So I was looking through a news website today and I saw an article about Hollywood running out of ideas. It seems they are now turning to board games to make movies about. Remenber Clue? Well they want to make a Ouja movie, a Monopoly movie and possibly a Clue remake. They have done movies on theme park rides, Haunted Mansion and PoTC, and this summer is the movies made about Comic book's like Ironman, The Dark Knight, Hellboy and I am sure there are others. So I thought I would start a post were we put ideas for movies that would make great movies that could be done with big budgets and done right. Some maybe already made, but were done with a very small budget and not done right.
Boudica - Romor had it that Mel Gibson was going to make this into a movie, but didn't or it fell through
A Movie focusing on other Tudors and King Henry's other Queens. Lets see a movie about Bloody Mary, or Edward
The 100 years war - France vs England
War of the Roses - Not the Divorce movie but about this hstorical piece in time
Ploesti - about the failed B-24 raid that failed
Vercingetorix - (Not that Cheesy Christopher Lambert movie)
Hanibal - One of the greatest military minds ever
Sword of Shanara/Elfstones of Shanara - Great Terry Brooks books in the vein of Tolkien
The Angle of Marye's Heights - A tragic story of compassion about a soldier during the American Civil War
John Carter of Mars - Fun Edger Rice Burrough's books (Pixar is rumored to be making this)
Fallout - Based on the Post Apocoliptic PC Game where Zombies are just sickly human's who are not flesh hungry
The Green Hornet - Based onthe 1960's TV show
Sgt Rock - Based on the WWII Comic Book
Werewolf by Night - Also an old comic book
Carzy Horse - The Sioux Chief that defeated Custer and had many other fights against the US Army
Richard the Lion Hearted - Not some Robin Hood add in. Lets tell how Richard really was.
MORE PIRATES - Anything Pirates that is good
These are just a start add in what you would like to see be made into a good major motion picture.
Great question, M'Lady!
I have always wanted to see Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" made into a movie. A few years ago I think there was a contract in negotiation (might have been a TV movie) and I got my hopes up, but alas it was not to be. :(
Of course, I would probably never be happy with the casting of anyone in the roles Claire and (especially) Jamie.
Lord of the Rings Part IV, V, & VI
Braveheart Part II - the resurrection!
Jim Butcher's the Dresden Files. They made a tv series, but I'd love to see a proper movie done.
Also Jim Butcher's Codex Alera books would do well as movies.
And Naomi Novik's Temeraire series.
And more movies based off the Aubrey & Maturin novels! (i.e. Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World)
I'd love to see Mary Stewart's Arthurian legends books made into movies.
The Hollow Hills, The Crystal Cave, The Last Enchantment, The Wicked Day.
The Moreland Dynasty series by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.
It starts with the Moreland family and Richard III.
Or a love story between Richard III and his wife Anne Neville.
Or between John of Gaunt and Katherine de Roet Swynford.
"The Moreland Dynasties" are incredible...Would have to be one of those PBS-weeks-and-weeks series.
Quote from: GypsyWriter on July 11, 2008, 01:25:51 PM
Great question, M'Lady!
I have always wanted to see Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" made into a movie. A few years ago I think there was a contract in negotiation (might have been a TV movie) and I got my hopes up, but alas it was not to be. :(
Of course, I would probably never be happy with the casting of anyone in the roles Claire and (especially) Jamie.
Okay, so not the same story, but...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462465/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewBIp8uv58I
Drizzt DoUrden!
I don't remember the names of all of them, but there was a trilogy of books years ago, one was Ice Prophet, where the world was frozen, and everybody sailed skated ships, and they had just rediscoverd guns, so it was like pirates on ice... I just can't describe it right.
Or George R R Martin's 'Song of Fire and Ice' series
the Missenchanted Sword, another old book...
Another from an old comic.
BTW if anyone knows what it was called or who published it, please let me know.
There were the four horsemen of the apocolypse ravaging the world during one of the crusades. A Saracen Knight and a Christian Knight had to find certain talismans to defeat them, putting aside their differences to work together. A beautiful girl saves the Christian Knight, and helps him overcome one of the horsemen.
Eventually, all but one is defeated, but the two knights find themselves with convenient armies on a large field and decide to fight it out. The girl manages to stop them and they live happily ever after.
-Sweet T
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Persia Wooley wrote a trilogy about Guinevere (Child Of The Northern Spring, Queen Of The Summer Stars, and The Legend In Autumn) that could be turned into a really good movie.
The Dragon and the George.
Several of Fritz Lieber's short stories about Lankhmar could be tied together for a decent ancient adventure flick. Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser live!
Can't recall the name of this next one- Main character "Gualchmae"? chases his true love through several incarnations and historical events. Read it about 30 years old and it's a truly beautiful story.
100% agreement on "The Sword of Shannara". Long overdue IMHO.
I vaguely remember the Gwalchmai series...I believe that this is an alternative spelling for Gawain (as in Sir Gawain of the Round Table). Will have to do some research to find out why I remember it, who wrote it, etc.
I agree on the Grey Mouser! My sister, Pam (RIP), turned me on to Fritz Leiber back in the early 70's. She loved all of the swords and sorcery fantasies, which were a pretty new genre back then.
Camelot 3000 based on a 12 part comic maxi series published by DC back in the 80's.
Anne McCaffrey's Pern books, bare minumum the first couple.
Stephen King's Dark Tower books.
Blimey, the right spellin' 'o a name makes all the difference ta the search engine-
Originally published in 1974 by Ballantine as part of its Adult Fantasy series and reprinted six times, Merlin's Ring was an instant sensation among both fantasy fans and critics. This is an epic saga, ranging through history from the fall of Atlantis to Joan of Arc, and linking the Arthurian legends with Mezoamerican god Quetzalcoatl, the legends of Roland, Prester John, and Kublai Khan. It is also a powerful story of two lovers, Gwalchmai and Corenice, whose spirits are separated and reunited numerous times over the course of many centuries. QUOTES: "In Merlin's Ring, Munn reaches the apex of his art, a synthesis of myth and history, imagination and reality, to show the heroic qualities by which the human spirit endures." - Don Herron, in Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature "The story of Merlin's Ring is a colossal achievement of sheer imagination. From the moment the wandering spirit of the sorceress from Atlantis occupies the body of a Viking maid and liberates Gwalchmai from his frozen tomb within an iceberg, wherein he has lain in suspended animation for centuries, the tale expands to include shamans and witches and magical and supernatural forces. The vast canvas of this novel pictures a panoply of figures from history and myth and legend as background to a love story that survives the ages and traverses entire continents. Joan of Arc is but the most familiar of these, and the period of the Crusades form but a segment of a much larger history. Seldom have I encountered a more ambitious narrative in my exploration of fantasy, and seldom has a gripping human drama of such strength and vigor invested a story of such sweep and scope and vaulting imaginative power." - Lin Carter, from the Introduction to the 1974 Ballantine edition
Thankee Lady N.
That's the one! Glad to be of service!
Quote from: GypsyWriter on July 11, 2008, 01:25:51 PM
I have always wanted to see Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" made into a movie. A few years ago I think there was a contract in negotiation (might have been a TV movie) and I got my hopes up, but alas it was not to be. :(
Of course, I would probably never be happy with the casting of anyone in the roles Claire and (especially) Jamie.
I agree! It would be interesting to see the novel on film, but I know I'd probably wouldn't be happy with the actors chosen because they probably wouldn't come close to the way I picture Claire & Jamie.
There's so much detail in the novels that they would have to cut large chunks (and characters) out, which would also not sit right with me. Perhaps some books should be left well enough alone. :)
I'd like to see
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova or the Sevenwaters Trilogy by Juliet Marrilier made into movies.
I read the most wonderful fiction, "The Doomsday Book," by Connie Willis. It takes place in Oxford in the year 2050 (or thereabouts, I read it a while ago). They have started working on time travel, and a student volunteers to go back to the Middle Ages. She is supposed to go back to about 20 years after the plague, but due to several circumstances that occur, she unknowingly goes back right smack in the middle of it. It was a fantastic book, and I'd love to see it in a movie.
There's a very good children's book called "The Blue Cat of Castle Town" by Catherine Cate Coblentz which I think could be made into a wonderful animated (or possibly live-action) movie.
Although it's been done with indifferent results, I'd like to see what a good moive production crew could do with the the "Silver John" short stories and novels of Manly Wade Wellman.
The entire Xanth series by Piers Anthony.
I think that both "The Illuminator," and it's successor, "The Mercy Seller," by Brenda Rickman Vantrease would make excellent films.
Personally, I wouldn't want any of my favorite books made into movies. Movies are too short and the books I read are too long. Lord of the Rings was good, but too short by at least half (that is including the directors cuts), so, instead of 12 hours, it should be closer to 30.
The best adaptation I have seen done was the Dune Miniseries' on the Sci-Fi network. That is the only way I won't be horribly disappointed, I suspect.
That said, some of the history stuff would be very fun to see. More Viking flicks especially.
World War Z (I LUUUUUVS me a good zombie movie, I does!)
The Druss the Legend series (If you haven't read it, do!)
The Dresden Files (not the dreck they tried to pass off as a TV series)
The Kim Harrison series (Dead Witch Walking, et al)
Anything by Raymond Feist
Someone touched a bit on my subject a bit earlier, something about the MORELAND CHRINICLES AND RICHARD III
I would like to see a movie based on what the actual historical documents have to say on the life of RICHARD III
not some Shakesperian ramblings better suited to puff up the Tudor dynasty. Or how about making a movie based on
Josephine Teys book, Daughter of Time, with some flashback scenes using Kendalls biographical book as source material.
I am trying to visualize who would play the parts.
Quote from: Phoenix on July 14, 2008, 10:12:33 PM
Anne McCaffrey's Pern books, bare minumum the first couple.
Internet rumors have abounded about a Pern movie for years, but I'll believe it when I see it. I'd love to see Pern on the big screen too.
I'd also like to see Piers Anthony's "Incarnations of Immortality" done. The actor who played the angel of death on "Charmed" would be perfect in the role of Zane/Death.
Quote from: PurpleDragon on July 16, 2008, 03:30:46 PM
The entire Xanth series by Piers Anthony.
I agree... to a point
Somewhere around Vale of the Vole he seemed to loose the fun of the series for me. I started reading that series back in 1986 (I know because it kept away boredom the summer after I graduated lol). I truly loved it, but it just quit being... fun.
I also agree with making Incarnations of Immortality into a movie... that would just be fantastic.
I would like to see the Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind turned into a mini-series (because each book is just to long for a movie) and the same goes for Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time.
On the sci-fi side, I would really enjoy seeing the Honor Harrington books by David Weber turned into movies. They would make a great transition I think.
*I would also like to see the Boston Bartender's Guide turned into a movie with the focus on rum drinks... but that would be a stretch I guess*
Another fabulous big screen adaptation would be Anne McCaffrey's "Talent" series- The Rowan, Damia, Damia's Children, Lyon's Pride, The Tower and the Hive.
Stainless Steel Rat, anyone? Or how about The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever?
"The Apprentice Adept" series by Piers Anthony?
My best thought on adaptations, is to make them into mini-series on Showtime, HBO, et.al. so that they can get done completely, instead of trying to cut it down to two hours (Hell, they do it in England all the time, so why can't we?).
The Apprentice Adept would be good too, although it would be a little difficult to keep it PG during the Proton scenes unless they clothed them for the movie.
By the way, now you know where my screen name comes from! Neysa is my favorite character.
We used to make mini-series here all the time. Anyone remember SHOGUN, The Thornbirds, The Blue and The Gray? They were all min-series made for television PRE CABLE... Now, everyone just wants reality (crap) television shows which are not even reality... they may not be scripted, but they are definitely not based any way in or on reality.
QuoteThe Dresden Files (not the dreck they tried to pass off as a TV series)
The Kim Harrison series (Dead Witch Walking, et al)
YEs and yes!
Also...Jaqualine Carrey's Kushiel novels...although there would be absolutley no was to make them familt friendly and stay true to the charaters...
I'd love to see a movie of Dan Simmons' The Terror.
And didn't care much for Garth Nix's Sabriel, but as I read it I couldn't help thinking it would make a better movie than book.
I second the vote for Dragonriders of Pern, too bad it almost made it to the filming.
Also, the Crystal Cave is one of my ALL time favorites
I know they already made it but it sucked so Someone should redo The Mists of Avalon and make the way it should be done. No leaving out key characters and never fully explaining things... it made me sad.
Can't remember who mentioned The Song of Ice and Fire but you should go to Donaldsons webpage and check out the info on the HBO special they are supposed to be getting up soon!! If they don't do a good job I'm going to hurt somebody!
It would be Difficult and would have to be broken down into several films, not just the Three books it is now, but I would LOVE to see a good movie based on the Ender Trilogy by Orson Scott Card I think it was... It has been so long but the books have always stuck with me...
They made a crappy animated movie based on the Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight... I got it for my 3 yr. old but I was VERY disappointed. It would be hard to make that series into a movie without getting cheesy and having to cut out alot though I guess...
Man, now I just want to go back and read for a year straight so I can relive all these adventures and I don't have that kind of time... :'(
Alyria
Quote from: BLAKDUKE on July 17, 2008, 03:50:42 PM
Someone touched a bit on my subject a bit earlier, something about the MORELAND CHRINICLES AND RICHARD III
I would like to see a movie based on what the actual historical documents have to say on the life of RICHARD III
not some Shakesperian ramblings better suited to puff up the Tudor dynasty. Or how about making a movie based on
Josephine Teys book, Daughter of Time, with some flashback scenes using Kendalls biographical book as source material.
I am trying to visualize who would play the parts.
I'm just sorry our last discussion on the boards about whether Richard III was villain or victim was lost in the Great Crash of May 2008. Very interesting theories were presented.
And Blakduke--I think Alan Rickman would be the PERFECT Richard III.
I would really like to see some one take on the task of doing the Amber series by Roger Zelazny. I think that it would have to be done as a mini series to work. I know that SCi-Fi channel started to do one but it looked horrible. It would take some one with some real guts to do it.
I agree with Welsh Wench. I am amazed no one has made a movie of Mary Stewart's great books on Merlin The Arthurian lore.
Though t'was done in cartoon form 'bout 40 year ago, the time be right sez I, fer White's "The Once and Future King"&" The Book of Merlin" ta be remade.
"Rennibal"
About a Hannibal Lechter type character who performs at Renaissance Festivals and eats unsuspecting patrons/acts/cast.
Regards,
CB
Quote from: Welsh Wench on July 19, 2008, 09:48:39 AM
...And Blakduke--I think Alan Rickman would be the PERFECT Richard III.
YES, Welsh Wench--excellent suggestion!
Since they seem to be making lots of movie's out of young adult books I would love to see the Faerie Chronicles by Melling
And they need to let Henson's company redo Stardust. The market should have been a cross between a ren faire and Labrynth
"I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there,and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me."
--- Prince Lir ---
I woud love to see a live-action remake of The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. The was an internet site that said it was in the works, but it years ago when I last saw it.
The Elric and Stormbringer books would make interesting movies. Especially after seeing Hellboy this weekend and the guy playing the prince
Quote from: Welsh Wench on July 19, 2008, 09:48:39 AM
Quote from: BLAKDUKE on July 17, 2008, 03:50:42 PM
Someone touched a bit on my subject a bit earlier, something about the MORELAND CHRINICLES AND RICHARD III
I would like to see a movie based on what the actual historical documents have to say on the life of RICHARD III
not some Shakesperian ramblings better suited to puff up the Tudor dynasty. Or how about making a movie based on
Josephine Teys book, Daughter of Time, with some flashback scenes using Kendalls biographical book as source material.
I am trying to visualize who would play the parts.
I'm just sorry our last discussion on the boards about whether Richard III was villain or victim was lost in the Great Crash of May 2008. Very interesting theories were presented.
And Blakduke--I think Alan Rickman would be the PERFECT Richard III.
Hey Wenchie:
You may be blonde and all the rest of that, but don't ever let anyone call you dumb, not even me, unless of course there is a twinkle in my eye and a smirk on my face. Excellent choice M'lady. Never even came to mind. I was so miffed of the choice of actors for M.I.T.I.M.
DiCaprio ...... please, eye candy for the ladies surely, but I never could get past his 'Hey Surfer Dude' demeanor. The only one that I felt was at home with their role was Porthos. That mis-casting left me in limbo as to who to come up with for Richard III, but you nailed it.
Quote from: Lady de Laney on July 21, 2008, 08:45:45 AM
The Elric and Stormbringer books would make interesting movies. Especially after seeing Hellboy this weekend and the guy playing the prince
I saw that character in some of the trailers that appear on T.V. and I immediately thought is that Elric????? I at first only read the first two books many years ago, and have since come into possesion of the full set. One of these days I will get around to reading them. Along those same lines how about "The Jewel in the Skull" series. I have read all of those and think they would fare well in the movies.
Blakduke, I love that twinkle and smirk! ;)
I just may run down the hill for you!
Alan Rickman as Richard III--yeah, I'd pay to see that!
The Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy
Or for that matter...any Dragonlance book.
Regards,
CB
Quote from: Cobaltblu on July 21, 2008, 12:29:52 PM
The Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy
Or for that matter...any Dragonlance book.
Regards,
CB
I think they just did a cartoon version of that.
Quote from: Welsh Wench on July 21, 2008, 12:20:47 PM
Blakduke, I love that twinkle and smirk! ;)
I just may run down the hill for you!
Let's see, mmmmmm mental picture of wenchie running down a hill
OMG AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Elizabeth it's the big one, I'm comin home sweet heart, wait where's my iron lung.
Quote from: Robert Phoenix on July 21, 2008, 08:06:06 PM
Quote from: Cobaltblu on July 21, 2008, 12:29:52 PM
The Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy
Or for that matter...any Dragonlance book.
Regards,
CB
I think they just did a cartoon version of that.
They did, and it had a few Big names like Kiefer Sutherland and Lucy Lawless but like I said, I bought it for my two year old and while we enjoyed it I was very dissapointed at the story line cuts and the vagueness of characters...
Maybe next time they will do it right
Alyria
Well, that's the problem with trying to adapt something to run two hours or less...
I'm not sure if anyone else in here is a Terry Goodkind fan, but the 22, 1 hour episode mini-series Wizards First Rule (Renamed Legend of the Seeker for TV) should be on air around November 1st. I'm not a huge reader, but I loved the Sword of Truth series and I'm looking forward to the show.
I would love to see a movie made from the book "Shibumi" by Trevanian but it would be way too long and expensive if they try to do the book justice.
Roger Zalazny's first few books his Amber Chronicles done as a miniseries. It starts with the first book Nine Princes in Amber
http://www.amazon.com/Nine-Princes-Amber-Roger-Zelazny/dp/B000GRKLQU/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220893458&sr=1-8
On the sci-fi side, I would really enjoy seeing the Honor Harrington books by David Weber turned into movies. They would make a great transition I think.
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Teach, that is a most excellent suggestion. The good Admiral is way overdue for her own film/video/whatever. Just not sure if they can find the right actress to do her justice.
Anne Bishops Black Jewel trilogy
My dream cast would be
Ben Cross as Saetan ( Loved him as Barnabas Collins)
Hugh Jackman as Lucivar
Christian Bale as Daemon
Not sure who would make a Good Janelle though ???
I don't remember the author but
The Jewel in/of the Skull series
the tales of Dorian Hawkmoon
Quote from: TiaLD77 on October 07, 2008, 01:12:43 PM
Anne Bishops Black Jewel trilogy
My dream cast would be
Ben Cross as Saetan ( Loved him as Barnabas Collins)
Hugh Jackman as Lucivar
Christian Bale as Daemon
Not sure who would make a Good Janelle though ???
yeah, good luck with that one . . . maybe late night HBO or Showtime.
good books, but yikes!
Quote from: escherblacksmith on October 07, 2008, 04:44:10 PM
Quote from: TiaLD77 on October 07, 2008, 01:12:43 PM
Anne Bishops Black Jewel trilogy
My dream cast would be
Ben Cross as Saetan ( Loved him as Barnabas Collins)
Hugh Jackman as Lucivar
Christian Bale as Daemon
Not sure who would make a Good Janelle though ???
yeah, good luck with that one . . . maybe late night HBO or Showtime.
good books, but yikes!
*sigh* I know....It could be done, & Done tastefully. But who am I kidding, This is Hollywood we are talking about!
It could be done tastefully, that still wouldn't be allowed anywhere on normal television though.
Heck, Daemon spends most of the first book with an . . . nefarious magical attachment for goodness sake.
Probably just as well, they'd screw it up anyway.
I'd love to see a GOOD film version of any of the Flashman novels or any of Raymond Saunders' "Fenwick Travers" novels.
More entries in the "Master and Commander" series. The first movie was darned near perfect.
Patrick Obrian wrote 20 and a half novels in this series...lots of material!!
Quote from: x0x_teach_x0x on July 17, 2008, 04:28:23 PM
I would like to see the Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind turned into a mini-series (because each book is just to long for a movie)
So let it be written, so let it be done! Actually, it'll be on ongoing 1-hour series, rather than a mini-series, and it's been renamed "Legend of the Seeker" (renamed from "Wizard's First Rule", the title of the first book). And it premieres the weekend of Nov. 1st/2nd in syndication. To find out what time and station it runs in your town, you can look it up at the official site:
http://www.legendoftheseeker.com/
yeah, that one got mentioned before.
I hope it doesn't suck