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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)
Dune by Moebius and Jodorowski.
What a shame.
Silent Hill. Written, directed by, and starring David Lynch.
World War Z, made as a documentary/re-enactment style mini series. Could make it beat for beat almost identical to the book.
I just want a streaming anthology series based on the book. Every episode is a different story. I don’t mind if paths cross from time to time, but it shouldn’t fall into the traps of “Walking Dead” or the film version, where it follows the same group of people all the time. You could do some really creative storytelling set in the same universe if you hired a different writer and director each episode.
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.
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.
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’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.
XO Manowar. No idea who I would cast as a 5th century Visigoth. I would get a bunch of synthwave and electronic artists and other musicians to create an original album for the movie soundtrack. Getting Perturbator and Gary Numan cooking together would be amazing. Rendered for the most ubiquitous 3d tech installed in theaters, and storyboard/cinematography is designed to take advantage of that.
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.
My dream series was wheel of time but that kinda became a nighmare. meh. more a blahmare.
Mine was Mayfair Witches. They ruined that one too.
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.
I always pictured Alan Rickman as Vetinari, but Charles Dance is a great pick! And, you know, still possible...
Dance played the Patrician in the Sky TV production of Going Postal and he just as great as you would expect.
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.
Yeah they made a halo TV show that should cover you. I wanna see something real weird like Mote in God's eye turned into a movie.
Predator vs my little pony
Ripley was small, even for an Earth Pony.
A Star Wars movie that invalidates the sequels. Preferably based on the old EU.
No, because then we’d get the timey whimey bullshit that infects Star Trek way too much.
I’ll be honest. There’s no way to rescue Star Wars unless a big risk is taken. And no way Disney will upset their cash cow.
They just need a big timejump. Go back KOTOR era, or go to the far future.
Honestly part of the problem is that fans want original trilogy nostalgia. I couldn't believe how much they raged over Andor.
'Skywalker' shouldn't be uttered in newer stuff, but it's required, and Disney knows it too well.
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.
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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
Bruce Lee is fresh out of law school but is questioning what direction to go in life and whether or not he really wants to become a lawyer. He meets Marlene Dietrich on one of his more existential days and it leads to a strange journey through space and time…
Gary Coleman is a very inconspicuous process server and Leslie Howard sure as shit has a lot of cases against him. See the zany ways of Gary Coleman outsmarts Leslie Howard in ‘Dinner Is Served’ rated X.
Christina Applegate and Christina Ricci star as two hockey players fighting for a spot in the NHL.
James Earl Jones plays Kevin James playing Doug in ‘King of Queens’ and Marlon Brando plays Frank Constanza playing Arthur and then it’s just like them going to work and then Jerry Stiller is Frank Costanza in this universe.
I spent too much time on this and vaped a decent amount of weed. Not a ton but a sizable amount.
What we came up with.
1930s Shanghai. Bruce was high up in the Hong Kong underworld but killed the boss's son in a sparring match gone bad. Marlena runs a casino. He becomes her bodyguard enforcer, but he finds out she's spying for both the British and the Japanese.
English Civil War. Howard is a cavalier. Well bred, well read, a swordsman, a lady's man, a poet, a scholar, and a soldier. He's blinded when a cannon explodes in a battle and is captured. Coleman is another prisoner of the roundheads. He's a travelling one man circus who does whatever he has to. The warden makes Coleman be Howard's 'seeing eye dog' They eventually become friends and when Howard's eyes begin to improve they plan an escape
Marlon is an English lord exiled to the American colonies circa 1700. He's losing his mind due to an STD. Billy Bob Thornton owns a small plantation and hopes to improve his lot by catering to the lord's family back home. Thornton has promised to keep Brando happy and out of trouble. Jones is an elderly slave that Thornton brought cheap. He was his old master's lifelong companion. He secretly knows how to read. Thronton assigns Jones to Brando, tellign his to keep the Englishman safe. When Brando proves to be uncontrollable, Billy decides it would be smarter to just kill him and blame Jones.
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)
How about Waps Factory? That would be a great movie.
Or is this a different Iain Banks... I feel like I tripped on this before.
Not to worry, caught me out as well a couple of times. It's the same author, he used 'Iain M. Banks' for his scifi work and 'Iain Banks' for regular eathbound fiction.
Wasp factory would make for a magnificent film, if only there were directors alive that had the chops to make a film worthy eh.
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.
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 biopic of Rasputin by Wes Anderson
That would be so fucking fabulous. I really like that your brain thought of that, it’s a lot of fun to think about.
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
They did make a sequel, but it bombed and was panned by critics