Ideas for movies

[SeanL]

I'm really bored...so I'm a posting fool today.
What are some ideas, concepts, etc. that you'd like to see made into a movie? Works of a favorite author(I know, Hollywood can screw up a good book), period in history, event in history, a famous person?

Note: Based on the merits of the film adaptation of Battlefield Earth, anything by L Ron Hubbard is summarily disqualified... and mentioning anything with Britney Spears is an automatic ass whoopin'.

What I'd like to see get the movie treatment:
Any of Clive Cusslers novels(I'm gonna pretend that Raise the Titanic was never made)
Gates of Fire-Steven Pressfield
Randy Wayne Whites "Doc Ford" novels
Any of Harry Turtledove's alternate history stuff.
I'm sure there are a lot of periods in history I'd like to see...just can't think of them right now.

Let's hear your ideas.


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Sean

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

[This message has been edited by SeanL (edited 06-23-2001).]

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For years, I was convinced that I would one day direct the live-action LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy (after all, my middle name is Thorin--no joke), but, alas, that obviously isn't going to come to pass, so now I've set my targets on one day taking the directing reins for Stephen King's THE DARK TOWER series. Wish me luck...

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[LemJe31]

I have always thought that the Clive Cussler novels would make a great movie series. To me Dirk Pitt would be like a James Bond underwater. The great thing about it is that no matter which book they picked it would be great if done right, they are all great stories.
Another series I always thought would make a great trilogy type movie are the Margret Wies and Tracy Hickman, Dragonlance Chronicles. If someone would have the balls to make a fantasy series without trying to make it tongue and cheek (ala Dungeons and Dragons) I think it would blow people away.
I have also always wanted to see the Stephen King short story "The Mist" done in to a movie. It is a very creepy story that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Last but not least I think out of all the John Grisham novels that "The Juror" is by far the best. I wish they would pick this one to bring to the sreen. I thought it was absolutly great.
On the same note, there have been several books that I thought would be great on film and never made the grade. I remember being very excited about seeing the movie version of "Flowers In The Attic" after having read the book. When I did see the movie I couldn't believe how bad it acctually was. With all the good material in the book they chose to change it for their version and it was terrible. I started reading "Hannibal" and only made it through about half the book because I thought it was so bad. It seemed to me that the book was made for one reason, to make some more cash. So when I did go to the theater to see it I wasn't expecting to much.
Sorry to ramble on so much but reading and movies are a BIG part of my routine. (Much to my girlfriends displeasure......HeHe)

[Disco Stu]

I once wrote a treatment for "JFK- on Ice!" It would be shot Spinal Tap/Waiting For Guffman style. If anyone steals it, I'm suing.

Copyright 2001.


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[SeanL]

I once wrote a treatment for "JFK- on Ice!" It would be shot Spinal Tap/Waiting For Guffman style. If anyone steals it, I'm suing.

Too funny!


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Sean

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[saraswati]

Steven Soderburgh has the rights to the film version of Confederacy of Dunces, and even though it would make a terrible film in the wrong hands, i'm confident in Soderburgh, because he's just the type to pull off something like that. also because he's my favorite at the moment and in my mind he can do just about anything. John Goodman would be great as Ignatius Reilly, with Lin Shaye (the creepy landlady in Kingpin, mary's creepy, dog lovin' friend in Something about Mary) as his mother. Christina Ricci would make a great Myrna Minkoff.

I'd love to see someone make Pearl Buck's novel East Wind, West Wind into a film. it's about a chinese woman who is in an arranged marriage with a man who has been in the US for school (it takes place in the 20s or 30s i think), and he comes home with all these western ideas. and she has been trained since childhood to please her husband and inlaws in the traditional way. so an interesting conflict develops, because even though the western ideals of marriage are much less confining than the chinese, the girl cannot face a completely unfamiliar way of life.

i don't think i could make either of those films, though. i don't have the narrative skill for Confederacy of Dunces, and films about china made by white-bread americans never go over well, regardless of their quality. if i were directing, i would probably make a series of Madeleine L'Engle's novels about the Murry family. A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. there just aren't enough good children's films.

funny, i usually say that most novels don't make good films, yet my post is all novels i'd like to see made into films...

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[Damian]

Piers Anthony novels are ripe for movie production. Or maybe a TV mini-series would be a better medium for the longer sagas like Xanth or The Incarnations Of Immortality.


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[Taxi]

Yes, the Incarnations would make great movies!

My favorite though, and the movies I'd produce if I ever hit the lottery big, would be Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber and its sequels. I've always thought that with today's CGI you could do some cool stuff with the Trumps, as well as shadow shifting. (Although, honestly, I feel that shadow shifting doesn't read too well. It would look way better on film.)

Of course, The Lord of the Rings is a no brainer. Thankfully we're getting what looks to be an impressive treatment of these books in the next three years!

[toad088]

The Dark Tower books
Desperation (although I heard it was going to be a tv movie)
The Mist

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[tashy4]

I would like to see the Series Area 51 by Roberth Doherty Be made into a movie, or better yet a mini series. The first Book Area 51 is one of the best sci-fi books I have ever read.

[Miggy]

toad088,

I don't think I had heard about a Desperation movie, but I had heard about The Mist mini-series. Should be good! I need to buy a copy of Skeleton Crew and re-read that beforehand.

Miggy, the Thief

[BeanBandit]

Without a doubt, Rainbow Six: The Movie! Most of Tom Clancy's book-to-movies have been pretty good and Rainbow Six is a great novel (okay, it's not litterature, but it was a fun read).

Honestly, when was the last time we had a really good counter-terrorist movie? I'm thinking the Rock, but then they all get killed. Come on! Rainbow Six! Directed by John Woo!

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[Adjuster]

Rainbow Six is currently in pre-production, check it out HERE.

I'm psyched about it, but I hope they don't recast Wilem Dafoe as Clark. If you are familiar with these books, you know he is not the guy for the part. If I was the casting director for this one, I'd give the role to Kurt Russel, but that's just me.

The Clancy book I'm dying to have made into a movie is Without Remorse.

That would be swweeeeeet!

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[Istagi]

I would love to see a good movie made about Crazy Horse. Now this might seem like personal bias but a short synopsys of his life would be as follows

1. Born in poverty to a low class family.

2. Falls in love with a girl that was eventually married to Crazy Horse's a higher status individual who was also Crazy Horse's main child hood rival.

3. Crazy Horse becomes a highly aclaimed warrior while the husband of his childhood sweethart becomes a lowlife.

4. He is elevated to a high political possition because of his skills

5. Crazy Horse's world collapses when his childhood lover escapes from her low life husband. The husband actually shoots Crazy Horse in the face when he comes to retreave her.

6 shortly after the incident his possition and power are stripped away.

7. Crazy Horse becomes an unoffical leader and has many victories, his most famous being the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

8. As his entire culture quickly falls apart around him he turns himself in where the other chiefs plot to have him assisinated.

9. Crazy Horse is finally killed At Fort Robinson Neb. He was bayoneted in the back while being held by his best friend.

That is a quick overview. An awsome and tradgic life.

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[BeanBandit]

Sounds like a great movie Istagi, but don't expect it to ever be made in Hollywood. Too depressing; mainstream America loves its happy endings.

Re: Rainbow Six.
When did Wilem Dafoe play John Clark? Does the character appear in another one of Clancy's movies?
Edit: nevermind, I just read the whole article.
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[Malkavman]

The movie of the year would be called "Random Explosions, 5 Well-placed Sex Scenes, And Jackie Chan And Jet Li Beating People Up For 100 Minutes" Directed by John Woo and Produced by Stephen Speilberg and Jerry Bruckheimer.

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