Films you want to see made...

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Posted: 4/13/2016 9:58:40 PM EDT

The Dr Strange thread got me thinking what else would be fun to see on the big screen.

My votes...in no particular order.

Nova - Delaney
Warriors of the way - Harrison
A Deepness in the Sky - Vinge
Pern
Snow Crash - Stephenson
The Baroque cycle - Stephenson
Elric series
War for the Oaks - Bull
The Forever King - Cochran/Murphy
Grandmaster - Cochran/Murphy
Empire of the East - Saberhagen

Posted: 4/13/2016 9:59:27 PM EDT

[#1]

A 3 hour version of "The Charm School."

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:00:21 PM EDT

[#2]

Rogue Warrior/Red Cell done right.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:01:27 PM EDT

[#3]

Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:02:28 PM EDT

[#4]

The Remaining by DJ Molles.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:03:11 PM EDT

[#5]

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

And finish the Border Trilogy. They already made All The Pretty Horses.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:03:12 PM EDT

[#6]

Life of Horatio Nelson ending in the Battle of Trafalgar.

Life of Jean Lafitte

Movie adaptation of Alas, Babylon.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:04:11 PM EDT

[#7]

Another star ship troopers with production quality.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:05:19 PM EDT

[#8]

A correct version of the Calos Hathcock story.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:06:14 PM EDT

[#9]

Red Storm Rising would be amazing if done in a Band of Brothers type mini-series but you'd have to have the right director to do it. Debt of Honor and Exective Orders would be a great set of movies as well.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:06:57 PM EDT

[#10]

The trial and hanging of Hillary Clinton for treason............

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:07:37 PM EDT

[#11]

Doc: Platoon Medic

by Dan Even JR and Charles Sasser

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:08:52 PM EDT

[#12]

Conf. Gen. Johnson Hagood at Petersburg. His flag is captured. Hagood rides up to he Yankee and demands it back. When the Union soldier refuses, Hagood shoots him, seizes the flag and leads his men back to their lines. The Yankees are too stunned to shoot.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:09:46 PM EDT

[#13]

I would like Ken Burns to do a mini-series about the Transcontinental Railroad, focusing on the work of General Grenville Dodge.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:10:14 PM EDT

[#14]

Casca

The Last Centurion

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:11:16 PM EDT

[#15]

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Life of Horatio Nelson ending in the Battle of Trafalgar.

Life of Jean Lafitte

Movie adaptation of Alas, Babylon.

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^ These sound great.

Movie adaptation of Lucifer's Hammer with no established stars acting in the movie.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:12:11 PM EDT

[#16]

The Mote in Gods Eye.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:15:31 PM EDT

[#17]

Without Remorse
Unintended Consequences

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:16:20 PM EDT

[#18]

A Battle of Britain film....provided that it's done right.

The one from the 60s is good, but I want more.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:16:23 PM EDT

[#19]

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Came to post this.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:20:08 PM EDT

[#20]

Point of impact
following the book.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:20:33 PM EDT

[#21]

An epic about the Battle of Kursk. 5,000 tanks going at it would be something to see in an imax theater.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:20:52 PM EDT

[#22]

Something about Genghis Khan.

We have King Arthur we have Braveheart we have Alexander we have Troy and on and on. Genghis Khan was a motherfucker's motherfucker in every sense. Nobody else even came close. Lets get an American film director with a big budget and no desire to keep it real with ancient languages and subtitled bullshit. Rape, murder, arson, rape and a mountain of corpses. Go.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:21:33 PM EDT

[#23]

Dark Elf Trilogy -R.A. Salvatore.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:21:48 PM EDT

[#24]

Bracken's Enemy's trilogy

Debt Of Honor & Executive Orders

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:22:32 PM EDT

[#25]

Jodorowsky's vision of Dune

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:22:50 PM EDT

[#26]

Red Storm Rising
Without Remorse

More Aubrey/Maturin series movies (Master and Commander)

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:23:03 PM EDT

[#27]

The Silmarallion by Tolkien.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:23:46 PM EDT

[#28]

WWZ done right, like the book. Prob best to do a mini series to get the pace. HBO to get the 'tone'.

Also, Day by Day Armageddon.

And No Remorse

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:24:41 PM EDT

[#29]

What ever happened to the "Lights Out" movie being made?

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:27:00 PM EDT

[#30]

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We might see some of that play out in real time............

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:27:31 PM EDT

[#31]

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Something about Genghis Khan.

We have King Arthur we have Braveheart we have Alexander we have Troy and on and on. Genghis Khan was a motherfucker's motherfucker in every sense. Nobody else even came close. Lets get an American film director with a big budget and no desire to keep it real with ancient languages and subtitled bullshit. Rape, murder, arson, rape and a mountain of corpses. Go.

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You said "rape" twice.........

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:28:37 PM EDT

[#32]

Neuromancer, directed by David Fincher, done in rotoscope animation.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:28:51 PM EDT

[#33]

Any Harry Turtledove book or series, but it has to be done right

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:33:43 PM EDT

[#34]

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There was a time in the 70's and 80's where you could make his books (at least the ideas) into movies, there's no way it would happen now. Too bad most of his stuff was published in the 90's/00's.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:36:04 PM EDT

[#35]

A mini series of Swiss Family Robinson. Not the Disney shit. Exactly how the book has it.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:40:42 PM EDT

[#36]

The Wheel of time by Robert Jordan. Done HBO series style like game of thrones. There is enough material for at least a dozen seasons.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:40:51 PM EDT

[#37]

There was a book about a decade ago called "Meaning of Night", it would make an incredible mini series.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:41:53 PM EDT

[#38]

Blood Meridian

But only if it's really well done.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:42:55 PM EDT

[#39]

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Red Storm Rising would be amazing if done in a Band of Brothers type mini-series but you'd have to have the right director to do it. Debt of Honor and Exective Orders would be a great set of movies as well.

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Yes. Red storm rising.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:42:59 PM EDT

[#40]

A full length Halo movie that was done in the spirit/quality of this:

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:43:29 PM EDT

[#41]

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In IMAX 3D

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:43:54 PM EDT

[#42]

Battlefield Earth by the crazy L. Ron Hubbard but done correctly.

Would be a trilogy as the book has three distinct parts to it.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:45:59 PM EDT

[#43]

"The girl who owned a city"

Because Logan's Run and Lord of the Flies fell short.

Posted: 4/13/2016 10:47:42 PM EDT

[#44]

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Something about Genghis Khan.

We have King Arthur we have Braveheart we have Alexander we have Troy and on and on. Genghis Khan was a motherfucker's motherfucker in every sense. Nobody else even came close. Lets get an American film director with a big budget and no desire to keep it real with ancient languages and subtitled bullshit. Rape, murder, arson, rape and a mountain of corpses. Go.

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Something about Genghis Khan.

We have King Arthur we have Braveheart we have Alexander we have Troy and on and on. Genghis Khan was a motherfucker's motherfucker in every sense. Nobody else even came close. Lets get an American film director with a big budget and no desire to keep it real with ancient languages and subtitled bullshit. Rape, murder, arson, rape and a mountain of corpses. Go.

John Milius was working on it when he had his stroke.