Re: Books that should be made into a movie?
Oh, R. LeBeaux, there you go dragging Dirk into the room by the scruff of the neck again! I admit, they would make interesting movies, but you'd have to cast them just right. I was so turned off by the Hitchhiker's movie trailers that I refused to see it.
For my own part, I always wanted to see "Vertical Run", by Joseph Garber, given the movie treatment. It's an action-packed story about a former war vet who has worked in corporate America for over a decade since returning. One day he suddenly finds a group of professional killers trying to kill him for unknown reasons when he goes into the office. He is trapped in the skyscraper he works in and can only escape them by moving between the floors as he tries to figure out what is going on and how to fight back. Since he was a dirty tricks specialist by training, there is all sorts of interesting and nasty ways he can set booby traps around the building as it turns increasingly into a private war zone.
It would be perfect for a blow-em-up summer movie special effects fest, but the only sticky point is a lot of the conversation takes place between him and a sub-persona voice in his head, and Hollywood had serious issues with voice-overs or narrated thoughts. If they could find a way to work it, it would be a lot of fun.
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which is a shame, because I loved the books when I read them as a teenager.
