10 Sci-Fi Movies That Deserve To Be Made
POSTED BY: cljohnston108
UPDATED: Monday, October 29, 2007 08:30
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Originally posted by Bugz:
2. Starship Troopers, a GOOD version this time plz!
I couldn't agree with this more! Anyone who ever Heinlein's book knows that movie was a sorry sack of shit. I agree that the list should have more books than video games on it. How about Octavia Butler's Dawn.
I abhor the idea of another Back to the Future, Space Balls, or Galaxy Quest but I'm open to another Ghostbusters.
I'm also not so sure about remaking The Day the Earth Stood Still. I'm just not sure how it could be improved, plus, the present global fear isn't nuclear war but terrorism and I don't think that would attract a super-intelligent alien being to give us a warning if nukes didn't.
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traveler wrote:
Monday, October 22, 2007 18:01
Why does this guy go to computer games for ideas when there are hundreds of excellent books that are waiting to be made into movies. Has this guy ever read a book?
What about "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman.
Bump.
What about some Issac Assimov? I always thoughtFoundation could be a good movie.
And I'd like to see Starship Troopers with real Mobile Infantry. Suits with nukes coming out of fingers and like.
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There's a whole heap of Heinlein novels or short stories that would make great movies
Glory Road- a sword and sorcery story with a serious theme.
Stranger in a Strange Land- sex and religion...
The Moon IS a Harsh Mistress- a Lunar colony, a revolution and a space war.
and an honest remake of Starship Troopers..
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I'd like to see Elizabeth Moon's series with Heris Serrano and Esamay Suiza in film form (or TV), but the script would probably get messed up by hollywood.
The problem with studios is that scifi cost money. "The Brothers McMullen" cost under $100K because it's just drama. So what does Hollywood do? Choose to make $50M dramas that nobody wants to see, instead of that money on scifi which would actually show up on screen.
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Actually, Starship Troopers has been done right!
"Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles" (1999)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190198/
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughnecks:_Starship_Troopers_Chronicles
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles
http://www.trooperpx.com/RSTC/series.html
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Archive
http://misterhook.net/roughnecks/
Looks like the entire series is on YouTube!
Roughnecks: STC - Pluto Campaign [1/10]
Roughnecks: STC - Hydora Campaign [1/10]
Roughnecks: STC - Tophet Campaign [1/10]
Roughnecks: STC - Tesca Campaign [1/10]
Roughnecks: STC - Zephyr Campaign [1/10]
Roughnecks: STC - Klendathu Campaign [1/10]
Roughnecks: STC - Homefront Campaign [1/10]
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In terms of books being made into movies, I would love to see Robin Hobb's Live Ship Traders trilogy on the big screen. They would probably work better than her Assassin trilogy because they take place over a relatively short period of time (less than 2 years).
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Originally posted by cljohnston108:Quote:
Originally posted by Cybersnark:
...and Avatar is getting a theatrical live-action movie, directed by. . . M. Night Shyamalan.
Ummmm, I believe Jim Cameron is doing Avatar.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/
No, Cameron's Avatar is another story (a science fiction thing, about colonizing another planet). Shyamalan is doing the adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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Originally posted by Bugz:
2. Starship Troopers, a GOOD version this time plz!
I couldn't agree with this more! Anyone who ever Heinlein's book knows that movie was a sorry sack of shit. I agree that the list should have more books than video games on it. How about Octavia Butler's Dawn.
I abhor the idea of another Back to the Future, Space Balls, or Galaxy Quest but I'm open to another Ghostbusters.
I'm also not so sure about remaking The Day the Earth Stood Still. I'm just not sure how it could be improved, plus, the present global fear isn't nuclear war but terrorism and I don't think that would attract a super-intelligent alien being to give us a warning if nukes didn't.
-e
I know a few otherwise right-thinking people who thought the Starship Troopers movie was the space marine's pajamas...but I'm with DerangedMilk on the subject. To me it was a bunch of pretty people on pretty sets delivering stilted dialogue. There's any number of Heinlein books I'd like to see movie-fied...as long as the directing (and, to a somewhat lesser extent, the acting) were decent (for a given value of 'decent').
Other than that...I'd like to see, before I die, one or more of Pratchett's Disc World books on the big screen...and some of Bujold's Vorkosigan stories...and John Ford's "Final Reflection" (from the Star Trek 'verse). The only director I know I would trust with any of this stuff is Peter Jackson...and that's 'coz I'm STILL getting over the cumulative religious experience that was the LOTR movies.
EDIT: ...and Serenity(s) II thru XX go without saying...though - does this sound weird to anybody? - IF it were a choice between EITHER getting Mal and Co. back on TV OR back on the big screen...I think I'd choose TV...
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of course Serenity II, and all you people who keep asking "why video games?" perhaps it's because some video games have great stories and storytelling, and therefore deserve to be movies (only if done the right way, though in Halo's case fans are so rabid that no writer or director would dare alter the story for fear of his own life)
but my main point is that some video games (Halo, maybe Half-life) deserve to be movies
Why is the rum always gone?
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Originally posted by reginaroadie:
Oh, and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is getting re-made with Keanu Reeves as Klattu.
WHOAH, KLAATU BARADA NIKTO, DUDE!
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