"Unfilmable"

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Though it would be an awesome opportunity for mind blowing visuals the parabolic nature of the narratives would no doubt be butchered.

>>82023626
Dune

>>82023713

The first three Dunes are doable (and the Syfy miniseries were a good attempt), It's God Emperor of Dune that's unfilmable.

How is Blood Meridian unfilmable?

>>82023626


Planescape: Torment.

Fight me.

>>82023626
I'm not familiar with the book why is this considered unfilmable?

>>82023626
Snow Crash has been called that.

>>82023626
The Colour Out of Space

>>82023626
Fuck unfilmable, that book's unreadable.

Welcome to /tv/, /lit/. Where can I buy the book with this cover?

>>82023626
Crossed. It's edgy and obscenely violent.

At the mountains of madness
Always been talked about but I feel you can never truly get cosmic horror down correctly unless you truly put care into the effects

>>82023793
has a kiddy diddler/killer as a main character

Also, said kiddy diddler/killer is:
>7' tall
>completely hairless
>takes ears to wear on a necklace

thats just all i can think of atm

>>82023928
Sounds filmable just not fundable

>>82023928
He also has to be played by a top tier actor for it to work.

>>82023953
Problem with "The Judge" (that character) is you need a tall hulking actor that at the same time is as eloquent as Shakespeare.

>>82023626
"Blood Meridian is unfilmable" is a meme

>>82023928
>>82023962

So Ralph Fiennes in layers of makeup again

>>82023928
That's not unfilmable

>>82023694
THIS. Holy fuck. If done correctly this could be the tits. But yeah, I doubt anyone would be able to adapt it correctly.

>>82023928
Edgy

Neon Genesis is literally unfilmable

>>82024027
cast elijah woods or harry potter as the kid to make him look tall

>>82023850
That seems like one of the more filmable Lovecraft though. Aside from how we see his wife when dude opens the attic door it all seems pretty straightforward. I really wish someone would do this, just reread it a few weeks ago, so good.

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>>82024119
It would be very expensive but we've got the cgi capability to do mechs and to do weird ass ugly monsters. The biggest wall would be getting 14 year olds to be convincing actors and letting them have sexual thoughts.

>>82023853
Nice third grade reading level bro

House of Leaves. True bookkino.

>>82023953
-There was a tree with a dozen dead babies strung up by gaping holes in their jaws.

-There was a slaughter that included rape, scalping, and dashing babies against rocks as their brains splattered.

-Delawares were hung upside down and their brains boiled in their skulls.

-Puppies are thrown into a river and used as target practice.

-Indians attack a group of men and sodomize them, pull their intestines out and adorn themselves in their body parts.

-A retarded pederast is kept on a leash and used to sniff out the main character.

-the Judge rapes a little boy and then scalps the dead body.

There's plenty of other heinous shit as well.

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>>82024219
Is blood meridian like the dark souls of books? What is the purpose of this grotesque shit?

>>82024219
I'm literally diamond hard right now

>>82024219
Lol, who the fuck is reading this edgefest. Sounds like something from 16 year old social outcast

>>82024202
No, I think this is film able, it's just that the author doesn't want to give up the rights because he knows Hollywood would probably rape it into a PG-13 suck a thon

>>82024219
Is it just edgy shit or is there any substance to it

>>82023694
Thank you.
I "promoted" Gene Wolfe a lot, it hurts me you didn't got response of any kind.
Also, I would add Dan Simmons and Hyperion/Endymion quadrology.

>>82024202
This and MGS2 are actual examples of media that are unfilmable, They do things only their medium can. Blood Meridian is just really violent. That's it.

>>82024174
this

it would be a less cheesy Pacific Rim with teenagers. And weird ass creatures instead of simple kaijus. and bunch of symbolism nonsense of course

it is filmable

>>82024247
>>82024269
>>82024251
The prose was incredible and the themes have incredible depth. Cormac is a legend.

>>82024269
that's the thing, when reading it, it doesn't come across as edgy in the slightest. There is loads of substance to it and everything serves a purpose.

>>82023793

you could easily make a movie that follows the plot of the book with the same characters, etc., but 90% of the book's greatness is its prose--that is, it's not so much what happens as how those events are described that makes it good. it isn't really possible to recreate this in a film, since it's just a different medium

for example, a passage like this:

>All night sheetlightning quaked sourceless to the west beyond the midnight thunderheads, making a bluish day of the distant desert, the mountains on the sudden skyline stark and black and livid like a land of some other order out there whose true geology was not stone but fear.

would just be some mountains with a thunderstorm above

or this

>They rode out on the north road as would parties bound for El Paso but before they were even quite out of sight of the city they had turned their tragic mounts to the west and they rode infatuate and half fond toward the red demise of that day, toward the evening lands and the distant pandemonium of the sun.

would just be some cowboys riding into the sunset

>>82024251
>>82024269
It appears edgier when you read it out of the book's context. It's presented in a sort of poetic way within the novel, and it's basically just a fictional account of a few people who were apparently real and did shit like this. Wild West, but actually fucking Wild

>>82023626
you having sex with a woman is unfilmable
because it never happens

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>>82024219
neato

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>>82024337
rude

>>82024307
So you're saying I should buy the English version? (I'm not in a native English speaking country) I imagine a lot would be lost in translation

>>82024307
Well, no shit. But you just prove that that's filmable

>>82024337
NO bully

>>82024359
yes for the love of god

>>82024337
OP here, kek'd

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>>82024251
>>82024269
>Calling McCarthy's masterpiece an edgefest
holy shit, go neck yourself

Can't finish it because the author is so up his own ass he refuses to use grammar.

And he decides to use 2nd century words to describe terms like saddle.
Fucker is annoying

>>82024219
All of these are filmable but just not worth it financially.

>>82024246
>>82024251

harold bloom has a good essay about how the violence is not merely exploitative and how the book is a proper artistic achievement (rather than merely a gory edgefest), if you are genuinely interested

>>82023928
The Swede from Hell on Wheels would make a great Judge

>>82024415
harold bloom thinks the book is about gun control

he's a dumbass

>>82024397
This. The prose is too, I dunno, "literary" for my taste. Just can't get into it. Give me Elmore Leonard any day.

>>82024326
Exactly. Shit like this happened in spades.

Silmarillion

>>82024449
try giving The Crying of Lot 49 a go

>>82024394
Masterpiece of edginess

>>82023626
I can only see it working as a high budget miniseries. So much shit happens in that book that I have no idea how they would condense it to a movie

>>82024307
Fuck that's awful writing.

>>82024436

that's a pretty simplistic reading of bloom

>>82024474
Yeah, no thanks. I've read three other novels by Pynchon and the only one I kind of liked was Mason & Dixon. Not for me.

>>82023626
>Ridley Scott tried
what?

>>82024219
Reddit as fuck

>>82024497
he stated it himself on national tv

>>82024397
>>82024449

people on /tv/ have no idea what you're talking about, go back to /lit/ with your shitty bait

>>82024498
You like Faulkner?

>>82024500
It's actually really well done. A lot of the skill is in how Cormac makes the Judge seems reasonable in his actions. He almost seems like a good guy until a certain turn of events that I won't spoil.

>>82024499
Yep. And James Franco too. Which would have fucking sucked.

>implying this virtue signaling alt-right cuckboard wouldn't be crying about how the Judge, white person, is so cruel and evil

I wish they'd make a movie version of the game "Guess Who?" which could tackle the serious issue of racial profiling and unreliability of eye-witnesses.

>>82024494

it's not to everyone's taste but you might like it more in context. overall, the book's prose is widely regarded as some of the best in English literature

>>82023790
I agree ,Nameless One is cool character but those dreadlocks, Morte,Fall-From-Grace, they can't work in relatively serious movie,
honestly, I would rather(theoretically speaking) gave ecranisation to Monty Python or something similar.
It could work only as over the top parody on human situation and futility of ones life.
But whole Planescape universe is really interesting (visually&lore wise) despite Torment and it jumps off highly from whole ad&d jazz.
Also, they made 2 ad&d movies I wish they didn't.

>>82024359
That depends really how good you are at English. It can be a rather heavy read, even for those who are native English speakers. I'm not and I read it in English and it was easily some of the toughest fiction I've ever come across. I've read parts of a local translation and it's still the same book, just with old words in my language instead of English.

>>82024494
>mccarthy is universally sucked off for his prose
>/tv/ user who reads 2 lines out of context from his work knows better
of course.

>>82024650
Even Bloom hated Blood Meridian, the appreciation for the novel changed when Bloom stopped hating it, lol.

I can see how some might consider it shit, it's an acquired taste.

>>82024634
Even the title is making me confused, I have no idea what's it trying to convey

>>82024415
Who is bloom and why would his essay be of any relevance for that book?
Also,I didn't read this book, is it generic Tolkien clone with gimmick(hero is a bad guy&gore in this case)???

>Who is Bloom
God the uncultured swine on this board.

>>82024415
>muh desensitization to violence.
>muh allegory of US expansion
deep as fukk

>>82024650
I don't like that baroqueish prose. It's just an exercise in jerking off. Tell the story and get the fuck out of the way.

>>82024718
A meridian is a circle of longitude. It basically means a very bloody stretch of land.

>>82024718
And the evening redness in the west refers to the heavy bloodshed in the west.

>>82024763
Don't read literature than and stick to cinema

>>82024718

What >>82024764 said.

Essentially the "blood meridian" is some kind of border The Kid crosses into the madness of the borderlands where they hunt the Apaches.

>>82024719

bloom is a professor at yale and a shakespeare scholar, noted for his reverence for and defense of the western literary canon

blood meridian is not a fantasy novel like tolkien; it is about a band of cowboys and mercenaries hired to kill natives along the us/mexico border in the mid/late 1800s, very loosely based on real events

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>>82024763
Wouldn't expect any less from a "cinephile"

>>82024219
More like Edge Meridian, amrite?

>>82024782
I read it more like the book is "the end" of the western genre. There is no glorifying of the classic western ideals of Manifest Destiny etc. This is brutal and savage in the extreme, there is no heroic push for civilization here. Everyone, whether American, Mexican or Indian, is equally violent here.

>>82024792
oh fuck off
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/07/a-readers-manifesto/302270/

>>82024650
literally just the eye of argon minus typos

>>82024868
Wow, that's embarassing. That's why amerifats considered stupidiest nation in the world

>>82024865
The epilogue is actually the fencing up of the western frontier. Pretty deep stuff.

>>82024763
>it's a story pleb poster episode
yawn

>>82024868
>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/07/a-readers-manifesto/302270/

but he doesn't criticize blood meridian's prose, he only complains that its depiction of native americans is offensive. his complaints are about mccarthy's other books

>>82023985
Tom Hardy.

>>82024970
Not even he's big enough of a guy for that role.

>>82024970
Tall

>>82024993
4u

>>82024494
Here's your (you)

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>>82023626
Could it be done?

>>82024307
I agree with you, had similar discussion here where I tried to explain(I'm not such good writer and not native eng.lang.) that
:"And those armies clashed in a sea of red iron , millions of soldiers came from sea,land and air in their vehicles of war that gave false sense of security, floor was slippery from liquid of life and in some places body piles were so high our hero used it as an shelter while manically trying to keep fire on hordes of ongoing bloodbags, nearby city was totally devastated and huge colone of frightened people ran for etc,blah,blah....."
Now, this is just one sentence and costs 000000.1¢ in ink but try to recreate it(like, make an epic war scene because book is filled with shitload of small conflicts) cost millions .

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Nothing is un-filmable for the master of Kino.

Based Snyder for Blood Meridian

>>82024742
Not knowing about some Yale educator while not being Ameritard is a huge gap in my knowledge/ culture ,
not native English speaker....

>>82024742
Bloom is to literature what a reviewer is to movies, basically useless and used to control the plebs.

>>82024251
It's a great American novel you halfwit

>>82024494
Do better dumbshit

>>82024219
omg the poor innocent injuns would have never done things like this :(

>>82025547
>dragging your social agenda into unrelated things
you think you are fighting the SJW cancer, but you are the cancer.

>>82024219
Book sounds fucking retarded. Edgy as shit.
Truly a dreck

>>82023626
Thomas Pynchon

>>82024295

DUDE POST-APOCALYPTIC VIOLENCE AND MEME PUNCTUATION LMAO

>>82024270
My niggas

>>82023626
I don't see why people say Blood Meridian is unfilmable. It definitely could be and still probably be a pretty decent film, but I don't think it should ever be attempted. I can't think of anyone that could do it justice.

>>82023626
>which is pretty much universally called unfilmable.

Only because of the gay ass MPAA being a bunch of fucking gaylords threatening NC-17 ratings to anyone who wants to make their gay little film based off a gay book.

>>82024816
No, not really.

>>82025903
That's The Road, shitflicker.

>>82024816
the thing about the novel is that the majority of it is based on actual events. Glanton's gang did exist and they did scalp a ton of people, the ferry massacre did happen. McCarthy did a ridiculous amount of research into the post Mexican War Southwest in order to find this stuff.
And while the exploration of man's tendency toward violence is definitely a central part of the novel, it's not the sole reason it's read.
Calling it edgy is like calling A Clockwork Orange or even Heart of Darkness edgy. If you look at plot points devoid of context yeah there's violent stuff, but the way it fits into the whole is pretty spectacular.

>>82026159
Good post, fantastic book. The part where Judge Holden carries the Howitzer canon and the Yumas back the fuck off was great. Didn't they bust in on him with a naked kid in his room?

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>>82023626
Naked Lunch.
I used to have the Criterion Collection on DVD but it got stolen. Cronenberg's version isn't the book, though. It's the writing of the book with parts of the book woven in.
I supposed an animated version could be pulled off with a heavy dose of voice-over.

>>82026232
From what I remember.
The prose and the Judge are definitely what make me never want to see the book made into a movie. They couldn't do it justice and it'd just be a hollywood western.

>>82023626
>Cormac McCarthzy
what?

>>82026355
I'm pretty sure it's fan art.

>>82023850
>>82024155

I thought that the HP Lovecraft Historical society already did this as a film. Or maybe it was some German outfit... I can't quite remember off-hand.

Ah!
Here's the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqbYOs_sE20

>>82024560
James Franco actually shot 20 minute footage. The guy who demands money from the Dude and shoves his head in the toilet in the beginning of the Big Lebowski plays the Judge kek

>>82023962
>>82024027
>>82023985

For some reason, Vincent D'Onofrio comes to mind, but he may be too short (God knows he's fat enough, now).

>>82026461
>Judge kek
I don't remember this character.

>>82023905
Thats not "unfilmable" its just bad taste.

>>82024270
what kind of promoting were you doing anon?

I think most of Crossed is infilmable too, at least they can do Crossed: Wish You Were Here, but most of it, I dont think people would choose to watch or even act.

>all these illiterate underage in this thread

/tv/ ladies and gentlemen

>>82024415
>harold bloom
stopped reading there

>all these "edgy shit" replies
Holy shit. This board is a lost cause.

Confederacy of Dunces.
It's not that it would be impossible to make, but nobody would watch it. Tv series would be nice.

>>82023928
But The Kid is the MC, Holden is the antagonist anon.

>>82024419
>The Swede from Hell on Wheels
without having seen that show I'm 90% sure he's heavily inspired by Judge Holden

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>>82025627
>>82024816
>>82024500
>>82024251
Fucking pussies. Blood Meridian is probably the only "realistic" Western I've ever read because it shows the absolute savagery of the indians and the cowboys/settlers.
If you can't stomach it, you will never understand the american culture of violence.

I think Inarritu could do it. Maybe Malick but I'm not sure how he would handle the violence.

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Would it be possible?

>>82025044
Nothing greg egan wites could be adapted to film, simply because the topics and concepts he uses in his stories are beyond 90% of people.

Literally 2smart4u

>>82030079
Directed by George Miller.

>>82023694
I'd love to see that. And it wouldn't have to include the unreliable narrator, I'd like to see an adaptation made by a good director with his own vision on the book.

>>82029807
>Blood Meridian
>Realistic
Umm no sweetie the west was actually insanely boring.

The legendary Fight of OK Corral was literally 3 deaths.

Shit happened of course but it was really few and far between.

I think Philip K Dick's Ubik is unfilmable at least in a true adaptation sense.

It would have to have a ton of dialogue like Blade Runner did, but this time to explain a far distant Sci-Fi world of Magical ESP humans. It would also have to have a lot of physical comedy like the early on scene with Joe Chip dealing with his insane apartment that the "Libertarian Police" short story straight up ripped off.

>>82024494
It's just pulp fiction, buy at a airport kiosk if you don't have any real prose with you. People here from reddit celebrate superhero movies, corporate rock and cheap kitsch literature.

>>82023764
Too long and the power of the novel came from the prose rather than anything else.

>>82025074
>blood meridian in not-black and white with digital zooms for the gunfights

>>82028488
>filming a published shitpost

>>82030578
>300 pages is too long

half the book is them riding through the desert

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>>82023626
I honestly think Watchmen is unadaptable ans Snyder did as good a job as any film could. The whole point of the comic is to utilise the medium to its full capability, Moore himself said that comics shouldn't just be still films because they'll forever be inferior.

>>82030267
I bet you know all about the west, since you were there and all. Have you ever read about the fucking Glanton gang?

>>82023713
>>82023746
Denis Villesomething is doing it after Blade Runner.

>>82023764
Gratuitous puppy/animal violence
and this >>82030578

>>82030267
Hold up guys we got a History Channel expert in here.

>>82032590
he'll also do Chase Meridian, mark my words

>>82024359
Unless you can't speak the language, ALWAYS get books on the writers native language. The difference is incredible.

>no Gravity's Rainbow

>>82030357
Ubik was Dick's one of weakest books imo.

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>“In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship.”

>>82023928
Nigga, you got the book wrong.

>>82030357
ubik and three stigmata are both completely unfilmable

>>82024270
I don't know man, maybe a 8 part hbo mini series for the first book.

probably no one could do blood meridian justice but if anyone tried i think the coen brothers might do an okay job, given how well they did with 'no country for old men.' granted they are pretty different books and i don't know if they'd be interested in doing another mccarthy book

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>>82023626
Epistolary novels are in general hard to adapt, this goes double for WhatsApp-ing spaceship AIs.

It pisses me off that genre fans argue about minutiae of plot and never twig to the form.

>>82033491
Id like to see Gilliam or Gondry tackle three stigmata. They could both manage the complete change of setting mid stream of consciousness thing.

>>82024494
I thought so too anon. These plebs can't recognize actually good prose.

>>82024307
Fedora-tier as fuck.

>>82033990

see >>82024650

>>82023626
Moby Dick, despite having a metric shitload of cinematic adaptations is pretty much unfilmable.
Every adaptation is the first and last 50 pages, and the sharks in the middle and leaves out all of the metaphysical meditations that make the book the cornerstone of American literature.

>>82033421
>on the terrain, all the features were equal in their majesty.
FFS CORMAC. KEEP IT SIMPLE FOR THE /tv/ PLEBS.

>>82034021
>everyone likes it so it's good!

You realize how absolutely retarded the general populace is right? Look at literally any form of media, film, music, videogames etcetera. What do all of the most popular and highest selling series have in common? They're shit for plebs. They play it safe, and a lot of times they exude psuedo-intellectualism in order to make plebs that "fucking love science" feel smart. Why would books be any different? If you want good prose read Lolita, No Longer Human, or Infinite Jest. Those two previous quotes seriously read like something a tryhard faggot on Reddit would write.

>>82026159
>reason it's read.
>Calling it edgy is like calling A Clockwork Orange or even Heart of Darkness edgy.
Except Burgess hates clockwork orange and he literally said he tried to write the edgiest bullshit he could think of to get an editor off his back.
It's a great book, but you can't ignore authorial intent completely when its straight up stated.

>>82034102

we're not talking about the general public, we're talking about scholars, literary critics, professors and so on. the same scholars who view David Foster Wallace as mediocre regularly include McCarthy along with people like Melville, Faulkner and (occasionally) Shakespeare. but of course you, some dumbshit /tv/ poster, know better than people who spend their lives studying these things

>>82034181
You know "Appealing to Authority" is considered a fallacy for a reason, right?

>>82033931
Hah, cracked it. I would tack on The Days of Perky Pat to the start of it.

You could mix stop-motion of physical models and live action. When it gets fucked up, you do the live action characters in stop-motion form.

>>82024474
Genuinely wish this had been adapted instead of inherent vice.
Would be pretty topical too when you consider the entire book is predicated on a "Mail" conspiracy with a female protagonist.
One of the few books thats ever made me laugh out loud while reading.

>>82034181
You're both retarded.

Nobody compares Melville or Faulkner to Shakespeare, thats absolutely ludicrous and could only come about as a result of misguided nationalism.

DFW is not a good writer of prose, he didn't think he was either.

Nabokov however is the greatest prose stylist of the 20th century by popular acclaim, challenged only, on a really good day, by Saul Bellow.

>>82034196

>>82034196

no one is appealing to authority, we're just pointing out your stupidity and arrogance. we're suggesting that maybe you should give the book a chance before dismissing it. it is almost universally regarded as a masterpiece of english literature by people who have dedicated their lives to studying english literature and most people have the humility and intelligence to think "hm, maybe that means there is something worthwhile there." instead, you read a couple lines on 4chan and decide it's tryhard garbage

>>82034351

well here is a quote for you, from bloom:

>Nevertheless, I urge the reader to persevere, because Blood Meridian is a canonical imaginative achievement, both an American and a universal tragedy of blood. Judge Holden is a villain worthy of Shakespeare, Iago-like and demoniac, a theoretician of war everlasting. And the book’s magnificence–its language, landscape, persons, conceptions–at last transcends the violence, and converts goriness into terrifying art, an art comparable to Melville’s and to Faulkner’s.

>>82034351
>Nobody compares Melville... to Shakespeare
Point of order anon. Shakespeare legitimized english as a language of culture and art. Before then it was almost regarded as a barbarian tongue by the rest of civilized europe.
Melville and Twain established american literature in the eyes of the world.
So there literally are SOME levels of comparison you could make without being an asshole. Not that I disagree with your overall sentiment. As a shitposter on /tv/ im obligated to nit pick.

>>82032190
>forever be inferior.
get a load of this guy

>>82024307
>would just be some mountains with a thunderstorm above
so all paintings of mountains with a thunderstorm above are going to look the same? obviously the prose can't be translated exactly into visual form but the mood and spirit can

>>82034239
Not bad, maybe use some Scanner Darkly type rotoscoping.

>>82034418
A quote which was not do what you claim it does, and nobody takes Bloom seriously anyway.

>>82034653
Literally one of the most faithful adaptations of source material ever. Its almost page for page.

>>82030267
umm no sweetheart, you are actually so wrong I've revoked your pass to post. You see, during gun fights in the frontier towns the historical records show daily deaths of almost 20.
Never post again you sweet summer child
*sips*

I started reading Blood Meridian out loud with a southern accent and it made it a lot better. Anyone else ever read out loud?

Its running a train in the sewer

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If this turns out to be good, I think the director could pull off Blood Meridian

>>82023850
it can be done but it must be filmed in black and white

>>82023928
the judge wore ears? thought that was holden

judge was a faggot rapist though

>>82033458
>>82036475
yea my b, the ear necklace wasn't the judge. It's been a few years since i've read it.

>>82023814
Yet the guy behind Attack the Block is doing it. Apparently he's filming it later this year.

>>82036847
The whole fun with Stephenson's stories is that they're nothing but autistic digressions into shit completely unrelated to the "plot." How do you maintain that in film format?
I mean its making fun of cyberpunk as much as its playing it straight and I just can't help but expect they're going to just focus on the ebin setpieces and make YT some boring 20 something character.
Stop adapting novels Hollywood. Stick to short stories and novellas at a stretch.

>>82034982
The audio book's pretty good, I listen to it when I drive sometimes

>>82023626
Master and Margarita
Pedro Paramo
Sandman

I don't think they are unfilmable, but I certainly don't think you can make good adaptations out of them.

>>82037837
Sandman would make a great anthology series, if you tried to stay faithful.

>>82037926
Only if it was animated tho. A CGI fest would be unbearable.

>>82023626
Honestly think an animated adaptation of this would work. It'd have to be 2D, though, 3D would be too expensive and look too clean.

>>82023713
Dune is literally a linear action/adventure/heroes journey story. It is one of the most filmable books of all time

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>>82023626
The Zombie Survival Guide

>>82023850
>>82036427
Been done and is in black and white.

>>82030267
You have obviously not read the book.

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I dare a nigga to make dante's inferno or paradise lost

>>82037926
Pretty much everything Gaiman ever did is currently in production for movies or tv.. It won't be long before we see the Sandman universe on screen.

>>82037808
>>>82034982
>The audio book's pretty good, I listen to it when I drive sometimes

It's fucking incredible. I'd say its the most perfect narration possible for the story and style.

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>>82023626
The Divine Comedy

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>>82039162
http://dantefilm.com/
These guys based this film on a book they made that featured woodcuttings based on the originals but with modern features, pic related. Search "dante's inferno sandow" for more awesome illustrations, it's worth it if you like the originals

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>>82039162
>I dare a nigga to make dante's inferno

Inferno would be the easy part. Is the paradise that would translate bad into a movie.

>>82036475
The Judge is the Same person as Holden. David Brown wore the ear necklace. The kid later bought the necklace from Brown's executioners.

>>82033762
what is this?

>>82023985
Inbreed dude from True Detective would work.

>>82039888
Paradise was a bad book. At least inferno had some creativity and action in it.

>>82038724
No it isn't. Everything "exciting" happens off page and all six books are conversations and internal monologues about all kinds of disparate topics. It adapts better to the stage than film.

>>82023626
shitty pic

>>82023626

James Franco will prove you otherwise :^)8

>>82038383
That would be fucking terrible. What could animation possibly bring to this story?

It is perfectly filmable and if done properly, it would be a masterpiece, the problem is that no producers have the balls to finance it.

>>82023626
Evangelion
Undertale

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Earthbound. Goes from "adventures in your backyard" to "roadtrip across america" to "around the world in 80 days" to "journey to the centre of the earth" to I FEEL… G… O… O… D…

>>82023626

Just leave it alone until CGI can make a convincing Judge and a director is born who is good enough to direct it.

>>82042717
You can get away with showing more with animation, also, I feel a watercolour, almost psychedelic art style would really fit the tone of the story

>>82044963
>cgi judge

koran

the message was shit, pretty sure it had to follow like the donkey of a 7th cousin thrice removed

>>82046556
Can't show the main character or have him speak without people apeshit...

So Blood Meridian is a splatterpunk book? I thought it was a bout gay cowboys or something. Is it as good as Edward Lee novels?

>>82023764
I wouldn't even call it unfilmable. It's just really fucking violent, like "some dude dual wielding babies and smashing them against the ground"-violent.

>>82036847
>>82037758
do you thing he will keep the 10+ pages of pseudo-science exposition dumping and 14yo getting fucked by a 7ft samoan?