# Another "movie you'd like to see made" thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 13, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042 "2019-03-13T02:59:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/41 "2019-03-13T19:24:07Z")
There have to be at least two sequels and you know it! I’m not saying they’d be any _good_, mind you… ---
**Author:** ![pmwgreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmwgreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmwgreen)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/42 "2019-03-13T19:40:59Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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. The BBC has just done a ten episode series of podcasts of Charles Dexter Ward. I haven’t listened to it, but it’s free. [The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w/episodes/player) What ever happened to Fredric Brown? He ought to be another Philip K. Dick, as far as the adaptability of his writing goes. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/43 "2019-03-13T19:49:34Z")
_Aliens vs Predator_, done with the first Dark Horse graphic novel story. It’s set in the future on a colony outpost. A Predator ship swings by and seeds xenomorph eggs so the Predators can come and hunt them. The xenos infect the local wild life, and also the colonists. Surviving colonists are struggling to battle the xenos when the Predators come along and a three-way battle opens up. It’s a far better story than the horseshit coming out of Hollywood in these settings, and I think brings back some of the scary elements with both the xenos and Predators, which of late, has just become cartoony. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/44 "2019-03-13T20:02:57Z")
> [@pmwgreen](#): > > The BBC has just done a ten episode series of podcasts of Charles Dexter Ward. I haven’t listened to it, but it’s free. > [The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w/episodes/player) > > What ever happened to Fredric Brown? He ought to be another Philip K. Dick, as far as the adaptability of his writing goes. I agree. I’m a huge fan of Brown. Apparently they’ve done a few adaptations of his mysteries (one with Gypsy Rose Lee!), but I’ve never seen any of them. They did a TERRIBLE adaptation of his novel _Martian go Home!_, and Star Trek did an “adaptation” of his story _Arena_ that really wasn’t (which is why I list it above as one I’d really like to see). Besides that, Brown is, like Sheckley, one of the most ripped-off writers there is. I think his novel _The Mind Thing_ (which he wrote as something to be filmed in Hollywood) got stolen by _Outer Limits_ for one of their episodes. I wouldn’t mind seeing a GOOD adaptation of _The Mind Thing_ or _The Screaming Mimi_ or _The Fabulous Clipjoint_ or _Knock 3 - 2 - 1_. Or, of course, _Arena_. ---
**Author:** ![spifflog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/45 "2019-03-13T20:26:55Z")
I’d love to see a “Wild Wild West” movie, because I loved the TV show as a kid and there has never been a WWW movie. No there has not! No, no, no, no, NO!!! ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/46 "2019-03-13T20:42:40Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Roger Zelazney’s Lord of Light. Today, people would probably throw a tantrum about cultural appropriation. I’d still like to see it. Especially if they used some of Jack Kirby’s designs for costumes and architecture. Finieous Fingers. It should contain lots of homages to the classic modules, like the Temple of Elemental Evil, and the Giant/Drow/Queen of the Demonweb series. Some of the second-string sword-and-sorcery characters, like Elric, Kyrik, and Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. Some of the old matinee serials, done as cable series. _Flash Gordon_ or _Buck Rogers_, with a _Game of Thrones_ budget. _Dick Tracy_ or _The Shadow_, done with a _Boardwalk Empire_ budget. A movie where Fu Manchu and Nayland Smith are opponents, but both are sympathetic characters. Set it in a neutral country, with a scorpions-in-a-bottle scenario. There is talk of Chris Hemsworth playing Doc Savage. I am less concerned with the actor. I want it to have a good writer and director. ---
**Author:** ![pmwgreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmwgreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmwgreen)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/47 "2019-03-13T20:51:40Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I wouldn’t mind seeing a GOOD adaptation of _The Mind Thing_ or _The Screaming Mimi_ or _The Fabulous Clipjoint_ or _Knock 3 - 2 - 1_. Or, of course, _Arena_. An anthology series like Electric Dreams. Must include “The Moon For a Nickel” ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/48 "2019-03-13T21:03:47Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > But I have always thought you can’t have puppeteers talk like sex goddesses. It’s OK in the books, but I don’t think it would work in real life. Oh, I think it would be absolutely doable. It was pretty unnerving to humans in the books IIRC. Good call on the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stuff. I think the books’ somewhat tongue-in-cheek style and characterization of those two would lend themselves to action-comedy fantasy TV movies extremely well. I know there’s been a lot of talk about it coming to film or TV, but John Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War” books could make for a good film, or better yet, a limited TV series a-la Game of Thrones. And I’d LOVE a continuation of the Hornblower films. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/49 "2019-03-13T21:04:01Z")
Highlander II 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/50 "2019-03-13T21:12:44Z")
“… if done right” is the unspoken assumption, correct? _Hyperion_ as a 8-part mini-series, 2-hour episodes each. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/51 "2019-03-13T21:23:22Z")
> [@spifflog](#): > > I’d love to see a “Wild Wild West” movie, because I loved the TV show as a kid and there has never been a WWW movie. > > No there has not! No, no, no, no, NO!!! Of course there wasn’t. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/52 "2019-03-13T23:20:27Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Today, people would probably throw a tantrum about cultural appropriation. I suspect the bigger problem would be that Hindus and Buddhists would find the story offensive - like, \*really \*offensive. I’ve been a fan of Zelazny since I was 9 years old, and while I love LoL, I reached the conclusion decades ago that it is sadly unfilmable. Now, _Creatures of Light and Darkness_, on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/53 "2019-03-14T00:27:28Z")
I never thought I needed a movie version of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, until I saw this [fan-made trailer for the (non-existent) movie Bel-Air](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAfJpyBgcgA), imagining what it would look like if Will Smith made it today. This is professional-grade material. Someone needs to fund it now. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/54 "2019-03-14T00:34:00Z")
> [@Airk](#): > > Someone should make a version of The Hobbit someday. The animated one is nice as far as it goes, but we can do better. > > What? Maybe get Guillermo del Toro to direct? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/55 "2019-03-14T01:38:21Z")
Here’s the IMDb entry for Bad Blood, the Theranos movie: > **[Bad Blood - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5795144/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2)** > > Bad Blood: Directed by Adam McKay. With Jozanne Marie, Mike Gassaway. Entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes creates a bio-tech company that skyrockets her to fame with an estimated value in the billions. When federal agencies begin investigating the company,... ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/56 "2019-03-14T01:43:34Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > …[Waves magic wand]And your wish is fulfilled: [The Last Sharknado: It's About Time - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Sharknado:_It%27s_About_Time) Sorry I missed it! Maybe “Sharknado 7”? Sharks on Proxima Centauri, or something? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/57 "2019-03-14T01:47:21Z")
> [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#): > > I just listened to a podcast about the Elizabeth Holmes - [Theranos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos) debacle, [The Dropout.](http://abcradio.com/podcasts/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. There’s a book about this, and I recently heard on a C-SPAN interview with the author that a movie is in the planning stages, and guess who the studio wants for the lead? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/58 "2019-03-14T02:44:18Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I suspect the bigger problem would be that Hindus and Buddhists would find the story offensive - like, \*really \*offensive. I’ve been a fan of Zelazny since I was 9 years old, and while I love LoL, I reached the conclusion decades ago that it is sadly unfilmable. > > Now, _Creatures of Light and Darkness_, on the other hand… I read Lord of Light long ago and it seemed like a pop western view of eastern philosophy at the time it was written. I mostly just rolled my eyes throughout the whole book. I am not asking you to cite text or anything, but just wondering what about the story is blatantly offensive? ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/59 "2019-03-14T02:54:33Z")
The _Gatchaman_ anime is way due for a proper cinematic treatment IMO. If we can do 10 Avengers movies, Gatchaman could easily rate at least 2. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/60 "2019-03-14T03:14:20Z")
I’d like to see the original _Dark Knight_ series by Frank Miller, done as a mini-series. Also, _Wild Cards,_ done as… something. Miniseries? Bunch of movies? Regular TV series? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042.md?page=4)