# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/101 "2019-03-19T15:09:09Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I would love a live action Mass Effect movie. I am a little surprised this hasn’t happened TBH. Nah, Mass Effect needs a TV series. I wrote a treatment and built out a season one time when I was bored at work. It took place in the three years Shepard was dead and followed a group of corsairs (the thing Jacob was) as they go around finding out what’s happening to the human colonists. They eventually run into Cerberus and transform their original mission into a covert thing for the Alliance and action ensues. It would have been totally progressive too because most of the main cast is female with only one male crew member. It was pretty awesome if I say so myself. ---
**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 19, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/102 "2019-03-19T15:31:12Z")
I’d like to see an “art” film made of _Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight_. You could do a pretty decent job of it, even without a big budget. they actually did do a big-screen version of it in 1984 under the title _Sword of the Valiant_. Despite having Sean Connery – Sean Connery! – as the Green Knight, they still managed to muck it up. It didn’t help having Miles O’Keefe\* in a Dutch Boy wig playing Sir Gawaine. If you wanted to “sex it up” for a modern audience, have a look art what Thomas Berger\*\* did with the story in his novel **Arthur Rex**. - (“Miles and Miles O’Keefe”, to quote MST3K – he was the forgettable Tarzan in the Bo Derek version of “Tarzan”) \*\*(author of _Little Big Man_, among other books turned into flicks) ---
**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 19, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/103 "2019-03-19T15:40:05Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Nah, Mass Effect needs a TV series. > > I wrote a treatment and built out a season one time when I was bored at work. > > It took place in the three years Shepard was dead and followed a group of corsairs (the thing Jacob was) as they go around finding out what’s happening to the human colonists. They eventually run into Cerberus and transform their original mission into a covert thing for the Alliance and action ensues. > > It would have been totally progressive too because most of the main cast is female with only one male crew member. > > It was pretty awesome if I say so myself. Hi. I’m Commander Shepherd, and this is my least favorite idea in the Citadel. I mean, no offence… but you take the game known for having the best characters in videogame history, and remove all the characters? We already tried a version of _Mass Effect_ without Shepherd. It was called _Andromeda_, and I’m still trying to have all memory of it erased from my cortex. ---
**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 19, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/104 "2019-03-19T15:44:38Z")
Given how unlikely the sources of some movies have been (The Lego Movie, for instance), how about a movie based on SimCity? (I’m not totally serious.) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/105 "2019-03-19T16:10:08Z")
In recent years, there have been a number of movies based on Greek mythology. China has made several based on their folklore. How about the _Kalevala_, or the _Mahabharata_? ---
**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 19, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/106 "2019-03-19T16:20:18Z")
I don’t know about the Kalevala but there have been movies based on the Mahabharata, just not for a Western audience. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/107 "2019-03-19T16:33:53Z")
Oof, I forgot: I want a decent \*Portal/Half-Life \*franchise, done properly. Admittedly a whole franchise based on protagonists that never speak would be a helluva challenge, but the secondary characters do and the non-speaking thing is a feature, not a bug. Plus _Hardcore Henry_ already made a half-decent effort at this kind of thing, so why not? Sadly, rumor has it that JJ Abrams has got a hold of a potential Portal movie, so bang goes that idea. ---
**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 19, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/108 "2019-03-19T17:15:37Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > In recent years, there have been a number of movies based on Greek mythology. Not just in recent years. There have been such films for a very long time. Kirk Douglas made an adaptation of the Odyssey in the 1950s (which featured also a very young Anthony Quinn). Robert Wise made _Helen of Troy_ in the fifties. Ray Harryhausen famously did _Jason and the Argonauts_ in the early 1960s and _Clash of the Titans_, based on Perseus and Medusa, in 1980. In the 1990s Hallmark did adaptations of _Jason and the Argonauts_ and a very good _Odyssey_, both with both CGI effects and live-action effects from Henson’s studios. Henson studios also did a series of Greek myths in its _Storyteller_ series that were surprisingly faithful. There was also _Metamorphosis_ (AKA _Winds of Change_) circa 1980. It was supposed to be a latter-day _Fantasia_, based on Greek mythology and a modern original Rock Score. They actually got some Disney artists to work on it, but the project fell far short, a lot of the Rock musicians pulled out, and they were reduced to having Peter Ustinov narrate it. Then there was _Troy_ I 2004, which was better than I would’ve thought (although with a lot of pointless changes), and _Immortals_ in 2011, and the remake of _Clash of the Titans_ and a sequel, _Wrath of the Titans_. The latter two proved that the filmmakers had no real conception of Greek mythology, but had some fun scenes. (There was also the really odd _Gods of Egypt_ in 2016, with the most un-Egyptian-looking Egyptian gods ever.) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ecks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ecks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ecks)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/109 "2019-03-19T17:36:15Z")
I think that the story of the WWII German saboteurs in America would make a great Cohen brothers dark comedy. Basically everyone in the group planned on stealing the group’s cash and abandoning the mission. When they turned themselves in, Hoover and the FBI didn’t want to admit that they couldn’t catch them themselves, and instead sold it a a triumph. They were hanged- except for the one who went to the FBI first- he was imprisoned and sent back to Germany after the war. The Germans regarded him as a traitor, and the Americans wouldn’t work with him- even though the officer who recruited him and planned the mission became an high official in the occupation authority. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/110 "2019-03-19T18:12:27Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Hi. I’m Commander Shepherd, and this is my least favorite idea in the Citadel. > > I mean, no offence… but you take the game known for having the best characters in videogame history, and remove all the characters? We already tried a version of _Mass Effect_ without Shepherd. It was called _Andromeda_, and I’m still trying to have all memory of it erased from my cortex. Nah, my show is way better than Andromeda. It’s not designed to be a sequel or prequel or whatever…just a parallel story to the Universe. Thinks Agents of SHIELD to the MCU ---
**Author:** ![pmwgreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmwgreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmwgreen)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/111 "2019-03-19T18:43:40Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I’d like to see an “art” film made of _Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight_. You could do a pretty decent job of it, even without a big budget. It could be a good movie, but I’d want Gawaine to be played by someone with a sense of humor. I mean, he steps forward to end a set-to between a drunken King Arthur and the Jolly Green Giant and the whole thing blows up in his face. He spends a year wandering around wondering how he got into that mess. And it’s a Christmas film! The problem is I can’t think of an actor who isn’t too old, or too dull or both. Maybe Ben Mendelsohn? ---
**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 19, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/112 "2019-03-19T19:49:11Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Nah, my show is way better than Andromeda. It’s not designed to be a sequel or prequel or whatever…just a parallel story to the Universe. > > Thinks Agents of SHIELD to the MCU The thing about Agents of SHIELD is that it comes\* in addition\* to the MCU; no-one in their right mind would make Agents of SHIELD _instead of_ the MCU. Why make a random story set in the same universe as _Mass Effect_, when you could make _Mass Effect_? Why do the spin-off before you make the flagship? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/113 "2019-03-19T20:00:10Z")
Movies I’d like to see made? _City Scenes_ and _Making A Living_. They’re scripts I’ve been writing/sitting on for a very long time. I just need the funds, actors, and a crew. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/114 "2019-03-20T05:06:55Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I’ve said it before – I think that Alfred Bester’s _The Stars my Destination_ has a killer opening, which I’ve filmed in my head numerous times. You could adapt the book, although I think you’d have to tinker with it to make it acceptable today. You’d have to drop all the raping the protagonist does, for one thing… ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/115 "2019-03-20T05:10:05Z")
> [@Eclipse\_Chaser](#): > > And some of the City Watch stories from Discworld. [Being made.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watch_(TV_series)) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/116 "2019-04-03T00:49:17Z")
**Cold Dead Hands** Plot - the NRA save the world from the zombie apocalypse. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2019, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/117 "2019-04-03T05:00:49Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > **Cold Dead Hands** > > Plot - the NRA save the world from the zombie apocalypse. With a name like that, I’d expect the movie to be about zombies with guns. Much cooler. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/118 "2019-04-03T10:58:18Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > With a name like that, I’d expect the movie to be about zombies with guns. Much cooler. That’s the twist. The leader of the NRA assault team is a zombie who can pass for one of you. Us, I mean. Us. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/119 "2019-04-03T11:38:22Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > … It didn’t help having Miles O’Keefe\* in a Dutch Boy wig playing Sir Gawaine… > > - (“Miles and Miles O’Keefe”, to quote MST3K – he was the forgettable Tarzan in the Bo Derek version of “Tarzan”) > … How much Keeffe is in this movie?.. Miles O’Keeffe! ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/120 "2019-04-03T11:58:32Z")
As mentioned above…_Ringworld._…except maybe just as a setting for a better story. I believe that there is definitely a franchise opportunity or two from S.M Stirling’s Nantucket Series and/or his Emberverse series, especially the first 3 books starting with _Dies the Fire_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042.md?page=7)