There are any number of excellent long novels or series of novels that would make great miniseries. There are far more of them than could ever conceivably be made into miniseries, since the market for miniseries is very small. Essentially, to make a good miniseries, you have to spend so much money that the only way to get enough viewers is to make the series an “event”. You have to have a lot of media buzz and have to have the miniseries shown in a prominent time period on a prominent TV (including cable) channel. I think that very liberally there might be enough spots on American TV for maybe a dozen of those a year. That’s for all miniseries, not just science fiction ones. TV executives have made the decision to only do already well-known authors and simple, easily advertised themes. That makes it unlikely that any of the few spots for miniseries will be science fiction.
John M. Ford’s Alternities Corporation stories/concept might be woven into a decent script. I’d like to see just the story Mandalay done up right, myself.
David Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself.
Yeah, it’s by King, and more horror than science fiction, but The Mist has some science fiction underpinnings, and I want to see it on the silver screen.
Maybe these three could be set in the same movie, as separate mini-stories, like the Creepshow films. But, y’know, done seriously.
Alas, no. My choosing his name as my nom de Internet is the cyber equivalent of buying a Ferrari as a 50th birthday present. I only wish I was that handsome and deep-voiced.
And could fly a jet.
And had a lab all to myself that big.
And was sent a Heathkit Interociter.
And had a lab assistant like Dolly Parton…uhh, I mean Faith Domergue.
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Frank Darabont has made some noise about working on an adaptation of The Mist – but it seems as vapourous as his alleged adaptation of Fahrenheit 451.
I’m beginning to get pictures of ol’ Frank sitting on a mountain of cocaine, talking too fast about his next big project, which happens to completely change every six months before making it to pre-production. WTF?
Charles L Harness - **The Rose ** or Paradox Men.
Or how about Hilbert Schenk’s Steam Bird? The first (and only) flight of a steam-powered bomber.
Then rent 1950s British science fiction movie The Strange World of Planet X, released in the US as The Cosmic Monsters, starring the favorite American for 1950s Brit Scvi Fi, the pre-F-Troop Forrest Tucker.
Military research opens a crack into a parallel universe full of giant bugs. No Mist in the movie, though.
I just recentlt forced myself through The Rose. I’d never read any Harness, and heard this was good. I still don’t know why. I hated the book, and can’t see it making a good movie. Even if I liked it, there’s way too much discussion and far too little action. You could make a stage play out of it, I think, but a movie’d be a challenge.
…sigh [swoony voice]…Faith Domergue…[/swoony voice] sigh…