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Do you guys ever fantasize about directing your own film or miniseries adaptation of your favorite books?

>> No.17536225

>>17536174
>>>/tv/
My favourite books cannot be properly adapted to film, what would be the point.

>> No.17536272

>>17536174
Not only do I fantasize about this, I imagine giving Ana de Armas a great role in the film and directing her so brilliantly she wins a Best Actress Oscar and is overwhelmed with gratitude.

>> No.17536312

No but I do often fantasize that I’m a film director. When I’m walking down a street it’s amazing how many aesthetically pleasing objects you could find and imagine shooting with cool cinematography. It actually unveils a lot of beauty to the world. Meaninglessness is an illusion. Every moment is the potential birthplace of the kingdom of god.

>> No.17536346

no, i fantasize about the set of the miniseries of my favorite book getting shut down permanently due to a shooting though.

>> No.17536347
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17536347

>>17536174
let me tell you how far ahead of you I am
I fantasize about giving my oscar speech about my adaptation of my own book directed and performed by me

>> No.17536350

>>17536312
>Meaninglessness is an illusion. Every moment is the potential birthplace of the kingdom of god.
very well put, anon
I’ve even saved this in my notes

>> No.17536366

>>17536312
>When I’m walking down a street it’s amazing how many aesthetically pleasing objects you could find and imagine shooting with cool cinematography.
Pretty much
>>17536347
Based

>> No.17536408

>>17536174
I wrote a stage adaptation of a short story I liked once.

>> No.17536452

>>17536347
>oscar
So you don't expect the movie to be very good

>> No.17536761

>>17536174
BOOKS I COULD MAKE KICK-ASS FILMS OUT OF IF ONLY SOMEONE WOULD GIVE ME $500 MILLION:

>Beowulf (Unknown author)
I would do it more-or-less straight, and genuinely frightening. Think Excalibur crossed with Alien. Audience members will soil their underwear and/or fall dribbling to the floor when Grendel opens the door to Heorot.

>The Ring Cycle (Wagner)
Not a book but who cares. I would do it animated. The full 15 hours, using the uncut operas as soundtrack. Sort of like Disney's Fantasia. This is crying out to be made since Wagner was clearly writing cinema; technology just hadn't caught up with him. It has flying horses and a dragon and starts off with maidens swimming in the Rhine, for heaven's sake.

>Moby Dick (Melville)
The John Huston version is terrible (Gregory Peck, bless his heart, is no Ahab, for one thing). It could be done brilliantly now with 21st-century special effects. I would pull Daniel Day-Lewis out of retirement for Ahab. It would be the role of his lifetime.

>> No.17536777

I fantasize about drawing my own graphic novel. But I was discouraged from art as a kid and as a 20 y/o today my abilities are so feeble that I don't even really know how I could make progress.

>> No.17536780

>>17536174
Yes. Reading the Iliad made me realize it can be entirely adapted even on a verse-by-verse basis. But you need God-tier actors and directors, not to mention find a natural yet compelling way to convey metaphor on the screen. That last one is the great formal hurdle, resolve this and you'll have an interesting Iliad adaptation even with merely good actors.

>> No.17536789

>>17536312
Based. I sometimes do this too. The world is a goldmine. Literally impossible to run out of good shots.

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17536794

I'm gunna make an HBO miniseries of Mason&Dixon

>> No.17536795

>>17536174
Yes. Alexandra Daddario plays Amaranta Úrsula.

>> No.17536809

>>17536347
Reminds me of a short story I read (by some no name modern French author) about a guy who describes his entire literary works from adolescence to old age. In the end it turns out he didn't write even one of them, he only fantasized about them, but very precisely. The story doesn't even portray that as a bad thing.

Title is "Bartelby", obviously should not be confused with the original story by Melville.

>> No.17536814

>>17536174
no

>> No.17536820

>>17536761
>The Ring Cycle (Wagner)
>Not a book but who cares. I would do it animated.
Pretty cool, I wish I could see that (I have also fantasized more or less the same thing).

>> No.17536821

>>17536174
Yes
Under the Volcano

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>>17536174
I once had dreams of seeing the Tale of the Heike become a black/white adaptation directed by Akira Kurosawa, i kept listening to the score of Seven Samurai while reading about the battles in that story.

>> No.17536846

No. Too much work. Writing a book itself is like extensive effort posting, directing a film would be unbearable

>> No.17536885

>>17536821
They filmed that with Albert Finney didn't they? Have you seen it? I keep meaning to check it out since it has Jacqueline Bisset as his wife and I'm a big fan of hers, (it probably won't be any good though).

>> No.17536897

>>17536174
No, not really. I thought about making a screen play of some random stuff. But mainly because I felt like it.

>> No.17536960

>>17536885
Haven't watched it yet, it looks very 80s