What TV series or film would you make if you had the wherewithall?

[Yellow Fang]

If you had the money and the drive and the talent to make it happen, what would you make a film or TV series on?

If it were me, I'd televise George Gissing's The Netherworld, which is like East Enders in the 1890s, only I'm worried the acid attack might give people ideas.

For a film, I'd make an old fashioned war movie based on the Sherman Firefly. It would be great. The first half would be about Major Brighty and Colonel Witheridge trying to mount an anti aircraft gun on a Sherman tank, being ordered to desist, and getting the order reversed with Churchill's approval. The second half would be in France with German Tiger ace Michael Wittmann running amok in Villiers Bocage, turning down a safe training role, then mounting a desperate mission to forestall the allies trapping thousands of German troops in the Falaise Pocket. The climax would be Wittman and three other Tiger crews getting despatched by Trooper Ekens in his Firefly. Then there'd be a bit more fighting, but the downbeat ending would be Trooper Ekens basically being demoted to radio operator by his jealous CO. Brilliant eh? Better than Dunkirk.

Then again, I might film Issac Azimov's The Gods Themselves. The middle section could be animated, only I'm not keen on CGI. The last section of that book seemed slightly soft porn. It was set on the moon and for leisure they played a form of low gravity basketball in the nude. It could be a classic, but I expect it would lose money.

 

[gavroche]

I don't have the money , drive or talent so I will pass on it.

 

[Levo-Lon]

The Throwback by Tom Sharp..now that would be a film to split sides..
And a James Becker tale .. The Nosferatu Scroll

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Rendevous with Rama.
Arthur C. Clarke

 

[roadrash]

I would make a film about an ordinary man called brian who gets mistaken for the messiah and.................oh hang on

 

[Profpointy]

I'd make a film of Smiley's People with Gary Oldman as the lead - it would be the follow-up to the recent Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy film. I'm a huge Le Carre fan......surely it's also time for a remake of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

Ooo, good call ! I thought the recent Tinker Taylor filme with Oldman was a bold thing to attempt to say the least. The Alec Guiness TV series is a contender for being one of the best things ever screened (large pr amall screen) and maybe Guiness's finest performance. Yet the Oldman movie was pretty bloody good. I think Oldman is genuinely a modern day Guiness as he can play almost any role brilliantly and utterly differently from anything else he's in.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

CycleChat - the movie

 

[Tin Pot]

Space - Stephen Baxter
In fact the whole Manifold series. It addresses the Fermi Paradox and tells everyone how we could and should have already tarred spce exploration. The real world is only starting to catch up.

And a porn movie, obvs.

 

[stephec]

CycleChat - the movie

Go on then, as a slight diversion which performers would play which CC'rs, now be nice folks.

 

[swee'pea99]

Go on then, as a slight diversion which performers would play which CC'rs, now be nice folks.

Accy & Drago

 

[Tim Hall]

Espedair Street by Iain Banks. (I was going to say Complicity, but I see that's been done).

 

[Markymark]

Go on then, as a slight diversion which performers would play which CC'rs, now be nice folks.

Tricky. They'd need the looks of Clooney, the skills of Bruce Lee and the intellect of Stephen Hawkins. I'd end up playing me as I'm the only one awesome enough. Then you'd get all the famous actresses desperate to be cast as my love interest.

 

[swee'pea99]

I'd love to make a film of a book called Riddley Walker, though I think it would be very difficult. I believe an attempt was once made, but it came to nothing.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Some slushy movie were I play the lead man and Kylie Minogue the leading lady.

 

[Drago]

I'd make a post watershed version of Corrie full of sex and violence.