A trilogy of movies based on the entire tale of Nausicaa of the valley of wind.
Miyazaki even made the animated movie version of his manga, but it only covered about one third of the whole epic tale.
I really want to see the god warrior in action and not wasted as it was in the animated movie.
And so many giant bugs! Remember the attack of the giant bugs in King Kong? In Nausicaa those bugs are just the young ones. :eek: It should make that King Kong scene look like child’s renderings.
I’d love to see Cordwainer Smith’s universe brought to life in a multi-part series.
And/or The Mote In God’s Eye.
C’mon. Are Lady Chance and I the ONLY ones hoping for PERN? You’ve got your intrigue, music, dragons fighting thread, and so forth. It would be awesome.
I would love to see the belisarius series, but done seriously like the 2007 version of Beowolf rather than like 300, though I liked 300.
And yes, Pern would be good, Ringworld, as would a number of SF/fantasy books or series.
however for the love of ghu, miniseries not movies … you cant do novels as a movie normally without losing stuff. Novellas and short stories are movie fodder. I seem to remember it being discussed in a thread that it turns into something like 1 to 1.5 minute per page of text when one makes a book into a movie.
It’s still not, IMO. Should’ve waited another 10 years, Jim!
(of course, he’ll still make bucketloads of cash off it, so I guess he’s not going to cry himself to sleep over it)
King Kong didn’t exactly look real either but it’s a classic.
It’s tough for most of us to relate to 8-10 foot tall supermen who spit acid. It might be better to focus on members of the Imperial Guard who are at least human.
The entire Robotech saga, especially Sentinels, Genesis, and Malcontent Uprisings
Am I the only one who would like to see Powered Armor done right? I’d enjoy Starship Trooper by Robert Heinlein, with a plot that is 70% close to the book.
I want to see Great Cthulhu raising up from the ocean causing wanton destruction and the end of human civilization. Unlike 2012 or the Day After Tomorrow, mankind is utterly screwed with no hope for survival. Now this is one disaster porn flick which I will watch.
I’d like to see a movie based on Final Fantasy X. Perhaps something dealing with Auron up to his first death.
I think the issue is not that CGI has improved all that much over the years (it really hasn’t – you can just do more CGI – like an entire scene), but that people’s expectation of what good special effects look like have been lowered. Even a phony-looking CGI (like the clips I’ve seen from Avatar) aren’t all that realistic.
It’s odd. People claim they want more realism in their movies, yet are willing to accept amazingly fake-looking CGI.
I still say that if the first thing you notice about a film is its special effects (CGI or otherwise), the film is a failure.
Lots of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Mars, Venus, Pellucidar.
Robert Heinlein. Starship Troopers,Space Cadet, The Rolling Stones, Red Planet.
I seem to be the only person on the planet who liked the TV miniseries version of The Martian Chronicles. Perhaps a big-budget remake would work.
Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End. The plot is not very cinematic, but the visuals would be spectacular.
How about some cast-of-thousands historical epics? Roman legions, knights in armor, some of the Chinese civil wars, samurai wars, Zulus.
Mythology. The Ten Commandments, the Hindu epics.
The Book of Revelation- no commentary, no interpretation- just Seven-Horned Lambs, Six-winged Seraphim, Seven-Headed Leopard-Lion-Bear and Lamb-Horned Dragon-Mouthed Beasts, Blood-Drunk Whores, Falling Wormwood Stars, Celestials Brides, Crystalline-Bejeweled Cities, Blood, Fire, Bloody Fire, and Fiery Blood!
I’d like to see Fredric Brown’s short story Arena done properly. With CGI, you could definitely do it. I’ve fiolmed it in my head.
That goes for a lot of SF films I’ve wanted to see done. I’d like to see The Stars me Destination filmed – the opening would be a killer opening, whether you liked SF or not. With a creative director I think you could do a helluva job on The Demolished Man, too – especially the telepathy scenes. In uncreative hands, though, it’d be worse than awful.
I’d like to see them film Harlan Ellison’s script for I, Robot with CGI.
Or maybe film some Heinlein without rewriting it.
C. J. Cherryh’s Chanur novels. Probably re-worked to be told from the perspective of Tully.
Same here, and do it right this time.
And by “this time”, I mean “for the first time”. This does not exist.
Gully Foyle was Jamaican?
No, Cockney
