Stephen R. Donaldson’s Mordant’s Need.
Or Roadmarks.
Also, I’d love to see Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch novels done right as a series of features.
I think Robert Blake would’ve made a great Harry Bosch, but it goes without saying he’s not right for the part now.
Ooh, yes, now Roadmarks would make a fine film.
3rding. Excellent, fun, thought-provoking book and it would make a terrific film.
Elric, Hawkmoon, Corum…someone could make a looooong series, come to think of it, from the Eternal Champion books of Moorcock.
I’d love to see Londra from the Hawkmoon books!
You’re wrong. As I stated, the story was collect a half a dozen times before Star Trek ever aired. See the entry at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. It was voted to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1964. 1970 is when the collection TSFHoF was first published, but “Arena” was a well-known sory, and Fredric Brown a well-known and respected science fiction (and mystery) author with several books and collections behind him, and a couple of films based on his works.
One of my choices is about to come out: John Carter. But it doesn’t look like it’s going to live up to my expectations.
Another one i’d like to see would be the First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (Lord Foul’s Bane; The Illearth War; The Power that Preserves). I think that would make a cracking fantasy trilogy, and i like the fact that the “hero” is also, for much of the time, something of a self-centered asshole.
Finally, like alphaboi867, i’d love to see Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy on the screen.
A few of mine have already been listed. A Halo movie was supposed to be in the works, with Peter Jackson involved in producing it, but fell apart because of studio politics. Those of you who aren’t gamers are probably thinking, “Uh-huh, a movie based on a video game…that won’t suck at all,” but think about how damn good something like the We Are ODST trailer could be. I’ve shown that to people who didn’t know anything about Halo. The near-universal reaction was: “That was awesome. When does the movie come out?” There were some other live-action shorts for the Halo 3 promotion that were extremely well done and showed how a good adaptation of the world could make a very good movie.
I’d like to see a movie called “Dancing to the Music of My Heartstrings: The Dick Cheney Story”.
Ben Kingsley. Got to be.
REALLY?
And then he gave them a bucolic name like “The Misty Mountains?” What was up with THAT? Sounds like a title for a pastoral folk song.
When I was attending JC, I typed up a treatment of The Cold Equations for a drama class, and rehearsed it with a couple of actors. It’s not really long enough for a movie; more of an Outer Limits episode.
Yes, I have since been made aware that it has been used as a Twilight Zone episode.
The Cold Equations has actually been done several times:
The British TV anthologies Out of This World and Out of the Unknown did several clasic SF stories. I’d love to see them.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’d love to do an adaptation of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Previous adaptations have either been star vehicles(Will Rogers, Bing Crosby), or such emasculated affairs so afraid of of offending someone that they suck all the juice out of the story, eliminating everything that made it interesting in the first place. The PBS (PBS!!!) adaptation actually switched things around so much that it made Merlin the Good Guy. Not one of these versions uses any of the iconic scenes from the novel (except for the Eclipse), and they’re almost totally lacking in Twain’s wit.
You can do it properly, I firmly believe, and without insulting the Catholic Church. Best of all, with modern effects and CGI, you can do the scenes of the DEstruction of Merlin’s Tower, the Exclipse, the Holt Fountain, and others and make they believable.
Dammit! I want my Knights on Bicycles scenes!
How about “Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League?”
You should read the Belisarius series - first couple books are available free at Baen’s webscriptions.net. The whole series would make a killer series on cable, too much stuff that would freak the biblepounders to make it on broadcast tv. I don’t think the whole harrington series would be worth filming, it got too Harrington is god after she got to knocking boots with her boss.
Lois is adamant that nothing of hers is going to be filmed after the horror that was The Script From Hell version of The Warrior Apprentice. Barrayarans building fires to cook in spaceships my freaking ass. :rolleyes: But I agree, Vorkosiverse, or Wide Green World and 5 Gods would all make great movies, and Spirit Ring as juvenile movie would be good.
Still waiting for it…
When do we we want to see it?
REAL SOON!
I would vote for John Steakley’s Armor and Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War - or maybe Forever Peace, as long as LL Cool Jay is not allowed to play Julian Class.
They’re all fascinating stories that include powered armor as a more-or-less essential piece of the plot (especially the Steakley novel), and I’ve yet to see a movie do it right. Perhaps it’s the problem that Verhoeven explained with adapting the “Bug War” movie to be Starship Troopers: if you cover up all the actors’ faces, how will you know which characters to root for?
Well, there’s Iron Man, which shows CGI can do armor.
Identifying the characters would be an issue but you could get around it by having non-uniform armor suits. You could even fan-wank it into plausibility be saying that the troops need to be able to visually identify each other in the field. I’ve even seen this idea used in SF (I think Larry Niven or John Varley) where characters gave their spacesuits personalized paint jobs so they’d know who’s who.
A top choice of mine as well. Though I doubt it will ever happen or if it does they will mangle the story beyond recognition.