Books that would make good movies, and those that wouldn't/don't.

For the first category, I submit:

Garet Garrett's The Driver
Lewis' The Space Trilogy (probably as a miniseries)
Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The Pilgrim's Progress (yes I know it has been, but never very well)
Stephen King's Cell
Dean Koontz's Lightning
A Wrinkle in Time (because it hasn't been done yet. NO IT HASN'T THAT ONE DOESN'T EXIST.)
Maniac Magee
I would also like to see a movie about the radical elements of the American Revolution as documented in Murray Rothbard's history of the American colonies, Conceived in Liberty. Sort of an answer to that pro-Federalist John Adams series that came out recently.

For the second category:
Atlas Shrugged (although they're going to try)
The Wheel of Time
The Sword of Truth series (although they are doing it, and it's pretty lame)
Any more books in the Dune saga
Any more romance books, ever. (Just kidding; I just won't watch them.)

Hm, haven't read that one. I've read Dragon Tears, Lightning (obviously), Cold Fire, and Phantoms.

Actually, any of his books that I've read would play well cinematically. He writes like a screenwriter.

Also I'll add The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett, but only if it's animated by Don Bluth.

They've made some King books into some pretty crappy movies. A few good ones too, though.

smilez43 said:

I know these probably aren't very popular books, but they could make it.

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I don't think a story has to be popular for it to make a good movie. Quite the opposite, in fact, since it's easier for people to see a movie based on an obscure story as its own separate work of art instead of rigidly comparing it to the original.