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Post by bittersound on Feb 27, 2007 13:19:08 GMT 1
I wish someone would make a trilogy of films based on the original Marvel comic book series of The Micronauts.
I have all the comics, it's a highly underrated storyline. Excellent, in fact.
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Post by stewymartian on Mar 3, 2007 20:24:33 GMT 1
I'd love to see some of Iain M. Banks' Culture stuff on film. Consider Phlebas would be a kick ass film.
I'd also queue for days to see a film version of Arthur C. Clarke's 'Songs of distant Earth'.
I'm sure a few others will spring to mind once I've thought about it for a bit.
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Post by nervouspete on Mar 3, 2007 21:23:01 GMT 1
Cheesy-Christ!
An Iain M Banks Culture film would be utterly amazing. Good call Stewey Martian. What about that bit where the giant super-tanker hits the ice-shelf? How amazing would that be? *Drool*
Fritz Leiber's unjustly forgotten 'Gather Darkness', which is about a rebellion led by witches and warlocks against a harsh puritanical techno-priest dictatorship. Excellent satire mixed with horror and sci-fi.
Most of all though I'd like an adaptation of Susan Cooper's 'The Dark is Rising', a wonderful dark children's fantasy written in the 70's about the seventh son of a seventh son finding that he is one of the 'Old Ones' - an immortal set of beings placed to fight against the rising darkness. He has the powers to wipe memories, control people, travel through time and space and bend nature to his will. He has to deal with these powers aged 13, and let no one know about them. The dark forces are not Tolkien or Potteresque, rather its a force that corrupts humans and bends them to dark purpose. Sometimes tragically. Wonderful mythic books that would be awesome if treated seriously.
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Post by Methos on Mar 3, 2007 23:17:33 GMT 1
“The Tripod Trilogy”, including the prequel “When the Tripods Came”.
The “Aliens: Earth Hive” trilogy, with a new actress to play Ellen Ripley this time, plus the prequel “Apocalypse: The Destroying Angels”.
S.M. Sterling’s “Terminator Trilogy”.
“The Circle Trilogy”.
Steven King’s “Cell”.
C.S. Lewis’ “Space Trilogy”
“Nineteen Eighty-Four”
“We”
“The Shards of Earth Trilogy”
“If I Forget Thee Oh Earth”
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Post by Lensman on Mar 4, 2007 17:29:08 GMT 1
Methos, "1984" has already had an excellent adaptation, chillingly true to the book. Other than a good period WOTW adaptation, the one I think is most crying out to be filmed is Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama. The book has many very cinematic scenes, and with good FX could be awesome! I'd like to see Larry Niven's Ringworld done, too, but am afraid of what would be done to it. The Sci-Fi Channel had it optioned for some years, and I was afraid they'd do another el cheapo bottom-of-the-barrel travesty like they did with "Riverworld" and "The Wizard of Earthsea". AAARGH!! Ringworld has two major alien characters that could only be done properly with CGI, and in fact to depict the rising horizon of the Ringworld would take a lot of heavy CGI work, or at least matte paintings. So to do it right, this would be a very expensive movie. Oh, and the Lensman series too, of course!  It certainly would need some work on the script for it to appeal to modern audiences, tho. Otherwise, like "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow", the appeal would be so narrow it would flop at the box office.  . |
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Post by rusti on Mar 4, 2007 19:10:07 GMT 1
Stainless Steel Rat series.. make great Bond like movies.
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Post by stewymartian on Mar 5, 2007 20:47:03 GMT 1
Stainless Steel Rat series.. make great Bond like movies. Of course! How could I have forgotten the Stainless Steel rat! Those books would make brilliant films. The question is, who would play ol' slippery Jim? |
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Post by thedonal on Mar 5, 2007 21:22:43 GMT 1
I'd love to see some of Iain M. Banks' Culture stuff on film. Consider Phlebas would be a kick ass film. I'd also queue for days to see a film version of Arthur C. Clarke's 'Songs of distant Earth'. I'm sure a few others will spring to mind once I've thought about it for a bit. Yeah- most Banks would be great, but perhaps a little too deep and often abstract to make a decent movie- much of his writing would be lost on film/the general audience, I reckon. Plus, some of the stuff he writes is truly horrific- certainly wouldn't pass the BBFC! Rendezvous With Rama- I think that'd make a great film. There is a website with a pitch to make this film but no further information has surfaced in the last few years about it- www.revelationsent.com/flash/index.htmlI'd like to see Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series filmed- again huge in scope and plenty of potentially spectacular visual feasts in the books. The characters are always great in these books and would demand great direction/casting and scriptwriting. Also, the way the plots of the books unfold is great- keeps you glued to every page to see what's actually going on! Also, Pushing Ice- on a similar thread to the Rama book and other mysterious artefact books- would make a great TV series I reckon- a little soapy, but off the beaten track in respect to the lack of real niceness about the plot/characters/outcome. Similar to Greg Bear's Eon in some ways... |
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Post by killraven on Mar 6, 2007 12:06:24 GMT 1
Stainless Steel Rat series.. make great Bond like movies. Of course! How could I have forgotten the Stainless Steel rat! Those books would make brilliant films. The question is, who would play ol' slippery Jim? Good question! Depends whether or not you'd want a young dynamic lead or an older more grizzled one. My first choice each case would probably be Jamie Bamber and James Spader (with a couple of days stubble  ) KR |
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Post by rusti on Mar 7, 2007 12:39:50 GMT 1
I want to see a big budget version of hitch Hickers GTTG again. This time with all the wit and humour left in that was removed from the Hollywood film.
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Post by thedonal on Mar 7, 2007 18:54:03 GMT 1
I rather enjoyed the movie- I watched it again on the weekend. I'd like to see a continuation though.
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Post by Lensman on Mar 16, 2007 8:28:08 GMT 1
Re "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy": I'm with Rusti on this one. I *far* prefer the British-made mini-series to the Hollywood movie, from which much of the humor and most of the satire was removed. What were they thinking of, having Arthur actually win Trillian's love? That violates the entire premise of Douglas Adams' books-- that nothing makes sense, everything is futile, and virtue *never* triumphs. And the mini-series had the perfect voice for Marvin, too-- which is something else the movie got totally wrong.
The "world-building chamber" in the movie was very kewl, tho. Good job of visualization on that.
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Post by thedonal on Mar 22, 2007 13:58:37 GMT 1
I though Alan Rickman was pretty well cast in the movie. Bill Nighy was absolutely fantastic as Slartibartfast and the parts where the improbability drive was used were great- especially the knitted people. Great visual gag that! I know what you mean about the ending- though in the usual 'the nice guy always gets walked over' way of life, I guess it is still a departure from reality!! The sense of space and scale in the world building chamber is great- not that many space films get that right... I also liked the way the vogons are made out as such officious monsters- not actually callous, per se, but just a race of jobsworths... I do wonder if this film is often coloured by us having grown up with the radio/tv series- ie we know and love these versions and any remake is a)not really going to present anything that new- therefore the jokes won't be as funny this time round and b)we're so used to the old cast/BBC production values (that did suit it all rather well!) that any change or big budget version will feel wrong. Anyway, I'll stop gushing now.  |
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Post by richardburton on Mar 23, 2007 10:26:07 GMT 1
I am another of the rare breed who likes the remake - there was some really great moments which EK has mentioned above. But of course I will always prefer the original incarnations as, like others, they are the ones I grew up with and first learned to love.
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Post by Methos on Mar 28, 2007 21:25:31 GMT 1
“Saturn Rukh” would make a great film.
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It certainly would need some work on the script for it to appeal to modern audiences, tho. Otherwise, like "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow", the appeal would be so narrow it would flop at the box office. 
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