# Movies you wish would be made ... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 14, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170 "2000-11-14T17:11:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/21 "2000-11-14T22:29:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Davidbw1 \* > \*\*I’d like to see > > 1. a good version of “Dune” by Frank Hebert (George Lucas could probally do a good job of this, so long as he sticks to the book, and leaves out JarJar-esque chacecters)\*\* The Sci-Fi Channel will be showing their new version of _Dune_ in December. It’ll be a 3-night, 6-hour miniseries, so they should be able to pack in everything that’s needed to make it decent. Here’s their site: [Dune](http://www.scifi.com/dune/). There’s a theatrical-style trailer there available for download, check it out and see what you think. And a _Wild Cards_ movie would truly kick ass, but there’s so much cool stuff in that universe that it really deserves a series. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/22 "2000-11-14T22:43:26Z")
Seems to me we have an overabundance of movies about Viet Nam and World War II. _I_ would like to see more movies about **World War I**. Also, the **Korean War** has lots of cinematic potential. I can’t believe no one’s made a movie about the Frozen Chosin or the Pusan Perimeter. Dramatic stuff. I’m also big on historical dramas. I would like to see a movie about the populist political uprising centered around the People’s Party in the late 19th century. Sounds boring, but there were lots of colorful political characters involved (e.g. “Sockless Joe” Simpson), plenty of villains (railroad barons, Pinkertons, et al.) and the movement was the forebear of modern liberalism in the US. I’d like to see a good new film about **Hannibal** , or **William the Conqueror** , or **Charlemagne** , or **George Washington** , or **Lewis and Clark** or **Benedict Arnold** , or **Andrew Jackson**. Oh yeah, and count me in on the **War of the Worlds** idea. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/23 "2000-11-14T22:56:15Z")
With CG almost affordable now, I’d like to see someone take a crack at David Brin’s _Startide Rising_. Just keep Costner out of it, please. I’d love to see a _good_ version of Raymond Chandler’s _Farewell, My Lovely_. I’m all behind Rocketeer’s suggestion for some Aubrey/Maturin films. Maybe if Russel Crowe puts on some weight… _Neuromancer_, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/24 "2000-11-14T22:58:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blessedwolf \* > **One of the peole I work with translated that one to “reader’s theatre.” Apparently…** Forgive me, but I have no idea what “reader’s theatre” means…any help? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/25 "2000-11-14T23:04:49Z")
John Irving’s _A Prayer For Owen Meany_. It’s one of my favorite books. It was bastardized a couple of years ago as _Simon Birch_ and John took his name off the project. He WAS credited as “inspired by the book…”. I don’t know how you could find a kid with the right voice, though. If you’ve read the book, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. Also, a remake of _When Worlds Collide_. The book, although written in 1931, holds up well. The 1950’s George Pal version wasn’t too bad. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/26 "2000-11-14T23:07:21Z")
I loved Startide Rising, but it would be very difficult to make a good movie out of. Footfall would make a good movie, though a lot of people would probably think it was an Independence Day rip-off. 8^) ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/27 "2000-11-14T23:17:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Saltire \* > I, too, would love to see some sort of Wild Cards production. A TV series would be cool, but only if it were done sort of like the books: With lots of short stories, punctuated with a few larger plots. I wouldn’t like it if it were just “The Adventures of Dr. Tachyon and Cap’n Trips” (for instance). The various points of view are too important to only follow one or two through a series. The heck with a series; I just wish they would continue with the books! Of course, with Roger Zelazny’s death, it’ll never happen, but still: _What about Peri’s **baby**??_ Hmmm…we should start a Wild Cards thread. It’s still my favorite sci-fi series. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/28 "2000-11-15T00:54:14Z")
I’d like to see Tarzan of the Apes done true to the book. Or maybe the John Carter series by ERB, starting with A Princess of Mars. It has everything. Scantily clad females, loads of strange creatures absolutely ripe for exploitation as film tie-ins, much swash and buckle, etc. etc. and so forth. ---
**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/29 "2000-11-15T01:43:16Z")
I would like to see a remake of the 1973 film The Wicker Man or new film dealing with the same subject matter. The Wicker Man was about an unsuspecting visitor to a remote English island who discovers the inhabitants are Pagans who still secretly practice Druidic rituals. He ends up as a human sacrifice inside a huge wickerwork statue. Paganism and new age religions are much more fashionable now than when this film was made but film directors don’t seem all that interested. ---
**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/30 "2000-11-15T02:03:29Z")
And also: a film adaptation of a Tanith Lee story called Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur De Feu. It’s a vampire love story which always seemed extraordinarily filmable to me. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/31 "2000-11-15T02:39:26Z")
I’m actually thinking of writing a script about my grandfather’s experience in World War II, which I described in Coldfire’s thread about MAy 5, 1945. (I’ve written a few scripts so I know how to do it.) Wish I knew how to link to other threads. It has it all. A dashing fighter pilot with a baby son he’s never seen crashes in Holland and spends months fighting with the Resistance. He gets into gun fights and carries out clandestine nighttime missions. He’s captured holding off a platoon of Wehrmacht infanty while his best friend runs away, and the bullets pass so close by the friend there’s holes in his coat (and I have seen the coat.) He’s sentenced to death and is saved by the Allied army the night before his execution. Fighter planes, gun battles, mysterious Resistance agents, odious Nazis, the evils of war… if that doesn’t make a movie, what does? ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/32 "2000-11-15T03:15:38Z")
Spaceballs II: The Search For More Money. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/33 "2000-11-15T05:18:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Davidbw1 \* > \*\*I’d like to see > > 1. Anything by Asimov (Bicentenial Man dosen’t count) > \*\* I’d really like to see a film of “The Gods Themselves”. A movie where half the characters are geometric shapes. No I mean it, it’s a great story and I think it would be an interesting challenge of the uses of computer animation. ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/34 "2000-11-15T06:44:41Z")
Anything by David Eddings, though it would probably be better in a TV series but all his books are really great. Kitty ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/35 "2000-11-15T06:46:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hypergirl \* > \*\*Spaceballs II: The Search For More Money. \*\* Hell yeah! I second this movie to be made! ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/36 "2000-11-15T07:52:56Z")
It’d take an good, imaginative director to do it just right, but I’d like to see Neil Gaiman’s _Murder Mysteries_ done. [SciFi.com](http://SciFi.com)’s got an adaptation on RealAudio here: > **[Scifi.com](https://www.syfy.com/scifi/set/originals/murder)** > > Visit Syfy.com (The print version’s better, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/37 "2000-11-15T09:07:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by G. Nome \* > \*\*I would like to see a remake of the 1973 film The Wicker Man or new film dealing with the same subject matter. The Wicker Man was about an unsuspecting visitor to a remote English island \*\* Different film from the one I saw then. Perhaps you saw a version based on the remote English Isle of Wight or somewhere similar . Anyway, good film, and a remake might be good, but maybe it’s one of those films best enjoyed, remembered, and left alone. It had some strange and creaky bad touches (e.g., Britt Ekland being a Scottish islander etc.) but a remake might lose the charm and make it worse. How about “The Wasp Factory” (Iain Banks)? It has everything - small island, therefore excuse for pretty scenery and dramatic weather when required, odd son, odd father, and imaginative murders of several young children. Oh, and brother Eric, who is also somewhat odd, and is in a hospital for this very reason, but leaves the hospital and jouneys home, surviving in whatever way he can. (But he does not eat dogs, well, not raw, anyway.) And, of course, not all is as it seems. It would be a really good film/movie, and sales of kites would soar, so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/38 "2000-11-15T11:40:13Z")
Roger Zelazny’s short story “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/39 "2000-11-15T12:22:41Z")
I wish “Sphere” had been true to the book. What a disappointment it was. What bozo decided it needed to be changed??? \ ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170/40 "2000-11-15T12:29:49Z")
I would like to see ‘Anonymous Rex’ made into a movie. It would call for some cool special effects. It’s a detective story, but the premise is that dinosaurs never became extict. They still exist, but disguise themselves as humans. The main character is Los Angeles private detective who is a velociraptor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-wish-would-be-made/41170.md?page=3)