movies

Dune by Moebius and Jodorowski.

What a shame.

World War Z, made as a documentary/re-enactment style mini series. Could make it beat for beat almost identical to the book.

Silent Hill. Written, directed by, and starring David Lynch.

A film that stars both Nicolas Cage and Adam Sandler. I don’t care if it’s a comedy, action flick, or serious drama. Seeing those two go ballistic together would be amazing.

An adaption of Philip K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, but with no "streaming production" bullshit.

Synopsis:

The novel takes place in a future 2016 where humankind has colonized every habitable planet and moon in the Solar System. To cope with the difficult life away from Earth, colonists rely on the illegal hallucinogen Can-D, secretly distributed by corporate head Leo Bulero. New tensions arise with the rumor that merchant explorer Palmer Eldritch has returned from an expedition in possession of a new alien hallucinogen to compete with Can-D.

Either make it follow the novel closely or make it a truly creative take where it's set in a completely different setting but follows the spirit and the themes of the novel.

I would argue the The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch in particular has a lot of potential for a full re-interpretation structured as commentary on our current reality. The synopsis does read like a pulp scifi novel, but there is a lot to it and the Can-D psychedelic (very cool description of how it works in the novel) and "difficult life away from Earth" motifs can be adapted for modern challenges. I don't think the novel was meant to be interpreted literally, the outline is more of a foundation for other questions/points.

A well made adaption of John Brunner's The Sheep Look Up. The Shockwave Rider would probably be a better fit for modern issues, but I think The Sheep Look Up would be more unique. Stand on Zanzibar would also be a good target but I feel the over-population concept (as described in 70s western media) hasn't aged that well. You stand the risk of making a campy movie like Soylent Green (I like it, but it's more a 70s scifi experience for me). That being said, I would probably be fine with any good adaptation of Brunner's famous works.

A proper adaption of Isaac Asimov's The Gods Themselves. Asimov was often criticized for not including aliens in his novels/series. Well he did include aliens in this one and they are nothing like your typical scifi movie. It's not as well written as Solaris (perhaps the most intense depiction of alien life that I've experienced in any media), but it's pretty damn good. The Gods Themselves is probably the easiest one to adapt into a movie since the high level plot is pretty straightforward. The lunar parts would look great and then there is the alien world and society...

All of these would probably not pass the mass market adaption requirement. And I am not cool with "fanfic for the mass market" type adaptions. Make your own creative take, but make it crazy, make it live up to the main magic of the novels.

I'd love an X-Men film based on the proper comic book life of Lady Deathstrike, rather than the bastardisation we got in X-2.
However I can understand it would be far too gory.

My dream series was wheel of time but that kinda became a nighmare. meh. more a blahmare.

As a longtime Warcraft fan, I'd like a movie about Arthas (the Lich King) and I want Fassbender to play him because no one plays a character like that as believably as he does.

Basically a good guy who eventually goes full evil yet you still want redemption for him. (Spoiler: he does not get one)

A “side” movie set in the Avatar (Airbender) world. Maybe Republic City detective noir, or an adventure in some Kyoshi Era (or even more ancient) new place.

Bending, spirits, the cultural flair, the setting's just too awesome and is begging for side stories.

Larry Niven’s Ringworld.

Discworld - Guards! Guards! Honestly done, with the Pratchett estate approval. With Paul Blackthorne as Vimes, John Cena as Carrot, DJ Qualls as Knoby, Kathy Bates as Lady Sybil, and of course Charles Dance as the Patrician. Sorry I've put way too much thought in to this idea.

A true Warhammer 40K movie. But I fear many people would find it 'problematic' and not understand that the whole thing is so over the top that it's close to satire.

A Star Wars movie that invalidates the sequels. Preferably based on the old EU.

I think Anathem by Neil Stephenson could be a great 2 season series, if you approach it with Andor level writing and dedication, and fully commit to the twist with subtle character design.

I want a Superman movie that's based off the comics where he beats the shit out of the KKK. It'll never happen but it would be awesome.

I’m not overly critical of the LOTR movies and actually really appreciate that they exist, but I need one that is just perfect with no other objectives but to bring the books to film. I just want something that is entirely accurate without any forced action and fluff or need for it to make lots of money.

Predator vs my little pony

An actual adaptation of Jumper, directed by Daren Aronofski.

Edit: The whole series really. With 4 years between Jumper and Reflex, then 17 years before Impulse and Exo are made back to back. Doing it that way all the actors will age properly.

Grey Jedi Noir. Solving a case for the light side while using dark side talents would be amazing.

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This is a great game if you're with some really creative folks.

One person picks two actors who never worked together and the other player/team has to come up with the plot of the movie. Actors can be any age they appeared on film, so someone like Helen Mirren can be anywhere from 18 to 81 years old.

Here are a few of the better combinations we came up with.

Bruce Lee and Marlene Deitrich

Leslie Howard and Gary Coleman

Christina Applegate and Christina Ricci

James Earl Jones and Marlon Brando

A sequel to Event Horizon that bridges the gap between it and the Warhammer 40k universe. After the events of the first movie Big E is awakend to the threats of the Warp and the Chaos gods within and sets his plans in motion. First and foremost? he must "deal" with the survivors of the Event Horizon so they don't spread their knowledge of the warp to the rest of mankind.

Also Henry Cavill plays The Emperor of Man.

A Pokemon movie for adults. I don't mean sex or gore, I just really want to see that world without a chibi filter over top. I want a war movie following Lt Surge and his then Pikachu. I want an evil Team Rocket straight out of Fight Club. I want a professor to stand face to face with God and dare write a Pokedex entry for it.

A sequal to iron sky where they find stalin on mars, the red planet

I want to see a live action of the Young Wizard series by Diane Duane.

Apparently, people have bought the rights for it repeatedly, but then they never actually make the fucking movies.

Which, in retrospect, during the time period they were buying it, there were a lot of really shitty movies released as book adaptations that ended up crashing and burning and going nowhere, but I believe this is a good time for a new series aimed for young viewers to take this on and nobody's fucking doing it.

I promised myself that if I was the person who won that huge powerball the other day, that would be the very first fucking thing I did after giving my friends and family money and paying off all my debts.

The Culture Series by Iain M Banks.

There's too much detail and too vast a story for it ever to be made into a piece of film media (alongside Banks' wishes that it never be made into one)