What other movies are we overdue for?

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In response to the Robin Hood thread, what are some movies you think we’re overdue for a new one of? Not looking for remakes so much as a new installments in a series (e.g. Indiana Jones [which supposedly we are getting a new one of]) or specific character (e.g. Robin Hood) or a first time make of a classic.

My votes:

Sandman: with Johnny Depp as Dream, Rachel Weisz as Death, Eric Bana as Destruction, Linda Hunt as Despair, Patrick Stewart as Destiny, Drew Barrymore as Delirium and an unknown adrogynous beauty as Desire (plus Rene Auberjunois as the librarian Lucien, Brendan Gleeson and Ethan Supplee as Cain/Abel, etc.) I think it could be a really cerebral blockbuster, though it may have to be animated.

King Arthur: the definitive movie has yet to be made. I would go with historical Arthur, totally rewritten, and perhaps as a miniseries based on Mary Stewart.

My Cousin Vinny: while most movies don’t need sequels, this is one I always thought could have made it as a series. It’s been enough time now that the plot could focus on Vinny and Mona Lisa (herself a lawyer now) could pull a Pat & Mike, or their teenaged son could have to be defended on a bogus murder charge. Ralph Machio is not needed.

Wonder Woman- long long overdue for this one. Has summer blockbuster written all over it, especially with Lynda Carter as Hippolyte. Supposedly in production but then it has been for years and never gets closer.

Huckleberry Finn- again, I don’t think the definitive version has been made. There have been musicals and kid’s movies and the like and even a mindnumbingly boring miniseries version that managed to be true to the plot without retaining any of what was interesting, but I think it could be great.
Unknown for Huck, Dave Chapelle as Samuel Jackson for Jim (“Yeah I’m glad your pa’s dead! I hope he burns in hay-ull!”- alright, maybe not), Billy Bob Thornton as the Duke, Robert Duvall as a [sinister] Dauphin (include the candle scene, or at least the suggestion of it), etc…

A 20 hour miniseries that does for Vietnam what Band of Brothers did for WW2 and ideally what Shogun did for feudal Japan/western explorers would be great. I’d start it before Dienbienphu and center it on a Franco-Vietnamese family, have Ho Chi Minh as a character (before he was Ho Chi Minh ideally), follow it through Diem and the Tet Offensive and Linebackers and Fall of Saigon and culminate in a return by a 30 year old Amerasian (born of main characters from both American and Vietnamese plotlines) in the modern day. All roles to be played by either Tom Hanks or Meg Ryan, of course.

I think we’re overdue for non-hagiographic movies about Custer, MLK, Churchill and Helen Keller (not Miracle Worker but middle-aged Helen) and the LBJs as well.

A miniseries about the invention of television is long overdue. I’d have vignettes from Tsarist Russia (Sarnoff and Zworykin’s childhoods), Mormon Idaho (Farnsworth’s childhood), show how history can turn on the most trivial incidents (Sarnoff accidentally taking a job as a Marconi operator and parlaying it post Titanic [I’m well aware he padded the mythos of his involvment in relaying the sinking, but he was involved in its relay] and becoming the creator of RCA/NBC, or Farnsworth’s ass of a boss refusing to give him family leave when his baby died and thus causing him to leave Westinghouse and delaying TV til after WW2, etc.). Could be really really well done and throw light on a surprisingly little known history of arguably the most important technology in history (and HAS to be done as a TV project for tis only fitting).

It’s about time for a new video incarnation of Land of the Lost as well, but this time as a show for adults rather than kids and with full rights wrested from the Brothers Kroft.

Your votes?

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I would dearly love to see a sequel to The Princess Bride, but only if William Goldman writes the screenplay. Changes in the cast would be OK (obviously, Fezzik will need to be recast), but Goldman is a must. He’s not getting any younger, so I hope this happens soon.

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The next X-Files movie.

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**Rendezvous with Rama

Childhood’s End
Foundation
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
A Gun for Dinosaur

The Stars my Destination**

But only if they do them right, dammit! None of this I, Robot/Starship Troopers treatment!

We could use another Horatio Hornblower movie, and we’re way overdue for another go at Judge Dee.

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The Last Unicorn. Also “in development” but seems to have stalled. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Unicorn#New_film_development

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I’ve been waiting for twenty years for John Varley’s **Titan ** trilogy to make it to the big screen.

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A digital movie or miniseries of Ender’s Game. And Serenity II, since we’re making wishes.

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I second “Huckleberry Finn.” It’s the first thing that came to my mind.

I would also like to see another movie from the “A Fish Called Wanda” crew.

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What you been smokin’ boy ? Do the words “strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government” mean nothing to you :slight_smile:

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A Paradise Lost miniseries would be cool. But I seem to be the only person I know who actually read the whole thing and liked it, so maybe it wouldn’t be all that popular. On the other hand, I think if it was made into a miniseries, without all of the extraneous old-school English poetry, people would dig it.

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You’ve seen Fierce Creatures, right? It’s not as good as Wanda, but it’s the same folks.

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ohpleaseohpleaseohplease

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Too late…

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I’m currently rereading Demon right now- this has to be at least my fifth time so far.

Gina Torres would totally kick butt as Cirocco.

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I think we’re overdue for a movie about a federal agent who is transporting a witness on a plane which is infested by snakes. Maybe they could call it The Plane With A Lot Of Snakes On It, or Flying Snakes, or maybe Flight 121. No Ben Afflack, and definitely not Colin Farrell; they’re way too overexposed. We should have a black man; they could get Wesley Snipes to star, but I think he already did an airplane movie or a few. Lawrence Fishburn is getting a little too old, and Chris Tucker is way too annoying to be constrained to an airplane. Maybe Samual L. Jackson is free?

I still can’t figure out what to call it, though…

Stranger

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But I think I would want to see Tom Sawyer first.

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I always thought The Simarillion would make a cool animated film, if done properly. It could be done in parts kinda like the Animatrix. Would have to be done well, and if Disney was involved in anyay it could end up a complete abomination…

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I would love to see a movie made from one or more of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast novels. They’re not easy to read, but within them, I think, lurks the material for a great movie. It would be interesting to see what Tim Burton or Terry Gilliam might do with them, although I fear that they (especially Gilliam) would produce a movie that was marvelous to look at, at the expense of a coherent storyline.

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Snow Crash, filmed with the same tongue-in-cheek whimsy of Buckaroo Bonzai or Shaolin Soccer, not in a self-pretentious Keanu-esque virtual reality interpretation.

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I am SOOOOO there, dude. I would strongly recommend recreations of how TV looked at various stops along the way, too: low definition formats, brave attempts at programming (more of this went on than anybody cares about today), absurd equipment (an untapped army of nerds exists to recreate this stuff), comic production mishaps…

I suspect the reason this hasn’t been done is that TV so routinely eats its own history. My favorite story is that NBC filmed their first TV show in 1936, showed the film once to a select group of licensees, then burned the film.