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[WordAssassin]

What's sad is the more you guys talk about a Where's Waldo movie, the more I want to see one. :lol

I can picture it happening two ways. The first, the "Dude Where's My Car?" idea, which would be GOLD and HILARIOUS if it was done tongue-in-cheek style.

But I keep getting this idea in my head that it'd be done by Nickelodeon, and the trailer plays out in my head starting off with Jeff Goldblum in his treehouse fort with his dog, and there's this bubbly, dopey music playing and he's getting all his gear ready, and he sets off on an adventure. Then he gets lost, and his girlfriend and dog have to find him, so it'd be like a shitty version of Inspector Gadget. (Which is saying something, because that movie was just awful to no end.)

However! If we combine the two, and have the movie start with Jeff Goldblum going on an adventure, and then the movie leaves him and focuses on his friends coming over to party with him, and he's not there, so they go and try to find him with him randomly popping up in the background, that'd be awesome.

If I ever become some kind of director, I will make this movie. Infact, it will be the first movie I make, and everyone will love it, so I will be catapulted into fam and fortune! :lol

 

[Spike]

An updated of Shogun by James Clavell. After seeing The Last Samurai, I can only imagine how much better it would be with today's technology.

 

[Warm Machine]

The Keeper of the Isis Light

Don't know if it would be a blockbuster but would make a pretty good movie.

 

[Arwen]

The Keeper of the Isis Light

Don't know if it would be a blockbuster but would make a pretty good movie.

Agreed--and if done right, so would Crisis on Conshelf 10 (both by Monica Hughes)

 

[ManaByte]

I'd like someone to do a four and a half hour, R-rated, direct adaptation of Jurassic Park.

 

[Cosmic Bus]

I continue to hope for the adaptation of Motherless Brooklyn that Edward Norton was s'posed to be involved with several years ago. Although Norton would be perfect in the lead, I'd kill to see it made at all, really.

 

[Pedigree Chum]

Tuff choice
Timescape by Gregory Benford
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

There is a slaughterhouse 5 movie. it was on tv a few months ago. Wasn't that great unfortunately, the book is much better.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069280/

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

Think 'Dude, Where's My Car?' only with a gang of 20-something dumbasses looking for their pal Waldo for the entire movie. The gimmick is that, while they're on this grand adventure looking for him, he keeps popping up in the scenery and background crowds. The audience will see him if they're looking, but the main characters don't find him until the very end.

You know I had an idea like this once -- a long time ago. It was a jump to conclusions mat!

You see it would be this mat that you would put on the floor and it would have different -CONCLUSIONS- written on it .... that you could "jump" to.

 

[lexi]

 

[Scrow]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Though I hear it's already in development...hope it turns out alright. It's one of my favorite books.

i've just started reading that.

oh yeah, another book that I'd like to see as a movie is any one of many Discworld books by Terry Pratchett. Lords and Ladies could be a good choice.

 

[Malakhov]

They're already doing it, The Da Vinci Code.

Tom Hanks, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno and Audrey Tautou, what more can you ask?