A full adaptation of Lord of the Rings that’s true to Tolkien’s vision.
There were a bunch of books and comic books from my youth I didn’t think would get adapted but there’s a DC The Ray animated series so I guess everything is at least a maybe.
A full Saga of Swamp Thing movie series would be wonderful. There’s no way Alan Moore signs off on any more movie adaptations though.
Well have I got news for you!
https://screenrant.com/swamp-thing-movie-confirmed-updates/
I personally can’t wait to see this version of Swamp Thing!That’s awesome! James Mangold directing sounds great too. If it’s not ‘Saga of’ then letting them do their own standalone thing sounds like the next best thing.
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This is a great game if you’re with some really creative folks.
One person picks two actors who never worked together and the other player/team has to come up with the plot of the movie. Actors can be any age they appeared on film, so someone like Helen Mirren can be anywhere from 18 to 81 years old.
Here are a few of the better combinations we came up with.
Bruce Lee and Marlene Deitrich
Leslie Howard and Gary Coleman
Christina Applegate and Christina Ricci
James Earl Jones and Marlon Brando
Christina Applegate and Christina Ricci
I’d put them both fresh out of high school age in a film like Adventureland, mashed up with a Breakfast Club theme. Just a bunch of young adults figuring out where to go next in life.
I want to see a live action of the Young Wizard series by Diane Duane.
Apparently, people have bought the rights for it repeatedly, but then they never actually make the fucking movies.
Which, in retrospect, during the time period they were buying it, there were a lot of really shitty movies released as book adaptations that ended up crashing and burning and going nowhere, but I believe this is a good time for a new series aimed for young viewers to take this on and nobody’s fucking doing it.
I promised myself that if I was the person who won that huge powerball the other day, that would be the very first fucking thing I did after giving my friends and family money and paying off all my debts.
A Pokemon movie for adults. I don’t mean sex or gore, I just really want to see that world without a chibi filter over top. I want a war movie following Lt Surge and his then Pikachu. I want an evil Team Rocket straight out of Fight Club. I want a professor to stand face to face with God and dare write a Pokedex entry for it.
A sequel to Event Horizon that bridges the gap between it and the Warhammer 40k universe. After the events of the first movie Big E is awakend to the threats of the Warp and the Chaos gods within and sets his plans in motion. First and foremost? he must “deal” with the survivors of the Event Horizon so they don’t spread their knowledge of the warp to the rest of mankind.
Also Henry Cavill plays The Emperor of Man.
I would be happy with any prequel/sequel to Event Horizon.
Perhaps something completely novel but set in the same universe.
I want a Superman movie that’s based off the comics where he beats the shit out of the KKK. It’ll never happen but it would be awesome.
You’d probably enjoy Superman Smashes the Klan.
Plus, Superman will enter the public domain in 2034, so maybe eventually it will happen on the big screen.
A film that stars both Nicolas Cage and Adam Sandler. I don’t care if it’s a comedy, action flick, or serious drama. Seeing those two go ballistic together would be amazing.
Larry Niven’s Ringworld.
A Star Wars movie that invalidates the sequels. Preferably based on the old EU.
Truce at Bakura or bust, everything else after rotj was a dream c3p0 had
No, because then we’d get the timey whimey bullshit that infects Star Trek way too much.
I’ll be honest. There’s no way to rescue Star Wars unless a big risk is taken. And no way Disney will upset their cash cow.
It could begin with Lando waking up from a terrible dream. No need for timey wimey stuff.
But that’s even more cliche. And it will make Star Wars even worse. Because where does it stop? Did he dream the prequel trilogy too?
Besides, someone out there likes the sequel trilogy. Just like some people like the prequel trilogy.
No, Star Wars needs something bold—their equivalent to a Deep Space Nine. But I doubt that will happen because Disney just doesn’t want to take a risk.
They’ve already done that with Ahsoka though.
They need to do it for a mainline movie entry.
They do? I thought you just said you didn’t want them to.
Sorry, got your comment confused with something else. I don’t want timey whimey bullshit.
They just need a big timejump. Go back KOTOR era, or go to the far future.
Honestly part of the problem is that fans want original trilogy nostalgia. I couldn’t believe how much they raged over Andor.
‘Skywalker’ shouldn’t be uttered in newer stuff, but it’s required, and Disney knows it too well.
You know, I’m just going to say it: I like the Star Wars video games more than the movies. They’ve been way more consistent in quality than the movies.
I have great memories of Star Wars: Dark Forces.
+1
I am not a uber fan of the original movies TBH. They’re historical, and they’re fine. The games are littered with gems though.
An adaption of Philip K. Dick’s The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, but with no “streaming production” bullshit.
Synopsis:
The novel takes place in a future 2016 where humankind has colonized every habitable planet and moon in the Solar System. To cope with the difficult life away from Earth, colonists rely on the illegal hallucinogen Can-D, secretly distributed by corporate head Leo Bulero. New tensions arise with the rumor that merchant explorer Palmer Eldritch has returned from an expedition in possession of a new alien hallucinogen to compete with Can-D.
Either make it follow the novel closely or make it a truly creative take where it’s set in a completely different setting but follows the spirit and the themes of the novel.
I would argue the The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch in particular has a lot of potential for a full re-interpretation structured as commentary on our current reality. The synopsis does read like a pulp scifi novel, but there is a lot to it and the Can-D psychedelic (very cool description of how it works in the novel) and “difficult life away from Earth” motifs can be adapted for modern challenges. I don’t think the novel was meant to be interpreted literally, the outline is more of a foundation for other questions/points.
A well made adaption of John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up. The Shockwave Rider would probably be a better fit for modern issues, but I think The Sheep Look Up would be more unique. Stand on Zanzibar would also be a good target but I feel the over-population concept (as described in 70s western media) hasn’t aged that well. You stand the risk of making a campy movie like Soylent Green (I like it, but it’s more a 70s scifi experience for me). That being said, I would probably be fine with any good adaptation of Brunner’s famous works.
A proper adaption of Isaac Asimov’s The Gods Themselves. Asimov was often criticized for not including aliens in his novels/series. Well he did include aliens in this one and they are nothing like your typical scifi movie. It’s not as well written as Solaris (perhaps the most intense depiction of alien life that I’ve experienced in any media), but it’s pretty damn good. The Gods Themselves is probably the easiest one to adapt into a movie since the high level plot is pretty straightforward. The lunar parts would look great and then there is the alien world and society…
All of these would probably not pass the mass market adaption requirement. And I am not cool with “fanfic for the mass market” type adaptions. Make your own creative take, but make it crazy, make it live up to the main magic of the novels.
No Poul Anderson??
Anderson’s books are perfect for filming. You’ve got an established history, fantastic characters like van Rijn and Flandry, plus scores of well researched planets with credible aliens.
Joanna Russ’s “Picnic On Paradise” could be done on a low budget.
Roger Zelazny, Philip Jose Farmer, Judith Merrill…
I would go with works by Jose Farmer and Roger Zelazny. The shortlist just reflects my personal favourites.
I actually haven’t read anything by Poul Anderson, although I am aware of his contributions. :)
My dream series was wheel of time but that kinda became a nighmare. meh. more a blahmare.
I never read the books, but… yeah.
What happened? The books are not so zombified, right?
Part of it is they changed aspects that messed with how the magic system is viewed by the characters which sorta makes the later surprise nonsensical. They really had a hard time with the reincarnation aspect with the dragon referring to himself as the dragon reborn which can’t happen until after he is reborn. They skipped over a bunch of stuff like the group going through Caemlyn and then spent a bunch of time on character interactions that never happened. It went so quickly and yet so slowly at the same time due to their weird choices. Not sure about zombified. Can’t say jordans characters are the most complex I have encountered.
Can’t say jordans characters are the most complex I have encountered.
I don’t remember anyone charismatic except rosamund pike’s character, but I figured this was the series’s doing.
If the fantasy systems are more of the appeal, which I get, that did come off as confusing too. It sounds like they sacrificed that to try and force more character interaction from what you’ve said, which… didn’t work.
A “side” movie set in the Avatar (Airbender) world. Maybe Republic City detective noir, or an adventure in some Kyoshi Era (or even more ancient) new place.
Bending, spirits, the cultural flair, the setting’s just too awesome and is begging for side stories.
A sequal to iron sky where they find stalin on mars, the red planet
I would support this.
Grey Jedi Noir. Solving a case for the light side while using dark side talents would be amazing.
I would like a Star Wars that’s not from the perspective of Rebels or Empire but one that’s about the arms dealers who sell to both of them.
They hinted at this during the sequel trilogy but the idea was never developed further.
+1
More fantasy noir in general, please.
On that note, I’d love a straight up KOTOR II movie (or trilogy?)
And it would be the absolute last thing Disney funds. The whole thing’s literally a deconstruction of Star Wars.
Just play Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II.:3