Making a Novel Series into a TV Show or Movie...

[VulcanMindBlown]

I know that this may sound dumb, but has anyone ever considered visualizing a novel into a TV show or movie?

I know that some of the Trek book writers have wrote for show episodes in the past and will for future shows...

 

[F. King Daniel]

The early Next Gen episode "Where No One Has Gone Before" is a heavily modified version of the novel "The Wounded Sky"

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I would love to see a film/TV version of the novel Federation. It'd need some rewriting, but probably not a whole lot.

And also the Vulcan's _____ series. Particularly Vulcan's Heart, which is my favorite Trek novel of all time.

 

[David cgc]

One of my dreamier dream-projects is a J.J.-Verse adaptation of Vanguard as a limited-run series. Say, three or four seasons, thirteen episodes each. Time it so production on the premiere and finale line up with the filming of the movies, to make the Enterprise-cameos more practical.

 

[JD]

I think I'd rather see it as a Prime Universe thing. So much of it is based around stuff originating in TOS that it would have to be changed pretty drastically to fit in the Kelvinverse.
As for novels that have been brought adapted to the screen, I'm pretty sure WNOHGB is the closest we've ever gotten. There have been a few bits and pieces introduced in novels that have been brought over to the shows and movies though. Uhura and Sulu's first names, and the names of Kirk's parents come from the books, and one of the TOS Remastered episodes replaced an old space station design with the Vanguard design. One of the early versions of Star Trek: The Tour (later Star Trek: The Exhibition) had display with a model of the Titan from the books, and it also had a newly filmed video with Tim Russ as Tuvok. The clip didn't entirely line up with the books though, it also had Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher, Titan's assistant chief engineer.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

One of my dreamier dream-projects is a J.J.-Verse adaptation of Vanguard as a limited-run series.

Who would you prefer as Diego Reyes? Edward James Olmos, or Tommy Lee Jones?

 

[David cgc]

Who would you prefer as Diego Reyes? Edward James Olmos, or Tommy Lee Jones?

Something David Mack once tweeted,* along with the fact that everyone is ten years younger than TOS and the inevitable march of time causing everyone's ages to intersect, made me consider Timothy Olyphant as the younger, sexier JJ-verse version of Reyes. I can see him growing into a Tommy Lee Jones-type. Though, I'd also prefer not the whitewash the character...

90% of what I've imagined is trailers and an artsy flash-forward teaser for the pilot, though.

*I believe it was along the lines of "I'd really like to write for Timothy Olyphant."

 

[tomswift2002]

I seem to recall hearing that William Shatner's "The Return" had been pitched by Shatner as the follow-up film to "Generations". Now that is one book that I really would've loved to have seen on screen.

But for the OP, Voyager's "Day Of Honor" episode came about because the producers liked the Day Of Honor series that the books did.

 

[Christopher]

But for the OP, Voyager's "Day Of Honor" episode came about because the producers liked the Day Of Honor series that the books did.

Well, they liked the idea of the book series when they were told about it in the development phase. They coordinated their efforts so that the episode came out around the same time as the books.