I’d like to see a new adaptation of The Dresden Files. The existing adaptation wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever seen, but…faithful it was not.
I also wouldn’t mind seeing new adaptations of The Tommyknockers and Needful Things, the latter of which keeps being rumored and dropped. Oh, and similar to that a version of Locke & Key that makes it past the pilot: the newest attempt to adapt it just fired everyone but the kid who played Georgie in It and is recasting all characters but Bohe…
You cannot improve perfection. I wouldn’t mind a new series set in the B5 universe, not a remake of the original.
Why would you want this? I’ve read the original novel (republished in paperback in the 1960s as Armageddon 2419), and it’s no great shakes. It was one of a series of science fiction adventures with its upper crust/military hero battling the Bad Guys with their futuristic weaponry and getting the girl. The original seems racist because it was – the Han were the Yellow Peril hordes that had succeeded in taking over the earth, and which Rogers was fighting against. (It’s because of the Han, I’m convinced, that we had the Oriental-named and -styled Ming the merciless in that imitator, “Flash” Gordon.) It was ploddingly earthbound, and reminds me of a low-rent John Carter of Mars, or of Ralph Milne Farley’s Cabot of Venus.
The comic strip based on it brought it to considerably greater interest by changing things – it changed that patrician Anthony Rogers to the more blue-collar “Buck” Rogers. It got the series off the earth and flying around in space ships. And it introduced* the hand-held ray gun. (prior to this, ray guns were bigger, cannon-like things. Even in Armageddon 2419). It rapidly moved on to radio, and became – I’m convinced, because of these changes – immensely, wildly popular. So popular that it generated imitators, who also had the cute nickname – “Brick” Bradford (largely forgotten today) and “Flash” Gordon, who in Alex Raymond had a much better artist, so he overtook Buck Rogers in popularity.
And, Og knows, we’ve had a Flash Gordon film We also had a Buck Rogers series, which wasn’t terribly faithful to its roots, but updated. And we had Star Wars, which drew pretty heavily on that whole tradition. So what would a Buck Rogers movie give you that you really wanted?
*actually, re-invented. A. Merritt’s novel The Moon Pool actually featured a hand-held cone-shaped “raygun” years earlier, but doesn’t seem to have been a big influence. Buck Rogers’ ray guns, though, were quickly turned into paper guns as product promotions, and later as BB guns by the Daisy people. They not only re-invented that hand-held ray gun, they popularized it.
I would like to see Babylon 5 re-done, with all 5 seasons made in a single shoot. That way, you would not have to re-write major story-lines when a key actor left. Also, you would not have to rush to get the main story finished in Season 4, leaving Season 5 to limp along with the secondary stories.
“War of the Telepaths” would have been decent backup story, but it was not interesting enough to be a main story. Also, it would have made a lot more sense if it had been about Susan Ivanova and Talia Winters, not Elizabeth Lochley and Lyta Alexander. (Or, better yet, if Lyta had been there for all 5 seasons.)
I would like to see the World War Z novel redone as a fake documentary. Same structure as the book, in fact. The movie version of it was bad. I don’t care how much money it made - it was not true to the spirit. It didn’t need Brad Pitt; it needed ordinary-looking non-star actors, because the zombie plague attacked and ordinary people had to react to it.
When I am an eccentric billionaire I will make it happen, like Howard Hughes and The Conqueror.
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Shodan
Since this was originally a collection of basically independent short stories, I’d like to see a television series version of I, Robot. Perhaps on HBO, where it can get the budget it deserves (and which I already subscribe to).
Yankee got really, really dark at the end.
That would be great.
Too soon, but yes, someday.
Horror is too banal nowadays, the horror fans want gore, torture, slashers, etc, not a slow mystery build into horror.
Holly isn’t a call girl. wiki" Holly (age 18–19) is a country girl turned New York café society girl. As such, she has no job and lives by socializing with wealthy men, who take her to clubs and restaurants, and give her money and expensive presents; she hopes to marry one of them. According to Capote, Golightly is not a prostitute but an “American geisha”.[2]
And I dont remember the narrator being gay.
I agree.
The Hobbit film had many great part. The first film is quite good and the White Council vs the Necromancer was fantastic.
But too many over the top battle scenes, etc. Would have been better as two films, not three.
A Highlander remake/reboot has been in the works for about 10 years. It looks like a script has been accepted and the film is presently in pre-production with a tentative release date of 2019.
There is also a Logan’s Run remake on the horizon.