M.A.S.K and Thundercats please.
Overlooked franchises you'd like to see movies of...
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Also (because I didn't mention it) I also support seeing some Dragonlance movies, at least of the first trilogy. The series goes a bit confusing after that, but the first Dragonlance trilogy (along with the later books that filled in gaps in the first trilogy) could be adapted into some very good movies if done by the right people.
Some great suggestions!
My personal listing-
Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone' - doubt it would stand much of a change considering how dark Elric is, I can just imagine a network OKing a show whose main character is sometimes called 'Woman Slayer'
Butcher's 'Dresden Files' - keep to the stories as written and avoid turning it into a Harry Potter clone.
Larry Niven's 'Tales of Known Space' - starts off with a good conventional approach to exploring and settling our Solar System and then expands into the rest of the universe with some of the best alien races ever written.
Jack L. Chalker's 'Well World' series.- An ancient race who could control realty created a planet to design all the races who populate the universe. covered in small hexes, each unit is a complete ecology for testing. Totally unique creatures in each hex, some of which started off as being drawn into the Well World and learn to cope in their new forms.
Allen Dean Foster's 'Flinx' series. A young boy brought up as an orphan finds out he is the product of genetic engineering with the potential to affect to course of history.
Simon R. Greene's 'Tales from the Nightside' and Ghostfinder' series. Imagine Jim Butcher with a bizarre sense of humor.
My personal listing-
Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone' - doubt it would stand much of a change considering how dark Elric is, I can just imagine a network OKing a show whose main character is sometimes called 'Woman Slayer'
Butcher's 'Dresden Files' - keep to the stories as written and avoid turning it into a Harry Potter clone.
Larry Niven's 'Tales of Known Space' - starts off with a good conventional approach to exploring and settling our Solar System and then expands into the rest of the universe with some of the best alien races ever written.
Jack L. Chalker's 'Well World' series.- An ancient race who could control realty created a planet to design all the races who populate the universe. covered in small hexes, each unit is a complete ecology for testing. Totally unique creatures in each hex, some of which started off as being drawn into the Well World and learn to cope in their new forms.
Allen Dean Foster's 'Flinx' series. A young boy brought up as an orphan finds out he is the product of genetic engineering with the potential to affect to course of history.
Simon R. Greene's 'Tales from the Nightside' and Ghostfinder' series. Imagine Jim Butcher with a bizarre sense of humor.
I'd love to see what a movie remake could do with Otherworld.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8idvQeM0kA[/yt]
Then again, it might not even need a "remake" as such. With very little rewriting, Otherworld could easily be made part of the Stargate franchise.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8idvQeM0kA[/yt]
Then again, it might not even need a "remake" as such. With very little rewriting, Otherworld could easily be made part of the Stargate franchise.
Jason of Star Command..... a childhood favorite of mine, made into a much more seriously taken sci-fi action/space fantasy adventure movie. Not dark or stark sci-fi.... just a good action/adventure romp.... or perhaps a movie series.
I've had an idea in my head for awhile to bring Jason and Space Academy back as a weekly series combining the two shows into a one-hour a week show. You'd get as many of the original cast - former students now instructors (Chris Gentry taking Gampu's role, and if Craig Littler is still around he's the commander of Star Command now) and/or agents of Star Command like Jason was and bring in a new group of cadets. Update the science and sneak a little educational stuff in with the action adventure.
David Weber's Honor Harrington series. (Faithful representations of the ships would be fantastic and strange all at once...along with treecats.)
Dale Brown's Patrick McClanahan books. (I want to see the EB-52 Megafortress on a wide screen.)
A movie reboot of Glen Larson's Buck rogers. (yes, everybody else wants a new Galactica, but I liked the last one and don't need a continuation of the first.)
Dale Brown's Patrick McClanahan books. (I want to see the EB-52 Megafortress on a wide screen.)
A movie reboot of Glen Larson's Buck rogers. (yes, everybody else wants a new Galactica, but I liked the last one and don't need a continuation of the first.)
A Neuromancer movie would be nice to get before we can actually jack our brains in computers and it the concept is outdated.
Reportedly, there's a new TV version in the works.
The Sigma Force book series from James Rollins.
It's a bit James Bond meets Indiana Jones in that a secret government agency is enlisted to protect the unusual found within antiquity and secure any and all arcane powers that ancient science had that we've lost.
Not sure if it could separate itself from what its similar to or if people would just call it a Warehouse 13 ripoff(first book was '04 though) but I'd kinda like to see it tackled.
It's a bit James Bond meets Indiana Jones in that a secret government agency is enlisted to protect the unusual found within antiquity and secure any and all arcane powers that ancient science had that we've lost.
Not sure if it could separate itself from what its similar to or if people would just call it a Warehouse 13 ripoff(first book was '04 though) but I'd kinda like to see it tackled.
The first three books (the Chronicles trilogy) would make three very excellent movies. And since there's a part of the second novel that's an elaborate dream sequence foreshadowing the major events of the third novel, they could substitute the events that are just mentioned in passing in the form of a poem (the journey to Icewall - really expand that part).
The Dragonlance Legends trilogy, aka the "Twins Trilogy", is a much darker part of the story, but it's a logical extension of the first trilogy. Heroes (and villains) do age, they do have issues to deal with such as "what happens after you've saved the world and you're just an ordinary person again." The good vs. evil setup is an interesting one (even though I hate, despise, and loathe Crysania; people with her attitude certainly don't inspire thoughts of peace in me since I keep wanting to slap her for her arrogance), and there are interesting secondary characters - Dalamar, especially.
Dragons of Summer Flame might make a little more sense if you read the Second Generation and Tales anthologies, but it's not really necessary. The characters' basic backstories are there, and again there's an interesting examination of the concepts of good/evil and if someone who serves an evil god can be a good and honorable person.
The rest of the Dragonlance books are fun reads, but I can't think of any that I'd make into movies - certainly there are some that have interesting scenes and bits of character development and backstory that could be incorporated into a movie. A prime example would be The Soulforge, in which Raistlin's Test in the Tower of High Sorcery is detailed. That was just glossed over in the other books.
A Gift From Earth would be so right for these times, with the whole thing about the politics and ethics of forced organ donation - and the tyranny of a system where crime isn't punished by prison - it's punished by death and organ harvesting.
I once read Mid-Flinx (the novel where Pip and Flinx end up on Midworld - the planet that's all one huge jungle and the plants have ingenious and horrible ways of killing their prey or propagating). The book gave me the absolute creeps. And then that night I had trouble sleeping, so I decided to put in a tape of mood music.
Choosing one of forest sounds did not help me sleep. Not after reading that book.
Yes, but only if Greg Weisman is involved.
I'd also like to see a live-action Legion of Superheroes TV show (a movie wouldn't do the complexity of the intertwining story arcs justice).
A Dan Dare adaptation is long overdue.
That looks kind of fun, in a goofy, cheesy kind of way. Is it available on DVD or streaming anywhere?
I'm a HUGE Sigma Force fan, and Rollins did say something about a TV or movie adaptation being the works a year or two ago, but I don't know what became of it.
I love the Kate Daniels book series by Ilona Andrews, and I would love, love, love to see a movie or TV adaptation. I've actually thought in the past about getting into movie/TV production or acting, and if I ever did and was successful this would be my absolute dream project.
I'd also love to see an adaptation of Under the Never Sky. It's another YA dystopia, and I'm honestly shocked that with the success of Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Maze Runner that this one hasn't happened.
The publisher has a live action book trailer that can give you an idea of what movie would be like. The acting and effects aren't the greatest, but it gives you a pretty good idea of what a movie would be like.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0TnH3GEieE[/yt]
I watched the Otherworld video. And the youtube rabbit hole brought me to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_87i7FhkIs
Don't know how to embed video sorry. But so funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_87i7FhkIs
Don't know how to embed video sorry. But so funny.
Look like your posts here are read by some influential people.
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/xena-warrior-princess-revival-series-nbc-1201544142/
Could just be coincidence, of course.
Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles. Perhaps if the Last Kingdom is a success they'll do it.
McCaffrey's Pern. Looks like WB is working on it. I avoided for years due to my bias against Fantasy.
Robinson's Mars Trilogy. After Dune its my favorite series. It's in Spike TV's hands right now. An odd match up.
Farmer's Riverworld- They've gotten it wrong twice so far. Third time's the charm?
Doc Savage- Hated the Ely version. As of a year ago Shane Black was moving forward with it. He wants Chris Hemsworth as Doc. My fantasy casting would be Dwayne Johnson.
McCaffrey's Pern. Looks like WB is working on it. I avoided for years due to my bias against Fantasy.
Robinson's Mars Trilogy. After Dune its my favorite series. It's in Spike TV's hands right now. An odd match up.
Farmer's Riverworld- They've gotten it wrong twice so far. Third time's the charm?
Doc Savage- Hated the Ely version. As of a year ago Shane Black was moving forward with it. He wants Chris Hemsworth as Doc. My fantasy casting would be Dwayne Johnson.
^Seriously? How did I NOT know this?! I can't wait to see what the new one is like. But they will have to find a male lead as beautiful as young David McCallum (a very tall order, that) to make it work for me.
Ever since I was a teenager (circa the paleozoic era), I have wanted to see a big screen, big budge, beautiful version of The Stainless Steel Rat book series. I think the technology has finally caught up to do these stories justice. It has "Hollywood Blockbuster Franchise" written all over it--an antihero with his own code of ethics, dark humor, adventure, family --er--"togetherness?". I guess the fact that I loved these so much says a lot about my deeply warped sense of humor.