Peter Hyams adapted Ray Bradbury’s classic A Sound of Thunder as a disappointing film, making major changes and skimping on the CGI, but I know that people had been discussing a “Big Game Dinosaur Hunting” movie for a long time. I’ve seen some production sketches of a non-ASoT (pre-ASoT) dino hunting movie. I really would like to see one. You could base it on L. Sprague de Camp’s a Gun for Dinosaur (de Camp’s answer to the numerous scientific errors in A Sound of Thunder) or David Gerrold’s Deathbeast (his Jaws-like version of the idea, with a high and bloody body count), or you could create a completely original story. It’d be great. The Jurassic Park franchise shows that the the whoe CGI dinosaur thing has legs.
A film is already under way, with Jennifer Lawrence as the lead, and written by Adam McKay, and based on the book by John Carreyrou.
Ringworld. With cgi, it could be done. Actually seeing the ring run up and overhead from horizon to horizon would be worth the price of admission.
You say it has no real plot? No problem. Neither did Jurassic Park. it’s just an adventure tale.
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.
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?
Speaking of de Camp, I really wouldn’t mind somebody adapting his Time Travel novel Lest Darkness Fall. It doesn’t even require a big effects budget. and it could have some wonderful funny moments.
I have waited 40 years for this; I figure I have 20-25 more years in me, maybe it’ll finally be made by then.
Otherwise, Id’ like to see someone do Eric Flint’s “Ring of Fire”, where a small W. Virginia town is transported in time to 1631 Germany in the middle of the Thirty Year’s War. With all the historical characters around along with ‘modern’ Americans, it’s a natural in the post-Game of Thrones era. IMHO.
There are still a lot of C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower stories that haven’t been adapted by the movies or by A&E. Ioan Gruffud always said he’d like to keep the series going. Now he’s old enough to play the older Hornblower roles.
Commodore Hornblower, anyone?
Wait, For real?
Damn! I swear I had no idea.
Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress has always been on my list.
We got Alien VS Predator, we got Freddy VS Jason. There was another 80s classic match-up that was up there with those two: Robocop VS Terminator.
Roger Zelazney’s Lord of Light.
I am not sure it can be done because the horror comes from reading the characters description of the events and the madness of the pages, but I would like to see House of Leaves
Dracula was a hit even though it’s horror comes from descriptions of events, so maybe it would work. I imagine Kiefer Sutherland and Sarah Paulson for the leads. Kubrick directing.
ETA: HA! Cuckoorex ninja’d me!
YES! I keep trying to imagine who should play Spider, and after seeing Split I think I’d vote for McAvoy. I know at one point Patrick Stewart was up for it, but I think he’ too old now to play the part, unfortunately.
A live action Thundercats movie.
Argo f yourself!
Weis & Hickman’s Rose of the Prophet trilogy. Partially because I like the story but also because I want to see the reaction to a film where the world-saving heroes are Middle Eastern* and assisted by a gay cross-dressing Christian* wizard who is married to the male hero.
*Well, the barely disguised fantasy world equivalent thereof.
I would like to see a live action Dragonlance movie. The first 6 books would be awesome with some clean up of the cheezier aspects.
I would love a live action Mass Effect movie. I am a little surprised this hasn’t happened TBH.
I would like more WWI movies. It is an interesting period of history that has been virtually ignored.
I would like a period piece remake of the Lost World. Set at the turn of the 20th Century with dinosaurs and lizard Men and giant apes and monsters.
I would like to see An Unnecessary Woman made into a movie. That would be a great one, with a talented adapter.
I think John Varley’s The Golden Globe would work well as a TV series. A tour-de-force across the solar system from Varley’s “Eight Worlds” universe, with enough side stories and flashbacks to fill out at least one good season. High tech wonders, all sorts of niche societies flourishing in varied habitats spread across space, con jobs, adventures, acting, troubled childhoods and coming of ages, post-human body experimentation, it’s got it all.
This. And only this. No sequels.