Unfilmable stories thread?

Unfilmable stories thread?

but they did film it. In a twilight zone episode. To serve man.

There was also a 3 episode tv special.

It was meh

[entire western canon]

dfw adaption when

but syfy did a mini-series of it

It cuz of the child orgie

>Learning your enemy's language turns you into your side's enemy.

It's bad enough most audiences hate reading subtitles.

>turning too far in certain directions makes you thinner than a hungry skeleton and longer than my dick
>everything to your left and right is entirely dark

First book would have to be an anthology series, then the rest of the Cantos would be regular serialised storytelling.
It could work as a TV show, but a single movie would be a fucking mess

Fuck commie era trash. I want Rendezvous with Rama ffs!

a single movie for just about any book is always a mess. And the first book alone is at least seven distinct movies.

wrong

>dude there's a spaceship in our system!
>dude its just here to suck up some solar matter
>dude its gone
>dude

Why exactly was Sir Arthur C. Clarke's knighthood ceremony delayed just because he lived in a Sri Lankan palace staffed by naked teenage boys?

The Birds, The Frogs, & The Mosquitoes

Did you forget the part where they explore the inside, and get into trouble?

Not really, because its all ultimately pointless.

Yes, the epic ending!

>dude we're inside of it!
>dude, what is this?
>dude, dunno lol

Bravo, Mister Clarke!

Petersburg by Bely
Monogatari-Isin

Who hurt you, user?

wat

That spaceship looks like a dick

Ubik by Master Dick

Neuromancer, some moments are really difficult to trasform into a movie

it won't happen because:

main character is asian
main character is a poet
no car chases
plot hinges on Wharf-Sapir hypothesis and not exploding space stations

i would like to see the inside of Jebel Tarik though.

> want to shit on someone
> they've never done anything wrong
> call him a pedo

well played, user.

everything's ultimately pointless. how about you kill yourself before posting, next time? since posting is pointless.

> too much telepathy
> main male and female characters switch bodies 3/4 of the way through
> alien legal system where lawyers can spear the judges or even the witnesses
> it's not Dune

even so, i think the Bureau of Sabotage is a really good idea.

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The stories are too short for a movie and a movie with the amount information on lineages and names would be too confusing.

This one too.

>People aging in reverse, having to be dug out from graves on a daily basis.
>Library that destroys books.
>People eating in reverse.

Not to mentioned the awful plot.

Chucky Dance as Karellen was good though.

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>People do not eat, but instead consume "Sogum" anally through a pipe, and later "plop" out food orally, which is done in private, due to its 'shameful' nature.
>consume
>anally
>through a pipe

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Oh yeah, plenty of keks, just the story is awful.

Plenty of keks in pic related, good story, but also unfilmable.

>'murica ruled by a despotic female leader who wasn't elected.
>"The president," her husband, is voted for instead.
>Citizens always vote for an old fart she won't like.

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Arrival did magic alien languages, sho knows

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Epistolary novel.

Patrician taste

the part where kids fuck

I don't know how you could tell this as a cohesive story. It's one of my favorite sci-fi books though.

His Master's Voice by Lem

They probably could never make this into a good movie.

Apparently.

All the books itt could be made into a movie

There was a very bad mini-series starring Rock Hudson

Watch the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie. It has a similar scene where people shit in common but eat in private.

The Qur'an

Hollywood just can't do justice to the scifi greats. Arthur C. Clarke was pretty fortunate to have Kubrick collaborating with him so closely on 2001.

Leave it to me, senpai.

Damm that was good

hitchhiker galaxy whatever, the movie didn't do it justice

I've never seen it but it doesn't sound very good. I think its one of those books that is best left out of film. It would be difficult to translate Bradbury's poetry and various short stories into a film that actually makes sense.

>hitchhiker galaxy whatever, the movie didn't do it justice
No, it really didn't. It had no soul. The television series wasn't too bad though, even if it was an old, low-budget British show. It was damn sure better than the movie.

Too much voiceover imo

Nice try, hollywood

It was in the original script back when Cary Joji Fukunaga was the writer/director. When parents read that part, they pulled their kids from auditioning, leading the studio to ask him to remove it. He felt it was too essential to the story, so he left the project.

his entire bibliography

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>It has a similar scene where people shit in common but eat in private
You mean like India?

Hermeans trying to nuke it could be built into a climax.

How is that unfilmable?
Seems pretty simple, imo

this

dere were no child orgy do

user y u lyin

I can definitely see this made as a historical documentary series

Are we just posting sci-fi novels?

A movie where the protagonists genocide entire continents isn't gonna happen.

Why were the best SF novels written in the 60's and 70s? Everything written in the past 20 years is mediocre at best.

That whole series, especially this one.

Not gonna happen.

I think Heinlein was just fucking around with the publishing houses at this point.

I think the popularity of Star Wars cemented the idea of sci-fi in a lot of peoples minds and became the archetypal sci-fi story that everyone wants to emulate. It's similar to what has happened with Lord of the Rings and fantasy. Nobody wants to rock the boat and do something really out of the ordinary

And the 50's too (Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein, Clarke).

Does that Red Dwarf ep count?

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ITS NOT UNFILMABLE. ITS UNFUNDABLE BECAUSE ITS AN EDGY PIECE OF SHIT

>LE DEAD BABIES LOL

How is a book describing a film unfilmable?

Give it to Hack Snyder

I counter your assertion with neal stephenson

Speaking of Delany, a film adaptation of Dhalgren? Yeah, nah, son.... nah.

The problem with science fiction films has more to do with how establishing the technology and integrating it into the story just adds more and more points of failure the more technology that is added that is central to the story.

For every bit of tech the audience doesn't understand, that's central to the narrative, means lost audience.

Thus the reason most "science fiction" is simply space opera. Also why people think "space opera" is not a derisive term.

Nigga you just proved him right

yeah you're right, they ran a train on her. not the same thing as an orgy.

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hahahaha some arty type probably will make it, it'll run for six hours and nobody will watch it ever.

There is something interesting wrote in the 80's too, but I agree that the 50's-70's were the best years
JUST

Because it's a ridiculously boring story, the only redeeming factors of this book is the prose on the Mexican landscapes

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet. It's quite literally impossible to translate to a visual medium.

They should just skip the second book, tbqh.

>essential to the story
What the fuck?

i read fukunaga's script. you're full of shit.

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Star Wars is not science fiction, though. It's a very clear cut fantasy movie.

Maybe an HBO series.

Mel Gibson would make it work

If they ever attempted that, I'd certainly watch it. It'd be a glorious disaster.

I'd really like to see (((them))) take a stab at some of Vernor's stuff.

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