What book would you like to see on the big screen?

“Fly For Your Life”……except nobody would believe it! 😉

I bought that back in 1968, when there were lots of books coming out for the RAF’s 50th Anniversary. Lent it to my cousin and never got it back. :diablo:
One the plus side, I did recently find my copy of Ginger Lacey, Fighter Pilot.

Vulcan 607 😎

I glanced at my copy of Vulcan 607 on the book case in my bedroom this morning and thought that it would make a fantastic film!

It would have been ideal for the likes of the late John Mills, Moggy.

Tramp in Armour it’s the story of the tank and it’s crew’s attempts to rejoin the BEF.

I read that years ago and it is simply brilliant. It would make a great movie and wouldn’t need a huge budget or masses of CGI.

First Light? How could a big screen version improve upon the very passable tele of a year or two back?

Moggy

“Boyd”–about the tortured soul who essentially invented ACM.

There was a bloke on here – ‘NewGuy’ – who was working on a Bob Tuck screenplay. I wonder how he is getting on?

“Fly For Your Life”……except nobody would believe it! 😉

How about a re make of the 1980’s series Airline?
actually based on the books of William Greatorex

“The Big Show”. One of the best.

Roger Rasmussen

for me, “First Light”. Find it so atmospheric, esp Mr Wellum’s days of school, cricket and training. Then comes his part in theatre…

Wonderful book and very well dramatised for TV. Not sure if that could be bettered on the big screen.

I’d love to see a drama based on the stories in Airborne by Neil Williams.

Pastoral by Nevil Shute for me as a tv drama

‘Fifty Shades of Duck-Egg Green’…..a gripping trilogy about what colour the underside of a Spitfire really was! :diablo:

In keeping with originality it be filmed in black and white:D:D:D:D

There has been some very good titles mentioned already…keep them coming lads as you never know who reads these forums.

‘Fifty Shades of Duck-Egg Green’…..a gripping trilogy about what colour the underside of a Spitfire really was! :diablo:

for me, “First Light”. Find it so atmospheric, esp Mr Wellum’s days of school, cricket and training. Then comes his part in theatre…

Failing that, 50 Shades of Grey… absolute filth (so I am led to believe by the other half) 😮

Tramp in Armour
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2228243.Tramp_in_Armor

All about a Matilda tank that gets trapped in a tunnel, when they get out the Germans panzers have past them by chasing the BEF towards the sea, it’s the story of the tank and it’s crew’s attempts to rejoin the BEF.

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Down to a Sunless Sea.. by David Graham. Its no a historic story but it does involve a 5 engined 747 that is mid Atlantic when WW3 begins below them and what happens next.

Great story but as it was produced in 1977 some of is a little bit far fetched..cuban army in Ireland? but some of it is appropriate, for instance America is in a deep financial crisis and the oil has gone.

I remember reading that book …. It was awful! my excuse was that I was doing a long trip at sea on a tanker and had run out of anything else to read!
As regards books I would like to see as films; Night Fighter would do it for me, as long as the Blenheims, Beaufighters and Mosquitos were real and not CGI! Also possibly ‘The Big Show’, but that might raise issues of fact vs. fiction?

Down to a Sunless Sea.. by David Graham. Its no a historic story but it does involve a 5 engined 747 that is mid Atlantic when WW3 begins below them and what happens next.

Great story but as it was produced in 1977 some of is a little bit far fetched..cuban army in Ireland? but some of it is appropriate, for instance America is in a deep financial crisis and the oil has gone.

Round the Bend +1

or The Last Enemy – but with Hillary’s story told by him in flashback on a dark and stormy night at ‘Slaughter Hall’..

“Round the Bend” by Nevil Shute