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No such thing as a movie, but there's a short fan film called Something Real: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET8IFxPo61w If I remember correctly, Banks wasn't opposed to someone making a MMORPG based on Culture, I don't know how he felt about films. Maybe it's better Hollywood didn't touch it, the feel of Culture could probably be pulled off only in anime form.

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I've heard rumours of rights being purchased etc, however not to Consider Phlebas. I think given the nature of cgi these days, it wouldn't be that hard to pull off a big budget version of Excession. Which, as I've just noticed was written in 1996. Is it really that old?

Most of the plot in Excession is however done in space-IRC logs and space-emails between Minds, so I'm not sure it would lend itself well to movie form. Player of Games is similar example, lot of what's happening is metaphored using games and would be hard to transfer to screen without breaking the show-don't-tell rule of good movies.

Consider Phlebas would work, I think even Banks himself said that from the Culture series, it's the most Movie-like book. And I think we have some directors crazy enough to do Use of Weapons right, though it would require John Murphy for music ;)

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