You laugh at this, but I did write part of a script about an Alien who somehow becomes head basketball coach at a Texas University. And I still think it would be a good movie.
You asked for it: http://www.comingsoon.net/cgi-bin/archive/fullnews.cgi?newsid1046329879,28564, Dean Devlin Producing MechWarrior Movie Adaptation Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:11 CST Dean Devlin will produce a movie based on the best-selling MechWarrior video games. The Hollywood Reporter says Paramount Pictures is in talks to option the property from Wiz Kids, a Seattle-based game company, for Devlin's Electric Entertainment, which will develop a screenplay that Devlin will produce. "Whether I write the script or help with the script or direct, I'm crazy about the material, and this is a real passion project for me," Devlin told the trade. He said Eight Legged Freaks, which he produced for $30 million last year, was an experiment in putting almost all of a film's budget into special effects. Similarly, he said his intention with Mech Warrior is to make it look like a $150 million movie while spending less than $100 million. "The type of CG we'd use for this movie, in which warriors battle in giant mechanized suits of armor, would be much easier to create than spiders," he said. "We had 200 CG shots in 'Freaks,' and I think we could get a lot more out of this film."
Actually, yes. At one point, the alien reads a book called "Coaching College Basketball for Dummies" by Bobby Knight. So of course he throws a chair.
After making great films such as Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan and Castaway I think Tom Hanks has enough under his belt to tackle something challenging enough to test his talents. I just can't wait until there's a Bosom Buddies movie.
Foundation series by Asimov I will second Ender's Game as long as the director doesn't incorporate elements from the sequel Ender's Shadow that happens simultaneously. The Simpsons
Legend of Huma would be a good one. Glad to see I'm not the only fantasy geek in this joint. Falcon: I'd like to see just about every super hero out there get a movie made. I can't wait to see X-Men 2 and The Hulk. All the reoprts about the next Superman movie(s) are that they can't find the right actor to play Supes. I hope they do him justice. Speaking of justice, a Justice League adaptation would be cool a la X-Men. As a side-note, I'm fine with movies lasting 3 or more hours. The director's cut of LOTR is a million times better than what was released in the theater, imho. And that was over 4 hours! I have no problem with super-long movies, though I think they ought to provide an intermission....nothing worse than getting up to piss and missing something.
Great call, Supermac34. And I also think Jackson should do "The Hobbit" while he has his Gandalf. "Enders Game" would be terrific. The technology Jackson has shown us in LOTR has opened up a whole world of potential movies that would have looked cheesy before or on much too small a scale to really be believeable. I would love to see movies of the age of Napoleon made as they could be now... Waterloo, Trafalgar and so much else could be brought to life. Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series could be brought to the big screen, (and his series about Arthur (The Winter King was the first) could be combined into an epic film.) the Hornblower series by Forester would be good in the right hands. Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin first book, "Master and Commander", is coming out in '04 with Russell Crowe as Aubrey. Crowe said they might make a series of them if the first one comes off well. I'm interested to see how they do the special effects. Jackson has shown that anything is possible, and the possiblities are endless.
I would also love to see a third Conan movie while Arnold can still play the part. I loved the first two. Wilt the Stilt was awesome as Bombaata.
I'd like to see a blockbusterr movie made about the oppresion of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. It should be at the level of Roots, or Exodus or Schindler's List. Maybe that would help Americans see the Palestinian/ Jewish problem in a more balanced perspective.
I don't know, but I'm talking big budget 10 years of sword battles, Achilles, Odysseus, Ajax, Agammemnon, Menaleus, Paris...all he fights and strategies...
It got some pretty bad reviews, didn't watch it. Helen wasn't that hot either. They needed Heather Graham. At the point in the story where she gets "reclaimed" she's about 50 though.
