Posted on 05/21/2015 8:30:11 PM PDT by MNDude
It seems like there's not many original ideas in Hollywood...how many remakes is there of Dracula or King Kong?
Yet, I'm sure there's got to be thousands of great books and stories that have never been made into a movie. Which fictional stories would you like to see as a movie?
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There’s a couple I’d like.
The first is the Elric saga by English fantasy author Michael Moorcock. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, and it would be tough to do well, but I’d like to see it done. It would even have it’s own ready-made soundtrack. Hawkwind’s dedicated an entire album to the novels, and Moorcock co-write the BOC classics “Black Blade” and “Veterans of the Psychic Wars.”
The second would be an adaptation of a video game. Now, I know most video game movies suck, but with the right director, this one could be great. In the late 90s, there was a fantasy game called Planescape: Torment that had the most innovative and unusual concept/storyline I’ve in a game. Essentially, it is the story of an amnesiac man who cannot die (permanently, anyway) and has been going through a cycle of death and forgetful rebirth for centuries, if not millennia. As the story progresses, we discover both how and why he became immortal, and why the cycle of death and rebirth must stop. It’s surprisingly deep stuff, especially for a video game. A lot of philosophical issues of sin and redemption, and ultimate justice. Great game that could make a fantastic film, IMHO.
Great and very funny read!
It was done and Kirk Douglas was great as Odysseus
I must check it out
I have tons of ideas. Hollyweird would never do them.
You’re in luck.
A version of this (supposedly named ‘Uprising’) is currently in development. Slated for a 2018 release.
Not if it gives Scalzi any money
Sadly, AFAIK,it's never been on T.V.!
I could do a couple too
My favorite part was when one of the characters suffered a head wound and they applied a tourniquet.
The Skylark series
We have finally come to the point where special effects could do real justice to such swashbuckling space opera and fun space battles of the imagination of "Doc" Smith. . .
King Kong was written for the screen (inspired by some fictionalized travelogue films of the 1920s and 30s).
There could be another “King Kong” just as “Star Wars” was written for the screen, and novelized for the “home audience”.
As to what books would adapt well, many feature films were adapted from short stories (Freaks, The Fly, and 2001 among them).
A very true to the book, Walter Jon Williams “Hardwired”.
They actually did make a movie of this but it’s not that great and some diversion off the book.
Needs to be better towards the actual novel story and the effects needed could be done very well now.
Hollyweird would be scared to death the ideas in that book might "catch on"....
The Marching Morons
By C. M. Kornbluth
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/kornbluthcm-marchingmorons/kornbluthcm-marchingmorons-00-e.html
I also wouldn’t mind seeing The Foundation trilogy made in the epic style of LOTR and such. Delve into the psychohistory angle of it.
In development:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2303754/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
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