Movies you wish would be made ...

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. 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.

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, orCharlemagne, 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.

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?

Forgive me, but I have no idea what “reader’s theatre” means…any help?

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.

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^)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Spaceballs II: The Search For More Money.

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.

Anything by David Eddings, though it would probably be better in a TV series but all his books are really great.

Kitty

Hell yeah! I second this movie to be made!

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’s got an adaptation on RealAudio here:

(The print version’s better, though.)

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.

Roger Zelazny’s short story “A Rose for Ecclesiastes”

I wish “Sphere” had been true to the book. What a disappointment it was. What bozo decided it needed to be changed??? <sigh>

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.