Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

Moving Books

You've been given a full budget and creative license to bring a book you read to film. What book would you pick and who would you cast as the characters? If you choose a book with an existing movie adaptation, what changes would you make?

MOVING STORIES

Movie Quote: "Just keep swimming" - Finding Nemo, 2003
https://www.infoplease.com/culture-entertainment/film/top-100-movie-quotes

What fun this would be. I guess I would choose to make an epic. Wikipedia says Chesapeake by James Mitchner covers 400 years of history. No one ever tried to make a movie of it, because of the amount of historical time it covers. I think with a full budget and creative license it could be done and the story has everything--rivers, Indians, several different wars, plantations, church problems, settlers, ship building, pirates, moving history.

The difficult part would be the parts that show the spiritual struggle of the colonies, catholic settlers vs. protestants vs. Quakers vs. Indians. The changes in a sociological movement as people learned to live in America instead of Europe. How they were schooled. How owning their own ships spurred a freedom of movement they had never known.

It would be important to show the movement of time. Changes in living conditions as time marched forward. Changes in abilities to school children as time moved forward. Specifics about the way the war between England and the colonies evolved. Ideas and attitudes.

As for actors there is a lot of room for many different characters. I'm not good at picking character actors though. So, I'll leave it up in the air for now.

I looked up some names here are some of them that I would try out in parts to see if they fit. Johnny Depp, Jeff Bridges, Terrance Morgan, Colin Firth and females Hallie Berry, Kate Winslet, Charlize Theron, Zoe Saldana. I saw more but, it would require some specific parts for specific people and more thought than I'm going to put in to it today.

I'd like to read the script in view of making it into a movie, that would do some justice to the Book. A serious story with a view to entertain. Wouldn't be easy, but fun, and maybe even profitable if done right.

Little cartoon ships to introduce segments of time. An epic in the making.