Allen57 | 22 Nov 2018 10:12 a.m. PST |
My want list is: Team Yankee Brazen Chariots Starship Troopers (not the crap movie currently out there) Xenophons March of the 10000 Flight of the old dog |
PJ ONeill | 22 Nov 2018 10:34 a.m. PST |
I would love to see Starship Troopers done according to the book. Maybe "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" – Same Author, a bit dated, but a good story. |
Gokiburi | 22 Nov 2018 10:36 a.m. PST |
Another vote for Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. The Forever war The Mote in God's Eye Armor |
miniMo | 22 Nov 2018 10:38 a.m. PST |
Temeraire On Stranger Tides (not re-done as a Pirates of the Caribbean version). Narrow Road to the Interior (with Basho's companion Sora on the suspected government Ninja mission). Hoodtown |
Coelacanth | 22 Nov 2018 10:40 a.m. PST |
On Stranger Tides Hear, hear! Ron |
Stryderg | 22 Nov 2018 10:40 a.m. PST |
Hammer's Slammers Falkenberg's Legion or any of that series |
jedburgh | 22 Nov 2018 11:07 a.m. PST |
The Patrick O'Brian novels not just Master And Commander |
Pictors Studio | 22 Nov 2018 11:13 a.m. PST |
The weird of the white wolf. |
brass1 | 22 Nov 2018 11:19 a.m. PST |
I can't believe I'm beating Winston Smith to this The Chinese Bandit by Stephen Decker. LT
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William Warner | 22 Nov 2018 11:26 a.m. PST |
The Siege of Krishnapur. We need a decent Indian Mutiny movie. |
Moonbeast | 22 Nov 2018 11:28 a.m. PST |
Any of the BOLO's novels. Any Cthulhu mythos story made into an actual GOOD mythos movie, pick any of them, I'm easy. I second Pictors choice, The Weird of the White Wolf. I also second Gokiburi with The Forever War. |
x42brown | 22 Nov 2018 11:38 a.m. PST |
The Drawing of the Dark x42 |
ChrisBrantley | 22 Nov 2018 11:48 a.m. PST |
Old Man's War (and sequels) by John Scalzi Elric of Mehnibone by Michael Moorcock The Demon Prince series by Jack Vance (I don't think that Hollywood could pull off the Dying Earth series) and a modern take on Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. |
Huscarle | 22 Nov 2018 11:55 a.m. PST |
Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond series Ride Home Tomorrow (Evan John) On Basilisk Station C J Cherryh's Chanur series The Lies of Locke Lamora Gemmell's Deathstalker series Charles Stross's The Laundry Series Zahn's Cobra Trilogy Shipway's Knight in Anarchy Poul Anderson's Flandry novels, & 3 Hearts & 3 Lions Niven's Man-Kzinti Wars |
Saber6 | 22 Nov 2018 12:01 p.m. PST |
Elric would make a good TV series (ala GoT) I'd add Red Storm Rising to the list |
Winston Smith | 22 Nov 2018 12:01 p.m. PST |
I can't believe I'm beating Winston Smith to thisThe Chinese Bandit by Stephen Decker.
I was away from my iPhone for a while. But I certainly agree! With Jeremy Renner. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress The Drawing of the Dark Glory Road Not a snowball's chance in Hell of any of these, if done "by the book". The veering off into non-PC would be intolerable. Heinlein's cranky politics would not be welcomed. |
Neroon | 22 Nov 2018 12:05 p.m. PST |
C J Cherryh Downbelow Station + prequels/sequels, Chanur Series (the furries will love this), Morgaine Series Roger Zelazny Amber Series
David Drake Hammer's Slammers
Thieves' World Anthology Series
Heroes in Hell Anthology Series
Michael Moorcock Chronicles of Corum, Elric of Melnibone
Fred Saberhagen Book of Swords, Berserker Series
Marion Zimmer Bradley Darkover Series
Robert Heinlein The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, The Number Of The Beast, Starship Troopers (faithful to the book)
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Winston Smith | 22 Nov 2018 12:05 p.m. PST |
I would second going for tv miniseries. Everyone is going for the "next Game of Thrones". We have Amazon throwing billions of dollars at a totally pointless "not Lord of the Rings". Everyone who has contributed to this can think of a better way to spend that money. |
Wackmole9 | 22 Nov 2018 12:07 p.m. PST |
Little fuzzy Space Viking Stainless steel rat Deathworld Gray death legion battletech books Lost regiment series Brotherhood of war series Island in a sea of time series |
Winston Smith | 22 Nov 2018 12:13 p.m. PST |
Just once I would like to see a movie made by a producer and director who actually LIKE the book. Not make it into what they think it should say. That was what the problems we have with Starship Trooper boil down to. The director despised his source material and the thinking behind it. |
Vigilant | 22 Nov 2018 12:18 p.m. PST |
Hammers Slammers. Modesty Blaise based on the books not the awful 60s effort. Donald Jack's Bandy Papers WW1 stories. |
JimSelzer | 22 Nov 2018 12:27 p.m. PST |
The Black Company any actual Elric novel Beyond the Black River Honor Harrington Stirling's Dies the Fire Pellucidar Deryni |
warwell | 22 Nov 2018 12:30 p.m. PST |
Ranger's Apprentice series link Knights of Arrethtrae link |
Historique | 22 Nov 2018 1:05 p.m. PST |
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USAFpilot | 22 Nov 2018 1:20 p.m. PST |
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Callsign 21 | 22 Nov 2018 1:43 p.m. PST |
The Ketty Jay stories by Chris Wooding. Vatta's War series by Elizabeth Moon. |
Hamilton | 22 Nov 2018 2:48 p.m. PST |
The Initiate Brother duology by Sean Russell |
phssthpok | 22 Nov 2018 2:57 p.m. PST |
Laumer's "Retief" stories would be a wonderful comedy series as would "Bil the Galactic Hero". More seriously, "Ringworld". |
robert piepenbrink | 22 Nov 2018 3:17 p.m. PST |
You know, having seen enough books adapted to movies, I'm not sure I want to encourage them to try again. That said, maybe drop back a generation or two and use novellas? Howard's "People of the Black Circle" or "Red Nails" Or some of Leigh Brackett. "Secret of Sinharrat" or "Sword of Rhiannon" perhaps. Or Disney could finish the John Carter trilogy they started. Merchanter's Luck is doable--but I shudder to think what Hollywood would make of it. |
Gunfreak | 22 Nov 2018 3:18 p.m. PST |
All the sequels in the Cole and Hitch books by Robert B Parker. Appaloosa was brilliant and the other books are great. |
robert piepenbrink | 22 Nov 2018 3:24 p.m. PST |
And I was forgetting pirates! Raphael Sabatini's The Black Swan. (There was a movie, but it only used the title.) And no one's ever filmed Mistress Wilding. |
Chuckaroobob | 22 Nov 2018 6:05 p.m. PST |
The world needs more H Rider Haggard books turned into movies, not just "King Soloman's Mines." |
lloydthegamer | 22 Nov 2018 6:55 p.m. PST |
Any or all of the Macro and Cato stories by Simon Scarrow. |
TNE2300 | 22 Nov 2018 7:10 p.m. PST |
another vote for CJ Cherryh's Union/Alliance specifically Merchanter's Luck |
21eRegt | 22 Nov 2018 7:38 p.m. PST |
Seven Men from Gascony Elric of Melnibone Fafrd and the Grey Mouser |
Uesugi Kenshin | 22 Nov 2018 8:24 p.m. PST |
Taiko was amazing but would have to be a TV series, not a movie. |
Glengarry5 | 23 Nov 2018 3:14 a.m. PST |
A proper Flashman adaptation. |
Frostie | 23 Nov 2018 3:48 a.m. PST |
Hammer Slammers Armageddon's Song |
Old Contemptibles | 23 Nov 2018 5:39 a.m. PST |
I use to say "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy but since the Warsaw Pact and the USSR disappeared, I don't see the point. Same goes for "Team Yankee" kind of irrelevant now. Newsflash, it's over, we won. |
Old Contemptibles | 23 Nov 2018 6:01 a.m. PST |
"Home Before The Leaves Fall" by Ian Senior "The Winter Soldiers" by Richard Ketchum "Landscape Turned Red" by Stephen Sears "The Silmarillion" by J.R.R. Tolkien "A Little History of the World" by E. H. Gombrich "The Tudors" by G. J. Meyer "A Frozen Hell" by William Trotte "Santa Anna of Mexico" by Will Fowler "The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916" by Alistair Horne "Texian Iliad" by Stephen L. Hardin "The Challenge of Battle" by Adrian Gilbert |
Winston Smith | 23 Nov 2018 9:45 a.m. PST |
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Parzival | 23 Nov 2018 9:49 a.m. PST |
All for the Temeraire series. At one point PJ was looking at it. Whatever his faults, he'd do a bang up job with Napoleonic dragons! But maybe I'll withhold judgment till I see what he's done with Mortal Engines… Ditto MiaHM and STroopers. Though some of Heinlein's lighter adventure SF might be more palatable, like Double Star, Between Planets, or even Podkayne of Mars (sorry, RH, but with the happy ending, not the downer one.) I don't think you can do Falkenburg, since the ultimate solution for stopping the socialist bad guys was to lure all of them (including civilians) into a stadium and gunning them down. Kill the idea by killing all who hold to it. Bit of a war crime, that… If someone wants to do a GoT series, Mary Stewart's Arthurian books are perfect. |
SpuriousMilius | 23 Nov 2018 10:14 a.m. PST |
Productions of Tarzan & John Carter that are faithful to Burroughs' concepts & settings. The same for Howard's Conan + Bran Mak Morn. Another vote for the Fahfrd & Gray Mouser series & for Elric. |
Winston Smith | 23 Nov 2018 12:00 p.m. PST |
One of the stories have the Gray Mouser and Fafhrd arguing over how his name is spelled. They were bored. |
Winston Smith | 23 Nov 2018 12:09 p.m. PST |
How about … The Hobbit? It hasn't been done by the book. |
miniMo | 23 Nov 2018 12:45 p.m. PST |
Thutmose III : The Military History of Egypt's Greatest Warrior King. |
miniMo | 23 Nov 2018 12:47 p.m. PST |
I dearly hope Jackson isn't the one to do Temeraire, he specialises in the most tedious drawn-out CGI boredom sequences! |
rmaker | 23 Nov 2018 2:31 p.m. PST |
Productions of Tarzan … that are faithful to Burroughs' concepts & settings. Well, you COULD watch ERB's film – Tarzan and the Green Goddess. |
etotheipi | 23 Nov 2018 3:20 p.m. PST |
Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures series |
Legion 4 | 23 Nov 2018 4:38 p.m. PST |
Yes, Hammer's Slammers … if it is done "right" … Not like the Starship Troopers. Heinlein must have been rolling over in his grave when they released that POS … |