The Movies You Would Like To See Made (Not SW) — Page 4

corellian77 said:

How did I miss this thread?  Thanks for bumping it greenpenguino.

 

ChainsawAsh said:

• 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.

 

Totally agree.  I love Lynch's visual style--it's totally what I imagined when reading Dune.  I didn't end up watching more than 10 minutes of the SciFi channel's version though.  I couldn't get past the terrible set design.

And I'll second that.  Seriously, if Lynch's version only changed three things, it would have been far more digestible: 1) The Bene Gesserit telepathy/weirding modules; 2) That obnoxiously disgusting portrayal of the floating Baron (not that the original Baron wasn't disgusting, but he was actually quite an interesting and intelligent character); 3) Conveying everything through internal dialogue.  Obviously there were other things that they didn't do well (i.e. acting, pacing), but visually it had so much going for it that it amazes me how significantly they blew it.  I'd love a true, faithful but somewhat creative interpretation of Dune with no Fremen butts or breasts and good visuals.

A film adaptation of Black Fire by James Kidman.

A semi-reboot of the Friday the 13th that takes the original 1980 film as canon but ignores all the sequels along with the recent 2009 film. This revamped series would consist of at least four films, all taking place in the town of Crystal Lake yet made to stand alone, with their own seperate stories and characters. Jason Voorhees might make an appearance, but only once as a ghostly child who haunts the waters of Crystal Lake, not as a hockey masked serial killer. Furthermore, these "new" sequels would be made to look like they were filmed in the 80s; there'd be absolutely no CGI or digital cameras involved.

And finally, a biopic of Alanis Morissette.

Akwat Kbrana said:

georgec said:

I'm a big fan of PC adventure games and would enjoy movies based on the following:

Monkey Island

Gabriel Knight

Grim Fandango

Full Throttle

King's Quest

Space Quest

and so on

+1. Gabriel Knight and Quest for Glory probably have the most potential, in my opinion. Full Throttle is so cinematic already, it would undoubtedly make a killer feature film. King's Quest would be pretty  hard to pull off, IMO, without departing from the source material significantly.

I would also like to see the following:

-A seven-film adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia that doesn't suck. (This would necessarily entail, among other things, actually sticking to the books.)

-A film adaptation of War of the Worlds that actually bears some semblance to the book. (Y'know, like maybe set it in the right time period? And use the same characters that were in the books? And the same storyline? Novel concept, I know.)

-An adaptation of The Door into Summer by Robert Heinlein. This was such an intriguing, thought-provoking novel...it's a shame it's never gotten a decent film treatment. (And don't go conforming the year 2000-era technology to real-world technology today. That would ruin it. Just stick to the book.)

-I know the thread title says "Not SW," but I can't help myself. I've always thought that the original Thrawn trilogy would make an excellent sequel trilogy (Ep. 7-9). Obviously, the original actors are all too old now. But with today's technology, I'm sure you could do an animated CG trilogy justice and use the original actors for the voices. (Think Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, but with CG technology that is over a decade more advanced.) Obviously, it goes without saying that this would have to be helmed by someone other than George. In fact, he can't be involved at all. He already gave us an all-CG Star Wars trilogy, and look how badly that turned out!

I once commented in another thread, but I would love to see the Thrawn trilogy as well.  Mark Hamill's son is about the right age and bears a resemblance, and I once knew a guy who looked amazingly like Harrison Ford.  I think live action films could pull it off.  But I know it will never happen.

But Robocop himself was a reboot...of Alex Murphy.

A new sequel to Poltergeist that completely ignores Poltergeist II & III. Ideally, such a sequel would revolve around a grown up Carol Anne dealing with a new supernatural threat completely unrelated to the one from the original movie.

A film adaptation of the '90s kids' horror anthology series Are You Afraid of the Dark?. It'd be made in the same vein as Twilight Zone: The Movie, taking stories from the original series and remaking them for a new audience. Ideally, this take would be somewhat more mature than the show was, reducing the campiness, tightening the writing, making it somewhat more gruesome, etc.

LUKE & BARBARELLA VS. THE MARTIANS

A stop-motion animated film starring the voice talents of Mark Hamill and Jane Fonda, directed by Tim Burton (provided he can keep Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter completely out of sight and out of mind).

Pretty funny reading back through this thread, considering some of the things that were going to happen but didn't (Buffy reboot, Dark Tower) and things people wanted to see that actually did (more direct adaptations of comic book storylines, 3001).

Then there's stuff like Hyperion, which Scorsese and DiCaprio were talking about years ago but nothing ever came of it. Last I heard was that Bradley Cooper (yup) was taking a crack at the script but that was a couple years ago.

As for Dune, well, I'm surprised there hasn't been any talk of getting James McAvoy back for a God Emperor of Dune miniseries.

I'd also like to see more original, not-based-on-anything movies as someone in the thread suggested.

Star Wars.  Would definitely like to see that made.

--Guy Who Didn't Read the Full Thread Title

For once I completely agree with jediknightthesnoozy on something. I would love to see 1984 brought to film (and hopefully with the ending not being made happy). Some modifications might have to be made, but hopefully nothing that would change the essence of the story.

Also, a properly done Narnia series would be great. The Disney ones got progressively worse. They butchered the last one, the book of which happened to be my favourite. And my second favourite, The Magician's Nephew, hasn't been made into a movie yet. I don't believe The Last Battle has either, and that's also a popular one.

skyjedi2005 said:

I did not write in code words or in symbols.

 I was trolling the thread OP, not you.