For me, I’d like to see a giant monster movie involving the Cthulhu mythos played serious. I want to see the Old Ones rise from their slumber and wreak havoc on major metropolitan cities, along with all the horror and insanity that this would entail. Preferably we’d see all this from human level, with sound by those old subsonic sound systems that shook theaters apart during the EARTHQUAKE days.
Problems. I have not figured a way for this to end happily. It shouldn’t. But moviegoers would hate the absolute despair of the ending, and it wouldn’t make much more of a movie than destruction. It would also be downright distasteful, no, disgusting, in light of recent events, which prove more despair and insanity than these monsters could bring.
I’d like to see John Updike’s “Rabbit” tetraology played out as a TV miniseries, either on cable or PBS so nothing would have to be edited for content. They made “Rabbit, Run” as a feature film in the early 70s but it wasn’t done very well.
Same goes for Ursula K. LeGuin’s “Earthsea” series.
Ferris Buller’s Day Off II: Save Cameron from Military School. I made a whole thread about it. It’s about how Cameron goes off to military school when his dad sees the totaled car. Now it’s up to Ferris to rescue his dear friend, along with the aid of Sloane. Jeanie comes along for the ride, too.
Pet Sematary: The Disney Full Length Musical. I have a sick, sick mind…
I’d love to see some kind of cinematic treatment of The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. The sheer density of the book will defy any attempt to condense the entire narrative into a two-hour flick, so perhaps a miniseries or limited series run would work best, with each chapter of the book serving as an episode.
Believe it or not, I actually liked The Silmarillion more than The Lord of the Rings, and that’s saying something considering how much I like it.
Its too big for a tv series and is still being setup…but seeing the Gunslinger pursuing the man in black across the desert has been a fond dream
Hawk and Fisher books by Green. The full beholding of the Street of the Gods would be worth admission alone.
Battleteh series
It would have to be a great part of the history like maybe the Falcon Guard saga. Hey if they can make a monster look like he has real hair, can you imagine a full blown Atlas tearing the shit outta a city
They should do Dante’s Inferno. Think of the possibilities…just like when Dante first wrote it, we could update it to show all sorts of major, modern-day political figures burning in Hell! Somehow, I doubt that’ll fly. :rolleyes:
But I’ve always really wanted to see a three-part miniseries made out of A Canticle for Leibowitz. Unless it was directed by Ingmar Bergman, though, I don’t think all the quiet religion could be done properly. Oh well.
V For Vendetta, though I tend to believe that only I could put it together correctly, since last I heard the guys who did The Matrix(bleh) have the rights to produce it. Ugh, I hate to see how much crap they’ll reduce this great story to.
While I’m on the subject, I was really looking forward to Watchmen before I learned that the intended director wants to condense the story into one 2-hour movie. What is he, on shrooms? I took me damn near a month to read Watchmen(way back when I was young, of course), there’s no way you can make this a 2-hour movie and keep it good.
I’ve always wanted a good Lord of the Rings. Looks like I’ll get it. I actually like the Simlarillion better too, but I just can’t see a movie made from this, it’s too fragmented and biblical.
When I was in high school, I had a film class and did my own screenplay for A Wizard of Earthsea.
I think an anime series of The Wheel of Time would be really cool. You could condense whole long-ass chapters into a few seconds, since you could just draw all the crap that Jordan describes. When the story actually moves, I do like the books.
