An idea pulling in film and tv data

Fran Dowd posted a suggestion for a competition entry over on LibraryThing's Google Groups discussion board.

It is reproduced here with her permission...

I would like a site that linked Library stuff with Film/TV stuff (like being able to merge LibraryThing and imdb.com ).

It's about taking the "work" encompassing "edition" capability to the next level, really.

I'd like to be able to see what movie versions or TV adaptations there had been of any book / play, write / read reviews that specifically referenced the original text and the adaptations and discussed various approaches, looped me back from film to original works, novelisations, graphic novels etc. (And if it could add DVDs to my Amazon rental list at the click of a button, that would be even better.) I'd want to be able to catalogue videos / DVDs in LT and link them to the relevant written work - BladeRunner, Throne of Blood, Importance of Being Earnest, V for Vendetta.

imdb already have a "literature listing" sidebar that lists printed references and original source material, but it isn't always helpful - from the latest Four Feathers adaptation it links to the 2002 reprint of the A E W Mason book at Amazon.com , and it isn't until you go through to Amazon you see a reference to how old it really is. And it doesn't know that Throne of Blood is Macbeth.

Their "movie connections" sidebar is quite good at picking up other film versions, for example it knows that Four Feathers was also Storm Over the Nile, but then if you go to Storm Over the Nile it knows that it's based on the right book, but doesn't have the detail and the link to Amazon that the 2002 version does, presumably because people are adding these by hand on an individual basis. And if the film had a completely different title to the book to begin with, you'd never find it.

Some of this might be do-able within LT anyway, but I wouldn't expect it to have the extra data you could get from a film-specific site - directors as prominent as authors, tracking individual performers and technicians, etc etc.

There may be such a thing already, and I just haven't found it ...

Thank you, Fran. Anyone want to build this?