"What film would like to see made?" Topic

What film would you like to see made or remade? Could be a little known historical battle, or well known battle, but never filmed properly. It could be a sci-fi novel, or fantasy novel that has never graced the silver screen. It could be a disappointing movie remade into a more accurate movie.

For whatever reason, the American Civil War hasn't generated much by way of good movies. I'd like to see a movie featuring the Union attack on Missionary Ridge in November 1863.

That, and a good Viking film, of course.

Grelber

Little Fuzzy

The battle of Tarawa, battle of Wake island, Chosin.

Doug, I was thinking of the "Fuzzy' series too as an excellent movie (or series of films), if done properly.

Scifi/fantasy:
Starship Troopers
El Borak

Historical:
Siege of Osaka Castle
Antietem

Aztec. It would probably have to be a mini-series.

Toshach, a year-long series for the full treatment of the rise and fall of the Aztec civilization.

I'd like to see a movie version of Frankenstein that was actually somewhat like the book. All the film versions I've seen just seem to ignore everything but the 'man makes monster' bit.

Put the LRDG on the big screen -- Lawrence of Arabia was all well and fine, now let's do it with some Chevy's wading through the sand. Grab "Killing Rommel", change the title, carve it into a script.

I've waited for CGI to do the battle of Kursk ever since "Toy Story" showed us little green army men.

Don't know why Spielberg would spend millions to re-make "War of the Worlds" and then fail to make it a turn-of-the-previous-century historical movie closer to the book.

Because Hollywood is about making money by appealing to the lowest common denominator, not "getting it right" by pleasing a very small audience.

A well done Viking film.

Phoenix Without Ashes.

The Black Company.

I'd like to see a movie featuring the Union attack on Missionary Ridge in November 1863.

Bangs head on desk…

There is a REASON you guys are not in charge in Hollywood, green-lighting multi million dollar productions.
Hollywood is NOT about art, it is NOT about "getting it right".
It never has been, never will be.
It's ALL about making money.

Having gotten that off my chest, MY money waster would be "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". If it ever does get done, "they" will wreck it, and it will be a vanity project for some pretty-boy actor. If they survive long enough, maybe Justin Bieber will play Manny, and Amanda Bynes will play Wyoming. Why not? They've got money to burn.
They are already going to beat beyond recognition Ender's Game, so why not slaughter my other choice?

Oh, we're doing "My favorite Battle" too? The Wyoming Massacre.

We have The Longest Day and a Bridge Too Far, we need The Last Battle by Corneilus Ryans final book too.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

I'd love to see an Elric movie.

Almost any of the Flashman books.

The Years Of Rice And Salt would make an amazing miniseries. Same actors in every episode, playing different characters.

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Heart of Darkness

1) Sekigahara
2) Red Devils at Arnhem
3) Franco-Prussian War up to Sedan.
4) Tannenberg 1410
5) Hastings

Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita

Horus Heresy

Tyranid vs Ultramarines 1st Company in Maccrage

Gods of mars

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History: The Hastings 1066 campaign, Fall of Constantinople 1453, and Battle of Mohacs 1526.
Historical: Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles, GMF's Flashman books.
Fantasy: The Thraxas books for some fantasy noir. Cherryh's Morgaine quartet.
Sci-fi: Cherryh's Faded Sun trilogy or Chanur quartet, Pournelle's Falkenberg Co-Dominion series

Honor Harrington space opera ;-)

I second the Kursk film.

Anne McCaffrey's Pern series.

Here's an original idea…..

What about a Jack Reacher film (with someone who even slightly resembles the written character!)

Tony

Harpers Ferry. It would probably need to be a three or four film series.

John Scalzi's "Old Mans War"

Martin Caiden's "The Last Dogfight"

The Battle of the Bulge. Original was a travesty.

Midway

A movie about Kursk.

"The Last Full Measure"

The Honor Harrington Novels (minus the endless staff meeting scenes)

The Silmarrillion.

Story of the life of William Marshall.

William Warner,

Royal Flash was done link

I'd like to see a movie about the 1565 Great Siege of Malta.

Here are some that would be neat:
1) Braddocks March and defeat
2) Fallen Timbers
3) Hastings

Another one would be to follow Roger's Rangers vs. the French guy (Levi?) Would be some neat scenery watching the battle of the Snowshoes.

George MacDonald Fraser's "Quartered Safe Out Here" cries out to be made into a film. It could be done well on quite a low budget, I think, as it's basically eight blokes in the jungle, though we'd have to do a bit of thinking about how to handle the voice of the narrator. Probably it could be done with no existing stars, but Hugh Laurie could manage about the right degree of eye-popping madness needed for Captain Grief.

Hollywood couldn't hack it and shouldn't be allowed near it -- and the dialogue should be in Cumbrian, with sub-titles for English speakers.

Otherwise I'd like to see films made of John Foley's "Mailed Fist", Alex Bowlby's "The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby", and J P W Mallalieu's "Very Ordinary Seaman". And all the John Winton "We Joined the Navy" novels, not just the first two.

All the best,

John.

While I'm a fan of H.Beam Piper, I don't think many of his books would be good movies, because they're not written that way. Little Fuzzy, for example, is too talky for a movie.

In terms of good imagery, Three Day Planet and Uller Uprising would both make good films. 3DP could probably even be made on the cheap, while UU would be the anti-Avatar big-budget blockbuster.

…I don't think many of his books would be good movies, because they're not written that way.

Well, that's the main problem with most books.
I have read quite a few good novels that are totally dialog. Yet, I feel that the plot would make a good movie. That is why screenwriters have HUGE mansions and get the hot chicks. There is the story about the actress who was so dumb, she slept with the writer… But I digress.
History books are not written with movie plots in mind. Most battles can only be a scene in a movie.
Movies are about PEOPLE. Thus "Gone with the Wind" is NOT Sherman's taking of Atlanta, although there are battle scenes.

So, thinking that the Battle of the Wilderness would make a good movie is missing the point of what movies do. Is there a story you can hang it on, particularly a love story? Sorry guys, but it's necessary. Heck, there was a TV movie about the Monitor and Merrimack a few years ago, and the second lead was an actress.

A sequel to Sky Captain and Big Trouble in Little China.

I'd like to see a Luther Arkwright film.

Uller Uprising would rock.

There are many good to great suggestions above. I would like to add The Battle of Samar to the historical requests and a The Mote In God's Eye mini-series to the science fiction requests.

The Battle of Lundy's Lane.

I'd like to see the Jutland movie that Sir Ben Kingsley's production company was considering a few years back.

Remakes:
Forbidden Planet
Battle on the Ice (Lake Peipus)
Austerlitz

New movies:
Elric of Melinbone
Chippewa/Lundy's Lane
Battle of Coral Sea (After the credits have a scene where the repair workers are told she has to go fight again. That way if it is a success the sequel at Midway is set up.)
Jutland (Set aboard one ship but encompassing the whole thing.)

Count me in for Honor Harrington and Old Man's War.

The Dragon Riders of Pern would make a nice epic series like Game of Thrones. Someone like AMC needs to do it because HBO would ruin it.

Would really like to see a remake of Forbidden Planet.

Lots of good ones to choose from.

"Dambusters", for a start. They've threatened to make/screen this, but it's yet to make an appearance in the USA, though it may have been completed.

The Schweinfurt/Regensburg Raid, and the 1st Berlin Raid by the 8th Air Force (technically the 2nd, actually, since most of the bombers aborted the first attempt).

Ploesti.

The Berlin Raids by the RAF.

A movie based upon the Centurion, Grav Armor game.

Ploesti – Operation Avalanche. 500 B-24Ds thundering in at 100 feet.

The lead piolt is in love with a nurse. Now you have characters.

Re. the Jutland idea that crops up regularly. There was a novel some years ago based round a family (emotion and romance) of men in the Royal Navy on a variety of ships. IIRC they were on a new battleship (fictional member of the Queen Elizabeth/Barham/Warspite class), a cruiser and a destroyer (variety and action). Unfortunately I gave it away and forget the author.

I'd like to see a good film on the American Revolution. Not a documentary, a really well made one. No two ton re-enactors with sunglasses and beards and timex watches either.

I don't know what War Patriot was depicting, but I don't classify it as a film about the Revolutionary War.

Ps. You know that house that Mel Gibson's "employees" make for him at the end of the movie? I hope Sherman burns it to the ground on his way through there in 1864.

I don't think there has ever been a good ECW film so that gets my vote.

I'd vote for a sequel to Master and Commander.
Or a prequel, or any quel.
A remake of Cromwell possibly, and a film either about Henry IV usurping Richard II, or about The Wars of the Roses and not something with a misleading title that gets you all excited until you tune in and find it's got Danny DeVito in it and it aint about knights in armour knocking six bells out of each other.

Properly filmed Flashman stories

John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

War of Roses is a good call. Particularly Warwick or Richard IIIs story.