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Something set during or before the war between the alliance and the outer planets could be fun.

 

Johnny Ringo said:

I'd love to see another serenity film but not without Wash.

Hmmm. How about a clone? It could be the same person, but different.

 

Or something

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I feel like Serenity itself was a pretty good ending to it all, but I like the idea of something set during the war.  The war scenes we got in Firefly were really awesome.  I'm down to see more of this

Clone Wash just sounds bad.

 

Going in kind of another direction, a movie I'd LOVE to see made would be Kubrick's version of Napoleon.  He did years of research on the movie, wrote screenplays, had actors in mind, and even convinced the Romanian army to star as Napoleon's army for certain scenes!  He supposedly claimed it could be the greatest movie ever made, which means a lot coming from someone who had already made the greatest movie ever made. 

Due to similar movies flopping around that time, and what was I'm sure an immense budget, it never came to fruition.  But I read the beginning of his screenplay for it and man, it would have been awesome.


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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.
This. And maybe an adaptation that isn't afraid to use the Church as the antagonist would be nice.


What is it with His Dark Materials? I don't get it. I read the first book, except the last 20 pages, because I got so annoyed with that wiseass kid. She comes to conclusions, where no hints have lead her to. The story is okay, not good, but not that bad, but that kid needs to be given a hiding.

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RedFive said:

I feel like Serenity itself was a pretty good ending to it all, but I like the idea of something set during the war.  The war scenes we got in Firefly were really awesome.  I'm down to see more of this

Clone Wash just sounds bad.

Yeah sorry that's stupid fan-wank.

 

Going in kind of another direction, a movie I'd LOVE to see made would be Kubrick's version of Napoleon.  He did years of research on the movie, wrote screenplays, had actors in mind, and even convinced the Romanian army to star as Napoleon's army for certain scenes!  He supposedly claimed it could be the greatest movie ever made, which means a lot coming from someone who had already made the greatest movie ever made. 

Due to similar movies flopping around that time, and what was I'm sure an immense budget, it never came to fruition.  But I read the beginning of his screenplay for it and man, it would have been awesome.

This.

It could probably be made today what with today's technology and stuff. Speilberg could probably direct it.

 

Would like to see more original sci-fi in the vein of 'moon'.

 

 

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natural born killers directed by Q. tarantino.... like it should have been. not that  i dont like stones nbk. but just imagine if Q.T. had done it.

believe in the ball and throw yourself!

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I'd love to see a movie adaptation of Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination.

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Jack is a bit too old now, but I always wish they would have made the third film in the Chinatown trilogy. It's working title was GITTES VS. GITTES.


“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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I'd like to see a new series of OSS action movies set in WWII.  Sort of like James Bond, but replace that inferior Brit with an American (I say that ironically, but I would like to see it be a Yank to avoid falling into too familiar JB territory).  The only thing I can think of that's out there that is relatively similar to this is the last 2 Wolfenstein games.

So Bond - MI6 + OSS - ColdWarPlus + WWII + Wolfenstein + Captain America + Mission: Impossible + Awesome = 2πAwesome

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

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Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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I would have loved to have seen a 2061: Odyssey Three and 3001: The Final Odyssey.

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^ Yes. Would love that.

 

Tom hanks originally planned to make those but it didn't work out.

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I've read all four books, but I barely remember 2061 and absolutely loathed 3001.  So I don't particularly care if they ever get made or not.

And to add to the thread:

Metal Gear.

Ideally, I'd like to see Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake condensed into a single Metal Gear film, followed by Metal Gear 2: The Twin Snakes (a fairly faithful adaptation of Metal Gear Solid), Metal Gear 3: Sons of Liberty (adaptation of MGS2 with some liberties taken to make sure it, you know, makes sense), Metal Gear: Outer Heaven (MGS3, Portable Ops and Peace Walker all combined and reorganized into a single prequel focusing on Big Boss), and finally Metal Gear 4: Guns of the Patriots (again, an adaptation of MGS4 with some liberties taken to make it make more sense).

I seriously doubt that will happen - if we get a Metal Gear game, it'll be one of three things - a unique story outside the canon of the games, an adaptation of Metal Gear Solid, or a side story/sequel/midquel that tells a non-game story, but still takes place in the games' canon.  The first and third possibilities I wouldn't mind, but it'd bug me if they ignored MG and MG2:SS just to adapt Metal Gear Solid.

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ChainsawAsh said:

I've read all four books, but I barely remember 2061 and absolutely loathed 3001.  So I don't particularly care if they ever get made or not.

What did you hate about it?

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Ethel the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying

or The Secret History of Star Wars

or maybe a movie where the main characters are zombies.

 

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Half-Life: Escape from City-17.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKffQO2UZBE&feature=relmfu

While far from flawless, these guys did a fantastic job on the little of it they did make. I'd love to see the whole thing, or a feature length film made by them. Unfortunately, this is from back in early 2009 with no sign of life since then. Beside the trailer I posted, there is a five minute long "part one" of the feature up on youtube, but the second part promised to be "coming soon" never showed up. I've always grimaced at the idea of a Half-Life movie, but man, these guys did an amazing job for a next to nothing budget.

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thejediknighthusezni said:

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.

Oh man, I just fell in love with you... a little.

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I've been waiting for something more to come from this since I first saw it a couple years ago.  It's so awesome, whatever it is.

What's In The Box?


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That wasn't right.

Now about the other two...

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CP3S said:

Half-Life: Escape from City-17.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKffQO2UZBE&feature=relmfu

While far from flawless, these guys did a fantastic job on the little of it they did make. I'd love to see the whole thing, or a feature length film made by them. Unfortunately, this is from back in early 2009 with no sign of life since then. Beside the trailer I posted, there is a five minute long "part one" of the feature up on youtube, but the second part promised to be "coming soon" never showed up. I've always grimaced at the idea of a Half-Life movie, but man, these guys did an amazing job for a next to nothing budget.

 

have you seen Beyond Black Mesa? http://beyondblackmesa.com/
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I actually just discovered Beyond Black Mesa and Escape from City-17 earlier this evening. Beyond Black Mesa was kind of cool, but I didn't think it was near as well done as Escape from City-17. The combine soldiers looked okay I guess, but I really wasn't a fan of the zombies being portrayed as regular zombie movie type zombies. I love the unique Half-Life brand of parasitic aliens that latch onto your brain, mutate you, and turn you into a zombie into a creepy, wailing, slowish moving zombie. The running spitting modern Hollywoodesque zombies this just weren't very Half-Lifey to me.

The big over the top Matrixesque fight scene toward the end between Adrian and the Combine soldier struck me as extremely comical (and very lame). And the whole sacrifice thing at the end when he drops the grenade behind them makes no sense. For one, it has a bright flashing red light on it, so the Combine have to be really dumb not to see it yet they are still approaching them. It would have made more sense for them to run, unless I missed something, they seem to be sacrificing themselves for no other purpose than to kill half a dozen Combine soldiers (did I miss something?). Feels like it was done for no other reason that to be sappily dramatic (though it suffered from that through and through with the dire voice over narration), and to bring a quick end to the story. However, I still have to appreciate the effort that was put into it.

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RedFive said:


I've been waiting for something more to come from this since I first saw it a couple years ago.  It's so awesome, whatever it is.

What's In The Box?


Wow. A nice one, although I don't know what it really was.
And though I don't know Half Life (since I was never into shooters) it is fun to see the logos of Black Mesa, Aperture Science (Portal, and Half Life, too?) and Hanso Foundation (Lost) on the fake website of Babel Research. Maybe Weyland Yutani could have been put there, too. Oh, and Umbrella Corp., but since the Babel Research stuff is set in the future it's not possible...

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TK-949 said:

 

RedFive said:


I've been waiting for something more to come from this since I first saw it a couple years ago.  It's so awesome, whatever it is.

What's In The Box?


Wow. A nice one, although I don't know what it really was.
And though I don't know Half Life (since I was never into shooters) it is fun to see the logos of Black Mesa, Aperture Science (Portal, and Half Life, too?) and Hanso Foundation (Lost) on the fake website of Babel Research.

 

Definitely some very heavy Half-Life influence in there, the look and feel of the atmosphere was heavily borrowed from HL2, as were the majority of the sound effects throughout, and I recognized many of the music cues as being from Lost. Pretty interesting little short, but it looks like it was from 2009 and has been on hold. Probably dead in the water then.

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The Hyperion series could be amazing.  As long as Dan Simmons could write the screenplays of course.

Since they're like poetry, what with the rhyming and all, I find that I only need to watch three out of the six films.

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Sorry if I sound a bit like a scratched record by suggesting two titles featuring the name of the Count but a film series based on Kim Newman's Anno Dracula books would be very yes (if a little difficult to do right especially the legal issues of getting permission to use performances from dead actors).

It would require sampling and manipulating so many classic film performances and merging them with new performances played straight it could so easily go very wrong.

But if it was done right it...oh boy! 

I concede that after the royal screw up of the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen film it might make sense to test run the concept by making Back In The USSA first.