Adaptations (of any kind) you'd like to see

[blinkfan]

This thread is intended to show any film adaptations of books, graphic novel/comics, video games or anything else.

Some of my Adaptations i'd like to see:

Legend of Zelda (Preferrerably Orcarina or Twilight Princess)
Hard Time: 50 years to life by Steve Gerber
Metroid

[Lissa]

I'm still dying for them to do A Song of Ice and Fire. I've heard rumors about an HBO series, but maybe they're waiting for GRRM to finish? Although September 30.... I have my copy preordered!

I still would like to see Pern in movie form, too.

[Al]

I'd like to see Jennifer Government by Max Berry and World War Z by Max Brooks put onto film since somebody already has the screen rights.

And I'd love to see a big-budget "Walk the Line"-style biopic of GG Allin. I think it'd be interesting.

[Rett Mikhal]

Green Lantern has long been a fantasy of mine that I'm sure will never see the light of the silver screen. Just too awesome, I guess.

Deus Ex would be amazing. They'd have to compress the gameplay elements and story to fit a movie, but it would be awesome. Given how much crap JC Denton can pull they'd never run out of ideas for him killing people. That always keeps people entertained. Don't want to see the same death over and over again (COUGH COUGH AVP:R COUGH COUGH.)

StarCraft the movie would be badass, but not enough. The story is so long, the battles are so epic and the characters are on the move so much you just couldn't do enough in two hours. A CGI series like Starship Troopers did would be more fitting.

Robotech, and by Robotech I of course mean Macross, would be an epic movie... but once again they'd have to condense a lot. They could either take the first story arc, the SDF-1 rebuilding and trip to earth or the second, the eventual rebuilding of humanity and defeat of the Zentraedi Rebellion, and leave it at that. The latter is a more appropriate format, since it resolves everything and you could summarize the first portion of the story and it would still make sense. Only problem with that: No Roy Fokker.

No Roy Fokker and no Skull Squadron make Rett something something.

Really though. What this world needs is another Top Gun. If we don't get young kids hooked on how awesome dogfighting is, how will they yvan eht nioj? Perhaps an Ace Combat with less of a retarded story.

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

I second both Song of Ice and Fire and World War Z, and I'll also submit The Giver. They've been talking about adapting that book for so long now...but let me just say, for the record, that I think Jeff Bridges would make a terrible Giver.

"Let me give you some, like, memories, Jonas Dude...then we'll go bowling."

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

Also, Preacher. We definitely need a TV show based on the Preacher series.

[drew]

May 22, 2008 13:58:17 GMT -5 Al said:

And I'd love to see a big-budget "Walk the Line"-style biopic of GG Allin. I think it'd be interesting.

New Rule: No more musician biopics until they make a good one about Jimi Hendrix...

...or Huey Lewis and the News.

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

Speaking of Hendrix, I always thought it would be cool if they made a film dramatizing the preparations for Woodstock, done either straight-faced or as a Larry Sanders-esque behind-the-scenes comedy.

Can film adaptations of rock concerts be mentioned here?

[TheLuckyOne]

May 23, 2008 15:46:18 GMT -5 TheOogieBoogieMan said:

Also, Preacher. We definitely need a TV show based on the Preacher series.

Only if they do Hitman as well. All the Ennis humor and heart of Preacher, minus the blasphemy.

I'd kill for a Samurai Cat movie. They'll never do one because only me and about 12 other people in the world have ever read the books, but they are hi-la-rious. No one deserves film treatment more than Maiowara Tomokato.

I will also accept a good film adaptation of Love Monkey.

-D

[StarOpal]

May 23, 2008 17:52:53 GMT -5 TheLuckyOne said:

I'd kill for a Samurai Cat movie. They'll never do one because only me and about 12 other people in the world have ever read the books, but they are hi-la-rious. No one deserves film treatment more than Maiowara Tomokato.

Wait, didn't they already make a show?

I slay me!

[blinkfan]

May 23, 2008 17:07:24 GMT -5 TheOogieBoogieMan said:

Can film adaptations of rock concerts be mentioned here?

Yeah man.

[aargmematey]

Having just read it and loved it, I think it would be awesome to see a movie of The Boy Detective Fails.

And I would love to see a Sandman movie series, and an American Gods movie.

I'd like to see some sort of adaptation for Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, and I think a crazy animated movie could work.

Also, The Stand as an actual movie (NOT a miniseries), possible a series (three parts, three movies?). Also a movie series for The Gunslinger. I didn't love the books that much, but I think they'd make killer movies. (*cough* and Hugh Laurie as Roland FTW!*/cough*)

Ooh, and a movie for World Enough and Time, this awesome fantasy/sci-fi book that nobody's ever heard of. Man, that could be so epic!

Also, a movie series for the Gingerbread books, and for Boy Meets Boy, since Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, and (possibly) Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List are getting movies.

And a redo of the Vampire Chronicles. I want to see an actually good Queen of the Damned, and the Vampire Lestat would be such an awesome movie.

Also, a movie series for Half-Magic, and Magic By the Lake, and then I guess you'd have to do Knight's Castle and The Time Garden. I swear to god, if these books aren't made into movies soon, I'm going to have to be the one to do it. They are awesome, and they would so easily be made into an awesome kid's fantasy movie series.

Okay, this list is getting a bit long. I'm going to stop there.

[Al]

I'd also be curious to see them try A Confederacy of Dunces, which they've been attempting for years and never gotten off the ground. I think the movie would be a total disaster, but I'd love to watch them try.

[blinkfan]

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

[Rett Mikhal]

While I know Gods and Generals was a pathetic flop, hampered by a PG rating and stupid hollywood antics in a CIVIL WAR movie, other works of Shaara would work. I'd like to see 'To the Last Man', because it is one of my favorite books and because World War I never seems to get any attention. How many World War I video games and movies can you name compared to II? This is especially true in the last fifteen years. I know they tried for a WWI movie with Flyboys, but that was again plauged with hollywood antics (a 110 horsepower biplane CANNOT do an immelmann turn, nor can it do a vertical climb aileron roll after a horizontal barrel roll and straight climb wing over), but at least they tried. I actually am one of few people who seems to enjoy Flyboys, despite its GROSS historical inaccuracy. Goes to show any movie with dogfighting is still OK.

But just look at what To the Last Man has going for it: Dogfights, groundfights, tank fights, famous historical figures like Black Jack Pershing and MAJOR Patton, Raoul Lufbery and Manfred von Richtoven, average joes fighting not-so-average Germans, the horrors and futility of trench warfare, the duality of men fighting war, forgiveness and admiration for your enemy and all sorts of cool metaphors and messages about War is Bad and this war was so bad. SO BAD.

It's got something for everyone. Now just make it properly and show some blood when people get shot, instead of having them overdramatically clutch their heart and fly ten feet back in the air into a tent, and we've got ourselves a classic.