Even though I didn't like Hunger Games all that much, I think Hollywood had the right idea to tap into novels for a source of ideas. Because it seems to me that the movie people have an alarmingly short list of ideas on their own.
I say that because look at some of these movies that just came out and what's due to come out soon. Two movies about Snow White, one on the Three Stooges, and another movie from the Aliens franchise that I thought died out years ago.
Where are the next George Lucas type movie makers? If they can't come up with anything original, then look to books, like they did for the Jason Bourne Franchise. The Bourne movies are among my all-time favorites. And another one is DUNE. To this day, the movie DUNE is one of my favorite movies. That was inspired by Frank Herbert's masterpiece SciFi novel. And the James Bond franchise was born from the books written by Ian Fleming. Although very few of them were actually stories from the books, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE was straight from the book, and it is absolutely an all-time favorite of mine. And now that the BOND franchise has been rebooted with Daniel Craig, they seem to be back on the right track. (Meaning they have the Bond character true to his literary counterpart.)
And that is the caveat. Don't ruin the essence of the book by turning it into something it's not. Case in point: CONAN. The original Conan movies were horrible, and even the latest movie of Conan was a total flop. If someone like Peter Jackson would do a Conan movie, I might think it would be good, based on how he turned the LOR books into magnificent movies. Now there's an example of turning books into perfect movies, imo.
Let's see if that can continue to happen. But I doubt it. The Peter Jackson type of movie makers seem to be a rare breed.
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