1. Someone could do Mohsin Hamid's Exit West SO well, if only we lived in a different media world. I can see two options, one a Cartoon Saloon project a la The Breadwinner, and the other a very carefully cast and delicately handled live-action film with no glowy CGI.
2. Ghibli Earthsea! Someone with animation chops (or alternately the team who did the live action Life of Pi? I could see that) needs to redo it -- but actually do The Tombs of Atuan, unless that's cheating.
3. Ghibli again: Howl's Moving Castle as a book is as thematically, tonally, and plottily different from Howl's Moving Castle as a film as can be, but I love them both intensely and think both of them are perfect in their own way!
4. Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men is much better than PD James' original. Cuarón is a master, the addition of Kee (played by Clare-Hope Ashitey) was necessary imo, and the whole visual language is great.
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2. Ghibli Earthsea! Someone with animation chops (or alternately the team who did the live action Life of Pi? I could see that) needs to redo it -- but actually do The Tombs of Atuan, unless that's cheating.
3. Ghibli again: Howl's Moving Castle as a book is as thematically, tonally, and plottily different from Howl's Moving Castle as a film as can be, but I love them both intensely and think both of them are perfect in their own way!
4. Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men is much better than PD James' original. Cuarón is a master, the addition of Kee (played by Clare-Hope Ashitey) was necessary imo, and the whole visual language is great.