Movies that would be cool, but will never happen
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Mark
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I'd like to see the excellent A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller brought to the big (or even small) screen.
And perhaps some of the Eddings work. Though I think most people would prefer the Belgariad, if anything, while I'd prefer to see the Elenium.
And perhaps some of the Eddings work. Though I think most people would prefer the Belgariad, if anything, while I'd prefer to see the Elenium.
demiurge1138
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Yellow Sign said:
If I recall correctly, Guelliermo (sp?) del Toro is working on a big-budget version of At the Mountains of Madness.
And I concurr for the need for a Pratchett movie. And yes, I am blithely ignoring the animated ones.
Demiurge out.
Wombat
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Dark Jezter said:
Well, that works given the hatchet job Braveheart did on history (William Wallace was a Lowlander, was the son of a knight, never sacked York, was not the father of Edward II, no one wore blue face paint in the period, etc.). So why not
OTOH, I will hold out for an accurate rendition of Dracula. It'll never happen. Ditto 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -- no one wants to remember Ned Land, Flaming Socialist
Oh, or a decent Arthurian film.
Which is even more of a flight of fantasy than someone doing Bram Stoker right...
Dark Jezter
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Henry said:
You've got a point there, Henry. I also recall people accusing Attack of the Clones of being overtly rascist, and people accusing the LOTR movies of promoting rascist thinking because orcs are all ugly and evil.
Still, I think that the biggest problem with a Drizzt movie would be people claiming it was a LOTR ripoff... "Wait a minute... Lord of the Rings has dwarves, elves, halflings, and orcs... and so does The Icewind Dale Trilogy... RIPOFF!!!"
I also agree with you about Nightcrawler, though. When I saw X2 for the first time, one of my very first thoughts upon seeing Night Crawler was "Hey, with a little bit of a different makeup job, he could easily pass for a drow."
Ray Silver said:I want to see Mercedes Lackey's Heralds of Valdemar series, all 25 books!
Ok, how about just the Arrow, Winds, and Storms trilogies? 9 movies, that's not too much to ask now is it?
Me too
I would also like to see Katherine Kurtz's Deryni series made into mini series. Another great mini series along the lines of say Shogun is Jennifer Roberson's Cheysuli (sp) series. I loved how each novel went a little farther in seeing the prophecy fulfilled. " A man of all bloods would one day reunite four warring kingdoms and two magical races" I think that is how it went by books are packed at the moment.
Tratyn Runewind
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Hi again,
There's another movie based on Charles Dexter Ward from the early '90s called The Resurrected. It's the best Lovecraft adaptation I've seen yet - Re-Animator, From Beyond, The Unnameable, and all the others seem to me to resemble Troma films that take themselves too seriously. Chris Sarandon (probably best known around here as Prince Humperdinck and the vampire from Fright Night) plays Ward and his ancestor.
True enough, I suppose. When I go to see a Tolkien movie, I prefer to see one that places Tolkien's tastes ahead of those of the director or screenwriter to the fullest extent possible.
"The left hand of each was raised palm outwards in gesture of warning, in each right hand there was an axe, upon each head there was a crumbling helm and crown."
- "The Great River", Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien
"Then suddenly with a deep-throated call a great horn blew, and the blasts of it smote the hills and echoed in the hollows, rising in a mighty shout above the roaring of the falls.
'The horn of Boromir!' he cried. 'He is in need'"
- "The Departure of Boromir", The Two Towers, J. R. R. Tolkien
Hmm, poor choice of words on my part there. I didn't mean Bob Hope-style direct addressing of the camera, just jarring anachronisms (like the dwarf-tossing references) or other idiocy that threw me back from Middle-Earth into a theater.
Makes me wonder what they're going to do with Saruman and Wormtongue. I also still suspect and hope that there may be reference to it, and perhaps some shots of it, as part of the loss and sacrifice referred to in the trailer. They have done some new filming for the later movies, if I remember correctly, and the dismantled Hobbiton sets shouldn't be too much of a problem for the Scouring.
Yes, commercial television has its own set of conventions that must be followed by productions hoping to make a profit. That is why I said a faithful Tolkien production would have to be done as a labor of love, like something commisioned by an über-wealthy fan for his own enjoyment, rather than as a profit-making enterprise.
Convincing? Loved the movie, but...my poor Fuzzy-Elf!
Ah, the Deryni. Original inspiration for the D&D Psionicist class, which appeared in Dragon #78 with (1st Edition, of course) stats for Camber, Joram, Rhys, Alaric, Duncan, Kelson, and others. I don't really see anything in the series that would outright bar this from being produced, though it is of course far more obscure than the likes of giants like Tolkien or LeGuin. A movie or mini-series would be nice, but I'd settle for Kurtz writing up the rest of her books faster than the 16 years (!) I waited between Quest for Saint Camber and King Kelson's Bride. Yeah, the Adept, the Templar stories, and the immediate post-Camber era are nice, but let's focus, here!
Again, hope this helps!
There's another movie based on Charles Dexter Ward from the early '90s called The Resurrected. It's the best Lovecraft adaptation I've seen yet - Re-Animator, From Beyond, The Unnameable, and all the others seem to me to resemble Troma films that take themselves too seriously. Chris Sarandon (probably best known around here as Prince Humperdinck and the vampire from Fright Night) plays Ward and his ancestor.
True enough, I suppose. When I go to see a Tolkien movie, I prefer to see one that places Tolkien's tastes ahead of those of the director or screenwriter to the fullest extent possible.
"The left hand of each was raised palm outwards in gesture of warning, in each right hand there was an axe, upon each head there was a crumbling helm and crown."
- "The Great River", Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien
"Then suddenly with a deep-throated call a great horn blew, and the blasts of it smote the hills and echoed in the hollows, rising in a mighty shout above the roaring of the falls.
'The horn of Boromir!' he cried. 'He is in need'"
- "The Departure of Boromir", The Two Towers, J. R. R. Tolkien
Hmm, poor choice of words on my part there. I didn't mean Bob Hope-style direct addressing of the camera, just jarring anachronisms (like the dwarf-tossing references) or other idiocy that threw me back from Middle-Earth into a theater.
Makes me wonder what they're going to do with Saruman and Wormtongue. I also still suspect and hope that there may be reference to it, and perhaps some shots of it, as part of the loss and sacrifice referred to in the trailer. They have done some new filming for the later movies, if I remember correctly, and the dismantled Hobbiton sets shouldn't be too much of a problem for the Scouring.
Yes, commercial television has its own set of conventions that must be followed by productions hoping to make a profit. That is why I said a faithful Tolkien production would have to be done as a labor of love, like something commisioned by an über-wealthy fan for his own enjoyment, rather than as a profit-making enterprise.
Convincing? Loved the movie, but...my poor Fuzzy-Elf!
Ah, the Deryni. Original inspiration for the D&D Psionicist class, which appeared in Dragon #78 with (1st Edition, of course) stats for Camber, Joram, Rhys, Alaric, Duncan, Kelson, and others. I don't really see anything in the series that would outright bar this from being produced, though it is of course far more obscure than the likes of giants like Tolkien or LeGuin. A movie or mini-series would be nice, but I'd settle for Kurtz writing up the rest of her books faster than the 16 years (!) I waited between Quest for Saint Camber and King Kelson's Bride. Yeah, the Adept, the Templar stories, and the immediate post-Camber era are nice, but let's focus, here!
Again, hope this helps!
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trancejeremy
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Dark Jezter said:If the LOTR movies were straight translations of the novels, they'd be the funkiest musicals in history.
I would like to see a disco musical version of LOTR. Maybe not a movie, but a cd.
Laugh, but it worked for War of the Worlds.
Just don't let Leonard Nimoy take part in it.
trancejeremy
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I actually liked "The Dunwich Horror". Most of the other HPL movies tend to be made for those people who read "Fangoria" or those other splatter-horror movies.
trancejeremy
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I would like a lot more Star Wars movies to be made.
Besides episodes 7,8,9, I'd like to see side stories. Especially one with Lando Calrissian
I'd love to see KOTOR made into a movie. It deserves one.
Besides episodes 7,8,9, I'd like to see side stories. Especially one with Lando Calrissian
I'd love to see KOTOR made into a movie. It deserves one.
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