# Movies that need to be made. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 23, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-need-to-be-made/133581 "2002-10-23T21:06:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-need-to-be-made/133581/21 "2002-10-24T13:05:03Z")
Wonder Woman ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-need-to-be-made/133581/22 "2002-10-24T13:13:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CyberPundit \* > \*\*The robot detective novels by Asimov (I forget their titles). Is I Robot one of them? > > BTW Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has already been done thought it may have been a TV mini-series rather than a proper film. \*\* Interestingly - well, it interested me - both _The Caves of Steel_ and _The Naked Sun_ were adapted for TV in the mid-sixties by the BBC. (_The Naked Sun_ ran as part of the Out of the Unknown\* SF series). Sadly, AFAIK, there are no surviving copies of either programme. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-need-to-be-made/133581/23 "2002-10-24T13:41:44Z")
> [@](#): > > **I, Robot by Isaac Asimov** Isn’t **Bicentennial Man** one of the stories from **I, Robot**? But I don’t know if Asimov and Clarke’s optimistic view of the future would sell well as a movie. Stories that are skeptical of science and technology seem to be more popular. Given that, I think any of the novels by Stanislaw Lem would do well - e.g. **The Invincible** , **Fiasco** , or **Eden**. **Memoirs Found in a Bathtub** would make an interesting movie too. On a different note, has anyone made a movie based on Lance Armstrong’s life? He’s already written a good book about his battle with cancer, and someone must have the movie rights. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-need-to-be-made/133581/24 "2002-10-24T13:57:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Timeline by Michael Chricton > > his stuff is almost as tho created for movie adaptation As mentioned, someone is already making a movie of this crappy book. I think Crichton does in fact write his crappy books specifically to be easily converted into scripts. I’ve tried to imagine a movie version of _Gravity’s Rainbow_. Probably impossible. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-need-to-be-made/133581/25 "2002-10-24T14:12:26Z")
**Atlas Shrugged** by Ayn Rand would be interesting. They should do one about a futuristic amusement park where dinosaurs are brought to life through advanced cloning techniques. They could call it Billy and the Cloneasourus. Another Simpsons reference ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-need-to-be-made/133581/26 "2002-10-24T14:33:37Z")
Ooh… Dreampark! aka Westworld, only with holograms! ---
**Author:** ![YPOD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e99b99/32.png) [@YPOD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YPOD)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-need-to-be-made/133581/27 "2002-10-24T14:45:15Z")
I don’t know if this thread was meant for science fiction, but I always thought Gore Vidal’s Burr would make a great movie. ---
**Author:** ![apathy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apathy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apathy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-need-to-be-made/133581/28 "2002-10-24T15:04:48Z")
The Illuminatus Trilogy ---
**Author:** ![John\_Harrison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@John\_Harrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Harrison)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-need-to-be-made/133581/29 "2002-10-25T07:34:20Z")
> [@](#): > > On a different note, has anyone made a movie based on Lance Armstrong’s life? He’s already written a good book about his battle with cancer, and someone must have the movie rights. I’ve heard rumors, but I’m not going to hold my breath. They were going to make a movie based on Greg LeMond and it never even got to script stage. Feh. ---
**Author:** ![Lou\_E.Thunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Lou\_E.Thunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lou_E.Thunder)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-need-to-be-made/133581/30 "2002-10-25T11:19:29Z")
**September 11** Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-need-to-be-made/133581/31 "2002-10-25T15:53:16Z")
More Flashman movies. There was Royal Flash back in '75, starring Malcolm Macdowell, but there needs to be more. There needs to be a movie version of Hellblazer. I want to see which actor can possibly pull off John Constantine. There also needs to be movies based on Donald Westlake’s Dortmunder books, but not as a vehicle for Martin Lawrence. It’d also be cool to see more movie versions of Elmore Leonard books like Pagan Babies. I envision Jason Lee and Jeneane Garafolo in the title roles. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-need-to-be-made/133581.md?page=1)