For those who want a version of The Stainless Steel Rat, I’ve heard Harry Harrison talk about this for over twenty years. It’s been optioned many times, and nobody has yet made the movie. That’s just fine with Harrison, since he gets the option money and doesn’t have to see a bad version of his novel.
I’d like to see a movie where Johnny Depp plays an over-the-hill actor who is inexplicably handed role after role in the biggest movies, despite the fact that all he can do is play himself.
It may seem inexplicable to you, but the box office his films garner provides all the explanation that the studio suits require.
And again, why no Ringworld project? Pierson’s Puppeteers, Kzinti, the Ringworld itself, could all be done properly now with CGI. Plenty of action, plenty of spectacle, sexy Teela, what’s not to like?
There was a script written … Herself read sections of it aloud at a con once about 10-15 years ago.
About the most interesting thing I can remember about it was the barrayarran soldiery trying to build fires in the passages of a ship to cook food upon … apparently to illustrate how barbaric they were…:smack:
Lois has subsequently stated she will never option off a movie again.
The Man In The High Castle
Philip K. Dick
That would be worth filming
I was going to say that. Barring that, I think Brave New World by Huxley could be a sweeping epic of a movie, if done properly.
How about Footfall?
God yes. And Anvil of Stars. With todays effects that could become great. Or, more likely, a botched CG-fest. But done right…
in hiding, for some reason the trailers for 2012 give me a “Forge of God” vibe.
But if not done properly we’d end up with something like Logans Run
I’d rather see David Lynch try his hand at Ape and Essence. No wait – David Lynch can just do the Baboon Chanteuse sequences - Peter Jackson will do the actual narrative. That’ll work!
Jack Black as Poole. (I just lost you, didn’t I?)
I’d like to see a film version of Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun. It’d actually require a series of films, I guess. Some simplification of the plot would be a necessity, as would losing Wolfe’s trademark unreliable narrator. Urth is a gorgeous and fantastic place. I think a straightforward narrative of Severian’s path from apprentice Torturer to Autarch would work very well on screen. An animated or entirely cgi version might well be the best way to go. Arnold Vosloo as the voice of Severian. Dustin Hoffman as the old Autarch. Judy Dench as Thecla. Ian McShane as Vodalus.
Geek Love - there was talk years ago of Tim Burton being interested, but I haven’t heard any more about that. I’d like to see Guillermo del Toro take it on, but he’s booked up for the next few years.
Harlan Ellison’s script for Asimov’s I, Robot.
Larry Niven’s Gil Hamilton stories.
Heinlein’s The Rolling Stones.
Andre Norton’s Steel Magic.
Gardner Fox’s Kyrick stories. (Yes, I know, they are bad ripoffs of Robert E. Howard, but they would be fun!)
Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. Each one should be done as a serial, with twelve feature-length chapters. Skip the theaters and send them straight to video.
Oooo, oooo, yes! I read the screenplay a few years back. It really was very, very good - captured the tone and content of the stories but wouldn’t be overlong.
For that matter, Asimov’s Foundation trilogy could be done as three movies, a la LOTR, and if not “Hollywoodized” could be really cool.
I’ve always wanted to see a miniseries (actually a triology of miniseries) of S.M. Stirling’s Nantucket triology. Ditto for Kim Stanley’s Mars trilogy.
Glory road would be a great action/fantasy film if written well. But there aren’t enough explosions.
Tunnel in the Sky would be great updated to have college kids as part of graduation/thesis. Elements of Lost and Survivor are all there. But still, no explosions.
Both would end up given to Michael Bay and, BOOM!, FLASH!, MONSTERS!. Movie sucks.
My only problem with this is that the story is so huge it would be hard to make the book into a movie as it stands - there are two separate and complete plots going on that a movie would almost necessarily have to focus on the H.H. Holmes plot. I would prefer a good 5 hour or so HBO miniseries.
Regardless, I’m still excited that it’s in development. As of earlier this year, rumor was that David Fincher is set to direct it. Since he’s probably my favorite director, I’m pretty psyched about that, too. One of the things I’m most looking forward to, though, is just the fair recreated through CGI and sets. I have the old pictures and images in my head, but I can’t wait to see it represented as a real, current place.
A Confederacy Of Dunces would make a great movie. Too bad John Candy is dead; he would have been a perfect Ignatius. And the chick who played George’s mom on “Seinfeld” would be perfect as the mother.