Movie Challenge - $300 Million USD = A new Epic franchise.

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Thing is WH40K is like D&D in that you don't make THE WH MOVIE, you make a movie set in the WH setting.

Exactly! That's why I didn't even bother to come up with one of the existing books. The setting itself offers far better raw materials for a filmmaker passionate about the setting to work with to make their movie work . . . rather than massacring some book set in the world.

 

[Mistwell]

The Sandman comic books

Amber

Xanth (not the whole thing obviously)

Discworld (again, not the whole thing)

 

[BadMojo]

3 different Cthulhu mythos stories- At the Mountains of Madness

I think Guillermo Del Toro is doing "At the Mountains..." as his next project after the new Hellboy movie. I'm pretty sure it's gonna rock. Guillermo seems to really respect the source material (just like with Hellboy) and he now has the pull with studios to do it.

 

[Joker]

A franchise set in the Warcraft Universe. An idea is pitched by a character in the game itself: "So, I have this idea for a great movie. It's about two gnomes who find a bracelet of power, and they have to take it to the Burning Steppes and cast it into the Cauldron. They form the Brotherhood of the Bracelet. Along the way they're trailed by a murloc named Gottom, who's obsessed with the bracelet, and nine bracelet bogeymen. It could be a three-parter, called 'Ruler of the Bracelet'. The first part would be called 'The Brotherhood of the Bracelet', followed by 'A Couple of Towers', with the climactic ending called 'Hey, the King's Back!'"

Though I think a story based on a human character and a not too exotic antagonist would work better.

Althought it would probably never happen, I would really like to a see a Starcraft movie. And don't tell me to watch Starship Troopers/Aliens/Screamers. I want all those movies into one.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Magician?

Most of what I would like to see made. . . probably just wouldn't be.

 

[Relique du Madde]

The Sandman comic books

Wasn't Neil Gaimen working on a screen play for Death: The high Cost of Living?

Xanth (not the whole thing obviously)

God No... not Xanth... well maybe ONLY first three books and several of the ones after that but NOT The Color of Her Panties... people might get the wrong idea when they see you buy the dvd.

 

[Klaus]

A franchise set in the Warcraft Universe. An idea is pitched by a character in the game itself: "So, I have this idea for a great movie. It's about two gnomes who find a bracelet of power, and they have to take it to the Burning Steppes and cast it into the Cauldron. They form the Brotherhood of the Bracelet. Along the way they're trailed by a murloc named Gottom, who's obsessed with the bracelet, and nine bracelet bogeymen. It could be a three-parter, called 'Ruler of the Bracelet'. The first part would be called 'The Brotherhood of the Bracelet', followed by 'A Couple of Towers', with the climactic ending called 'Hey, the King's Back!'"

Though I think a story based on a human character and a not too exotic antagonist would work better.

Althought it would probably never happen, I would really like to a see a Starcraft movie. And don't tell me to watch Starship Troopers/Aliens/Screamers. I want all those movies into one.

In all seriousness, I do think a Warcraft movie would make a pretty penny.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

First thing I'd pitch would have to be an epic mini-series on the American Revolution, but if I had to spend it on something scifi/fantasy I might do more individual things like Snow Crash, Neuromancer/Count Zero for SF, or Discworld for a fantasy series.

 

[zen_hydra]

Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke)

The Morgaine Cycle (C. J. Cherryh)

The Foreigner Series (C. J. Cherryh)

Coldfire Trilogy (Celia S. Friedman)

Saga of Pliocene Exile (Julian May)

 

[ssampier]

double-double post.