Nominate a book to adapt into a Trek movie.

[F. King Daniel]

I loved Crossroad - but it's more episode than film. It would be a good episode, tho!
My Enemy, My Ally would be a great film if they could get a good Ael (Angelina Jolie!)

 

[Christopher]

Which book would you (Christopher) like to see?...or is this another situation where you would only want to see a new/fresh story and not see a story that has already been told, even if only in book form?

I'm tempted to say Uhura's Song. It would fit with the enlarged role for Uhura in the new continuity, and the featured Evan Wilson character would compensate for the male-heavy main cast. But it's a bit too epic a story to do it justice in 2 hours.

I do think an original story would be better. Novels and films have different strengths, different emphases. A prose story works best in prose.

My Enemy, My Ally would be a great film if they could get a good Ael (Angelina Jolie!)

Totally, profoundly wrong. Ael is described as a tiny woman, only about five feet tall, with a delicate facial structure and some gray hair and wrinkles. The only thing she has remotely in common with Jolie is "great dark eyes."

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

Which book would you (Christopher) like to see?...or is this another situation where you would only want to see a new/fresh story and not see a story that has already been told, even if only in book form?

I'm tempted to say Uhura's Song. It would fit with the enlarged role for Uhura in the new continuity, and the featured Evan Wilson character would compensate for the male-heavy main cast. But it's a bit too epic a story to do it justice in 2 hours.

I do think an original story would be better. Novels and films have different strengths, different emphases. A prose story works best in prose.

Tears of the Singers would be a possible Uhura centric story, but it may be a little too similar to the plot of The Voyage Home. Then again, if they can make variations of Wrath of Khan again and again, why not another eco-message?

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I loved Crossroad - but it's more episode than film. It would be a good episode, tho!
My Enemy, My Ally would be a great film if they could get a good Ael (Angelina Jolie!)

It could be really interesting--but I VERY much disagree with the casting of Angelina Jolie as Ael. She doesn't match the description in the book, at all.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

I loved Crossroad - but it's more episode than film. It would be a good episode, tho!
My Enemy, My Ally would be a great film if they could get a good Ael (Angelina Jolie!)

It could be really interesting--but I VERY much disagree with the casting of Angelina Jolie as Ael. She doesn't match the description in the book, at all.

I sort of envisage Holly Hunter in the role...

 

[Christopher]

I sort of envisage Holly Hunter in the role [of Ael]...

Hmm... 5'2", fiftyish... yeah, she'd be a pretty good candidate.

 

[donners22]

I would love to see Q-Squared as a movie. I was blown away by that when I read it, and it really got me into Trek literature.

I suppose its complexity wouldn't make for box office success, but it would be far easier to depict the different timelines using costumes and makeup than it was with the written word (as PAD notes in Voyages of Imagination).

 

[ialfan]

The Good That Men Do

or The Destiny Trilogy as 3 movies

 

[Trilliam]

I don't think I'd like ANY of the existing books that I've read to be made into movies. Nothing compares to the theatre of the mind, so that any attempt at translating to the screen, would be a disappointment.

"Clan of the Cave Bear", "The Thornbirds", the 3rd Harry Potter movie, are examples of what I mean. I read the books first, then saw the screen adaptations - big mistake.

 

[RandyS]

The first Vanguard novel. The first four New Frontier novels. If only because we haven't seen (most) of these characters onscreen before.

 

[Trilliam]

The first Vanguard novel. The first four New Frontier novels. If only because we haven't seen (most) of these characters onscreen before.

I'd like to see the NF series given the Gerry Anderson Captain Scarlett Hypermarionation 3D animation treatment.

 

[donners22]

I don't think I'd like ANY of the existing books that I've read to be made into movies. Nothing compares to the theatre of the mind, so that any attempt at translating to the screen, would be a disappointment.

"Clan of the Cave Bear", "The Thornbirds", the 3rd Harry Potter movie, are examples of what I mean. I read the books first, then saw the screen adaptations - big mistake.

Just be glad you aren't a Dragonlance fan. That movie was an abomination.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

My Enemy, My Ally would be a great film if they could get a good Ael (Angelina Jolie!)

+1 googleplex but disagree on the actress

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I don't think I'd like ANY of the existing books that I've read to be made into movies. Nothing compares to the theatre of the mind, so that any attempt at translating to the screen, would be a disappointment.

"Clan of the Cave Bear", "The Thornbirds", the 3rd Harry Potter movie, are examples of what I mean. I read the books first, then saw the screen adaptations - big mistake.

Then again, the Lord of the Rings movies are better than the books, by far. Sorry, but the books were just...BLOATED.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

Just be glad you aren't a Dragonlance fan. That movie was an abomination.

Preach it, brother!

We now return you to the Original Topic...

 

[Trilliam]

I don't think I'd like ANY of the existing books that I've read to be made into movies. Nothing compares to the theatre of the mind, so that any attempt at translating to the screen, would be a disappointment.

"Clan of the Cave Bear", "The Thornbirds", the 3rd Harry Potter movie, are examples of what I mean. I read the books first, then saw the screen adaptations - big mistake.

Then again, the Lord of the Rings movies are better than the books, by far. Sorry, but the books were just...BLOATED.

I couldn't get through the first half hour of the first LOTR movie, and I haven't read the LOTR books.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I think Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows would make a great movie.

 

[Bri]

Hmm, some people are posting random books and a few are mentioning adaptions into the abramsverse.

If I would just throw a few out there that WOULD have made good movies in the past, I second Q Squared, Federation, Imzadi, Ashes of Eden, the Lost Years, Prime Directive, Spocks World, way too many to mention.

Hell, how about Vendetta! PAD really did a number on them back in the day.

Most of my favorite books got rendered invalid by terrible canon, which is why I gave up on Trek so many years ago during the Berman/Braga era.

I would love to see Greg Cox's Rise of Khan made into a couple movies. I wouldn't dare want to recast Ricardo but somebody could pull it off I bet. Lots of people could pull off the young Khans easy.

For NuTrek 2 I already posted exactly what I want in my sig.

A giant Romulan invasion ala ramped up Balance of Terror with our heroes pulling an Enterprise Incident off to steal the cloak/plasma torpedo before the Rommies conquer the whole place. Interstellar war would keep the box office numbers the new movie had but they could interject it with so much more story/Trek credo.

An amazing antagonist/protagonist "villian" like Mark Lenard's Romulan Commander. Dropping the Uhura/Spock thing right away for a far better Romulan villianess/love interest. Oh the possibilities.

Maybe I'm going to far with this lol, this thread was about adapting books into movies not what I want for abrams 2. Sorry!

Back on topic, I also love the Entropy Effect, but no more time travel please, so that's out. Too many Trek movies have used it now.

Hmm, what about PAD's not often mentioned The Rift! That one iirc could fit into either Prime or Nu continuity fairly easily.

I'm sure I think of a ton more later.

Bri

 

[bluedana]

How Much Just For The Planet, by John Ford (Star Trek: The Musical)

No? Okay, then, how about Ford's Final Reflection? Done with a nuBSG feel, it could be awesome on Sci-Fi.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I was thinking of a fairly loose adaptation of the book for the new Trek crew (none of that fourth-name-flag crap!). I don’t think Ael being short or crusty made much of a difference to the character, and shouldn’t influence casting. Plus I really want to see Angelina Jolie on the Enterprise (she would have made a great Number One in STXI)!

Also I’d love to see hi-budget versions of the giant slug-like aliens on their miles-long starship.



It’s since occurred to me that Crossroad’s version of time travel is in conflict with Star Trek XI’s (or rather what Bob Orci says. The film itself leaves it ambiguous). I guess that rules out every Trek book about time travel, too.

Or…

How about a Star Trek adaptation of Ringworld? It would be a very loose adaptation (and would thusly immediately infuriate millions), but the basics could fit into Trek (killing the bred-to-luck subplot and a few others). Replace the characters with Kirk, Spock and Uhura (similar to the character-swapouts in Soft/Slaver Weapon), sneak McCoy in there, keep Speaker-to-Animals. Remember the settlements of aliens on the planet-sized islands(which might be from the second book, it’s all a blur)? Replace them with Klingons, Andorians, keep the Kzin one…maybe find one that’s full of proto-Vulcan/Romulans (which would be important to Spock after STXI) the ‘strange new world’ to end them all…