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I've had some fun on 'The Movies You've Seen' thread.
I'd like to expand on that a bit.
This thread is for discussing the films you want to see. Imagine that you are the head of a production company, or even LFL. What would you green-light? Why?
Any genre. Remakes, loose adaptations and re-imaginings are game.
I'll start:
I have two. They would be based upon the greatest and the most important SF novels (IMHO) in all history.
The Greatest: OSC's 'Ender's Game' (1984). The captivating parable of childhood and young adulthood; of how the environment controls our development far more than we can effect it. Produced with modern FX, and in a way that is true to the tone of the novel, it could be a stunning, surpassing achievement.
The Most Important: GO's '1984'. It's frighteningly ironic that, just when it is more vital than ever before, this magnificent work is being removed from HS and university reading lists. Intrusive technology that can leave all of us completely vulnerable, organizations throughout the west that dare to be far more collectivist than at any time during the cold war, corporations that are perfectly willing to find excuses to intrude or dissemble on behalf of those with the most controlling impulses, all of these parties willing to continue down the ever steepening slope, and the word "terrorism" to "justify" it all.
The greatest misconception about '1984' is that GO was warning us about what could happen. That is true, but only part of the truth. Rather, he was alerting us to what is happenning- at this moment- at any modern moment. He was describing the inborn and conditioned mechanisms that drive people to use modern techniques to seek power-UNLIMITED POWER-without end. WS tells his torturer that there are more rational ways of dealing with him and he is promptly tormented yet more for missing the point entirely. The point is that, for people who start down the path of controlling all in the name of some greater good, a point will be reached when it is no longer sufficient to hold potential power. At a point, only the exercise of actual power to intrude in the most minute and intimate ways in the life of another can be acceptable. "Power corrupts...." It was also a tale about the effect such total survaillance has upon the observed- Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. There's no escape from it. The more intensive the observation, the more radical the course of the observed is altered. How utterly warping it is to the individuals trapped in such intolerably inhuman conditions.
I believe '84 would have to be re-imagined (the date, for one thing.) It would also have to appeal to a large audience. I'm thinking of an all CG animated "rockumentary." 2034. It is a tale about people removed from normal human capacities. They are dazed and laconic and "unreal". CG could be a virtue in such a setting. There would have to be more action and a faster pace. WS and Julia coud be in their early twenties. It could be the aftermath of the war on terrorism. It seems to me that the material also lends itself to some powerful potential hard rock lyrics and music.
Well, those are mine. :)
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Advanced Padawan LearnerI'd love to see a TV-show based on Neil Gaiman's "Sandman", but only if it's true to the comic, and since most of the comic-movies or -series aren't, I'd rather pass on that one. But it would have great potential and could spawn so many spinoffs: Death, Lucifer, Books of Magic, even Hellblazer (f*ck the movie).
I love the nod to Gaiman's "Death" in Supernatural (Season 2, Episode 1 "In My Time of Dying").
Another comic book based series I'd like to see would be Bill Willingham's "Fables".
"I wonder if George Lucas will ever replace himself with CGI. He should do. He's a muppet." - Simon Pegg
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Anchorhead said:look at Johnny Ringo, man. If I had to go against that guy it would be an Indiana Jones\Dovchenko event - and I'd be hoping like hell for a bunch of ants.
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Magister Pontifex MaximusBram Stoker's Dracula (as in a proper adaptation of the book, nothing added and as little taken away as necessary).
After all these years it still hasn't been done and the title of the Coppola film is a sick joke.
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has been intentionally left blank.maybe the Asylum [those guys who make mockbusters] will get round to it?
Anchorhead said:look at Johnny Ringo, man. If I had to go against that guy it would be an Indiana Jones\Dovchenko event - and I'd be hoping like hell for a bunch of ants.
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aka PancakesTV's Frink
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Ointment Fly+1 on Ender's Game.
greenpenguino
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Double standards!!A movie entirely centred around the character of Ric Olie.
And another Firefly/Serenity film
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Ointment Flygreenpenguino said:
A movie entirely centred around the character of Ric Olie.
If I had more footage available to me, I would make this happen.
In the meantime, you should check out the NNRRP....carp, it's been so long I can't remember the acronym. :-(
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Padawan LearnerA Sonic The Hedgehog movie, if you please. ;)
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Double standards!!I'm the forums younger clone of TVs' Frink. Except sillier and more handsomer...
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media junkiei sometimes try to write my own scripts. and i had this idea. sadly all the alien invasion movies have ruined my idea but here it goes anyway.
Before the sun began to shine on earth the planet was in total darkness. a technologically advanced race of humanoid vampires which resembled a cross between gray aliens and demons ruled. they bread humans as a food source. for century's nothing on earth could touch them. Then suddenly an unknown energy collided with a distant star and the sun was born casting light onto earth and forcing the vampires to flee for their lives into the outer reaches of space. not a single vampire was left on earth. in their rush to leave many humans were left behind. man quickly evolved to light and soon would build the world as we know it. million's of years passed and mankind had forgotten the vampires who seeded them on earth. but the vampires had not forgotten their home. they traveled many universes collecting knowledge and developed a technology that finally allowed them to tolerate the sunlight. now they would return to earth to reclaim what was once theirs. with a plan to once again enslave the human race and destroy the sun to restore earth to it's original state. armed with their superior strength and weapons they began their campaign of death and destruction.
this idea hit me like mike tyson 1 day when i was contemplating the origin of man. the thought of combining aliens and vampires is something i would love to see. i even drew rough sketches of them. with the big black alien eyes and elongated heads. only way more evil and huge then the typical hollywood gray alien. they would tower over humans and have sharp knife like spikes of unbreakable bone protruding from their forearms. clad in black armor resembling samurai armor. lightning fast and sadistically evil they are just plain not to be fucked with. does mankind stand a chance?
believe in the ball and throw yourself!
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Magister Pontifex MaximusThrow in a personality test involving holding cans wired up to Wheatstone Bridge and you could start your own religion with that story.
TV's Frink
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Ointment FlyI'd like to see an ot.com movie.
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media junkieTV's Frink said:
I'd like to see an ot.com movie.
elaborate. like a documentary?
believe in the ball and throw yourself!
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Ointment FlyDuracellEnergizer
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Ce n'est pas DuracellEnergizerTwo sequels to Stargate that continues the story of the film, with no allusion to SG-1 or the other TV spinoffs.
An adaptation (animated, perhaps?) of the Batman - Vampire trilogy.
A Pixar film that pays homage to silent B&W horror movies.
God doesn't think in terms of black or white - or even shades of gray - but in big, bright, bold hues of blue and orange.
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aka PancakesDuracellEnergizer said:
Two sequels to Stargate that continues the story of the film, with no allusion to SG-1 or the other TV spinoffs.
Ooh, good one.
I'd also like to see a second Twin Peaks movie that wraps up the cliffhanger ending to Season 2.
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See You, Space Cowboy...ChainsawAsh said:
Finally, His Dark Materials, re-done from scratch (which kinda sucks since the first adaptation of The Golden Compass had a great cast), with almost anyone other than the director of American Pie at the helm.
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of Earth.BioShock- I'd like to see if it could be done and I'd love to see the world visualized even a little more realistically than the game... though I have strong doubts as to whether they could condense the story into a movie. Also, the 'free roaming', "you are in Rapture" element of the game is one of the more compelling aspects that I think would never translate to film.
I think the Dresden files series would work very well as movies. There was a SciFi TV show that was relatively well done, but the budget constrained the fantasy elements of the show and I think the increased timeline (40 mins -> 2 hours) would give it some weight as well.
I'd love to see a movie version of the X-Men comic Inferno. But done faithfully. I'm kind of surprised that Marvel and DC haven't started litterally adapting several of their more important/popular stories as animated features. This would give them the ability to do faithful translations with fewer concerns- like famous actors getting enough screen time without their masks, etc. But the Planet Hulk movie was disappointing... I'm not sure how they condensed 15-odd issues into a 70 minute movie. I have a friend near animation and he says that every frame that can be dropped means substantial cost savings to the producers. However, I don't see the point of doing it unless it's "good" and I don't think it was good at 70 minutes. 2ish hours, or don't do it at all.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
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Ointment Flyxhonzi said:
BioShock- I'd like to see if it could be done and I'd love to see the world visualized even a little more realistically than the game...
Having only read the wiki entry on the series, I still would like to say "THIS."
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Green Plastic Skywalkerxhonzi said:
BioShock- I'd like to see if it could be done and I'd love to see the world visualized even a little more realistically than the game... though I have strong doubts as to whether they could condense the story into a movie. Also, the 'free roaming', "you are in Rapture" element of the game is one of the more compelling aspects that I think would never translate to film.
Hell yeah to this. (Frink you need to do everything in your power to play that game somehow. I never had a 360 or PS3 but I went to a friends one time just to play the game and beat it in one sitting. One very long, amazing sitting.)
I'd like to see something else done with Firefly/Serenity, or Battlestar Galactica. Just out of sheer fandom.
Other than that, what I'd really like to see are new movies that are actually new movies and not remakes/sequels/prequels/restarts/adaptations/etc. Honestly Hollywood needs some new blood or something. Inception was friggin amazing, lets get some new, creative stuff like that going. I mean for christ's sake their doing a Buffy reboot movie, and as much as I love everything Whedon related, that is just ridiculous.
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Double standards!!RedFive said:
I'd like to see something else done with Firefly/Serenity, or Battlestar Galactica. Just out of sheer fandom.
This. If it continued the canon of the original show it could be uber-awesum
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has been intentionally left blank.I guess Blood and Chrome is technically a movie - planned as a possible pilot episode for a new BSG series.
I'd love to see another serenity film but not without Wash.
Anchorhead said:look at Johnny Ringo, man. If I had to go against that guy it would be an Indiana Jones\Dovchenko event - and I'd be hoping like hell for a bunch of ants.
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Green Plastic SkywalkerSerenity Prequel!
And I was gonna say "spoiler alert", but I don't think anything could spoil that. *thunk*