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.
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)
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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?
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