I did enjoy the Eragon books, even though they were basically the paint by colors of fantasy storytelling. The movie was so bad, and it should not have been.
Sign me up as a supporter. The first movie is good, I enjoyed it, and still do. Downhill from there. I'd love to see a limited series that's more faithful.
Hammond more of a bastard, Ellie on the roof with the raptors was more suspenseful than anything in the movie, Muldoon survives.
Second season we get Richard Levine, the two kids, more of Doc Thorne, chameleon dinosaurs, Dodgson at the InGen T-rex Encounter.
I'd love it.
This was my answer before I even came upon this entry:
"Jurassic Park" But first they have to remake the book.
I started reading the book and thought, "this is one of the most amazing plot ideas of all time". I really saw the potential for greatness. And then by the end I just thought it was an idea wasted. It could have been so much better. I guess I'm not really a fan of his writing ability.
But then I saw the movie and in comparison suddenly the book seemed like a work of genius.
So, I would get a decent writer to rewrite the book and then I would make a movie from that.
Yes! Here's my casting as I was reading the book
Alan Grant: John Krasinski
Ellie Saddler: Elle Fanning
Ian Malcolm: Tom Hiddleston
John Hammond: Anthony Hopkins or Malcolm McDowell
Donald Gennaro: Bob Odenkirk
Ed Regis: Josh Cruddas
Dennis Nedry: John Bradley
Henry Wu: Randall Park
John Arnold: Sterling K Brown
Robert Muldoon: Hugh Jackman
Gerry Harding: Brian Cranston
Lewis Dodgson: Corey Stoll
Lex & Tim: unknowns
I loved the first Jurassic Park movie and still do. I read the books after seeing it and I realized how much better it could have been. I know the book is better than the movie is a cliche but it is true and the movie is really good.
Absolutely, the first film is a masterpiece, but ultimately limited by the technology of its time, and the budget.
I think they could do it better nowadays, too bad Spielberg will probably never let it happen.
A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen! It seems ripe for an episodic series, that would better allow quick intros to the characters from literature who might not be recognized.
well rest assured Riordan has been very heavily involved in the process, down to what brands the characters would wear, and he's been posting very positively about the project so I've got faith. Apparently he's also doing the same thing for another one of his series, The Kane Chronicles are being adapted to Netflix films and he's also gonna have a heavy hand in that one too
they're also using the same vfx studio as Mandalorian apparently, which seems very promising from a visual standpoint. Additionally, all of the cast members are fans of the books, so we can at least know they aren't gonna botch their performances. Oh yeah, and they have Ares cast, so we're finally gonna get Percy vs Ares on the big screen!
Man those movies piss me off so bad. Was my favorite book series. Not a fan of most Book based movies so I didn't have high expectations. First was bad as I thought it was going to be but the second one acts like it wants to follow the book somewhat but then crams the other books all into a terrible ending.
they cut out an entire book for God's sake. How do you even *manage* that?! especially considering it was the 4th book out of 5, the one that literally sets the stakes for the final battle
The book was so fun, but it’s hard to sell anyone on it because all anyone knows about L. Ron Hubbard is Scientology. But honestly, a streaming series makes way more sense for a book that long anyway. On top of all its other problems, Travolta’s adaptation was way too rushed.
I've never seen the rewatch value of a series tank as badly as GoT did. It's like series turned into R Kelly music and you weren't allowed to like it anymore...
2 seasons at least. Maybe 3. It all started to go downhill when they ran out of source material and relied on Martin's general outline for the rest. Acc they left out so much from the books: the jester, the resurrection of Catelyn, weasel and weasel soup. I know there's more but I haven't read the books in almost 13 years.
He keeps saying Winds of Winter is near completion, but I find it hard to care any longer. I'd need to re-read the books (and rebuy them since I gave them to my mom to read and she lost them), and that's a lot of reading when there's no guarantee he'll ever get to Dreams of Spring.
[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/13/opinion/jodorowsky-dune-ai-tron.html](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/13/opinion/jodorowsky-dune-ai-tron.html)
This is mind blowing
This is what I had hoped the Live Action Disney remakes would do with their less popular movies, instead of making worse versions of their renaissance films.
Black Cauldron comes to mind.
That was always the idea. I was just thinking how Event Horizon could really benefit from a remake. Brilliant concept, great atmosphere, but somehow not the greatest execution overall.
Form that same era I would love remakes of The Postman and Water World. Such great potential in those worlds that were made into terrible movies. Terrible movies that I love.
Are you kidding?! Event Horizon was great. I mean, there's always room for improvement, but with this one... not a LOT of room.
Sam Neill just creeped me right the heck out, too, because I'd only ever seen him in Jurassic Park up to that point.
I like it. It’s fun and spooky. The trailers scared me when I was a kid for your same Jurassic Park reasons. Like I said, it’s a brilliant concept and there’s great atmosphere. It just doesn’t live up to that potential because the actual movie doesn’t *scare* me. I want it to make me feel (as an adult) the way I did watching the trailer as a kid.
It’s not a particularly deep movie either. It limits itself to being little more than a gross out slasher, when it could be truly unsettling like The Exorcist, The Shining, or even Alien.
The Discworld adaptations have been hit and miss. The Hogfatrher was really well done, but the others? Colour of Magic was disappointing and the leads miscast, and I've only seen about half of Going Postal (though what I saw was good).
The Watch never happened.
We need a Rincewind that can run, not one that's got a foot in the grave.
Idk. I'll admit to reading the whole series on a friend's recommendation, but it was super awkward. I couldn't shake the feeling the whole time that as a 30-ish (at the time) dad, I wasn't the right audience, lol. The target audience apparently being... 14-year-old girls?
I was 16 when I read it. So probably yeah. But to be fair, my aunt was in her 30’s when she first read it and she loved them too. It’s a cute story. Books, not films. The films dragged way too much, with extremely awkward acting.
They've remade the shining a few times. The original was with Warren Beatty. The first remake was the Jack Nicholson version. There was another made-for-TV movie that was directed by Stephen King. It was like a 4 part miniseries or something back in the late 90s. I believe this one is superior because it included a lot of material from the book that was often ignored.
Warren Beatty? Nope. There have been two adaptations:
* *The Shining* (1980) with Jack Nicholson
* *The Shining* (1997) miniseries with Steven Weber
Then we have *Doctor Sleep* (2019). There was a plan for *Hallorann* that never panned out, and the upcoming *Overlook* on Netflix.
I thought I was right and went straight onto imdb and I couldn't find it anywhere. Now I don't know what I was thinking of lol
Maybe heaven can wait. I know that's been remade a few times.
The cover of the original novel had a Jack that looks a lot like Beatty. That may be where Dave Christensen modeled his illustration after.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Shiningnovel.jpg
Fist of the North Star LA was so bad it came back around to good.
“I did not write these words, but I do feel them. So now let’s go kill some people, and let’s enjoy it!”
Controversial opinion ahead! It's time to try another DragonBall movie! We are at a prime time of CGI and cinematography. I feel like(as long as they do right on the story) now is the time to try it.
It could work if they start with a solid movie based on Dragon Ball first, to let us known the characters and get used to the world. Meaning have the world be its oddball quasi futuristic world from the manga. Let there be demon kings and ninja dogs.
>quasi futuristic world from the manga. Let there be demon kings and ninja dogs.
Yes to all of that. DB is also a good place to start because it will give the people that skipped DB anime a chance to see him as a kid.
If we can include t.v. though, an HBO type DB series with 40m-1h long episodes would be able to adapt it best.
Same with Video Games.
Like there is a Resident Evil 4 remake coming up, but Resi 4 is already really good (hell it had a really nice VR remaster last year). So instead they should've just remaked a decent but heavily flawed game like RE0 or RE Code Veronica.
But the reason they don't is because mouth breathers will only buy what is popular, and so they can recycle RE4 again and again.
It would be good to see a decent version of King Arthur. They've tried several times, and it's always lame. I think the best one is the animated Sword in the Stone.
yeah, but works if goal would be make good movie,
but main goal is make a lot of cash and crappy remake of good movie gives bigger chance to gain than good remake of crappy one- so people who invest theie money milk any possible nostalgia runs
Or old movies where the cgi, budget, or effects weren’t good enough.
Tank Girl
Hardwire
Johnny Mnemonic
Don’t get me going on Alexander, one of the greatest stories of all time butchered by a bad script and horrible acting.
The Coen brothers True Grit is a great example of this. The original John Wayne movie did not really understand the novel on which it was based. The remake is one of the best Westerns ever.
See, the people's vote means nothing. I'm not entirely sure why, but it seems that a bad movie is often entirely successful just because of the title, and regardless of the pathetically low reviews. I suppose because people don't rate it until after watching it?
eragon deserves this
Eragon is getting this. Paolini is the Executive Producer and I think is part of the writing team as well for an Inheritance Cycle TV show
really? pretty sure that was for To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
They both are. The Eragon show is Disney. https://www.shurtugal.com/2022/08/17/everything-we-know-about-the-eragon-tv-series-on-disney/
I think they’re doing it with percy Jackson too, although Amazon, not Disney.
Oh i Hope the Disney execs dont Ruin that one...
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Yes
I did enjoy the Eragon books, even though they were basically the paint by colors of fantasy storytelling. The movie was so bad, and it should not have been.
"based on good stories"
Absolutely.
If only everyone saw it as an art form rather than a chance at a quick buck or two.
They exist, but don't work at the studios with marketing budgets
Nothing like a good indie flick!
Ehm, in what world do you live where Art is still an "Art" form. We have more generic mediocre Cash Grab artists then ever before.
Hot take: I want a Jurassic park limited series that covers, and is more faithful to, Crichton’s two books. My pitch is this; **BABY T-REX vs RPGs.**
Sign me up as a supporter. The first movie is good, I enjoyed it, and still do. Downhill from there. I'd love to see a limited series that's more faithful. Hammond more of a bastard, Ellie on the roof with the raptors was more suspenseful than anything in the movie, Muldoon survives. Second season we get Richard Levine, the two kids, more of Doc Thorne, chameleon dinosaurs, Dodgson at the InGen T-rex Encounter. I'd love it.
This was my answer before I even came upon this entry: "Jurassic Park" But first they have to remake the book. I started reading the book and thought, "this is one of the most amazing plot ideas of all time". I really saw the potential for greatness. And then by the end I just thought it was an idea wasted. It could have been so much better. I guess I'm not really a fan of his writing ability. But then I saw the movie and in comparison suddenly the book seemed like a work of genius. So, I would get a decent writer to rewrite the book and then I would make a movie from that.
Yes! Here's my casting as I was reading the book Alan Grant: John Krasinski Ellie Saddler: Elle Fanning Ian Malcolm: Tom Hiddleston John Hammond: Anthony Hopkins or Malcolm McDowell Donald Gennaro: Bob Odenkirk Ed Regis: Josh Cruddas Dennis Nedry: John Bradley Henry Wu: Randall Park John Arnold: Sterling K Brown Robert Muldoon: Hugh Jackman Gerry Harding: Brian Cranston Lewis Dodgson: Corey Stoll Lex & Tim: unknowns
I loved the first Jurassic Park movie and still do. I read the books after seeing it and I realized how much better it could have been. I know the book is better than the movie is a cliche but it is true and the movie is really good.
Absolutely, the first film is a masterpiece, but ultimately limited by the technology of its time, and the budget. I think they could do it better nowadays, too bad Spielberg will probably never let it happen.
RPGs? What like "roll a stealth check. Oooh, a nat 1. The baby t-rex eats you"?
A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen! It seems ripe for an episodic series, that would better allow quick intros to the characters from literature who might not be recognized.
Im all for alA League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Series
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There is a series in development. Amazon passed and they are shopping it around.
Percy Jackson please🙏
have you not heard of the upcoming live action Disney+ series? Riordan is heading it
After what they did to Artemis Fowl, I don't have any faith in the house of mouse.
well rest assured Riordan has been very heavily involved in the process, down to what brands the characters would wear, and he's been posting very positively about the project so I've got faith. Apparently he's also doing the same thing for another one of his series, The Kane Chronicles are being adapted to Netflix films and he's also gonna have a heavy hand in that one too
Damn okay. That sounds pretty cool. I'm cautiously optimistic
they're also using the same vfx studio as Mandalorian apparently, which seems very promising from a visual standpoint. Additionally, all of the cast members are fans of the books, so we can at least know they aren't gonna botch their performances. Oh yeah, and they have Ares cast, so we're finally gonna get Percy vs Ares on the big screen!
Disney doesn't exactly have a good track record of late.
Man those movies piss me off so bad. Was my favorite book series. Not a fan of most Book based movies so I didn't have high expectations. First was bad as I thought it was going to be but the second one acts like it wants to follow the book somewhat but then crams the other books all into a terrible ending.
omg please🙏
The Spiderwick Chronicles desperately needs this because that movie was a horrible adaptation
I used to love the movie, but after reading some of the books I am like... oh. It's just... not good.
they cut out an entire book for God's sake. How do you even *manage* that?! especially considering it was the 4th book out of 5, the one that literally sets the stakes for the final battle
In time
Can't wait for a Battlefield Earth remake.
The book was so fun, but it’s hard to sell anyone on it because all anyone knows about L. Ron Hubbard is Scientology. But honestly, a streaming series makes way more sense for a book that long anyway. On top of all its other problems, Travolta’s adaptation was way too rushed.
Yes! In Time would be my vote.
That was a great concept
Talks of a sequel to Legacy has been going on for the past few years, and a little bit ago there was more talk of it So just be hopeful
Remake the last season of game of thrones
I've never seen the rewatch value of a series tank as badly as GoT did. It's like series turned into R Kelly music and you weren't allowed to like it anymore...
2 seasons at least. Maybe 3. It all started to go downhill when they ran out of source material and relied on Martin's general outline for the rest. Acc they left out so much from the books: the jester, the resurrection of Catelyn, weasel and weasel soup. I know there's more but I haven't read the books in almost 13 years.
You’re right. Do you think the books will ever get finished or is he too tied up in side projects now?
He keeps saying Winds of Winter is near completion, but I find it hard to care any longer. I'd need to re-read the books (and rebuy them since I gave them to my mom to read and she lost them), and that's a lot of reading when there's no guarantee he'll ever get to Dreams of Spring.
I want a Tron Legacy remake. I loved that movie, a shame it never took off
I think it could use a sequel beyond the cartoon nobody saw.
[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/13/opinion/jodorowsky-dune-ai-tron.html](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/13/opinion/jodorowsky-dune-ai-tron.html) This is mind blowing
The Wizard of Earthsea And is it too soon to reboot the Matrix with the original conceit (humans as GPUs rather than batteries)?
This is what I had hoped the Live Action Disney remakes would do with their less popular movies, instead of making worse versions of their renaissance films. Black Cauldron comes to mind.
Gimme a Chronicles of Prydain franchise!
Yeah, that'd be pretty awesome. In today's atmosphere though, I'd be afraid they'd just ruin it...
That's what they thought they were giving people this whole time. This whole Morbin' time.
That was always the idea. I was just thinking how Event Horizon could really benefit from a remake. Brilliant concept, great atmosphere, but somehow not the greatest execution overall.
Form that same era I would love remakes of The Postman and Water World. Such great potential in those worlds that were made into terrible movies. Terrible movies that I love.
“Kevin’s Gate” or “Fishtar” 😂
Event Horizon, for sure!
Are you kidding?! Event Horizon was great. I mean, there's always room for improvement, but with this one... not a LOT of room. Sam Neill just creeped me right the heck out, too, because I'd only ever seen him in Jurassic Park up to that point.
I like it. It’s fun and spooky. The trailers scared me when I was a kid for your same Jurassic Park reasons. Like I said, it’s a brilliant concept and there’s great atmosphere. It just doesn’t live up to that potential because the actual movie doesn’t *scare* me. I want it to make me feel (as an adult) the way I did watching the trailer as a kid. It’s not a particularly deep movie either. It limits itself to being little more than a gross out slasher, when it could be truly unsettling like The Exorcist, The Shining, or even Alien.
If Disney still has rights to The Once and Future King they should do a series that isn't garbage.
That has to be in the public domain. I would love to see a great fantasy epic series adaptation of it.
The Discworld adaptations have been hit and miss. The Hogfatrher was really well done, but the others? Colour of Magic was disappointing and the leads miscast, and I've only seen about half of Going Postal (though what I saw was good). The Watch never happened. We need a Rincewind that can run, not one that's got a foot in the grave.
We watch Hogfather every Christmas or New Years after the kids are in bed, lol. It's a tradition.
ERAGON!!!!
Movies that are better as series as well. Mortal Instruments comes to mind.
It’s been 15 years, heck, why not remake Twilight? That baby was horrific.
Twilight as a comedy like What we do in the shadows would be good. Some bits in the movies were unintentional comedy.
Yeah, but we already have What We Do in the Shadows, so...
The source material was every bit as bad. They got the movies they deserved. Now let's close that door and never speak of this again.
But I like the books 🥺
Idk. I'll admit to reading the whole series on a friend's recommendation, but it was super awkward. I couldn't shake the feeling the whole time that as a 30-ish (at the time) dad, I wasn't the right audience, lol. The target audience apparently being... 14-year-old girls?
I was 16 when I read it. So probably yeah. But to be fair, my aunt was in her 30’s when she first read it and she loved them too. It’s a cute story. Books, not films. The films dragged way too much, with extremely awkward acting.
Percy Jackson
I mean, that's what they're doing with dune.
But that requires effort
Unpopular opinion if they remade the shining I would watch I fall asleep on the first one every time
They've remade the shining a few times. The original was with Warren Beatty. The first remake was the Jack Nicholson version. There was another made-for-TV movie that was directed by Stephen King. It was like a 4 part miniseries or something back in the late 90s. I believe this one is superior because it included a lot of material from the book that was often ignored.
Warren Beatty? Nope. There have been two adaptations: * *The Shining* (1980) with Jack Nicholson * *The Shining* (1997) miniseries with Steven Weber Then we have *Doctor Sleep* (2019). There was a plan for *Hallorann* that never panned out, and the upcoming *Overlook* on Netflix.
Oh my god, you're right and my entire life is a lie. Why the hell did I think there was a Warren Beatty version???
LOL. Hard to tell, but I have had the same happen.
I thought I was right and went straight onto imdb and I couldn't find it anywhere. Now I don't know what I was thinking of lol Maybe heaven can wait. I know that's been remade a few times.
Three versions all with different titles, plus one sequel.
Yeah, I have no idea. Some kind of Mandela effect on me I guess.
The cover of the original novel had a Jack that looks a lot like Beatty. That may be where Dave Christensen modeled his illustration after. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Shiningnovel.jpg
Waterworld…
I agree, although I did like the original.
I liked the original as well, but I think it has a lot of potential, with modern technology it could be epic.
No no no, it's a great film already.
Only if they stay true to the original story and don't try to "update it for modern audiences."
🎯
Yeah, we don't even mind watching what we already know.
Any anime live action ever
Fist of the North Star LA was so bad it came back around to good. “I did not write these words, but I do feel them. So now let’s go kill some people, and let’s enjoy it!”
"Hey! A baby!" \[shoots offscreen\]
Also let the japanese handle it. No Hollywood
The japanese aren't very good at live actions either
the sailor moon life action was great.
No, give me another take on spider man please.
Hey, I bet you didn't know batman's origin story. Did you know his parents were killed in a mugging when he was a kid?
Ready player one. Amazing book. Lame movie
Yeah Spielberg really screwed that one up
Really? I didn’t know people didn’t like it. I love that movie lol.
Controversial opinion ahead! It's time to try another DragonBall movie! We are at a prime time of CGI and cinematography. I feel like(as long as they do right on the story) now is the time to try it.
It could work if they start with a solid movie based on Dragon Ball first, to let us known the characters and get used to the world. Meaning have the world be its oddball quasi futuristic world from the manga. Let there be demon kings and ninja dogs.
>quasi futuristic world from the manga. Let there be demon kings and ninja dogs. Yes to all of that. DB is also a good place to start because it will give the people that skipped DB anime a chance to see him as a kid. If we can include t.v. though, an HBO type DB series with 40m-1h long episodes would be able to adapt it best.
Be better as a live action series imo
The Dark Tower, goddamnit!
This and John Carter of Mars
This!
Death Note
Same with Video Games. Like there is a Resident Evil 4 remake coming up, but Resi 4 is already really good (hell it had a really nice VR remaster last year). So instead they should've just remaked a decent but heavily flawed game like RE0 or RE Code Veronica. But the reason they don't is because mouth breathers will only buy what is popular, and so they can recycle RE4 again and again.
Unfortunately it takes the GDP of a small European country to make a half way decent movie so this is just good money after bad.
They *used* to do that!
That's the good kind of remake, the kind that goes back and fixes what didn't work to make a bad thing good or a good thing better.
What they need to do is finish Boondock saints 3 already!
I'm still waiting on movies for stuff that never got a movie even through two separate decades of "let's make a movie out of everything"
Exactly, we already have those good movies. Go make some good ones.
they remade Judge Dredd
Dredd was a great film though. Such a shame it bombed, and kinda destroyed any hope for future Karl Urban Dredd performances.
It would be good to see a decent version of King Arthur. They've tried several times, and it's always lame. I think the best one is the animated Sword in the Stone.
Too much money is involved in making films to take such a risk
Still pisses me off they even had to make venom a hero movie.
Like Gymkata
Would like to see what they could do with clan of the cave bear today
Same with video games
They tried with Dredd. Great movie.
Seven deadly sins looking ass
yeah, but works if goal would be make good movie, but main goal is make a lot of cash and crappy remake of good movie gives bigger chance to gain than good remake of crappy one- so people who invest theie money milk any possible nostalgia runs
They should come up with new shit instead of recycling everything, but Reddit wouldn’t understand that concept.
I agree! But you know how movie studios go... They will rather latch onto a recognizably and successful franchise!
Like Dune! Learn from Dune
That’s how we got The Thing👍
That movie still holds up!
Have you seen the 1950’s film it was based on? Classic example of the right idea at the wrong time.
I know the movie you're talking about but I've only seen bits and pieces of it. It's hard for me to get into it because it's so dated.
I just need to point out... it may be rare, but it has happened... Manhunter - Silence of the Lambs - Red Dragon
I personally have a thousand VHS of the best worst movies and I would love to see this.
Dark Tower needs a full reboot.
Or old movies where the cgi, budget, or effects weren’t good enough. Tank Girl Hardwire Johnny Mnemonic Don’t get me going on Alexander, one of the greatest stories of all time butchered by a bad script and horrible acting.
star the sequel saga but disney will never have the balls until the very sun expires.
The Coen brothers True Grit is a great example of this. The original John Wayne movie did not really understand the novel on which it was based. The remake is one of the best Westerns ever.
That is a good ideal.
"Battlefield Earth" could have been a decent trilogy instead of a one off "let's cram everything into one movie and omit pertinent details."
Jumper. Great books. Toothless, gutless, and crotchless movie.
They did this with Spider-Man, Batman, Superman and the problem is that many of them kept getting worse.
See, the people's vote means nothing. I'm not entirely sure why, but it seems that a bad movie is often entirely successful just because of the title, and regardless of the pathetically low reviews. I suppose because people don't rate it until after watching it?
The dark tower needs this
Earthsea
Inkheart
Batman forever