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

[TheDoctor]

'Ringworld' would make a great film. It's probably a bit long, but a lot of the stuff on the Puppeteer homeworld isn't vital.
'Chrysalids' by John Wyndham could be good, although doing the telepathy might be a bit tricky.
They did a reasonable job of it on Radio 4 a long time ago, so it's probably not impossible.
But the ones I'd definitely do would be Peter F Hamiltons 'Greg Mandel' trilogy.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Monkey bowling World Series.

 

[growingvegetables]

The Test Card.

 

[Salty seadog]

Rendevous with Rama.
Arthur C. Clarke

I can still picture the inside of the craft, such was the detail of the description.

 

[NorthernDave]

Tv series Goodnight Sweetheart.I thought the 'special' was very clever.I think it had more to come.But no doubt some new controller thought otherwise.

Yes - the Goodnight Sweetheart special stood out head and shoulders above the other comedy showcases and had real potential as a series, so the BBC decided to make 2 series of the terrible reimagined Porridge instead...

 

[perplexed]

Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War




Epic. I'd be Pericles - except for the dying bit.

 

[Drago]

A proper version of Dune.

A film version of George R. Stewarts Earth Abides.

A nice film series of Andy McNab books, starring Jason Statham.

Some Jack Reacher films starring someone who is actually 6'5" and 250lbs.

A modern version of Firefox but with a more realistic budget than the £8.34 of the original. CGI could make that an awesome plane theft fest.

A modern remake of Dirty Harry, to see if another actor could pull it off. Tom Hardy perhaps?

And a post watershed Countdown where Carol Vorderman has to remove an item of clothing each round. It'll have 2 hour long episodes with 58 rounds.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I can't recall if I've read that one but I remember the 80s TV adaptations of Blott on the Landscape and Porterhouse Blue with great fondness - I was the perfect age for them at the time, ie about 14.

Porterhouse was on one of the cable channels earlier this week

David Suchet played an excellent Blott, quite few years pre-Poirot!

The actress who played Lady Maud, would have been an excellent Sybil Ramkin (if she was that age today)

 

[Globalti]

I would make something in the style of Howard Goodall's excellent music documentaries, on the history of music but with an emphasis on how the technical development of musical instruments then amplification influenced classical and then popular music.

 

[smutchin]

Porterhouse was on one of the cable channels earlier this week

David Suchet played an excellent Blott, quite few years pre-Poirot!

The actress who played Lady Maud, would have been an excellent Sybil Ramkin (if she was that age today)

Geraldine James. She's brilliant - although she does seem to always play that character, ie batty posh bird (she'd be perfect as Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia).

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Geraldine James. She's brilliant - although she does seem to always play that character, ie batty posh bird (she'd be perfect as Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia).

That's the name!!
Thanks

 

[Drago]

And a remake of the excellent Private Schulz.

 

[Markymark]

Catcher In The Rye

 

[Yellow Fang]

I thought Joyland by Stephen King would make a good film, but so many of his books are made into films already.

 

[nickyboy]

The Wrath of Grapes

In this classic remake, small bunches of grapes coalesce to form a giant bunch as big as a house. These are carnivorous grapes and roll over people, killing them and absorbing their body fluids to become even stronger