Mine is killer from the heights by mike jahn. Like too see a 1970s version of Clint Eastwood play the main character.
How about Don Knotts as Raskolnikov?
One series of books that I think would make an excellent series of TV movies is the Bryant and May series by Christopher Fowler. It’s about two very old British detectives who head up the Peculiar Crimes Unit, and who deal with very odd crimes, often bordering on the supernatural.
Arthur Bryant is the elder by a couple of years, very eccentric in his attire and his knowledge of odd things is very extensive. I’d love to see Ian McKellen in that role. And John May is a buttoned-down career crime expert who is also Bryant’s best friend. Patrick Stewart would be perfect for that role. Or maybe they could stretch themselves and switch roles.
Of course if you could get that casting it wouldn’t be a made-for-TV movie.
Weird. In the real world Bryant and May are a matchstick firm.
I’d like someone to take on The Ballad Of Halo Jones, a property from the 2000AD comic book stable. It could easily be adapted into a TV series, and you could get someone like Kiernan Shipka to play her.
I’d also like to see Daisy Ridley play Modesty Blaise.
I love Daisy Ridley, but she’d be all wrong for Modesty Blaise (too young, too English). Someone more like Sofia Boutella, I think, would work.
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie.
From the way the OP is phrased, I take it we can fantasize about using a time machine to get our favorite actors when they were the right age for the part?
The Maltese Falcon
Michael Clark Duncan as Casper Gutman
Gregory Hines as Joel Cairo
Denzel Washington as the detective (probably have to change his surname)
Robert Heinlein’s The Rolling Stones. Maggie Smith as Grandma Hazel.
When I read The Lord of the Rlings, I often visualize Gregory Peck as Aragorn, and Peter Lorre as Gollum.
David Bowie, early 1980s, would have been perfect to play Elric of Melnibone. Today, perhaps Benedict Cumberbatch.
Kristen Schaal in The Filme of Margery Kempe.