i'm not wrong, it is a biography, not a novel. downvote the truth all you want.
Novel: a [fictitious](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=567900165&rls=en&sxsrf=AM9HkKnETlq-cnZQVpkatNKAij77rBDCBg:1695506859358&q=fictitious&si=ALGXSlbxwhdHKc0fpoiOcM6OGd45pmUe0C6d-Oc8PQMHPjoXGBdNXlVQgANf_Sh52EOv2zVx-XpFgG6mXjZ3zGkEQec0MgJ4PQ%3D%3D&expnd=1) [prose](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=567900165&rls=en&sxsrf=AM9HkKnETlq-cnZQVpkatNKAij77rBDCBg:1695506859358&q=prose&si=ALGXSlanL1aSLkbkKVKYTZ8siJOeScryhDRAme5Gnn75IhYJZMvVeeIYPUWUpdRw_zqxV7F7vSJx7PSlhPSD1qvrdw5KaxJpjA%3D%3D&expnd=1) narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of [realism](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=567900165&rls=en&sxsrf=AM9HkKnETlq-cnZQVpkatNKAij77rBDCBg:1695506859358&q=realism&si=ALGXSlYwkgxr-HbbJwcOTTqB6ethdwqgqhJljb9JJHOh-5C4pRT_q3Lo7KysJkbbpc8ofsj1KFSxChAyJMT88_MRdzhKewizgw%3D%3D&expnd=1).
Four days later, I’m here to say: it is an improvement. A vast improvement.
I keep a small list of movies better than the book and this is near the top of that list
Four minutes later (ha-ha), since you read the novel: is it in epistolary form? One of the best aspects of the film is that it appears to me like a late victorian novel translated to screen, more or less.
It’s been several years since I’ve read it (and I will likely never reread it). I don’t remember if the book is a series of letters or a series of diary entries, but it is one of the two. In that sense, they are the same. But that’s about where the similarities end.
I think Nolan would be able to do a good adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. Lots of action and it deals in many of the same themes and motifs that are evident in Nolan’s work.
Devil in the White City, primarily because I’m sad Scorsese/DiCaprio’s version got stuck in development hell then killed. It was announced like over half a decade ago and I was looking forward to it for so long
One of the surreal novels of Murakami. Something with several parallel worlds and split personalities and different timelines interacting, or time standing still (I've only read Kafka on the Shore so these elements are from that novel but I know several other Murakami novels have such elements too. Hope Nolan discovers Murakami at some point if he hasn't already)
I don't think Nolan is a good fit for Murakami to be honest, the surrealism is where the comparisons end between the two. I've read multiple Murakami novels and the tone in them is totally different than in Nolan films - they're rather quirky and wholesome, whereas Nolan films are dark and serious. Also the pacing in Murakami's novels is a lot slower than in Nolan films, he really likes to establish the setting, emphasise seemingly mundane things the characters are doing like having a meal or a cup of coffee whereas Nolan likes to get straight to the point.
Obviously he can pull a "Dark Knight" and do something entirely different from the source material but just on paper I don't see it as a good combo.
I see tons of sci-fi and fantasy options listed. I think a Nolan-esque take on an insurmountable classic that no one would ever dare try to make a movie out of would be fantastic to see. For example: Joyce’s *Ulysses*, or Proust’s *In Search of Lost Time*. There’s so much fodder there for Nolan to make it his own.
They’ve both been done before but I think his take on “Rebecca” or “The Lodger” would be fantastic. For a more modern novel I think he would do something really interesting with “The Maidens”.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It would be epic. Jules Verne hasn't been revisited in a long time.
Duuuude!!!
This would be pretty cool
He already adapted one. It was The Prestige.
And he literally adapted The American Prometheus this summer
american Prometheus is not novel, it's a biography
Ugh.. learn a book!
ok
i'm not wrong, it is a biography, not a novel. downvote the truth all you want. Novel: a [fictitious](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=567900165&rls=en&sxsrf=AM9HkKnETlq-cnZQVpkatNKAij77rBDCBg:1695506859358&q=fictitious&si=ALGXSlbxwhdHKc0fpoiOcM6OGd45pmUe0C6d-Oc8PQMHPjoXGBdNXlVQgANf_Sh52EOv2zVx-XpFgG6mXjZ3zGkEQec0MgJ4PQ%3D%3D&expnd=1) [prose](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=567900165&rls=en&sxsrf=AM9HkKnETlq-cnZQVpkatNKAij77rBDCBg:1695506859358&q=prose&si=ALGXSlanL1aSLkbkKVKYTZ8siJOeScryhDRAme5Gnn75IhYJZMvVeeIYPUWUpdRw_zqxV7F7vSJx7PSlhPSD1qvrdw5KaxJpjA%3D%3D&expnd=1) narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of [realism](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=567900165&rls=en&sxsrf=AM9HkKnETlq-cnZQVpkatNKAij77rBDCBg:1695506859358&q=realism&si=ALGXSlYwkgxr-HbbJwcOTTqB6ethdwqgqhJljb9JJHOh-5C4pRT_q3Lo7KysJkbbpc8ofsj1KFSxChAyJMT88_MRdzhKewizgw%3D%3D&expnd=1).
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He means a good novel. Edit: I'm kidding, relax... Edit No. 2: Actually, I meant it. Cope.
Bruh I haven't read the novel but I looked up the differences and the movie version seems to be an improvement
Four days later, I’m here to say: it is an improvement. A vast improvement. I keep a small list of movies better than the book and this is near the top of that list
Four minutes later (ha-ha), since you read the novel: is it in epistolary form? One of the best aspects of the film is that it appears to me like a late victorian novel translated to screen, more or less.
It’s been several years since I’ve read it (and I will likely never reread it). I don’t remember if the book is a series of letters or a series of diary entries, but it is one of the two. In that sense, they are the same. But that’s about where the similarities end.
House of Leaves
I was going to say this and I thought I was being so clever
I think Nolan would be able to do a good adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. Lots of action and it deals in many of the same themes and motifs that are evident in Nolan’s work.
I think Dark Tower is way too gory for Nolan.
1984 is the right answer
I think this should be more of a Denis Villeneuve type movie?
okay unironically this
Devil in the White City, primarily because I’m sad Scorsese/DiCaprio’s version got stuck in development hell then killed. It was announced like over half a decade ago and I was looking forward to it for so long
I didn’t know that was definitely not gonna happen. Thought it was still in development hell. Damn.
Three Body Problem anyone?
Oh this would be amazing.
It's gonna be a netflix series
Denis is already on the ball.
100 years of Solitude
One of the surreal novels of Murakami. Something with several parallel worlds and split personalities and different timelines interacting, or time standing still (I've only read Kafka on the Shore so these elements are from that novel but I know several other Murakami novels have such elements too. Hope Nolan discovers Murakami at some point if he hasn't already)
I don't think Nolan is a good fit for Murakami to be honest, the surrealism is where the comparisons end between the two. I've read multiple Murakami novels and the tone in them is totally different than in Nolan films - they're rather quirky and wholesome, whereas Nolan films are dark and serious. Also the pacing in Murakami's novels is a lot slower than in Nolan films, he really likes to establish the setting, emphasise seemingly mundane things the characters are doing like having a meal or a cup of coffee whereas Nolan likes to get straight to the point. Obviously he can pull a "Dark Knight" and do something entirely different from the source material but just on paper I don't see it as a good combo.
Fair points tbh
It's crazy that there aren't already great movies or TV series made from his books. You would think a director would love to play in his worlds.
Yes, completely agree!
The Day After Roswell. Can even consider it the Oppenheimer sequel.
i always wish to see him adapt a bible story!
Moses would be nice.
certainly agreed!!!
The Gun Seller novel by Hugh Laurie
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
If Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer hadn't already been adapted to screen play by Alex Garland then i think Nolan would have had a blast adapting it.
I see tons of sci-fi and fantasy options listed. I think a Nolan-esque take on an insurmountable classic that no one would ever dare try to make a movie out of would be fantastic to see. For example: Joyce’s *Ulysses*, or Proust’s *In Search of Lost Time*. There’s so much fodder there for Nolan to make it his own.
The Way of Kings
Just any Brandon Sanderson story. I think Nolan could really do them justice
I can’t imagine Nolan doing fantasy. But stranger things have happened.
Holy shit, Yes. You just made my brain explode.
50 shades of grey
lol
A Nolan series based on Foundation would be amazing but I know it would never happen
They’ve both been done before but I think his take on “Rebecca” or “The Lodger” would be fantastic. For a more modern novel I think he would do something really interesting with “The Maidens”.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Blade runner
Already adapted as Blade Runner lol
Blake Crouch's "Dark Matter." Parallel universe thriller. Could be done extremely well.
Just read this. I heard its being adapted into a series?
Yeah on AppleTV+
Wish I could upvote this x1000. I say Dark Matter or anything else by Blake C.
Nostromo
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson if it's just one book. But a full scale adaptation of the Baroque Cycle would be the most ambitious project by him.
I know is not reltated with OP but imagine Nolan directing Star Wars, daaaaaamn!
The Stars my Destination by Alfred Bester.
Sirens of Titan
The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi the hopefully the rest of the trilogy
Jeffrey Archer's The Fourth Estate
Moonraker
Red rising
Old man's war
House of the Scorpion.
Time Enough For Love by Heinlein
The Wind-Up Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi Sci-fi book with environmental themes
Chasing Vermeer, if he ever wanted to do a family friendly all ages type movie
Literally anything by Blake Crouch!!!!