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  • Allie Fox
    Veteran Member
    • Jun 1, 2009
    • 297

    #16
    Rendevous With Rama

    Although I'm not sure if it could be done properly while being squeezed into a >2 hour film. I think it would have to be done as a mini series on SyFy a la The Lost Room.
    If I had only spent a tenth of the time studying Physics that I spent learning Star Wars and Baseball trivia, I would have won the Nobel Prize.

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    • Werewolf
      Inhuman
      • Jul 14, 2003
      • 14974

      #17
      Originally posted by enyawd72
      Fred Saberhagen's "The Dracula Tapes"

      One of my favorite books of all time. It tells the story of Dracula from his point of view and portrays Van Helsing as the villain.
      Awesome choice! I love that book.
      You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...

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      • LadyZod
        Superman's Gal Pal
        • Jan 27, 2007
        • 1803

        #18
        I'd actually would like to see Maus made as an animated film, ala Watership Down or Plague Dogs.
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        • stevenlore
          Museum Super Collector
          • Oct 4, 2009
          • 177

          #19
          Originally posted by Allie Fox
          Rendevous With Rama

          Although I'm not sure if it could be done properly while being squeezed into a >2 hour film. I think it would have to be done as a mini series on SyFy a la The Lost Room.
          Morgan Freeman has been trying to get Rama made for years.

          I would like to see a series of films based on the Silmarillion.

          First movie - Feanor and the Silmarils
          Second - Beren and Luthian
          Third - Children of Hurin
          Fourth - Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin
          Fifth - The War of Wrath
          Sixth - The Downfall of Numenor
          Seventh - The Ring of Power and the Last Alliance



          I've given this much thought over the years.
          Last edited by stevenlore; Oct 16, '10, 10:33 PM.

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          • The Bat
            Batman Fanatic
            • Jul 14, 2002
            • 13412

            #20
            A really "faithful" version of TARZAN! I love the first half of the Christopher Lambert one, but the second half strays off the tracks.

            To do the Movie right...you'd have to combine Tarzan #1 & #2...because they're really one story. Which would probably make it a 4 hour Movie...but I'd happily sit through it!

            Now...who would I cast as Tarzan?
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            • shyndman
              Museum Super Collector
              • Aug 29, 2008
              • 174

              #21
              I'd love to see a movie adaptation of the late Jack Finney's classic time-travel novel, "Time and Again." Hands down, the best book ever written about travelling back in time in my opinion (and I've read them all). It would make a superb movie. The book rights were bought many, many years ago by one of the major studios. With modern CGI, they could easily recreate late nineteenth century New York City. What the heck are they waiting for?
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              • Adam West
                Museum CPA
                • Apr 14, 2003
                • 6822

                #22
                Originally posted by torgospizza
                I'd have to go with Neil Gaiman's American Gods or China Miéville's The Scar. Gaiman would steal some of that sweet goth-tween angst moolah from the Twilight fans, but Miéville's sense of vision and freshness would approach a cross between Star Wars and The Matrix, giving steampunk-ish New Weird a boost as a new film genre.

                What would you like to see on the big screen?
                I don't think Gaiman would steal any moolah from the Twilight fans. I have a teenage daughter who has read all the books and has seen all the movies. She is a big fan but I don't even consider her interest remote to others. The books are ok, some of the action is ok, but it has a Harry Potter type cult following. The movies could have been made much worse than many of you already think they are and they would still have made as much money. Stephanie Meyer released a small novella based on an obscure vampire (killed in Eclipse). She donated all of the money to charity but sure enough that book sold millions of copies (I might not have the name completely right but I think it is called "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner".
                "The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith."
                ~Vaclav Hlavaty

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