Kenji Asakura Wrote:I wish, this should be make into a film.

fpw Wrote:Well, a lot of Hollywood people were interested (ie, asking for copies) after reading the PW review but no one made an offer. I wasn't surprised. SIBS would be a very difficult adaptation. Yes, it has its visual moments, but the major conflicts / battles take place inside people's heads--you can't see a struggle for mind control. I suppose there are ways to show that someone else is in control of the character you're seeing on the screen, but it's a tightrope: too subtle and many people won't get it, too obvious and you're into Hokeyville.

jimbow8 Wrote:This is one of the reasons I think The Select would be an excellent movie. It has that struggle for mind control but on a much more visual (filmable) level. Has there been any interest in The Select?

fpw Wrote:A couple of options. One even got as far as a screenplay -- an awful thing with chases and explosions in the finale. And then there was Extreme Measures (the film) which ripped off a lot from the end of The Select.

jimbow8 Wrote:Car chases? Explosions? EGADS, man! The story had a built in chase through the building and across the campus (didn't it? - well, not in cars).

Is that the one with Michael Keaton? I got pretty bored with that movie and must've only been half paying attention because I don't remember anything about it. I saw it before I had read the Select also, so I wouldn't have recognized the references anyway.

Dave Wrote:I think it had Gene Hackman and Hugh Grant in it.

Dave

jimbow8 Wrote:Oh, OK. I know I never saw that one. Is it any good? The one with Michael Keaton is Desperate Measures.