As an addition to my earlier rant against What to Expect When You're Expecting, here are some more non-fiction, non-story books that should be made into movies.
Guns, Germs and Steel - assuming they don't actually use anything except the title, this could be a great sci-fi action movie.
Freakonomics - Robin Williams as an odd-ball economist who saves the world from the housing crisis
Plato's Republic - remember, The Matrix was loosely based on the Cave Analogy
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - They never did make a sequel to Gladiator
The Guinness Book of Records - and you thought the Jackass movies were great for laughing at people endangering their lives.
The Secret - a great supernatural thriller. How do you stop someone who can make things happen with their mind just by being positive?
The Origin of Species - again, great horror possibilities.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - that's a more sophisticated premise than most Adam Sandler movies
Dianetics - no idea how easy it will be to spin a story about it, but it won't be hard to find people to act in it.
any Malcolm Gladwell book - is it just me, or is he a pair of glasses from being the Literati's Napoleon Dynamite?
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves - who wouldn't want to see a movie about vigilante grammarian Pandas?
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