I think The Rolling Stones would make a good movie. I think you could do it on a relatively modest budget.
Possibly Space Cadet. Maybe Red Planet or Between Planets.
I would like to see Starship Troopers done by someone who didn’t hate the book.
I’d like to see a historically faithful western based on the Battle of the Little Bighorn. I know there have been attempts before, but none of them were even close to accurate (see They Died With Their Boots On, Custer of the West, Little Big Man, etc).
With the available CGI nowadays, it should be possible to show several thousand Sioux and Cheyenne warriors descending upon Custer and his troops in a most impressive and horrific way.
It should also be possible to make a movie where neither whites nor natives are shown as heroes or villains, but that seems like a little too much to hope for.
I remarked above that I thought Double Star would make a good film. Someone else suggested the Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which I’ve also suggested in the past. I think that The Puppet Masters would make a good film if they actually played it straight, instead of switching it to the present day, as they did in the 1980s adaptation.
Door Into Summer would probably get you lynched, in today’s climate.
I think you might be on to something.
And rightfully so. REH was one sick puppy.
My brother and I agree on very few things, and one of them is that they need to make the Pern series into a movie.
Hey, I LOVED the John Carter movie! I was hoping for a long running franchise.
I’d like to see a series of Retief of the CDT movies. CGI could give us believable Groaci. A young Tom Selleck would have made a great Retief, but I don’t know who should be cast these days. Somebody young-but-not-too-young, suave, handsome, and with a touch of sarcasm.
I’d also love to see a series of Demon Princes movies. Each of the five novels would make a great standalone film.
Long ago we had a thread (I think I started it) about who to cast in the hypothetical Bored of the Rings movie. That would still be a good idea!
I would like to see The Ballad of Halo Jones starring Saoirse Ronan.
Did I imagine a Smallest Dragonboy animated short from the 80s? Can’t seem to find anything online…
i wanted a jack benny bio, but the guy who was perfect for the role isnt making it easy.
I’ve always thought Vaughn Meader’s story would make for an interesting movie. He was a wildly popular comedian who produced a very successful Grammy-winning album in 1962. (Actually, make that the “fastest-selling pre-Beatles album ever,” according to Wikipedia) His act basically consisted of his impersonation of JFK and his gentle ribbing of the Kennedy family.
Meader was on top of the world when he woke up on November 22, 1963. By mid-afternoon he was finished, his career was over. No more TV appearances, no more albums, nothing. He tried to make a few comebacks but was not successful. He died in 2004.
His rise and (very sudden) fall might make for a compelling flick.
I mentioned this in another thread recently, but I think it’s worth saying again.
Zorro Rides Again. Jimmy Vegas, a descendant of the original Don Diego de la Vega, fights corruption in high places in contemporary Los Angeles. He rides a black motorbike.
It might even be worth a spin-off TV series. I’d write it myself if I had any writing talent at all.
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. Still, it could be done.
I’d like to see the book “Consider Phlebas” as a movie.
I spent ages hoping for a film adaptation of Mortal Engines and then Peter Jackson came along and removed everything that made the story worthwhile, so be careful what you wish for.
You’d need someone capable of communicating a dark, twisted and surreal vision in the most concise and coherent way possible. But who…?
…oh yeah, that’d do nicely for HoL.
I haven’t read the book, but the mini-series was awful. I can only assume that the book makes more sense.
I’m thinking Amazon/Netflix series. It’s already episodic with a long character arc. A film would cut out too much; a series would be more appropriate.
Still waiting for Dream Park: The Movie. Preferably written by someone other than Niven and Barnes. Or, again, a series.
Pern, yes!!
Also the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.
And some of the City Watch stories from Discworld.
It’s been stuck in development hell for decades but I’d dearly love to A Confederacy of Dunces get a proper, big screen treatment. It seems like every time an actor gets attached to the role of Ignatius J. Reilly, he dies. John Belushi, John Candy, Chris Farley and Phillip Seymour Hoffman all at least talked about want to play Ignatius and all dies too young. Hoffman in particular would have been brilliant in the role.
If I ever get stupidly wealthy, I’m going to throw about $50,000,000 at the project and hope that gets something going.
I’ve never read A Confederacy of Dunces but the whole story of its writing, the author’s suicide and the subsequent efforts by his mother to get the book published would make a worthwhile movie.
BTW, another one I’d like to finally see on the big screen in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. Like A Confederacy of Dunces, there have been multiple attempts at a film adaptation. (And given that the fictional subject is the early days of the comic book industry, it might be of particular interest today because of the domination of the box office by movies based on comic books and graphic novels.)
And that’s another movie that is supposedly in the works. Butterfly in the Typewriter is based on the book by the same name about the writing and publishing of CoD. This movie at least has a director and cast attached (with some big names), so maybe it will happen.