the new flash gordon has been in development hell since the late 90's as well as the new buck rogers movie. others film in development hell are Jack Kirby's the new gods, John Carter of Mars, and Star Blazers. Still there are plenty of good science fiction books/fantasy books that would make good films. Sure they finally made I robot but it was not faithful to the asimov novel, Imagine hollywood taking a cerebral story and making an action film out of it. Why could'nt they just Have shot the script that asimov put together with ralph macquarrie as conceptual designer?
X men 2 is the best comic book movie of all time, next to the first superman film. One of the most underated comic book movies is the crow based on the works of Jay o"barr. The studios are planning to make neil gaiman's sandman into a movie, and They still are talking about ender's game the science fiction novel by orson scott card. The Fantastic Four movie failed miserably why could'nt they just have followed kirby's original story? They were able to get the kirby and claremont stuff into the xmen movies. Hell there are literary classics being made into films, like beowulf and gilgamesh, and they still have'nt made a movie based on the odyssey for the big screen, troy and alexander sucked. i still would like to see the live action evangelion movie from Weta, and the rest of tolkien books made into a film the hobbit and the silmarillion. There going to make a series of narnia movies if the first one is sucessful, in fact since the new charlie in the chocolate factory was so sucessful they are doing a remake of the classic the wizard of oz. I would like for Terry Brooks shannara series made into films, or magic kindom series. Or even Robert Jordan's wheel of time, terry goodkind's sword of truth, or george r.r. martin's a song of fire and ice series. And what about the foundation trilogy by asimov?