The Movies You Would Like To See Made (Not SW)

     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.  :) 

I'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".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amory_Wars

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Bram 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.

maybe the Asylum [those guys who make mockbusters] will get round to it?

• Dune, done properly.  The David Lynch version looked the part (mostly), but failed in the script department, whereas the SciFi channel version got the script mostly right, but suffered from horrible set/costume design and acting.
  
  
  
  

• Also The Dark Tower done properly.  I know they're making it now, but they're condensing 7 books into 3 movies, a 6-episode miniseries, and a single-season TV series (which is likely to be the entirety of the Wizard and Glass flashbacks), both on NBC, which makes me very concerned for the quality of the final product.
  
  My biggest fear, other than stuff getting cut (though I honestly wouldn't mind a dramatic re-arranging/re-structuring/re-write of the last 3 books for the film versions - maybe 5 or 6 films would be enough), is the watering down of the material.  The fact that the TV projects will air on a US network worries me, but I'll be furious if the film(s) end up with a PG-13 rating.
  
  
  
  

• 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.

+1 on Ender's Game.

greenpenguino 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. :-(

A Sonic The Hedgehog movie, if you please. ;)

Throw in a personality test involving holding cans wired up to Wheatstone Bridge and you could start your own religion with that story.

I'd like to see an ot.com movie.

Leonardo understood.

Two 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.

DuracellEnergizer 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.

xhonzi 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."

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.