I nominate Idiocracy 2: Darwin’s Revenge. The children of the first movie’s characters restore intelligence as a trait favored for selection by deliberately introducing lots and lots of ways for really stupid people to accidentally kill themselves.
I would like to see a movie, or mini-series, made from the main plot line of Fallout New Vegas. Most of the companions would have to be eliminated or reduced to cameo roles for famous faces; but, I’d like to see Cass retained as a major character.
I think Idiocracy deserves a second chance, but as a television show, not a movie.
I’d like to see a movie based on the cyberpunk novel Neuromancer.
A post-apocalyptic rock opera based on the music of Duran Duran, called Seven and the Ragged Tiger.
Sharknado 6.
a movie based on Metrophage by Richard Kadrey
its more topical now than when he wrote it and 4 years later when i read ir in 91 …
But it would have to be animated theres no way you could have sets that huge and the effectsit would need …
…[Waves magic wand]And your wish is fulfilled: The Last Sharknado: It's About Time - Wikipedia
John DeChancie wrote three books, “Starrigger”, “Red Limit Freeway”, and “Paradox Alley” about a “skyway” that connects different planets in different galaxies. It has alien planets with alien enviroments, alien races and also has a huge time travel aspect. I would love to see this as a mini-series, filmed in its entirety a la LOTR, then released in three seasons.
I’d like to see Little Fuzzy (the original, not the newer John Scalzi version—I like the new one but the classic is my favorite). I think CGI is advanced enough now to make the Fuzzies believable, and they’d make a fortune from merchandising alone.
I’d like to see an updated remake of “Valley of Gwangi” which is a cheesy but thoroughly entertaining movie set in the late 19th century down in Mexico where some circus cowboys come across a forgotten valley with dinosaurs. They capture a T-Rex and use it in the circus. You can imagine what happens. This movie predates Jurassic Park by 25 years but I think I know where Spielberg got some of his inspiration.
I’m still a bit disappointed that they didn’t use the story of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, the awesome 90s point-and-click adventure, for the fourth Indy movie. That would have been a lot better than what we ended up with (even though it might not have worked as well time-wise with Harrison Ford as old as he was).
I have an example of a possible movie that shows that every day one encounters a story of a person whose life was fascinating enough that a film could be made from it. There was a moderately well-known poet named Frances Dean Smith. She was once romantically involved with the very well-known poet Charles Bukowski. Bukowski has had a movie made about him, and Smith’s life is more interesting, I think:
I’m reminded of her at the moment because I just went to a talk by Liza Mundy, the author of the book Code Girls, and two other scholars who have been researching the same topic as that book. The book is about women who worked for the American military, sometimes in the military and sometimes as civilians, on codebreaking during World War II. There were thousands of such women, and security rules meant most of them never had a chance to tell the story of what they did during the rest of their lives. I asked Mundy and the scholars if they had ever encountered the name of Frances Dean Smith in their research, but they hadn’t:
Smith was born in California (and her maiden name was just Frances Dean, of course), but her family soon moved to the eastern U.S. She spent two years at Smith College (no, she was no relation to the founder of that college) and then in 1942 she joined the army. She then spent several years in or around Washington, D.C., where, as she was only able to tell her family long afterwards, she was a codebreaker. She married a man who also worked as a codebreaker whose name was Wray Smith. They were married for fifteen or so years and had four daughters, but then the marriage broke up.
Apparently she was thoroughly disgusted at what a total jerk her husband was. She just walked out on him one day and moved to California. She apparently told him that now he could spend his time taking care of their daughters, since he did nothing around the house while they were married. Ever since she had been in high school, she had been writing and selling poetry, using the pen name FranceEyE. In California she met some of the poets whose works she had been reading for years.
She soon became romantically involved with Charles Bukowski. She became pregnant, basically because she was 41 years old and figured she no longer had to worry about birth control. She decided she didn’t want to marry Bukowski, but she moved in with him and had the baby, which was a girl. Although Bukowski had a bunch of other wives and girlfriends, this girl was his only child. She moved out after three years (because Bukowski was a weird guy) and took care of their daughter by herself. She died in 2009.
Incidentally, I only learned about Smith because I had a conversation a year and a half ago with a granddaughter of her (that is, her mother was one of the four daughters from the marriage). She told me that both her grandmother and her grandfather were codebreakers in World War II. I did some Internet research afterwards and discovered most of the information above. If anyone out there is interested in the story of Frances Dean Smith and makes a movie about her, well, hey, I’m the one who came up with the idea, so I get a cut of the gross.
I just listened to a podcast about the Elizabeth Holmes - Theranos debacle, The Dropout.
Essentially, a 19 year old girl wanted to be the next Steve Jobs, so she got a lot of seriously relevant people investing in a magical, science fiction device that would allow for blood tests without a lab.
The problem is, of course, such technology, or anything close to it, doesn’t exist.
It’s a deeply unsettling yet fascinating look at the way corporations function. I’m thinking Jennifer Lawrence for the lead. At least it should have a TV show.
Definitely this! I’ve read through the series several times and considered them a perfect basis for video. Not a single movie, however, needs to be a reasonable-quality series. Netflix?
Rendezvous with Rama – I know they’ve been considering this, but it would make a great flick. With CGI, it’s be beautiful. It could be like 2001, but with more human interaction. Like 2010 was, but without the pompous voice-overs.
Fredric Brown’s Arena, done right, for once, as a movie, and without narration or voice-overs. I’ve filmed it in my head countless times. With CGI it can finally be done properly.
I, Robot, with Harlan Ellison’s Asimov-approved script, dammit!
Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. I know it’s been done before. Badly. This is a highly atmospheric novel that doesn’t require familiarity with the whole Cthulhu mythos, and you could do a great job with it.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – my perennial item for these lists. It’s been done a ton of times. Not one version has had Twain’s wit or satire in it. You CAN do this without being offensive, and the downer parts at the end need not ruin the whole thing.
Robert Heinlein’s Double Star, or one of his other works. Every Heinlein work that has been brought to the screen has been a sore disappointment (and that includes the two he himself scripted, Destination Moon and Operation Moonbase, although those showed traces of his literary brilliance). But for Og’s sake, I don’t recommend Stranger in a Strange Land.
Andrew Vachss’s Burke novels deserve to be made into movies.
And the song Bohemian Rhapsody would make a great movie. Not about Queen, but the actual story in the song.
ETA: I’d like to see the Avenue Q cast and puppets combined with the Muppets for the next Muppet movie. Ain’t gonna happen.
I think technically, it’s an Allosaurus, based on the three fingered-hands and the relative size compared to the cowboys. But yes, an updated version would be great!
There has to be some genius filmmaker out there that can adapt House of Leaves.
Transmetropolitan, a comic/graphic novel series by Warren Ellis.
Then if that works, adapt “Castle Perilous.” 144,000 doors…