Films you want to see get made
Number24
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I hope the title of the thread says it all: Are there any films that are yet unmade, but you want to see get made? Characters, plots, film makers - some detail is good.
Here is my first wish:
Conan: Red Nails
Red Nails is one of the best and darkest of the classic Conan the Barbarian stories. It's a mix of epic fantasy and the dark occult.
Director: Robert Eggers (The witch, the Northman)
Conan: Jason Momoa (it wasn't his fault the 2011 film wasn't that good)
Olmec: Javier Bardem
Valderia: Krista Kosonen (Beforeigners, Bladerunner 2049)
Tascela: Renate Reinsve (Sentimental value, Backrooms) There may be a theme of tall Nordic actresses here ...
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A book accurate Matt Helm film. Perhaps the first title, "Death Of A Citizen" but without Dean Martin's comedy drunk routines. Someone like a young Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry mode. Not the sort of man you'd like to blackmail by kidnapping his daughter.
Good thread @Number24
Two science fiction novels spring to mind immediately (there will be more).
A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C Clarke.
Time For The Stars by Robert Heinlein.
I want to see the Elric saga by Michael Moorcock brought to the big screen (or as a streaming series).
I wish we'd gotten that CRUSADE movie that Paul Verhoeven was trying to get made with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 90s.
Great suggestions @CoolHandBond.
The story of 'A Fall of Moondust' could be made into an IMAX film with a Mars setting.
I have not read 'Time For The Stars', but I am going to read it now.
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Here are two films I would like to see...
A film on 'Project Azorian', directed by James Cameron.
A biography on the older Howard Hughes (Las Vegas phase) starring Jim Carrey.
A James Bond film…yea, ok I know…but you gotta dream 🤷🏻♂️
First of all - I'm happy to see more people posting in this thread. My next dream film:
Constantinople
A film can't get much more epic than the fall of the capital of the eastern Roman empire in 1453 to the Ottomans. Peter Jackson has made first rate sieges before, so he's my favourite director for this. Ideally the two sides should be shown as players in an enormous game, not just heroes against villains.
Constantinople had enormous chains across the Bosporos straight to stop enemies, but the Ottomans pulled ships over land.
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow is about his investigation into movie producer Harvey Weinstein. It reads like a thriller and of particular note is how one of his accusers - actress Rose McGowan - was befriended by someone over the course of years but her new best friend turned out to be working for him, via the Israeli secret service Black Cube. The book reads like a thriller and the last I saw Brian de Palma was down to direct. Instead the movie version of it was He Said She Said which is really not much cop in my view. That said, maybe that whole saga has dropped off a cliff now.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
A remake of James Hilton’s Lost Horizon (no, not another musical version) is well overdue. James Norton would be ideal as Conway if he’s not going to do the Bond gig.
I'd like to see a really tense film about the Arctic convoys in WWII, taking munitions and other war-changing cargo from north America to the USSR. Focus on one merchant ship going from New York via Iceland to Murmansk or Arkangelsk in Northern Russia, perhaps filled with artillery shells. Churchill called it "the worst journey in the world". Always lurking under the surface were wolf packs of German submarines, bombers or battleships from the fjords of northern Norway became a threat during the last part of the voyage. So much ice could form on the ships they could topple, if you touch steel outside with bare skin you may have to amputate, and the psychological pressure on the civilian crew was unbearable. I'd like to see it shot like an above surface version of Das Boot where the enemy is very seldom seen, a psychological thriller on a large scale. Maybe directed by David Fincher or Denise Villeneuve?
@Number24 That is an excellent suggestion.
'The Deception Planners'
A WW2 film detailing the covert operations of the LCS (London Controlling Section) and the role Wing Commander Dennis Wheatley played in defeating the Axis threat.
A version of Alistair MacLean's NIGHT WITHOUT END would suit me fine.
I'd like to see a romantic satirical culture clash comedy about the political/culture clash in the US. One person from the right and one from the left fall in love and meet the potential in-laws and so on. For the comedy to work it must be really smart (screwball type) and make fun of both sides. There's plenty of material! 😂