For your consideration...

I don't know if you've ever considered doing a Shakespeare adaptation, but I just rewatched Ian McKellan's "Richard III" from 1995 last night on Netflix streaming and was blown away, again, by how brilliant that production is.  As far as Shakespeare goes, it's pretty understandable language and it has that great fascist Britain theme going on.  Not to mention some of the most ecclectic casting you'll ever see in a "period" piece (I mean, really, Robert Downey, Jr. as the queen's brother?)

My favorite Shakeaspeare adaptation is still Branagh's Henry V.  CHILLS.

I've probably said it before but, Dune.

The spice must flow.

If they do tackle Miyazaki there'd really only be reason to do one. Not because they're not great, but because not being huge anime fans I doubt they'd be able to come up with more then one movie's worth of conversation That being the case, I'd go with either Nausicaa or Laputa (Castle in the Sky) for being the best examples. Yes, Princess Mononoke has the Neil Gaiman adapted translation and was the first in US theaters, and Spirited Away was the first to get any real mainstream US theatrical notice, but I say start with the classics. Nausicaa is what made people go "Hey, this TV director can do great original stuff!" (plus it got the infamous US butchering in the form of "Warrior of the Winds")

It's also one of those movies where they didn't really know they were adapting something. The story goes someone asked the writer(s) how much of the original story they were using, and it turns out nobody had bothered to turn the cards over to see it actually had one. It was just a set of fun pictures to them

I'm  huge fan of City of God.

Another thumbs up for Collateral from me.   Gets a bit silly in the third act, but damn, Cruise as a villain is awesome.   He does the dark version of the character he plays in most every other movie, and shows there's not actually much difference between the two.    'cause whether a guy is a superhero or a supervillain all kinda depends on whether you approve of what he's doing, don't it?

Hmm.  Now I wanna watch it again.