# What other movies are we overdue for?

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**Created:** [April 6, 2006, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-movies-are-we-overdue-for/351538 "2006-04-06T05:41:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-movies-are-we-overdue-for/351538/101 "2006-04-12T22:42:04Z")

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> [@rowe](#):
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> I’m not sure where you’re getting the ‘quest to steal gold from dragons’ plot though.

Well, it’s the very first thing they do in the first book. I know it’s much more than that afterward, but the crux of it is still based firmly on D&D campaign concepts, so it has a greater chance of looking like a cliche.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-movies-are-we-overdue-for/351538/102 "2006-04-12T22:46:43Z")

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> [@Clothahump](#):
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> > [@GuanoLad](#):
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> > **The Discworld** of course.
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> Well, one of the novels has been done. Kinda.
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> [http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~jknoblo2/LnL/](http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~jknoblo2/LnL/)

Erm. Yes, I know. And a friend of mine is also doing [a short film](http://www.snowgumfilms.com/trollbridge/) based on one of the short stories.

I have just learned that they’re doing a TV live-action adaptation of [Hogfather](http://www.paulkidby.com/news/mar2006.html), so that might be good! It’ll be the first time I’ll get to see a fully realised Ankh-Morpork, which I’m very much looking forward to.

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**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-movies-are-we-overdue-for/351538/103 "2006-04-13T01:21:38Z")

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Ive always wanted to see a movie version of one of the Zelda games.

I know it would be utterly rubbish because the enjoyment in the games is figuring all the various puzzles out which you couldnt really have in a film but even so, the idea behind it is cool.  
Then again the idea behind Zeldas been used 100 times over… il just go away now…

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**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-movies-are-we-overdue-for/351538/104 "2006-04-13T01:52:28Z")

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> [@JoeSki](#):
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> Also, I think it’s _high_ time we see a movie that does for vikings what Pirates of the Carribean did for pirates.

How about a movie of _The Technicolor Time Machine_? Man, I’d love to see that.

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