as the Montag

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Does non-fiction count?

>>7537133
I would like to see them do a "prestige" version of this like the John Adams miniseries, but with all the crazy humor in tact. I feel like it would lose something if some very self-aware, hip, "young people's" director like Edgar Wright did it.

>>7537183
IT ALREADY EXIST, YOU UNCULTURED SWINE.

>>7537183
Directed by Gilliam

Steve Buscemi's gotta be the voice of Behemoth

>>7537030
Not too bad, but I see Pete being a bit more of a hulking goon.

>>7539409
Have you not seen Vince next to other actors? He may not be jacked, but he's like 6'5". I can definitely see him filling the menacing, overshadowing bruiser role.

>>7539142

If got some bad news for you...

>>7538349
It's almost like it isn't imaginary!

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don't pretend you wouldn't watch :)

>>7537201

This is pretty much perfect. Maybe not Di-Caprio for Villefort though, but I can't think of someone better. I don't think he would play Villeforts moral dillemmas well enough. Di Caprio tends to go for over the "committed to one idea" type guys, he doesn't do uncertainty well.

>>7539601
Yeah I did that one back a few years ago. And it's such perfect casting if that movie wasn't in production hell for all these last several years.

>>7539836

God why can't someone make this. pls.

>>7539409
>>7539559
Yeah Vince is 100% a big boy 4u. His height doesn't come across here because the other dude is pretty tall, but this is pretty much how I imagine Pete:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwcwbe3By54

>>7539836
>dwarf lomax

I was thinking someone like Ian mckellen but dress hipped and all eccentric

>>7539142
i'd love to see this

>>7539948
kek'd

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This directed by Fincher. Michael Shannon as Rorschach.

>>7537133
>>7537116
Why Edgar Wright? I know he was keen on Inherent Vice but apart from that, has he shown interest in adapting work like Pynchon?

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> Terry Gilliam won't ever finish adapting Don Quixote

This saddens me so much, especially that he's tries so many times to get the project running.

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Directed by Peter Jackson
Emma Stone as Rei
James Blunt as Asuka
Pussy Faggot as Pussy Faggot
James Joyce as Nicole Kidman
Wank Wank Wank Ass

Brendan Gleeson was meant to be adapting At Swim-Two-Birds with himself, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Fassbender, Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy in starring roles which sounds great (although I have no idea how one would even go about adapting it). Unfortunately it seems to be stuck in development hell and won't see any forward movement for quite some time. Fingers crossed though...

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What work would you like to see him adapt?

>>7537767
He plays a good sociopath, to be fair. I'm actually surprised he's not playing complete sociopaths in every role he's cast for.

>>7540334

War and Peace.

>>7540334
Warhammer 40k
Or regular Warhammer

>>7540364

War and Peace 2: Total War

After I saw Chandler in Carol, I'm convinced I never want to see him act again.

>>7539836
Dinklage would be bretty good Lomax t b h l a d
a bit skeptical about spacey though, not that i don't like his work or anything.

>>7540395
Haven't seen Carol, but he's great in Bloodline. One of the best performances of the decade thus far on TV and in general.

>>7540334
Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea

>>7540410
this would actually be perfect

>>7537030
Source: Catcher in The Rye
Director: Tommy Wiseau
Cast: Tommy Wiseau as Holden Caulfield

>>7537851

Close up of the reactions of the onlookers, cut to title.

E-z mode breh.

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>>7539142
>not casting Ed Harris

>>7539836
>RJ Mitt
>Kevin Spacey
>Peter Dinklage
Adaptation when?

I'm retarded and don't know how to MS Paint

>Steppenwolf
>David Lynch
>Joaquin Phoenix as Harry Haller
Just imagine the theater scenes in Lynch's hands

>>7539587
Why would you want to adapt a shitty book by a genius, oh, wait, he did it a few times

>>7540310
It would be close to A cock and bull story I think. Kaufman could pull it off tho

>>7539142
Perfect, anon.

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>>7537030
Won't happen for obvious reasons, but I'd still love to watch it.

>>7540542
Yeah you know what? Ed Harris does sound good or Willem Dafoe, my other choice.

>>7540509
That's good, but I the only person who can play Holden is Paul Giamatti. They just need to CGI him so he looks like a young person. It would be wonky as fuck, but delightful.

>>7540410
Who's that wench?

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>>7541001
Nigga you don't know Sarah Silverman?

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>>7541009
I should have bumped with a ahem better picture.

>>7540979
Or just keep him old, while all the characters pretend he's a teenager.

>>7541015
Yeah, it is a story of a war veteran returning to home, after all

>>7541013
5'7", she's a fucking midget brah

>>7541197
Oh sweet, she's my height.

>>7540410
>The Jim Belushi adaptation will never be made

>>7537116
Paul Thomas Anderson or no one. Also Slothrop simply has to be John C. Reilly.

I just want David Lynch to adapt Invitation to a Beheading tbqh.

>>7541223
>But neither will the Will Ferrell version

>>7539601
CGI Hoffman

>>7539948
Villefort is a "committed to one idea" type of guy, though. That's like his entire character after he fucks Edmond over.

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robert mitchum and oliver reed would've been great judges but peter stormare will have to do

martin mccann as the kid

>>7541217
YOU'RE TEARING ME APART FREDO!

>>7537116
>Hannibal Buress as Oberst Enzian
>Hannibal Buress as Oberst Enzian
>Hannibal Buress as Oberst Enzian

my sides cannot be described right now
Fund it.

>>7541347
Bald Ryan Gosling would make a great Judge imo

>>7541385
>I did not hit her
>I did not hit her
>I did not...

>Oh hi Sonny.

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>>7540751
>shitty book

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What do you guys think?

>>7541974
Dude, Orson would never work as Leopold. Leopold is supposed to be a plain unremarkable motherfucker.

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>>7541347
>>7541653

Consensus on /tv/ is that Vincent D'Onofrio would be the best of all possible judges.

>>7542249
and Adam Sandler in drag as Grushenka.

>>7539836
arfonsky is a hack one of the worst directors allowed to make movies today your actors are okay though

>>7538608
Holy fuck, is that the director of the deer hunter?

>>7537116
jesus christ my sides

>>7537121
the divergent series?
1/n ?

>>7541347
>the return
>leviathan
why would you leave out his best movie elena?

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>>7540751
>Kubrick
>genius

>>7537116
>Charlie Kaufman and Dan Harmon

struggling to know if satirical

>>7538463
i reckon orson welles, and the actor who plays norman bates in psycho could pull this off

>>7540410
Igniatus looks too well adjusted, otherwise well chosen

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You know it could be great.

>>7542607
>A Clockwork Orange
>Fear and Desire
>2001: A Space Odyssey
>Not genius
Back to reddit you go

>>7543216
"no"

>>7543224
>>A Clockwork Orange
>>Fear and Desire
>>2001: A Space Odyssey
hello reddit!

>>7543224
Literally imdb tier.

>>7543237
>>7543233

pretending kubrick is a bad director is the same kind of pleb shit where people come here and declare salinger is trash because they read it in high school and didn't like it

>>7542249
please let this happen

>>7543242
I'm not saying he's bad, he's just not great or even particularly good.

>>7543266
>pretending kubrick is a bad director is the same kind of pleb shit where people come here and declare salinger is trash because they read it in high school and didn't like it

>>7543242
>>7543269
>Salinger
>not trash

back to high school kid :)

>>7543271
lol xd

>>7537147
wrong director

>>7537030
>Shitposters: "No book should ever be adapted! Cinema is a terrible medium!" There, I said it for you.

I would addend: no book should ever be adapted, EXCEPT as an anime.

Go ahead. Hate me.

>>7543224
2001 and Barry Lyndon were very, very good films, but A Clockwork Orange? Fear and Desire? Really? Those films are garbage.

>>7541974

>hoy de hoy i'm an amuuuurikan doing an ooooooooirish accent m'boy

>>7544254
That's how Irish people sound though.

>oi yous guys oi's strollin pass dublin ind i seen a pub. opefully it gawt sum ginness n aint filled wid knackers, ye?

>>7544286
Shhh you're embarrassing yourself

>>7543216
>Ridley Scott

Into le trash receptacle

>>7539836
RH is a terrible actor.

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>>7540373
>Warhammer 40k
YES. FUCKING YES!!!

But it should look as good or better than this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjaYW5Cnr5k