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Book adaptions. We've got a million movies and TV shows based on books, book series, comic books. But most of them seem to be all about the exact same stories over and over again. But, what is a book/book series or comic book series that hasn't been adapted that you really want to see get the movie of TV treatment?
I'm currently reading "Tom Sawyer" for school, and i'm really enjoying it. It's clever and funny with very strong characters and political and social satire that was very much ahead of it's time and some of it is still relevant to this day. Tom is a very relatable character, and the whole book often feels like your reading a true story. Now, of course, the book has been adapted to death, but the movies have never been nearly as good as the book. I think the screenwriters or producers always tend to overestimate the fact that it's a children's book and forget that there's a lot of interesting adult themes in it too. So, yeah, i'd like some movie or mini series that truly captures the spirit of the original.
Another one they got absolutely wrong when they turned it into a movie was "Percy Jackson". Those movies just did not do the books justice. They completely sucked the humor out, they made the characters too old, they couldn't even get one of the main characters hair color right. The whole thing was just painful to watch.
And another book series I read when I was younger, "Sammy Keyes". A lot of people haven't heard of it, but it's a mystery series for kids and teens that's actually much better than a lot of adult mystery books i've read. Once again, Sammy, the title character is a very strong and relatable character, and the mysteries in the books are just make it extremely fun to follow, and they have great plot twists - they rarely go in the direction you expect, but there usually quite clever.
I'm currently reading "Tom Sawyer" for school, and i'm really enjoying it. It's clever and funny with very strong characters and political and social satire that was very much ahead of it's time and some of it is still relevant to this day. Tom is a very relatable character, and the whole book often feels like your reading a true story. Now, of course, the book has been adapted to death, but the movies have never been nearly as good as the book. I think the screenwriters or producers always tend to overestimate the fact that it's a children's book and forget that there's a lot of interesting adult themes in it too. So, yeah, i'd like some movie or mini series that truly captures the spirit of the original.
Another one they got absolutely wrong when they turned it into a movie was "Percy Jackson". Those movies just did not do the books justice. They completely sucked the humor out, they made the characters too old, they couldn't even get one of the main characters hair color right. The whole thing was just painful to watch.
And another book series I read when I was younger, "Sammy Keyes". A lot of people haven't heard of it, but it's a mystery series for kids and teens that's actually much better than a lot of adult mystery books i've read. Once again, Sammy, the title character is a very strong and relatable character, and the mysteries in the books are just make it extremely fun to follow, and they have great plot twists - they rarely go in the direction you expect, but there usually quite clever.
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