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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 3967743" data-attributes="member: 4779">I'd certainly go see the Shannara movies.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />And something that would actually get name recognition would be RA Salvatore and Drizzt, or a more likely move title, the Heroes of Icewind Dale (or, um, something).  It's got buddy elements later on and you could easily pick and choose which parts of the books you would want to use.  And it's got the foundation for a franchise that could run for a while if the studio wanted to go that route.Piers Anthony's "Incarnations of Immortality" could also draw very well but I have no idea how to sell it.I would then see if I could acquire the X-men license and reboot that franchise.  It's not too soon for something like that as comic book movies are still huge draws.  Cast younger actors for the main roles and have then sign on for 5-6 movies.  Use all the X-men material as source including the Ultimate books.All these ideas in the thread should also assume to have competent directors attached to them, yes?</blockquote>