# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/121 "2019-04-03T23:26:46Z")
**National Treasure III**! There’s been a flurry of articles toying with fans the past couple of months, insisting that the project isn’t actually dead. I won’t hold my breath…but I really do want to see it. The novel [**Sweetgirl**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32875680-sweetgirl?from_search=true) by Travis Mulhauser would make an awesome action flick (hopefully a considerably better one than the adaptation of Hold the Dark). I picture Lola Flanery as Percy James, Sam Elliott as Portis Dale, and Tom Stevens as Shelton Potter. And I’ve always wished that there could be a alien story set in medieval times. Here’s a UFO landing, there are aliens creeping though the night, here’s an alien shapeshifting to impersonate Uther Pendragon… ---
**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, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/122 "2019-04-03T23:34:40Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > With a name like that, I’d expect the movie to be about zombies with guns. Much cooler. But then you’d be able to take their guns away. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/123 "2019-04-04T02:33:49Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Miserable? Sir Samuel Vimes, Lord Commander of the Watch, Duke of Ankh-Morpork? The cigar-chomping maniac who’s such a badass that even the Assassin’s Guild won’t issue contracts against him? That guy? The guy who when one of his boobytraps dumped an assassin into a cesspool, and the assassin said that at least it wasn’t fatal, replied “Oh it’s fatal _eventually_, when you get too tired to tread water anymore.” ---
**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:** [April 4, 2019, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/124 "2019-04-04T10:18:13Z")
A live-action miniseries of **Miracleman** by Alan Moore (and then Neil Gaiman). God only knows what sorting out the copyright issues would be like, though. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/125 "2019-04-04T15:02:31Z")
Thomas Tryon’s novel Lady deserves to have a good movie made of it. If it’s done soon, the leading role of Woody should be played by Montana Jordan (Young Sheldon’s Georgie) ---
**Author:** ![pmwgreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmwgreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmwgreen)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042/126 "2019-04-04T17:20:40Z")
Ron Goulart has a series of “Groucho Marx as detective” novels that I think would be perfect for Jon Stewart. They are set in the late 30’s and revolve around various radio shows that Groucho worked on. He rarely wears the “Groucho” make-up and it’s sort of a running gag that nobody knows who he is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-youd-like-to-see-made-thread/831042.md?page=6)