Would Denzel Washington be too old for the role, do you think?
No clue for Nimashet. Nor even Kosutic. Though I imagine it would be possible to role Pahner and Kosutic’s roles into one character.
How about E. E. “Doc” Smith’s Lensman series? I can’t believe our friend Qadgop hasn’t dropped in to recommend it.
Then its time for Stackpoles “Return of Kerensky” trilogy from the battletech universe.
Done well it would make transformers look like a couple neighborhood kids in a shoving match. Lots of likeable and dislikable charachters from both sides of the war and more than enough action and drama to fill 3-4 decent movies well.
What, anywhere? You’re kidding, right?
Right? :eek:
I kind of like him myself. 
I really like Ringo’s work, though I haven’t enjoyed the spin off series very much.
Yeah…I liked that series to. 4 armed aliens with humans from a high tech society stranded on a hell planet…what’s not to like?
It’s not really SciFi (well, actually I suppose it is), but what about Harry Turtledoves alternative history of WWII books? THAT could be pretty cool.
-XT
While I love the Legacy of the Aldenta stories (Mike O’Neil, Posleen) I think that Through the Looking Glass would make a better movie.
Which ones? The WorldWar books - which could be great fun. The Featherstone books? Or the Derlavi books?
I think he has more alt his WWII, but those are the three monster series that come to mind. All of which could be fun to see done visually, and all of which would have some major problems. The Featherstone books would be easiest, from a technical standpoint, but egads they’d be a tough sell - Lincoln, remembered both for having lost the Civil War and for being a major supporter of Marx and Engalls; the idea of a socialist President, who happened to be stuck holding the stick when the music stops on the Roaring 20s; the hostile occupation of Canada and Deseret; and oh, just as an aside, a Hitler analogue in charge of the CSA. Complete with a Scarlett O’Hara analogue playing his Eva Braun.
That’s going to go over soooo well. 
Rick, I agree that Through the Looking Glass would be easier to film and to script.
Wasn’t this already done as an episode of a TV show?
Or heck, maybe they’ll actually do Jumper itself, instead of the crappy rewrite the movie has become. (Assuming that the novelization that Gould did of the movie, “Jumper: Griffin’s Story,” is an accurate reflection of the movie.) Although I guess Griffin’s story lends itself to a movie better than Davy’s story did.
Wildside would be incredibly awesome, though.
As soon as I heard there would be a movie I knew it would require a serious rewrite.
I mean, a book that talks about ME terrorists and planes and revenge and “trips” from the World Trade Towers managing to make it as a movie?
But I liked The Bourne Identity though that was a departure from the book, so I’m keeping alive a small hope that I’ll like Jumper in spite of the wild differences.
I don’t think that would be a big problem. Just add explanation that with huge advances in genetic engineering almost everything - not just food, but also drugs, fuels, chemicals, even construction materials - are grown by modified crops. And demand for arable land much exceeds Earth capacity. I think that explanation like that would be quite reasonable - especially with all recent stories about biofuels and their economical effects.
I’d love to see that as well, unfortunately there’s too much to put in one film and would require a lot of backstory exposition (actually thinking about it maybe they could just do an opening sequence that sets the scene and leave the rest to wikipedia, hmmm…).
Haven’t there been plans for there to be a battletech film for a while? Not sure it would be fixed on the Clans though.
I think Niven’s Dream Park and Foster’s Midworld would both make very good movies. Heinlein’s Job: A Comedy of Justice could also be quite wonderful, but I’m not sure whether that is strictly sci-fi or not. I’m not sure what you classify that book as, but I bet the movie would be hilarious.
Maybe I missed it – do I get to be the first one to mention “Microcosmic God”?
How about Damon Knight’s “The Country of the Kind”?
I liked the recent film version of I am Legend, but I’d still like to see it filmed a lot closer to the book.
There was a truly crappy Sci-Fi Channel version, but imagine a good movie of Riverworld.
S M Stirling’s The Sky People is set on an alternate Venus. Not the blasted hellhole that science has revealed in our solar system–but a steaming jungle planet, stocked with creatures from Earth prehistory. Pterodactyls and sabertooths (saberteeth?)! Plus scary ape-men & at least one beautiful warrior princess! The explorers are astronauts & cosmonauts–all that Cold War money went into a real Space Race. The plot is a bit pulpy & not deep, but somewhat less gory that Stirling’s usual stuff. The visuals would rock!
The sequel–In the Courts of the Crimson Kings–comes out in March. Set on Mars, of course!
Another vote for Clarke’s CHILDHOOD’S END
Wilson/Shea’s ILLUMINATUS
Ayn Rand’s ATLAS SHRUGGED (motor that runs on atmospheric static electricity, a society hidden by electrical mirage, sonic death-ray- it qualifies as Sci-Fi) and/or ANTHEM
C.S. Lewis’s SPACE TRILOGY (tho I’ve never made it through the first one, I love II & III).
Yes, I believe it was an episode of Outer Limits.
No, I’m not kidding. I only recently started dropping into Cafe Society more than once in a blue moon, though. I take it that it comes up in here from time to time?
I read that one ages ago but still retain fond memories of it.
Considering the state of my memory, that in itself is a good recommendation.
RR
Let’s see how well Narnia does, you might get your wish.
Oooo, oooo, another vote for both Haldeman’s The Forever War and Pohl’s Gateway. Those could be wicked cool if they were done right. Joe Haldeman’s Tool of the Trade, a brilliant, taut, semi-satirical Cold War scifi espionage thriller about mind control, would also make an awesome movie.