Cast Books You Want To See Adapted

Woody Harrelson as Hoke Moseley would be cool.

I'd like to see a better version of The Pope of Greenwich Village....... maybe Gosling and Franco.... though they're both probably too old by now.

Michael Shannon in some Jim Thompson adaptation... since he's a fan and would definitely fit.

Just saying.....

Sayles doesn't seem to want to adapt his books but Pride of the Bimbos ('75) would be a perfect sports-comedy coming-of-age series for Netflix. Subject and tonally could be like GLOW in terms of era, ensemble, a good satiric look at sports culture meets problematic "low art" entertainment - this an all male sideshow softball team in slapdash drag travelling the deep south. So you'll have discussions of gender norms as well as race, etc. The novel - which I reviewed at length in the Recently Read thread - is episodic anyway and altogether cinematic in a Coensy Altmanesque way; I think it'd be a great launching pad for a series, or hell, it'd work as a feature too.

Pogo - the reluctant star of the team, former private eye, now weary barstool yarn spinner and team mentor, is all Peter Dinklage. And what's he doing after GOT?

Denzel Crawford (first name change in order) - the protagonist whose innocent eye to all the ruckus is the heart of the story, he's gullible and funny like Jack Grazer is in It and Shazam, but he's too old for the part now so......?

Lewis Crawford - low-key father to Denzel, outfielder who "touched the big leagues for a cup of coffee in '63" and has the how-did-I-get-here quality that Scoot McNairy would eat up.

AC & Knox - brothers, think Hansons from Slap Shot but frat-drunk creeps, I'll go with Caleb Landry Jones and Jesse Plemons.

Mr. Bob - the ill advising team manager and slurring game announcer - Brian Cox?

Dred - the pimp after Pogo, Giancarlo Esposito? Wesley Snipes? to go lesser known younger, Jackie Long.

I would love to see Rebecca Hall as Edna Pontellier in an adaptation of The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

For those who've read A Little Life, who would be your dream cast? I've seen many saying that Rami Malek would be perfect for Jude, which I largely agree (except for his height as Jude is supposed to be 6'2) as he sort of already did a version of Jude in Mr. Robot (allegedly anyway; never seen the show), and I think Alexander Skarsgard would be perfect for Willem.

I guess they can cast new actors as JB and Malcolm. I can't think of anyone that would work for them atm. Harold and Julia literally can be played by any decent old(ish) actor/actress, though. I think Tom Hanks and Laura Linney would be great (though they would have to make Julia more relevant than in the book). Or Gillian Anderson as she's a big fan of the book. Liev Schreiber can play Andy (though I can see him as Caleb too).

I think there actually were talks about adapting the book into a miniseries (which is how it should be; a movie wouldn't work) produced by Scott Rudin in 2016, but it hasn't seemed to go anywhere, which is a pity. I am so obsessed with this book that I want to see a successful tv adaptation and cry my eyes out. Perhaps it's the gratuitous that gave them doubts? I am actually surprised that it hasn't been adapted by Hollywood as it's an incredibly popular book in that circle.

A Thousand Splendid Suns (My god that would be one hell of a difficult movie to watch but the cast is fixed on my mind)

Mariam : Tabu
Laila : Alia Bhatt
Rasheed : Kay Kay Menon
Tariq : Vicky Kaushal
Jalil : Anupam Kher

I recently read Stoner and it would make a really good, emotional character study as a movie but I've no idea who to cast. Maybe Ed Norton as William?

I might be remembering it wrong but he wasn’t always overweight, or maybe he was overweight from the beginning but just got fatter as he got older