Films that should have been made....

[ufkacbln]

In another thread I posted the Wicker Man as my favourite film.

I am saddened that the Robin Hardy authored sequel Cowboys for Christ" was never filmed, especially as we will now never see the great Christopher Lee as Lachlan Morrison.



So....................................

Are there any books that you have enjoyed, and you feel should have been made into films (but haven't)

 

[marinyork]

I think A Scanner Darkly and LOTR were near the tops of quite a few of peoples' lists for a long time but they've been done now.

 

[Night Train]

Arther C Clark's Rama series.

 

[Melvil]

Arther C Clark's Rama series.

Agree. Has a pretty awesome ending - would make an excellent trilogy (starting with Rama II)

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Neuromancer... has been optioned for years, but so far, nothing...

 

[Night Train]

Agree. Has a pretty awesome ending - would make an excellent trilogy (starting with Rama II)

I always start with Rama II too.

I can imagine all four being a fairly good mini-series on TV given a big enough budget to make the best of it.

 

[TheDoctor]

Ringworld by Larry Niven. First of the Enormous Huge Thing genre of science fiction, set on a ring about the size of the Earths' orbit round the sun, with an area of a good few million Earths.
Footfall - also by Larry Niven. Earth invaded by baby elephants with lethal weaponry. Good fun.
Harry Harrisons 'Eden' trilogy - set in an alternative history where the dinosaurs didn't die out, so they've evolved to intelligence.
The Greg Mandel trilogy by Peter F Hamilton. Modern British science fiction at its best.

 

[spesh]

Neuromancer... has been optioned for years, but so far, nothing...

The good news, it's on it's way, and William Gibson is supposed to be writing the screenplay.

The bad news, Hayden Christiansen is rumoured to be in the frame to play Case...

 

[dan_bo]

forest of hours by kirstin eckman.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

The good news, it's on it's way, and William Gibson is supposed to be writing the screenplay.

The bad news, Hayden Christiansen is rumoured to be in the frame to play Case...

It's been at this stage before with different directors. And Hayden Christiansen is the new Keanu Reeves, no, actually, he's much worse than that... Maybe this should have been 'films that should not be made after all'!

 

[beancounter]

I've often wondered why no one has attempted to make a film out of John Fowles' "The Magus".

bc

 

[Fnaar]

The Doctor Feelgood rockumentary

 

[magnatom]

Magnatom : The Vigilante Cyclist

A shinning light or blight?

Magnatom a normal bloke by day, a vigilante cyclist by night. This film follows him on his personal journey (to work and back), fighting the forces of evil (car drivers, errant cyclists and suicidal pedestrians).

One man, one bike, one camera, and a couple of spare inner tubes, just in case.

Staring:
Samuel L Jackson as Magnatom (stretch your imagination a little here)
Vinny Jones as Vinny Jones driving a car
Miss Piggy as muppet 4x4 school run driver
Robert "Rab" C. Nesbitt as a pedestrian
Boris Johnson and David Cameron as errant cyclist



I expect this would be a certificate 18!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Magnatom : The Vigilante Cyclist

A shinning light or blight?

Magnatom a normal bloke by day, a vigilante cyclist by night. This film follows him on his personal journey (to work and back), fighting the forces of evil (car drivers, errant cyclists and suicidal pedestrians).

One man, one bike, one camera, and a couple of spare inner tubes, just in case.

Staring:
Samuel L Jackson as Magnatom (stretch your imagination a little here)
Vinny Jones as Vinny Jones driving a car
Miss Piggy as muppet 4x4 school run driver
Robert "Rab" C. Nesbitt as a pedestrian
Boris Johnson and David Cameron as errant cyclist



I expect this would be a certificate 18!

I'd watch it.

 

[Slim]