# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/61 "2019-03-14T03:26:29Z")
I heard about this on Fresh Air today. Years ago, Salvador Dali met Harpo Marx. They were each other’s idols. Afterwards, Dali wrote a treatment for a movie he called “Giraffes on Horseback Salad” and sent it to Harpo. It was, apparently, intensely surrealistic and bizarre. The long-lost movie treatment has been found and is now available to read (sorry, I don’t know how to get it, but check out the Fresh Air podcast and they probably say). Anyway, I would invest money in such a film, provided they were to produce it faithfully to what Dali wrote. ---
**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 14, 2019, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/62 "2019-03-14T08:10:53Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > 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? I think the fact that it depicts their gods as squabbling buffoons and their religions as scams might cause a certain level of offense. And yes, I know they’re not \*literally \*supposed to be the Hundu deities and the Buddha - I doubt the extremists will care that much for the distinction. For those not familiar with the book: at some point in the future, human refugees travel to a distant, dangerous planet, led by people with various forms of psychic powers. Centuries later, humanity is living in a pre-industrial civilization, ruled by their old leaders, who have taken the mantles of Hindu deities (Brahma, Shiva, Kali et al) and control the planet through their use of advanced technology, particularly a form of life-extension that consists of growing new bodies and transferring peoples’ consciousness into them - a process they call “reincarnation”. The protagonist is a superpowered former leader who refuses to take part in this new pantheon, instead rebelling by portraying himself as Siddhartha, the Buddha. Chaos ensues. It’s actually a really good book - fast-moving, funny and surprisingly lyrical at times, like all of Zelazny’s best work. It’s just that the justifiable criticism a movie would receive in the West for its cultural appropriation will be nothing compared to the anger it will cause elsewhere in the world for what people will see a mockery of Hinduism and Buddhism. We may have a warm and fuzzy view of these religions, but actually, they have just as many devout believers and religious fanatics as Islam or Christianity, with just as little of a sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/63 "2019-03-14T08:55:08Z")
I’d love to see [_Inverted World_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_World) made into a movie. There would be some really riveting action when one of the main characters has a close encounter with death, some great CGI with the city moving on railroad tracks (_The Wandering Earth_ copied that idea), physical transformation of characters, and the beginning of the flick should start with the novel’s classic line: > [@Helward Mann](#): > > I had reached the age of 650 miles. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/64 "2019-03-14T13:39:07Z")
Well, I’ve worked out the characters, plot, etc. of my script for “_[Fatberg Apocalypse](https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/9131/is-the-fatberg-apocalypse-upon-us/): The Movie_”. Just waiting for Hollywood to call. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/65 "2019-03-14T13:41:23Z")
Bob Dylan’s song “Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts” has been sold to be made as a movie three times. So far, nothing, and that is not right. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/66 "2019-03-14T18:06:01Z")
> [@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!!! There were two, actually. More Wild Wild West, and The Wild Wild West Revisited. Those were from the day when they did reunion movies, “where are they now” movies, with he original cast, or at least as many as were still alive. Like “Still The Beaver”, which is a pretty good movie. I miss those kind of movies. I always wanted one for Magnum PI. Trouble is, at least on of them is a bit cheesy. It has the son of Dr Loveless (played by Paul Williams, of course! and why not?) getting revenge by making an atomic bomb. It also has Shields and Yarnell as robots. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/67 "2019-03-14T23:59:08Z")
[QUOTE=Ethilrist;21536600 Also, _Wild Cards,_ done as… something. Miniseries? Bunch of movies? Regular TV series?[/QUOTE] Wild Cards became such a sickening downward spiral of the authors seeing who could torture their characters the most that it eventually became, for me, unreadable. It is an example of an idea for a shared universe that became a shared perversion instead. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/68 "2019-03-15T00:23:09Z")
I would like to see a good move about American submariners in WW2. They did a fantastic job, especially considering the POS torpedoes they had to use at the war’s start, sinking 202 Japanese military ships and 6 million tons of Japanese shipping. Sadly, few Americans seem to be aware of their record nowadays. I would also like to see a good movie or mini-series about Reconstruction Texas. Just Asking Questions: I remember the first of those movies. I thought it was pretty good. It was certainly much better than the recent WWW movie. Harry Morgan had a role in it as well. Alessan, it’s been awhile since I read LOL, but I think the ending would offend Christian fundamentalists as well. So what? Both it and _Creatures of Light and Darkness_ would make wonderful movies if done right. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/69 "2019-03-15T01:37:46Z")
Weekend at Bernie’s 3, if it had been made shortly after Weekend at Bernie’s 2 was released. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/70 "2019-03-15T02:07:51Z")
I’d like to see my Doctor Who fanfiction novel _The Tudor Queen_ made into a movie. In it, the Doctor visits the Court of King Henry VIII. Henry decides that the Doctor’s teenage companion Lisa from Chicago will be his next queen instead of Jane Seymour. Hijinks ensue. Too bad Keith Mitchell is dead, and Tom Baker’s so damn old. And I’m too frickin’ old to play Lisa as I envisioned it when I wrote it in my twenties. Still, maybe Jodie Whittaker could combine the two roles… Nah, wouldn’t work. Next incarnation maybe, unless they decide to make the new Doctor a horse or something. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/71 "2019-03-15T17:12:22Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > 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. That was awesome, Carelton even does the dance! ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/72 "2019-03-16T22:07:33Z")
I would love to see Childhood’s End done properly, though I would keep Charles Dance as the same Karellen. Unfortunately the mini-series seemed to deviate from the novel just on principle. I also think that the Battle of Leyte Gulf would make an incredible movie, if done properly. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/73 "2019-03-18T00:46:57Z")
> [@velomont](#): > > I would love to see Childhood’s End done properly, though I would keep Charles Dance as the same Karellen. Unfortunately the mini-series seemed to deviate from the novel just on principle. I think it’s a given that Hollywood _ **HAS** _ to always put the filmmaker’s auteur stamp on all adaptations. ☹ ---
**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 18, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/74 "2019-03-18T01:11:45Z")
I’d like to see **This Island Earth** done with more faithfulness top Raymond F. Jones’ novel. Aside from the opening “Figure out how to build the Interociter” segment, they basically threw out the novel and wrote a new script that seemed to be based on science fiction magazine covers. But they even managed to screw up the Interociter section – the Metalunans give Cal the schematic and all the parts. All he has to do is assemble it like an interstellar Heathkit. In the novel (and the original short story) all he gets is the catalog, and no blueprints. The Test consists of his doping out how the thing goes together from the descriptions of the parts. He even has to rebuild one of the parts. Also in the original story are descriptions of some of the other Tests sent to engineers at Rydberg, in Mechanical Engineering and other disciplines, and how those other engineers failed at the Tests. But after that the two seriously part company. It really doesn’t make any sense for aliens as far ahead of us to rely on Earth scientists to do R&D for them – they were basically hiring the scientists as semi-skilled labor to build Interociters and other devices, freeing their OWN scientists to do R&D. The film never explains the title – “This Island Earth”. The title draws the analogy between the inhabitants of Earth being drawn into a larger interstellar conflict, as the inhabitants of Polynesia were drawn into World War II, with many of the locals helping out by building airstrips and the like. That’s what the Metalunans were asking the Earth scientists to do. But I guess the filmmakers thought that was too demeaning a role for Earth. then, of course, there was the idiocy of the “Thermal Barrier” (I think they discovered that playing a blowtorch over a metal spaceship model made a cool effect) and the “conditioning tubes” (which not only don’t make sense, but are inconsistent. After you’ve been through the treatment, you ought by rights to go into a completely different environment), and, worst of all, the “Metalunan Mutants”. I’m sure they were only there because they looked “science fiction”. I wouldn’t mind if you had them, but off in the background somewhere, and plausibly explained. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/75 "2019-03-18T02:47:27Z")
I occasionally make movie posters of films I’d like to see made, some of which are purely my own ideas, some are of existing IP. [Here](https://www.deviantart.com/guanolad/art/What-if-there-was-a-sequel-to-BMX-Bandits-789286451) [are](https://www.deviantart.com/guanolad/art/Fortune-and-Glory-movie-poster-780096733) [a](https://www.deviantart.com/guanolad/art/Goldilocks-Poster-636482814) [few](https://www.deviantart.com/guanolad/art/Pressure-Posters-635886207) [on](https://www.deviantart.com/guanolad/art/Stamp-Of-Approval-Poster-692234364) [my](https://www.deviantart.com/guanolad/art/Pac-Man-Movie-Poster-635876246) [DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/guanolad/gallery/) including a few Star Wars Story ideas. Feel free to make up your own plot for them, though I always have one in mind for them as I put them together, and sometimes even try to write them. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/76 "2019-03-18T03:44:15Z")
Not a movie, but a TV series, and I can’t find info for where it stands today, but Lord of Light does seem to have [gotten a green light](https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-ton-of-scifi-books-are-coming-to-tv-including-kurt-v-1797025507). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/77 "2019-03-18T13:41:10Z")
I just read Harlan Ellison’s short story “Soft Monkey.” My three thoughts were: 1. Get the movie rights 2. Get it together 3. Get Whoopi Whoopi Goldberg as the protagonist of that story would be phenomenal. ---
**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 18, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/78 "2019-03-18T14:31:14Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I occasionally make movie posters of films I’d like to see made, some of which are purely my own ideas, some are of existing IP. [Here](https://www.deviantart.com/guanolad/art/What-if-there-was-a-sequel-to-BMX-Bandits-789286451) [are](https://www.deviantart.com/guanolad/art/Fortune-and-Glory-movie-poster-780096733) [a](https://www.deviantart.com/guanolad/art/Goldilocks-Poster-636482814) [few](https://www.deviantart.com/guanolad/art/Pressure-Posters-635886207) [on](https://www.deviantart.com/guanolad/art/Stamp-Of-Approval-Poster-692234364) [my](https://www.deviantart.com/guanolad/art/Pac-Man-Movie-Poster-635876246) [DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/guanolad/gallery/) including a few Star Wars Story ideas. Feel free to make up your own plot for them, though I always have one in mind for them as I put them together, and sometimes even try to write them. When I was on a panel about the John Carter movie several years ago, I wore a T-shirt with a picture of the imagined poster for **John Carter and the Gods of Mars** , which I think I got from DeviantArt. That’s another movie I’d like to see made. I LIKED the **John Carter** movie. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/79 "2019-03-18T15:55:43Z")
I’d like to see the Sherlock Holmes/James Bond-style adventures Isaac Newton got into when he became Master of the Mint and cracked down on all the counterfeiters in England. > [@Wikipedia](#): > > As Warden, and afterwards as Master, of the Royal Mint, Newton estimated that 20 per cent of the coins taken in during the Great Recoinage of 1696 were counterfeit. Counterfeiting was high treason, punishable by the felon being hanged, drawn and quartered. Despite this, convicting even the most flagrant criminals could be extremely difficult, however, Newton proved equal to the task. > > Disguised as a habitué of bars and taverns, he gathered much of that evidence himself. For all the barriers placed to prosecution, and separating the branches of government, English law still had ancient and formidable customs of authority. Newton had himself made a justice of the peace in all the home counties. A draft letter regarding the matter is included in Newton’s personal first edition of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which he must have been amending at the time. Then he conducted more than 100 cross-examinations of witnesses, informers, and suspects between June 1698 and Christmas 1699. Newton successfully prosecuted 28 coiners. It would make a good series of short stories or a novel as well. Perhaps even a graphic novel. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/80 "2019-03-18T16:01:17Z")
Could interesting movies be made from Robert Heinlein’s novels? Or are they too weird or dated to work? (I was thinking I’d like to see Glory Road filmed.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042.md?page=5)