There was a Gormenghast miniseries. It wasn’t bad, but it suffered from a lack of budget.
I thought someone had done at least the first one on PBS…? It was a couple of years ago, if I’m remembering correctly.
Billy Budd: Somebody needs to remake this with a better pace, better editing, with actors who don’t mumble or speak in a monotone, and with a director who isn’t bored to death.
I would love to see the Dragonlance trilogy. I can’t figure out whether the success of LotR helps or hurts the chances of it ever being made.
I’d also like to see Frank M. Robinson’s Dark Beyond the Stars get out of development hell.
Hmm. I did not know that. I’m going to have to look into it.
I’d still like to see a big budget, big screen movie, though.
I think I’ve mentioned in these forums before… IMHO The James Brown Story would, if done properly, be friggin’ fantastic. We might have to wait until Mr. Brown dances off to the big Apollo Theatre in the sky before it can be done.
For revisitations…
The further adventures of Captain Willard from Apocalypse Now. What became of him after the “one last mission”? My guess is something like Taxi Driver
Also with regards to the OP… the King Arthur story was also (besides the Monty Python version) done justice in Excalibur
Another vote for **The Moon is a Harsh Mistress ** here.
Although it isn’t exactly “overdue,” I wouldn’t say no to an Angel (TV show) movie, assuming they could get around the fact that the show sucked in the last two seasons AND the fact that there was a bloodbath at the end…
Well, I wouldn’t hold my breath, especially after trying to slog through the ‘Buttercup’s baby’ excerpt in the later editions of Princess Bride, the book. It’s always a little hard to tell what’s really going on through Billy’s layers of lies and deceptions when he starts talking about Morgenstern, but I get the impression that he really did sit down to write a full sequel, found it tough going, that his heart wasn’t in it and didn’t like what he’d been able to write. I don’t much like it either.
sighs
I still hope for Good Burger II
I’d like to see a film version of Haruki Murakami’s Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, directed by either David Fincher or Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
I’m hoping for a Blues Brothers 2007.
Wow. That would be very cool if it could somehow show the ‘pragmatic surrealism’ of the book without alienating the audience. Or something.
In other news: I recently saw this phrase in the Pit and thought - “That sooo needs to be a porn movie!” - Partisan Wankfest
I’m right there with you, buddy. I think the LoTR movies would help its chances to get made (directors/screenwriters now have proof that fantasy movies CAN make tons of money) but hurt its chances in theatres, since everyone will do nothing but compare them to LoTR, and odds are, it wouldn’t have as great a director, producer, or actors.
But seeing a really well done aerial battle with HUNDREDS of dragons, spitting flame, lighting bolts, and jets of acid everywhere would be so freakin’ cool.
Is this a whoosh? You are aware that Roman-Celtic warlords didn’t eat dinner or have sex while wearing chromed plate armor, right? :rolleyes:
When the Gaea trilogy gets made into movies, Peter Jackson has to direct–I absolutely insist!
I’d LOVE to see a movie series (or mini-series on, say the SF channel) based on the Honor Harrington book series. I think it would totally kick ass. For that matter, I would love to see a movie series/mini-series either on the 1632 books or on the Hymn Before Battle series about the Posleen wars. I think that, if done right, any of these could become instance SF classics.
-XT
I’ve been waiting for Buckaroo Banzai vs. the World Crime League for about twenty years now.
I’d like to see Asimov’s original Foundation Trilogy done as a sunday night series on HBO. I think a lot of the individual chapter vignettes would break down easily into episodes. There couldn’t be a lot of regular cast members but that would give the series a chance to showcase a lot of guest stars ala Twilight Zone. The character of Hari Seldon, the one character who recurs throughout the series via hologram, should be played by Morgan Freeman.
Books I’d like to see at long last filmed:
King of the Jews by Leslie Epstein- a novel based on Chaim Rumkowski and the Lodz ghetto (though both names and some details are changed) that if well done would be a great conversation starter (was this man for the best or for the worst for “his” people?)
Confederacy of Dunces but ONLY if it is true to the book (I’m talking almost Fundamentalist in adaptation); when it was announced Will Ferrell would play Ignatius I stole and sacrificed livestock and farm animals every night for three months to Fortuna before it died.
A real epic about the silent film era.
A real epic (with great battle scenes) about the American Revolution (not Lethal Musket but one with a good plot and good history)
An epic about Lewis & Clark (which I hoped they’d have for the bicentennial of the expedition- things like Sacagawea’s reunion with her brother [or the fact she was one of two child brides won by her husband], Indian chiefs begging York to sleep with their wives, the first ever vote by a black man and women in an election on U.S. soil, etc., all writes itself).
Oh, most definitely! It would be a great series, and Morgan Freeman would be PERFECT!
-XT
Marry me and run away with me to the Casbah!
The idea of a Watchmen movie was being batted about in an earlier thread; it wouldn’t be a big blockbuster, but if only it fell into the hands of a good director…
Also, an actually halfway decent Hellblazer / Constantine movie, and Lucifer and Fables.
Moving on from comics: what about the Artemis Fowl series?
How about “A Plane full of Snakes”?