# What's the next big epic movie trilogy or series? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 17, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-big-epic-movie-trilogy-or-series/384544 "2006-12-17T21:19:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-big-epic-movie-trilogy-or-series/384544/61 "2006-12-27T19:59:14Z")
[QUOTE=Sam Stone] [A film adaptation of _The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress_ is] being developed now. I have reasonably high hopes, because the screenplay is being written by Tim Minear, who wrote scripts for **Buffy** , **Firefly** , **Wonderfalls** , and other great shows.. [/QUOTE] Cite? I couldn’t find that in the IMDb. If it’s true, well! That would be very [timely!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=399138)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-big-epic-movie-trilogy-or-series/384544/62 "2006-12-27T20:16:23Z")
[QUOTE=Debaser] You missed **Spaceballs**? [/QUOTE] Never did I hea the themesong: “When Goyim attack, We give them a smack” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-big-epic-movie-trilogy-or-series/384544/63 "2006-12-27T20:22:06Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] Between the Blade trilogy, the Underworld movies and the assorted Draculi films, the vampire genre has been done to death. [/QUOTE] Maybe, but Dracula has never been done once in a way that is true to the book. And that is one scary book. (Have you read it?) There is plenty of material there for a trilogy. I’m still pissed about Coppola’s version. Turned the whole thing into a loud, over-the-top action movie, and turned Van Helsing into a screaming lunatic (as opposed to the steely, determined sage of the book). ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-big-epic-movie-trilogy-or-series/384544/64 "2006-12-27T20:30:10Z")
I’ll second the Foundation trilogy. Stephen King’s _Dark Tower_ series might be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-big-epic-movie-trilogy-or-series/384544/65 "2006-12-27T20:53:59Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Cite? I couldn’t find that in the IMDb. If it’s true, well! That would be very [timely!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=399138)🙂 [/QUOTE] Well, I found a [cite,](http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-01/20/13.00.film) but it dates from 2004. [This](http://ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1316) one dates from 2005. Any more recent news? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-big-epic-movie-trilogy-or-series/384544/66 "2006-12-27T20:55:39Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] Stephen King’s _Dark Tower_ series might be interesting. [/QUOTE] [Speaking of which . . .](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=399904) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-big-epic-movie-trilogy-or-series/384544/67 "2006-12-27T21:00:00Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] I’ll second the Foundation trilogy. Stephen King’s _Dark Tower_ series might be interesting. [/QUOTE] Both might be interesting. Well Dark Tower would be. I always found the Foundation series dull. Only problem is that I cringe when I think of what happens to King when his work hits the big or little screen. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-big-epic-movie-trilogy-or-series/384544/68 "2006-12-27T21:29:42Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] I always found the Foundation series dull. [/QUOTE] So was Gibbon’s _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,_ but they [made a movie out of it.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058085/) All right, **kinda** out of it . . . 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-big-epic-movie-trilogy-or-series/384544/69 "2006-12-27T21:38:55Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Well, I found a [cite,](http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-01/20/13.00.film) but it dates from 2004. [This](http://ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1316) one dates from 2005. Any more recent news? [/QUOTE] Unfortunately, not much. Here’s an excerpt from an [interview with Tim Minear](http://drive-tv.blogspot.com/2006/07/tim-minear-interview.html) from July 2006: > [@](#): > > Final question: what is the status of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress film and The Inside DVDs? And if they’re not coming out soon is there anything fans can do to persuade Fox to release them? > > TM: I hold no hope for The Inside DVDs. My best advice is for people to find the aired episodes on-line: they’re all there, and in nice quality. **Moon is in the hands of the people who hired me to adapt it. I understand they’re pursuing ways in which to set it up. That’s really all I know.** I guess it’s in pre-production hell. A lot of movies die there, so it’s far from a sure thing to be produced. But we can hope. At least there’s a finished script. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-big-epic-movie-trilogy-or-series/384544.md?page=3)