Movies that would be cool, but will never happen

[Macbeth]

We need a Terry Pratchett movie...

 

[s/LaSH]

I've got an original idea in which the heroes are Nazi soldiers. Challenging, to say the least.

David Weber's "Honor Harrington" series - I've never read it, but based on discussions with a friend, it would make a great tale to tell. - Lack of exposure is likely why this one wouldn't do well.

Last I heard, they were actually planning a live-action TV series of our Honor. "They" is possibly ADV Films, who are definitely developing Weber's 'Mutineer's Moon' into an animated property. So there is yet hope.

I have to wonder what it'll be like... and who they'll get to play Honor. Tall, about half a century old (but still seemingly 20, thanks to prolong), soprano, and thoroughly deserving of the name Salamander, because she's always where the fire is hottest and doing a good job. And let's not forget the martial arts.

Hard bill to fit...

We need a Terry Pratchett movie...

So the animated ones aren't good enough, huh? (Soul Music, Wyrd Sisters.)

Live-action Pratchett would be good, though. A whole new level of don't-look-in-the-river grime.

 

[Macbeth]

So the animated ones aren't good enough, huh? (Soul Music, Wyrd Sisters.)

Live-action Pratchett would be good, though. A whole new level of don't-look-in-the-river grime.

There are animated Pratchett movies ?!?

 

[Viking Bastard]

Second version was done in the late 60's early 70's starring Charston Heston, called "The Omega Man". It diverged more substantially from the original story (in particular giving him a chance to display his gun fetishes), but is still an entertaining movie and some of the changes were of interest in it's own right. The "Vampires" weren't classical vampires, but more disease victims and still sentient.

Whoah? Omega Man was made after I Am Legend? I love the movie and
I somewhat enjoyed the book, but I never knew there was a connection.

I mean, I can see the similarities, but it's only one of so so many 'survivor
vs. evil/aliens/thingy' I've seen through the years.

 

[ConnorSB]

Animated Prachet? Where? Where?

Oh, and while we are on the subject, how about a super miniseries of GRRM's Song of Ice and Fire (up until book three, at any rate). Of course, it would cost millions, and should live up to the book in full... if such a thing were possible...

 

[A2Z]

I would love to see Zelazny's Amber done as a trilogy of movies.

I don't know if they'd make a good trilogy. The story flows from one event to the next. I really don't know where you'd cut them. I think it'd be difficult to find a way to end it between movies.

On the other hand an Amber mini-series would be fantastic.

 

[orbitalfreak]

I was just thinking yesterday that it would be awesome to see the old cartoon series Gargoyles made live-action, if they could pull it off right. Maybe a live-action series/mini-series would suit it better. You could ramp up the action a bit, make it a bit more on the grim-and-gritty side, like a PG-13 rating or so.

I still say that a Drizz't or Dragonlance movie/series would be great. Any D&D movie, done right *coughcough* would be cool.

 

[Shadowdancer]

The Black Company books.

Dennis L. McKiernan's "Eye of the Hunter."

The "Alien vs. Predator" story in which the Japanese woman gets picked up by the Predators and becomes part of a hunting party. But the whole story, starting with her being an administrator on an isolated colony world that gets "seeded" by the Predators for an Alien hunt.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

We need a Terry Pratchett movie...

Does Good Omens count? Pratchett co-wrote the novel (with Neil Gaiman) and Terry Gilliam is going to direct.

*edit* - looks like the project is "stalled"

 

[2d6]

I just like like to see an original Film (fantasy or Sci-fi) that isn't based on a TV show, book, comic, short story, cartoon, or some such that isn't the matrix.