Which Asimov/Clarke novels should become movies or series?

[willpittenger]

Is there a book by Asimov or Clarke that you think should go onto the big or small screen? If so, what is it? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>

 

[docm]

The Foundation series by Asimov. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[PistolPete]

Childhood's End<br /><br />The rest of the Space Odyssey series<br /><br />Hopefully Rama will finally get made<br /><br />Also, with an extensive rewrite, A Fall of Moondust. Most of the science is outdated, but at its core is a good space disaster flick. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em>So, again we are defeated. This victory belongs to the farmers, not us.</em></p><p><strong>-Kambei Shimada from the movie Seven Samurai</strong></p> </div>

 

[willpittenger]

Big screen, TV series, or made for TV movie? I figure there is enough material for several seasons worth of TV series or several sequels of movies which get rewritten heavily from the book form. If you have both read the book version and watched the movie version of Tom Clancy's novel <i>Sum of All Fears</i>, you know what I am talking about. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>

 

[willpittenger]

The problem with Rama is that people would hate the sequels. But you need a trilogy. (Remember why Gentry Lee wrote those sequels.) So do the sequels replace the Gentry Lee novels? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>

 

[a_lost_packet_]

Childhood's End was, at one time, going to be made into a movie. I saw the artists renderings of set-pieces, characters and locations many years ago in an old Starlog magazine. Sadly, it never came to be. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="1">I put on my robe and wizard hat...</font> </div>

 

[nyrath]

Another vote for <b>Childhood's End</b>. And perhaps Clarke's <b>Earthlight</b>.<br /><br />Asimov's <b>The Stars, Like Dust</b> might be interesting. And <b>The Martian Way</b>

 

[a_lost_packet_]

Wow, a Cameron "Childhood's End." ... <br /><br />That would be darn awesome. I'd pay double to see that. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="1">I put on my robe and wizard hat...</font> </div>

 

[brellis]

I'm with docm - Foundation! I've been waiting for decades to see a movie series.<br /><br />Clarke's "In the Light of other days" would be a very sexy, youtube-style movie. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#ff0000"><em><strong>I'm a recovering optimist - things could be better.</strong></em></font> </p> </div>

 

[nyrath]

The only problem I see with a FOUNDATION movie is that if you examine the novel closely, it is mostly composed of long segments of talking heads. The action segments are few and far in between.<br /><br />This does not translate into an exciting movie.

 

[docm]

That's what screenwriters and editors are for <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[3488]

2061 Odyssey Three.<br />3001 Odyssey Four.<br /><br />The Songs of Distant Earth.<br /><br />RAMA novels.<br /><br />Childhoods End.<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[p_ech04]

How about Asimov's "The Gods Themselves"?

 

[dragon04]

Any of the Robot novels would work.<br /><br />The Caves of Steel<br />The Naked Sun<br />The Robots of Dawn<br /><br />All of them were basically Whodunits with all that goodly villainy, treachery, action and intrigue.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>"2012.. Year of the Dragon!! Get on the Dragon Wagon!".</em> </div>

 

[vogon13]

Thanx for suggesting The Gods Themselves.<br /><br /><br />I loved the 3 way alien sex stuff.<br /><br />Probably has been the root thread of some of my more bizarre sex with aliens posts here at SDC . . .<br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[willpittenger]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>3001 Odyssey Four<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br />Skip it. Clarke threw out too much of the previous books in the series. In the older books, Bowman and Hal were not confined to anything. In <i>3001</i>, they were confined to the monolith on Europa. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>

 

[willpittenger]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Any of the Robot novels would work.<br /><br />The Caves of Steel<br />The Naked Sun<br />The Robots of Dawn<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br />How would those be different from the <i>I, Robot</i> movie? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>

 

[docm]

Caves of Steel, Robots of Dawn & Naked Sun: SciFi whodunnits; Caves already done by the BBC<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[yevaud]

<i>The Songs of Distant Earth</i> by Clarke would make an interesting movie. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>