# Movies they promised us! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748 "2010-01-13T02:55:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/41 "2010-01-13T05:53:34Z")
The BBC miniseries is classic, but I’d still like to see a big-screen adaptation of _The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy._ Which has never yet been done. Never, do you hear me?! _sob_ **NEVER!** ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/42 "2010-01-13T05:55:04Z")
I had almost given up hope on the Tintin movie (based on the famous Belgian comic book), but if you believe the L.A. Times, it might actually appear some day! > **[Tintin's secret Hollywood adventure](https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/hero-complex-blog/story/2009-03-08/tintins-secret-hollywood-adventure)** > > This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. 8 March 2009 > [@](#): > > Steven Spielberg this week will quietly wrap 32 days of performance-capture lensing on “Tintin,” then hand the project to producer Peter Jackson, who will focus on the film’s special effects for the next 18 months. > **[Archive blogs](https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/)** > > Los Angeles Times blogs that were published between 2006 and 2013. 28 December 2009 Yvonne Villarreal interviews Garrett Warren > [@](#): > > Still recovering from “Avatar”? Garrett Warren can relate. The stunt coordinator for the film is now a self-proclaimed expert in the tricky art of banshee riding, and he’s also an in-demand man in Hollywood with credits on some of the biggest upcoming releases, including “Iron Man 2,” “The Adventures of Tintin” and “Alice in Wonderland.” > … > YV: And you worked on “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.” What can you reveal about that? > GW: Tintin was an amazing movie to work on as well. Once again, I’m not allowed to say anything on that movie either. But I can tell you that it’s an incredible story. It’s not just a great experience, it’s an incredible story. Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg — two incredible storytellers. And the acting is superb. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/43 "2010-01-13T06:10:31Z")
The film of _Atlas Shrugged_ seems to have been talked of for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/44 "2010-01-13T06:34:00Z")
> [@Gary\_Baldy](#): > > A sequel to “Gone with the Wind” was made as “Scarlett”–a miniseries in 1996 starring Timothy Dalton and Sean Bean. Which of them played her? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Baldy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Gary\_Baldy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Baldy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/45 "2010-01-13T06:40:01Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Which of them played her? Well, Dalton does have those dreamy blue eyes that you can swim in… Joanne Whalley starred as Scarlett. I didn’t mention her because she has a “who is that” factor compared to Dalton and Bean. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/46 "2010-01-13T06:42:03Z")
**Rendezvous With Rama** - I think there was a fake teaser made several years ago and I remember some buzz about Morgan Freeman being attached to a film version, but it seems to have stalled. \*\*Ender’s Game \*\*- been talked about for years. Supposedly it is still going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Baldy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Gary\_Baldy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Baldy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/47 "2010-01-13T06:53:36Z")
Another never made often talked about sequel just came to mind… “Abel Cain”, the sequel to “El Topo”. I’ve heard Alejandro Jodorowsky repeatedly stating that he’s making the movie but needs funding since the early 1990s. He even had Marilyn Manson attached to it. Alejandro Jodorowsky was also suppose to make “Dune” in the mid-1970s. He claimed that Pink Floyd was to do the soundtrack while the movie had an all-star cast consisting of with Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Alain Delon, Hervé Villechaize and Mick Jagger. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/48 "2010-01-13T07:14:40Z")
Are we ever gonna get the Metroid and Castlevania movies? And I mean REAL Castlevania, not that Van Helsing crap. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/49 "2010-01-13T13:02:44Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > The BBC miniseries is classic, but I’d still like to see a big-screen adaptation of _The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy._ Which has never yet been done. Never, do you hear me?! _sob_ **NEVER!** Well, apart from[this one](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/). Hippie Hippie Shake starring Sienna Miller has been in production for over ten years. IMDB says it’s going to be released this year. I’ll believe it when I see it. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/50 "2010-01-13T13:27:38Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > “The Sparrow” by Mary Doria Russell. I remember reading YEARS ago that Brad Pitt was interested in making the movie version. Also that it was put on hold until the CGI special effects were advanced enough, which should be around, oh, say, 2010. Well, I guess Avatar used up all the ‘Sparrow’ special effects! > > And whatever happened to the live-action “The Last Unicorn” by Peter Beagle??? Was supposed to star Mia Farrow and Jonathan Rhys Myers. Was in development and then - nothing. I know there’s an animated version made in the 70’s that fans just love, but there is NO EXCUSE for not making a live version. None. With all the crap Hollywood churns out… Christopher Lee was supposed to be in The Last Unicorn live-remake also. He looks about right for the part now! My nominees- FRANKENSTEIN from the creature’s POV starring Arnold Schwarzenegger DRACULA starring Mick Fleetwood and directed by Ken Russell (I almost typed Kurt!) Oliver Stone’s PLANET OF THE APES starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in which ape domination comes about via a code discovered in The Bible FAHRENHEIT 451 directed by & starring Mel Gibson BILL & TED III- Alex Winter has supposedly written the script Coppola’s THE VAN HELSING CHRONICLES starring Anthony Hopkins John Huston’s THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING starring Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable- I assume respectively as Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carmichael ATLAS SHRUGGED the 1970’s version (starring perhaps Raquel Welch or Farrah Fawcett or Faye Dunaway and Clint Eastwood), the NBC early 80’s mini-series, the TNT 90’s mini-series, the Randall Wallace-written/truncated movie starring Angelina Jolie, the now-discussed rewrite/expansion movie/trilogy/TV-miniseries now reportedly pondered by Charlize Theron and Anne Hathaway. and in the world of Kim Newman’s ANNO DRACULA- Coppola’s DRACULA starring Martin Sheen as Jonathan Harker, Robert Duvall as Van Helsing, Dennis Hopper as Renfield, and Marlon Brando as Dracula. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/51 "2010-01-13T13:54:19Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > There has been talk of “A Confederacy Of Dunces” being made into a movie for years, and I can honestly say that if this was actually ever attempted, it would doubtlessly be the biggest abortion Hollywood has ever attempted. I agree. There was some talk recently about Will Ferrell being in a stage version or something as preparation for a movie, which would be abominable: he can’t act, he’s not funny, he neither looks nor acts the part, and the movie has nothing to do with sports, so I’m not sure why he is interested. Apparently there was talk of John Goodman playing Ignatius a long time ago. If the movie had been made before 1990 it would have been great casting. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/52 "2010-01-13T14:00:35Z")
I’d still like to see **I, Robot** made using Harlan Ellison’s script (which Asimov approved). Now that they have CGI, they could do a beautiful job. The first time I mentioned this, someone chimed in that it would be a _terrible_ movie. After seeing the Will Smith film, I have to say, “No way” ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/53 "2010-01-13T14:03:15Z")
Agreeing with the Lost Buckaroo Banzai move, of course… I’ve been reading John Huston’s autobiography. He’d planned to film _The Man Who Would Be King_ several times; Bogart & Gable were his initial stars. But he was quite satisfied with the version he completed–starring Sean Connery & Michael Caine. (As am I.) Mark Frost’s _The List of Seven_ was a fantastically good ripping yarn. He followed it with _The Six Messiahs_–not quite as excellent but still good. (Alas, he’s now writing golf books.) An unattributed article [here](http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/mark_frost.htm) confirms a rumor I remember: > [@](#): > > I was most disappointed about the adaptation of my novel List of Seven. I was eager to make it as a film. It came within a hair breadth on two different occasions with Jim Cameron producing. Robert Graves’ _Homer’s Daughter_ is one of his amazing historical/legendary novels. During Ingrid Bergman’s exile from Hollywood, a movie was planned with her in the title role–shot by the wine-dark sea. But Hollywood decided to forgive her anyway & plans fell through. (No, I’m not old enough to _remember_ this–but I read about it.) ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/54 "2010-01-13T14:05:26Z")
Starship Troopers was made, many people did not like it. [Starship Troopers (1997) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/) ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/55 "2010-01-13T14:24:14Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > …I’ve been reading John Huston’s autobiography. He’d planned to film _The Man Who Would Be King_ several times; Bogart & Gable were his initial stars. But he was quite satisfied with the version he completed–starring Sean Connery & Michael Caine. (As am I.)… Missed the edit. Huston’s first attempt at the film was foiled by Bogart’s death. Later, he planned to use Gable & a co-star to be named; then Gable died. Years later, he approached Paul Newman & combined several of the screenplays already written. > [@](#): > > I sent the new screenplay to Paul, who called me immediately and said it was one of the best things he’d read, but he’d had second thoughts about the casting of the leads, which at that point were to have been himself and Robert Redford. He said they should be played by two Englishmen. Paul, speaking not as an actor but as someone interested in the improvement of the breed, cast it right there: “For Christ’s sake, John, get Connery and Caine!” From [An Open Book](http://www.amazon.com/Open-Book-John-Huston/dp/0306805731/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top). (Yes, I know Connery is no Englishman. Huston did, too. But he didn’t let little details get in the way of a good story.) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/56 "2010-01-13T14:27:26Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > There has been talk of “A Confederacy Of Dunces” being made into a movie for years, and I can honestly say that if this was actually ever attempted, it would doubtlessly be the biggest abortion Hollywood has ever attempted. > > Ooo-wee! > > Woah!!! > > Hey!!! Mos Def as Burma Jones? ---
**Author:** ![SunSandSuffering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/57 "2010-01-13T15:02:30Z")
My old copy of Stephen King’s \*\*The Talisman \*\*says on the cover: “Soon to be a major motion picture”. Still waiting…! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/58 "2010-01-13T15:34:41Z")
Among the movies I’ve read/heard were in the works, the following never happened: 1. Howard Stern’s “Adventures of Fartman” 2. The Coen Brothers were supposed to be making a semi-sequel to “the Big Lebowksi,” one that was supposed to concentrate on “Dee Jeezus” (John Turturro). 3. For decades, Sylvester Stallone was supposed to be making a serious film about Edgar Allan Poe. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/59 "2010-01-13T15:35:09Z")
> [@Trick\_Rider](#): > > The _American Idiot_ movie. That one really needs to be made. Well a musical of that \*is \*opening on Broadway this year, so I’m sure if it’s a success you won’t have to wait long for a film adaptation to be made. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/60 "2010-01-13T15:37:10Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > 1. For decades, Sylvester Stallone was supposed to be making a serious film about Edgar Allan Poe. You had me till Stallone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748.md?page=4)