Movies that need to be made.

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Wonder Woman

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Ooh… Dreampark! aka Westworld, only with holograms!

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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.

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The Illuminatus Trilogy

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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.

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September 11

Nuff said.

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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.