Well, I’m going to, but only to tell you that it looks as though that version may not get made after all. IMDb says that the status on the film is “unknown” and that “production has stalled”. And in this week’s Tulsa TV listings, someone wrote in saying they’d heard there was going to be a movie version (it was in an entertainment Q&A section). The “Answerman” responded, “The project is dead in the water, apparently for want of an acceptable shooting script. Maybe someday.”
Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungs. With properly done CGI, Fafnir and Asgard would be awesome.
Heinlein’s The Rolling Stones.
Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, but this time done right.
Asimov’s I, Robot with Harlan Ellison’s script.
One of the old pulp sci-fi classics, *Flash Gordon * or Buck Rogers, done as a series of 12 feature-length chapters.
And, just to be obnoxious, a porno flick in IMAX-3D.
And how long would that movie be?
It would be a four-part series, naturally.
If filmed in Imax, perhaps an 8- or 12-part series.
Another Piper fan! There seem to be too few of us around! The Fuzzy novels would be great on film, but what about Lord Kalvan or Uller Uprising?
lol, mrAru and I will occasionally say ‘yeek yeek’ at each other when we are out camping, and might be digging a fire pit, or cleaning a fish while hunkered down on the ground. It started in the summer about 12 years ago at a clambake on a beach in virginia when we were both hunkered down cracking blue crab … and we simultaneously yeeked at each other like fuzzies. I occasionally will call him a green shirt haggah as well=) [even retired he still wears his BDUs for yardwork and such=)]
The first 2 books are great, but I thought that Fuzzy Bones [the third book and only partially written by Piper, where it turns out that they were stranded aliens because they foud the spaceship thay were brought in sort of killed the charm for me=(
Now HoHoHokas would be hysterical, and done in Shrek style animation would rock…but not be just for kids…way too much innuendo in some of the stories=)
Clipperton Island
A Jacques Cousteau Episode about a small Pacific atoll inhabited by Military
Familys.
Forgotten about, when the Men of the Isle spot a Vessel they board their
Dory and begin to row through the Surf to seek help.
The Dory Capsizes and all the men Drown,leaving only women,children and
a Laborer.
The Laborer then dominates the inhabitants Raping and assualting them forcing
them to servitude.
Eventually,the islanders are rescued and the Laborer incarcerrated.
Cousteau brought to the island an old man who was a child on the atoll.
Robert DeNiro would be my choice to play the Laborer.
aruvqan, you have no email listed, mine is in my profile. If you wish, email me and we can talk Piper, as there was another third fuzzy novel, the manuscript by Piper, and lost for a long time. It was titled Fuzzies and Other People. I read Fuzzy Bones too, didn’t like it, but FAOP is true gelt I think.
J.P. Donleavy’s A Singular Man, with George Clooney as Mr. John Smith and Doris Day as the rather foul-mouthed Miss Thompson.
I’d make a live-action version of Warren Ellis’s Transmetropolitan as an epic HBO miniseries.
And I’d want it done before the 2004 elections.
With 100 Million I could make the movie Pearl Harbor should have been. Instead of focusing on a pair of mythical flyboys, I’d focus on two men who won the Medal of Honor for their actions that day. Both of them were crewmen on the USS Nevada (BB36). The Nevada was the only ship on Battleship row to manage to get underway during the attack. I don’t have my notes ready, now, but I’m researching this with the actual intent of writing a film script actually. The more I look into the back story, the more it looks like it has all it needs for a good Hollywood movie.
Both the men I’m focusing on were ‘goats’: Lifer enlisted men. One a Bosun’s mate chief, the other a mustang engineering warrant officer. Both of them were apparantly awake at the time of the attack. The warrant went down to the enginerooms to get the plants lit off and power supplied to the ship, the Bosun got a working party and during the attack got the lines tying the ship to the pier taken off. About 15-25 minutes into the attack the Nevada got underway to the cheers of the men on the other surviving ships. The Bosun then jumped from the pier and swam out to the ship to continue directing damage control efforts.
During this time, the Nevada became a magnet for many of the Japanese planes as the only ship that seemed to be effectively resisting the attack, so the bombings on her intensified. During the attack I believe she is credited with shooting down 5 or 6 attacking planes. About this time the damage caused several fires on the ship. Including one that made one of the two TG rooms completely inaccessible. The second TG room was being manned by a crew lead by the engineering warrant. The fires got so bad that the smoke made it nearly impossible to keep the #2 TG room operational, so the warrant ordered the rest of the crews out, and shut it down himself. He had to be carryied out after the smoke overcame him, and once he recovered he went back into the TG room to finish shutting it down.
By now the damage to the Nevada was such that although she was in the main channel leading out of the harbor, she was sinking. About this time a bomb landing on the fantail of the ship killed the Bosun, who’d been directing DC teams. Because this is the only channel out of the harbor, the Japanese again intensified the attack on the Nevada, had she sunk in the channel the harbor at Pearl would have been useless to the US until her hulk could be raised and moved out of the way. Knowing this the CDO(Command Duty Officer, in this case a Lieutenant Commander who had been intended to just hold the fort through a boring weekend duty.) of the Nevada steamed her towards the beach.
They got the ship out of the channel, and she sank, but even though she was on the bottom her weatherdecks were above water, so she continued to take fire from the Japanese throughout the rest of the attack. The Engineering warrant was still directing Damage control, even though because of smoke inhalation and his own injuries his eyesight was seriously impared.
After the attack, the Nevada was one of the first of the battlewagons to be raised and sent back into service. During the rest of the war she was in almost every important operation involving surface ships. I think that includes the landing at Normandy, and I know she was present with the rest of the fleet in Tokyo harbor when the treaty was signed.
The engineering warrant, the Bosun, and several others, including the CDO, were all nominated for the Medal of Honor. Again, without checking my notes, I can’t be sure, but I think the warrant got both a regular commission, and notification of his own award by the 10th of December. I remember that date, because that’s when Captain Ross (his retirement rank) got married. According to all i’ve found so far, that seems to be a direct response of the two involved to the attack. Like I said, it seems to be a story tailor made for Hollywood, and doesn’t require any of the plot holes that the Afleck monster had.
The Scrivener Sounds like my kind of movie. I’d personally love to see the focus of one episode being the whole President episode. Military blunders, exciting strategems, back against the wall stuff, and finally a great bit of daring do and heroism.
Oh, yeah. And fireworks! 
An adaptation of the Starman storyline “Sins of the Father,” from Starman #0-5, originally written by James Robinson and drawn by Tony Harris. I would cast John Cusack as reluctant superhero Jack Knight, Paul Newman as his father, aging inventor and hero Ted Knight, and Edward Norton as Jack’s poor, doomed brother David Knight. Jude Law would be perfect as the mysterious antihero Shade, and Angelina Jolie could get a crewcut and play the villainess, the Mist. Sam Elliot could play corrupt Opal City cop Matt O’Dare, and Eric Stoltz and Gillian Anderson could play his fiery redheaded siblings, Mason and Hope O’Dare, also cops.
I’d stay very true to Robinson’s storyline about children taking over the legacies left by their fathers. The special effects shouldn’t be too difficult (the super powers exhibited by Starman, the Shade, and the Mist would be very doable), and the highlight for me would be bringing the fictional metropolis of Opal City to life in three dimensions. It would have to have a killer soundtrack too, featuring Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, the Clash, the Pogues, the Smiths, Nick Cave, Portishead, Morphine, and Neko Case, among others.
Another comic book-based movie I’d love to make is Sleeper, based on the series by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips. Sleeper is about Holden Carver, a super-powered government agent who goes deep undercover into an organization of super-villains led by the criminal mastermind Tao. Holden is forced to become more of a villain himself to maintain his cover, and he eventually starts to doubt what side he’s really on. Meanwhile, the only person who knows he’s a “good guy” is attacked and put into a coma, leaving Holden on his own and out in the cold.
Sleeper could be pitched as “Donnie Brasco with super powers,” and I’d cast George Clooney as Holden (the first time he plays a real bastard), Guy Pearce as Tao, Clint Eastwood as John Lynch, Julianne Moore as Miss Misery, Michael Madsen as Genocide Jones, and Steve Buscemi as Triple-X Ray, with a special appearance by Brad Pitt as Cole Cash, the Grifter.
Sounds like it would be a great film. And focusing on the character of Richtofen would be neat, he’s not really the monster that history has wanted to paint him, but he did believe in the aristocracy, and in the military right of Germany. Very ambiguous I think.
I’m not sure that any of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories really would work on the big screen, let alone AtMoM. And not because of the flops that have been based on his other stories. Honestly, I think H.P. Lovecraft is a horrible writer, even for the pulps, let alone for the Victorian style he preferred. He simply had the gift of presenting the alien so well, that you forget his prose while you’re reading him. And that quality just doesn’t translate to a visual medium.
Glad to see that I’m not the only guy who’s ever heard of this story.
Anyway…
•John Christopher’s Tripods trilogy. I’d keep the European setting, which Hollywood probably wouldn’t. Hire Wayne Barlowe for character/set design.
•An Iron Man movie.
•A “steampunk” remake of The Longest Day.
•A movie about the closing weeks of the second world war…in an alternate 1946-47. Basically a two hour cavalcade of weird unbuilt WWII-tech. With a flurry of nukings at the end.
•A docudrama about the rape of Nanking.
•Anyone remember Disney’s old Rescue Rangers cartoon? No? Too bad, because I just hired Ridley Scott to helm it. 
•A sequel to Burton’s Planet of the Apes.
•Coriolanus.
•An adaption of DC’s Kingdom Come. Featuring Michael Keaton, Lynda Carter, John Wesley Shipp , and Christopher Reeve’s head CGIed on someone else’s body. With a cameo by Jack Nicholson in a flashback. Probably Gene Hackman, too. Maybe Dennis Hopper as Magog. I’m thinking James Cameron for the director.
•Fanfic. Hey, I’ve seen some of this stuff* that’s just as good, if not better, than what I’ve seen on the silver screen.
*“Some,” not “all.” Or even “most.”
This would be cool as an animated movie done in Alex Ross’ style.
As aruvqan mentioned above, the Hoka universe would be great. There are at least two books set there, Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! and Hokas Pokas, by Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson.
Another I’d like to see, if only I could think of the title or author, would be another SF novel featuring a team of ‘special talents’ agents sent out by ‘Section G’, IIRC, to overthrow a planetary government that’s nominally based on bullfighting. I like the heavy-planet guy whose hobby is throwing things (especially 1-inch ball bearings), but the team’s gymnast wins by fighting her bull in the Cretan style. Are there any of those young Olympic gymnasts around who want to take a chance on a career change?
I’d do a “Saving Private Ryan” type treatment of the Chosin Resevoir Campaign in the Korean War.
I’d do an anime series based on the Wheel of Time books. All of Jordan’s boring ass descriptions of minutiae would translate well into a bunch of artwork, so the story could actually proceed at a faster than glacial pace.
Or if I wanted an actual good story, I’d do A Song of Ice and Fire instead. I think the anime would look better than attempted realistic CG of some of the stranger things to be found in that series.
For live action, I’d do The Mote in God’s Eye. The only difficult effect would be the Moties, and that shouldn’t be too hard.
A Sci-Fi story called “The Fourth Profession”
Lead roll. Will Smith “Bartender”
Female. Queen Letiefa(sub)sp(/sub) “Bar Maid”
2nd Male. Keifer Sutherland “FBI Agent”
Alien encounters at a bar. Anyone else read this story?
I’ve wanted to do this for so long that my first choice for the FBI Agent was Donald. Long time.