# I wish they would make a movie of... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 13, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345 "2009-08-13T22:04:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/21 "2009-08-14T12:01:55Z")
Has anyone made a decent movie about the _Wright Brothers_? I can find some that are snippets for documentaries, and I expect there have been a few TV dramas. I even found an animated one. But has there been a proper full length dramatic feature film? I’d also like to see a fantasy adventure movie about [Māui](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ui_%28mythology%29). ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/22 "2009-08-14T12:06:45Z")
Jeffery Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme novels. We got the somewhat underwhelming _Bone Collector_ 10 years ago. Time for someone to take another shot at it. I picture Gary Sinise as Lincoln. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/23 "2009-08-14T12:15:55Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Of course, _Atlas Shrugged_. There’s been one in development for years. Angelina Jolie was originally supposed to play the role of Dagny Taggart but now I see it’s Charlize Theron. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/24 "2009-08-14T12:37:26Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > There’s been one in development for years. Angelina Jolie was originally supposed to play the role of Dagny Taggart but now I see it’s Charlize Theron. Oh thank God! I was afraid it might actually get made with AJ! I hadn’t thought of Charlize but she wouldn’t be bad. My picks would be either Natalie Portman or Jennifer Connelly. Now to hope it gets done properly- as either a TV miniseries or a movie trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/25 "2009-08-14T13:10:11Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Jeffery Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme novels. > > We got the somewhat underwhelming _Bone Collector_ 10 years ago. Time for someone to take another shot at it. I picture Gary Sinise as Lincoln. Sinise would be great! I’m puzzling about Amy Adams as Sachs. She looks the part (don’t know how tall she is), but I don’t know if she has the depth. \*Hated \*Angelina Jolie. Laura Dern is 5’10.5’’ and has the chops. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/26 "2009-08-14T15:13:43Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > The _Anno Dracula_ series _Hell_ yes. I was thinking Charlotte Gainsbourg as Geneviève—anyone up for a casting thread? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/27 "2009-08-14T15:19:43Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Sinise would be great! I’m still holding out hope for Sinise as Harry Bosch, now that Robert Blake is too old, too crazy, and too criminal to pull it off. And FTR that is the “hope against hope” kind of hope, seeing what Hollywood did to Connelly’s _Blood Work_. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/28 "2009-08-14T15:21:40Z")
Man, Sinise would be great as Bosch, too. Next assignment: Cast Mickey Haller. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/29 "2009-08-14T15:25:17Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Has anyone made a decent movie about the _Wright Brothers_? I can find some that are snippets for documentaries, and I expect there have been a few TV dramas. I even found an animated one. But has there been a proper full length dramatic feature film? That could make a really good movie if done properly. They were way more talented scientist/inventors than most people realize. They certainly didn’t just get lucky. They had years of semi-secrecy after Flyer I in 1903 and lots of legal battles with their rivals later that lasted for years. There is lots of drama potential in their story. They also took meticulous records of everything so it would be easy to make it historically accurate. ---
**Author:** ![drillrod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@drillrod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drillrod)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/30 "2009-08-14T16:04:32Z")
F. Paul Wilson’s \*\*Repairman Jack \*\*series, especially the first one, **The Tomb** , should make a fine movie, if it ever gets out of development hell. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/31 "2009-08-14T16:12:20Z")
The book Starship Troopers - which I don’t think the makers of the movie ever read. Also Heinleins “Glory Road”. High on the list somewhere would be the Fuzzy series by H Beam Piper and the Deathworld trilogy by Harry Harrison. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/32 "2009-08-14T16:16:21Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I thought it was a pretty good movie. Also, you almost never get a good look at the monster, so it felt pretty creepy whenever you saw it or, mostly, part of it. I agree with this. You only saw the full monster for maybe a minute or two at the very end of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/33 "2009-08-14T16:29:16Z")
Chappaquiddick The story has everything: sex, death, power, scandal and conspiracy. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/34 "2009-08-14T16:37:44Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Man, Sinise would be great as Bosch, too. Next assignment: Cast Mickey Haller. Well, Robert Downey Jr.'s busy for a while. Is Judd Nelson too young? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/35 "2009-08-14T17:00:13Z")
a) I think not merely a movie but also a damn good TV series could be made from Alan E. Nourse’s _The Universe Between_. b) I want a decent Travis McGee movie, dammit, is that too much to ask? c) I want a seriously done, black-and-white, cast-in-1920s, period-and-mood-appropriate _Secret of the Old Clock_ (Nancy Drew) with roadsters with running boards, old civil war era houses and rural farmhouses without electricity, Ms. Drew as established-RiverHeights detective’s daughter complete with revolver in purse, all with the look and feel of movies of 70+ years ago. d) How about Stephanie Plum, with that gal who originally played across from Tony Shaloub in _Monk_, Bitsy Schram (?), as the main character and Queen Latifah as Lula. And maybe Joan Cusack as Connie. ---
**Author:** ![Levolor\_the\_Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc8723/32.png) [@Levolor\_the\_Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Levolor_the_Blind)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/36 "2009-08-14T17:25:47Z")
I’d like to see Jeff Smith’s [_Bone_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_(comics)) series. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/37 "2009-08-14T17:29:35Z")
> [@The New and Improved Superman](#): > > Using CGI effects to make a realistic looking Cthulhu is IMO the wrong way to go. In fact, it’s a key reason as to why none of the adaptations of Lovecraft’s stories work well. Lovecraft’s story dealt more with creepy atmosphere, and the suggestion of the kind of evil things that are just around the corner but not right in front of you; kind of like having a nightmare - the evil un-nameable monster is right outside your field of vision, but you know it’s there waiting to get you. Seeing the monster ruins the whole effect. > > A perfect example of this is **Cloverfield** - the ad campaign _suggested_ a gi-normous monster on the loose in Manhattan. It immediately achieved massive buzz and intense interest. Then, the movie came out and _showed_ a giant monster on the loose in Manhattan…and it wasn’t nearly as interesting. > > Someone capable of creating and sustaining an eerie atmosphere, like David Lynch, might be able to pull it off. But a great big CGI Cthulhu would be just as boring as the late 90s _Godzilla_, the creature from _the Relic_ or Snookums. > > As for movies I’d like to see made, well I guess there is going to be an Avengers movie, so I think I’d like to see a Wonder Woman movie get made. Seems like the Powers That Be are hell bent on sabotaging that project and making sure it never gets made though. I half agree. I like atmosphere in horror and hate the trend of teenage slasher films and torture porn masquerading as “horror”. True horror sticks to you and makes you dread opening your eyes in the middle of the night, or turning over to adjust your pillow. _Something_ just might pop out, and you try to sleep with nary a movement because you’re afraid any tiny jerk might disturb what lurks _right behind you!_ However, I have never seen or can even imagine Dread Cthulhu in full live-action form. Sure Zoidberg looks kind of like it, as does some aliens on Babylon 5 or the new ones in District 9. But I have a lot of Cthulhu artwork and I will forgive the director if he puts 90% dread and creepiness in the film but show Cthulhu at the end. I just want to see him so badly! I agree about Cloverfield. It was a better movie when it was marketed than what showed up at the theaters, but before you saw the monster, you had to have been at least somewhat thrilled. I liked the movie but wished the monster turned out to be like the fake one circulated on the 'net before it came out; you know, the Whale. That looked impressive. I guess when you finally saw it and it was some generic monster with weird bumps and joints, it became less impressive. Speaking of monster movies, I want the game Shadow of the Colossus made into a movie. Moreso than my interest in the giant monster theme is that this game made you feel small. Battles against the giant colussi had your character climbing up and down over their bodies. The sense of scale just completely enveloped me and I hope that a movie version could do that justice. Numerous monster movies have that smallness feeling in fleeting moments, but none have it over any extended feeling. I think it would be, maybe not a well acted movie, but certainly a very interesting feeling movie ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/38 "2009-08-14T18:09:12Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Well, Robert Downey Jr.'s busy for a while. Is Judd Nelson too young? No, I don’t think he is. He’s 49. However, I now see that Matthew McConaughey has been [cast](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lincoln_Lawyer) in the role. And I was trying to eat lunch, too. ☹ > [@AHunter3](#): > > c) I want a seriously done, black-and-white, cast-in-1920s, period-and-mood-appropriate _Secret of the Old Clock_ (Nancy Drew) with roadsters with running boards, old civil war era houses and rural farmhouses without electricity, Ms. Drew as established-RiverHeights detective’s daughter complete with revolver in purse, all with the look and feel of movies of 70+ years ago. I would love to see this too, but I disagree on the black-and-white. I would rather see the heavy color saturation of a Douglas Sirk film. Don’t know whom to cast as Nancy (Dakota Fanning probably would get it) but I could see Timothy Hutton as Carson Drew. And I suppose Kathy Bates would be a good Hannah Gruen. Maybe Blythe Danner. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/39 "2009-08-14T18:15:30Z")
**War of the Worlds** set in the late 1890s. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345/40 "2009-08-14T18:18:19Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > No, I don’t think he is. He’s 49. However, I now see that Matthew McConaughey has been [cast](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lincoln_Lawyer) in the role. And I was trying to eat lunch, too. ☹ I just threw up a little in my mouth. No, wait. Not “a little.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-would-make-a-movie-of/506345.md?page=3)