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For myself I'd love to have seen Werner Herzog do Lord of the Rings.

You?

In reply to DaveHK: My life story.

In reply to DaveHK:
A big budget, all star cast film that had a really good storyline, script and wasn't full of clichés or product placements

In reply to DaveHK: Mel Brookes might have made a decent stab at it too.

T.

In reply to DaveHK: John Carpenter make Dead Space.

In reply to DaveHK:

A remake of "Kes" set in a holler in Kentucky with Dolly Parton playing Mrs. Casper.

In reply to DaveHK: The Simarillion made by anyone with a proper budget

In reply to DaveHK:

Katie Holmes embarking on an 'Adult' career.

Film title, or plot, wouldn`t really matter tbh.

In reply to DaveHK: 2001: the musical.

In space no one can hear you sing...

T.

In reply to mrchewy:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/movie-maker#t1=overview

Post it here when you have finished.

In reply to DaveHK:

thundercats!!!!!!!

In reply to DaveHK:

del Toro do The Hobbit







Sigh

In reply to DaveHK: jan svankmeyer doing naked lunch

In reply to DaveHK:

WOW. Now that's an idea.

In reply to DaveHK:
or terry gilliam (who shouldve always got the gig if you ask me).

otherwise; an afghan version of apocalypse now, with climbers instead of surfers, strung out mujihadeen and a left over russian colonel.

another casablanca, but only if daniel day lewis could be rick.

In reply to DaveHK:

I'd love to see Ewokes versus Predator " Slaughter on Endor"

In reply to DaveHK:

The Birth of The People's Republic of Antarctica

In reply to hokkyokusei:

Bad Taste II - get Peter Jackson back on track instead of all this elf-wank!

In reply to DaveHK:
I'd love to see someone do the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the unbeliever
and
the saga of the exiles
and
some pratchett WITHOUT david F'N jason
and
Doc smith's lensman series
and
Anne mccaffrey's Pern series (or the crystal singer for that matter).

In reply to DaveHK:

Terry Gilliam directs The Master and Margarita. He's thought about it, but says he won't, which is much crueller than not mentioning it at all.

In reply to nufkin:
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Del Toro do At The Mountains of Madness, he's been so close to getting it done.

In reply to DaveHK: del Torro and At the Mountains of Madness?

In reply to Steve Perry: Get out of my Mind!!!

In reply to DaveHK:

a shame meadows film of postman pat.

In reply to DaveHK:

David Lynch doing an Iain Banks. The Wasp Factory, Use of Weapons or maybe Surface Detail.

In reply to PeterM:


More elf-wank perhaps but I'd like to seem him make a good job of the Earthsea trilogy.

In reply to DaveHK:

Asimov's Foundation, rather too large scale in time and space I fear.

In reply to Dave Garnett: Always thought Against A Dark Background was the most cinematic of his Sci Fi, but not Culture

In reply to DaveHK:

mmm surface detail, but who would play the mad as a biscuit ship avatar

In reply to DaveHK:
Ridley Scott doing an adaptation of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

Also seconding the Foundation series, but that would probably wind up like Lynch doing Dune :/

In reply to yeti:

Robert Downey Jr?

In reply to DaveHK:

Geek Love adapted by me and directed by Matthew Barney.

In reply to Blue Straggler:

Homeboy (by Seth Morgan) directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

In reply to DaveHK: The Cesar Romero remake of Watership Down. Zombie were-bunny apocalypse

In reply to pebbles:
Hang on...do you mean George Romero?
Wasn't Cesar Romero in the original Batman TV series?

In reply to Sherlock:

Maybe Rebecca Romero?

In reply to DaveHK:

How to Get A Head in Advertising - Radical Islamists target marketing departments of corporate giants.

Rendezvous with Rama. Superb book and would make a great film with current special effects / CGI.

In reply to Smiffy:

Been on the cards for years, Morgan Freeman and David Fincher were attached. The first book alone would not however make a saleable film. A good film possibly, but its costs would not justify potential box office, it would be like the Soderbergh version of Solaris. Intelligent sci-fi for the kind of audiences that enjoy stuff like "Moon", but too expensive. Studios would have to throw in sexy action scenes (or combine it with elements of Rama II) to get bums on seats, then nobody would like it. Nothing actually happens in the first book - metal cylinder enters solar system, we go inside and have a look around, then we leave!

In reply to Graeme Alderson:

Has it already been done?

I think it would work better as a TV series

In reply to toad:

I hear the music from The Twilight Zone ;-D

In reply to Sherlock: oops

In reply to DaveHK:

And play Gandalf.

In reply to DaveHK:

game of thrones team put together some feature length Terry Pratchett!

In reply to DaveHK:

THE WIZARD OF OZ PART 2

Dorothy never forgot those wonderful days in the magic kingdom. How can I go there again, she often thought.

One day a terrible tornado came and flattened the whole farm, killing everyone.

THE END

In reply to Dave Garnett: I've always thought Consider Phlebas would be a great film, given an unlimited special effects budget. Often films with an sf element have stupid action scenes added (I'm thinking of parts of Cloud Atlas), presumably to amuse the 12-year-olds in the audience, but Consider Phlebas has wildly imaginative action scenes already written in:

- A laser battle in a building made of crystal
- A small (!) nuclear explosion on board a huge crashing cruise-liner
- A smaller ship crashing its way out of a VERY, VERY, VERY BIG spaceship
- Fun and games with the galaxy's biggest train-set

In reply to Rob Davies:

Consider Phlebas is certainly one of the more cinematic ones.

IMHO the later ones could be good, but it helps to have something to set the scene.

In reply to Rob Davies:

Not mention opening with the main protagonist chained to the wall in a sewer cell in the process of being drowned in shit whilst attempting to shape-shift being rescued by a ship crewed by three-legged aliens blasting the wall out...

In reply to DaveHK:
Girlfriend In A Coma by Douglas Coupland, maybe even All Families Are Psychotic

In reply to Rob Davies:

Use of weapons. Who should play Sma?

CB

In reply to cb294:

You do know they would spoiler the whole chair thing in the trailer. Either that or cut it out because Hollywood hates downer engines.

Sma would need to be someone tall, gorgeous and slightly posh I think.

In reply to DaveHK:
Sandman: Season of the mists
Flatland
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock

In reply to Duncan Bourne: Flatland in reverse was an episode of The Simpsons where it all went 3D Weird.

Who would direct Behold the Man? Mel Gibson perhaps?

In reply to DaveHK: The Quran, with a full hollywood cast

In reply to Rob Davies:


That would be worth seeing. Maybe we could get him to do "The Divine Invasion" while we are at it

In reply to DaveHK: Debbie Does Me

In reply to DaveHK:
Blue Stragler want Cliffhanger remade with Dennis Quade in all roles.

In reply to mrbird:
Jesus & Mo the musical?

In reply to cb294:

Use of weapons? Ohhh, tasty.

Who would be Zakalwe? Robbie Carlyle could pull it off.

Sma? Alex Kingston perhaps. She can do a mix of callousness and compassion. Or June Whitfield for a complete messing with your mind.

In reply to almost sane:

Actually, 'Zakalwe' presents a bit of a problem, cinematographically, doesn't he?

In reply to almost sane:

The presence of Alex Kingston would guarantee I gave it a miss.

In reply to Duncan Bourne: Exactly. 70s John Travolta plays Jesus

In reply to Mikkel:

Coincidentally I was looking for my VHS copy of Breaking Away (featuring Dennis Quaid) and during the search, I encountered my VHS copy of Cliffhanger (2 days after receiving my "emergency replacement" Cliffhanger DVD, 25p off Amazon!)

In reply to DaveHK:

The 3 prequel Star Wars films - without Jar-Jar Binks or Ewan MacGregor.

In reply to LastBoyScout:

Those are films that should never have been made. They were shite..and had 100% too much EM in them

In reply to PeterM:

For me the 'performance' of Hayden Christensen was worse than Mcgregor and Binks put together.