Top 5 books we want to see made on celluloid

Hollywood will scout around for any source that will offer them a good story line that can be made into films; books written by famous authors are a favorite and the stories contained within them have been made into beautiful films that have even won awards. At times it is just a coincidence that the book that you recently read and fell in love has been made into a film; we may even see movie news and then try to figure out if it was based on a book. A number of books have already been made into films; here are some books that are yet to be brought alive through celluloid:

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Guy Maupassant’s ‘Bel Ami’, this is they story about journalist Georges Duroy’s corrupt rise to the top of power from an ex NCO to a successful man in Paris. He does this by manipulating a series of very wealthy and intelligent mistresses. This novel is about the symphony of love, money and power against a background of the political struggles of the French colonization of North Africa.

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’, this is a story that is based on the authors many travels across America with his friends. I this book is made into a film, it will be very popular largely because the protagonists live out his part of their lives against a back drop of drug use, jazz and poetry. The story is about the fierce personal quests undertaken by five friends looking for belonging and meaning in their lives, during a time in American history when conformity was encouraged and non conformists were considered as social rejects and outcasts.

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The power of the Dog by Don Winslow is another book that inexplicably has not been turned into a film as yet. This is an explosive story about the drug trade, that is riddled with betrayal, bloody revenge and corruption and how Art Montana, a DEA agent, gets caught up in this world. The story shows the lives of four people and how they live in the Mexican Drug Federation.

Hollywood loves a good family movie, so the Easter Parade by Richard Yates tells of the lives of the troubled Grimes sisters- Sarah and Emily- and the enthralling stories that take place in their lives across the thirties and the seventies till the death of Sarah.

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