Never Made Movies that You Wish Had Been Made

The At The Mountains of Madness that Del toro wanted to make.
 
Rendezvous With Rama at one point Morgan Freeman was to be in the proposed film. But the project never came to pass.
 
The sequel to the Day The Earth Stood Still we were supposed to get it back in the 70's
 
Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree books. We've now got the technology to make them but I have a feeling they will stuff them up....especially as there are now 'politically correct' versions of the books.
 
austin_cambridge said:
Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree books. We've now got the technology to make them but I have a feeling they will stuff them up....especially as there are now 'politically correct' versions of the books.
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Hollywood love to re imagine books.
 
Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood and China Mieville's Perdido Street Station would make great movies.
 
Guillermo Del Toro's version of At the Mountains Of Madness
 
Bizmuth said:
I'd love to see Larry Niven's Ringworld done on the big screen. That's a story that needs a big screen.
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It would epic no question. I think Christopher Nolan would be the right director for this one. (y)
 
Though I know this plot has been filmed already several times, I still feel like there is still no good movie about it. I'd love to see a good movie in which the protagonist wakes up in the morning and is the only man left on earth.
All movies existing fail with the plot development, imho. ...
 
tf_y said:
Though I know this plot has been filmed already several times, I still feel like there is still no good movie about it. I'd love to see a good movie in which the protagonist wakes up in the morning and is the only man left on earth.
All movies existing fail with the plot development, imho. ...
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Including The Quite Earth and The World, the Flesh and the Devil?
 
JunkMonkey said:
Including The Quite Earth and The World, the Flesh and the Devil?
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Well, The Quiet Earth (I assume you meant that) is in my opinion exaclty the fault. All that government and survivors stuff .. I don't like it.

As a matter of fact I did not know The World, the Flesh and the Devil. I will have a look. Though it's very old. But I'm curious. ;)
 
tf_y said:
Though I know this plot has been filmed already several times, I still feel like there is still no good movie about it. I'd love to see a good movie in which the protagonist wakes up in the morning and is the only man left on earth.
All movies existing fail with the plot development, imho. ...
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Does your idea of it end up like Castaway in an urban environment? I would like to see that... Hell, even use Hanks again! Though, I am legend, did it well... Apart from the zombies and other humans showing up.

I'd like to see a film version of the video game, Deus Ex. I'm sure they talked about it at some point.

Edit: I found the wiki entry on the Deus Ex film:

A film adaptation based on the game was originally announced in May 2002 by Columbia Pictures. The movie was being produced by Laura Ziskin, along with Greg Pruss attached with writing the screenplay. Peter Schlessel, president of production for Columbia Pictures, and Paul Baldwin, president of marketing for Eidos Interactive, stated that they were confident in that the adaptation would be a successful development for both the studios and the franchise.[112] In March 2003, during an interview with Greg Pruss, he informed IGN that the character of JC Denton will be "a little bit filthier than he was in the game." He further stated that the script was shaping up to be darker in tone than the original game.[113] Although a release date was scheduled for 2006, the film never got past the scripting stage.
 
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tf_y said:
Well, The Quiet Earth (I assume you meant that) is in my opinion exaclty the fault. All that government and survivors stuff .. I don't like it.

As a matter of fact I did not know The World, the Flesh and the Devil. I will have a look. Though it's very old. But I'm curious. ;)
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Oi! Less of the 'very' if you please! I was born the year it was released! (Which would probably explain the dodgy typign - I did indeed mean The Quite Earth). The protagonist waking up and finding he/she is the only person left is a real favourite trope of mine and I think The Quiet Earth and The World, the Flesh and the Devil are my favourite treatments of it on screen* both being loosely based on that granddaddy of the 'Last Man' subgenre The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel. I'm not sure what you mean by 'all that government and survivors stuff' though. Are we talking about the same film?
 
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Arthur C. Clark's Childhoods End There have been a number of attempts to bring this to the big screen but so far not got beyond the script stage.
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We did get a SYFY Chanel miniseries which was quite good. :cool:
 
I enjoyed the Mini-Series of Childhood's End.
 
A film based on David Gemmel's Legend
With a bit of tweaking [and I think all books need a bit of tweaking to make good films] I think it could appeal to a wide audience.
I have no idea who I would cast as Druss or the rest of the cast but I think that the six walled fortress Dros Delnoch could be made to look epic.
When I watch the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in LotR: RofK, I always wonder what Pete Jackson [or some other director] could do with a Druss/Legend script.
I was going to add Julian May's Exiles series, but @Foxbat beat me to it [by nine years]
 
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