Hm. I'll be back to edit this post later.

1) A proper Dark Tower adaptation, like Universal was planning. An adaptation spread across multiple tv seasons and feature-length movies. With Aaron Paul as Eddie. And Zoe Saldana as Susannah. And maybe Russell Crowe as Roland? I dunno.

2) Good Omens as an HBO miniseries. Gaiman and Pratchett producing and writing a few episodes.

3) ??? I dunno.

Last edited by Doctor Submarine (2013-09-16 14:43:23)

Just film, not miniseries?

Currently, I'd love:

1. A film series based on the Saxon Chronicles, a book series written by Bernard Cornwell (also wrote Sharpe) about a Saxon lord at the time of Alfred the Great.

2. A live action adaptation of Macross Plus, a sci-fi anime series about rival test pilots competing in a programme to decide a next generation transforming fighter craft

3. A continuation of HBO's Rome

1. Dungeons and Dragons Movie. The 80s cartoon series where kids get stuck in another realm. I just really want to see this fucking guy in live action-

Holy shit.

2. A feature length animated Hanna-Barbera movie, not a live-action one. The Hong Kong Phooey clip that turned up last year or whatever was atrocious, I'd love to see a movie version of, say, Yogi's Treasure Hunt which has loads of Hanna Barbera characters in it. Come on, Warner Brothers, take a risk. Get Aykroyd and Timberlake back to voice Yogi and Boo-Boo if you must, just make it happen.

3. An anthology film of Roald Dahl stories. Books like The Twits and George's Marvelous Medicine wouldn't do well as a feature length on their own, so an anthology would be cool. Animate them if you must, The Twits would probably be better that way.

That was shockingly easy.

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We are at the time where most books could be better adapted as TV series, and even look almost as good. That said, and resisting the urge to name one of my own books:

1. Dragonriders of Pern- a TV series fell apart the day before they were to start filming, but I think you could do a good job adapting the first three books into films. The three Harperhall stories could be TV miniseries done between the second and third movies. Please, don't adapt any books after that

2. Usagi Yojimbo- an animated film based on the long running comic. Tons of story lines to choose from, and great characters.

3. Thieves and Kings- another comic. The creator never finished, but what's there would condense into a great movie.

Also, I think Raymond Feist's Rift War books would make an incredible TV series. Epic, in the true sense of the word, and with the characters constantly aging and exiting the story you'll get lots of cast changes so nobody ends up costing too much. Well, apart from Pug, maybe

1) BIOSHOCK. The hard-R version Verbinski wanted to make. Would love to see the world of Rapture come to life. Needs some finessing of the story to make it a movie instead of a game, but a lot of great stuff to work with to make a wonderful action-horror piece.

2) THE MUPPET MAN. An absolutely devastating biopic of Jim Henson. It was written without life-rights permission and plays too fast and loose with the facts, and the iconography of the Muppets, for the comfort of his heirs (the opening line in the script is "KERMIT THE FROG, twenty years older than we've ever seen him before, wakes from a DRUNKEN NIGHTMARE"). They actually bought it and it is in development. What comes out the other side will probably be unrecognizable.

3) GHOSTBUSTERS 3. Just, can we please get it over with so I can move on with my life.

For all the bitching we get I'm kinda amazed how how many reboots/sequels are on this page.

These all sound AMAZING. Any links to scripts?

1. Thomas Paine biopic. Richard Attenborough has been trying to make it for years. You'd have the broad canvas of the American Revolution where you juxtapose intellectual ideas about how to set up a new country upon Enlightenment principals against the War of Independence. All the founding fathers would be there.
But that's only first act. Because then Paine goes to Georgian London to participate in the Industrial Revolution. Then he flees to Paris to participate in the French Revolution and witnesses all the jockeying for power among all the factions. Everything is up for grabs. Pertinent parables to today's issues of inequality and the 1% v 99%.
Paine's thrown in jail. Napoleon comes to power, etc. It'd encompass all the grand ideas (abolition of slavery, secularism, social security, democracy, libertarianism, republicanism, egalitarianism, etc)  and massive battles on land and sea, with a cast of hundreds (who's who of 18th century European/American politics). It'd cost $250M+, go on for hours, and probably make no money because it doesn't have teenage superheroes.

2. DUNE. I second that.

3. Captain Cook biopic. There's yet to be a major movie on any real voyage of exploration, and no one did it better than Cook (and he had a suitably dramatic death). Give it the Master & Commander treatment in terms of production values. Recently, Life of Pi and Kon-Tiki showed how to make seafaring cinematic. You could even have the obligatory "And then sharks" sequence. Even more action-packed than Cook is the voyage of Anson in the 1740s which involved multiple shipwrecks, the loss of hundreds of lives, pirating & plundering, mutiny, struggle for survival, exotic cultures, international warfare, etc.

Dorkman's story treatments for Episodes I, II, and III.

But first, I must hop in a time machine and go back to the early 90s, where I will properly hypnotize Lucas so that he will hire Michael as the prequels screenwriter.

"So what if he's just a little kid right now. He's got a great story idea!" George will have said.

Thoroughly hypnotized, George would be a model of humility and judiciousness:

"Ya know, I don't even want to produce or direct these films. I'll just be here for moral support and if anyone needs to borrow the original landspeeder. Now let's see, where's Larry Kasdan's number?"   

Then I travel back to the present, where the finished films will be waiting for me. (Just as an extra precaution, I will have stolen every legal pad from George's house and burned them all to a nice uncle-Owen crisp.)

For real. Which, considering how open he was to changing UNDER THE DOME, might happen.

If you got then-me to write them, I don't see them turning out any better than the ones we got.

EDIT: Well, except that it never would have entered my head to have long sequences revolve around intergalactic parliamentary procedures.

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I've googled around but this seems to have truly escaped the internet. If anyone stumbles across a copy please let me know 

The best part was that in the script it was super obvious that BKV was casting as he was writing.  Ricky Gervais was clearly going to be the alcoholic former olympic pole vaulter, Simon Pegg was written as the Botanist, and Seth Rogen was clearly going to be Merlin.  Pretty sure Idris Elba was going to be a character too.