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In my case, I believe that Poul Anderson's Hunters of the Sky Cave and A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows would be great movies, in the right hands of course.
Help me, all you Obiwan Kenobis. Let's have some fun !!!!
Out of the dark by David Weber. Also Rendezvous with Rama. The tried to make this some years ago but it never materialized. Morgan Freeman was attached to the film.
Cities in Flight is well within the realms of CGI to make into an outstanding and money-making trilogy with lots of eye-candy. Not sure who has the rights. As a book, Rendezvous avec Rama was dependent on the continuing tease of "who built this?" than major plot.
Out of the dark by David Weber. Also Rendezvous with Rama. The tried to make this some years ago but it never materialized. Morgan Freeman was attached to the film.
I believe it is still on. But, with ID2 and some other sci-fi films coming up, RwR wont be made for some time... I guess until Morgan turns 100.
While I am not too crazy of movies being made out of the stories I have read, usually because they make such a mess of it, two shorts and then one other I have read in the past:
"Child of All Ages" by Phillip James Plauger
"Tree of Life", author unknown, may have been in the same paperback collection of above. Synopsis: a crash landed parasitic alien invades its next host.....which is a tree.
"Crystal Singer" by Anne McCaffrey. No doubt they would probably make a disaster of it but at the very least, they ought to have a lot of fun casting some shapely, if not hard body, brunette, practically a teen, for the part.
I think that they should make some of my stories into movies.
I've got one where there is the island where some American explorers discover a native tribe apparently afraid of the legend of some giant ape. Then the ape turns out to be real. It captures and falls in love with the female explorer, but then the others capture the ape and take it to New York to put it on exhibition. I won't tell you the ending so you'll be surprised when they do make the movie.
The first short story that comes to mind is "Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov. I know that was already made into a horrible movie by David Birney, but it is time for a remake.
I enjoy alternative history and some of the best short stories that would make good, entertaining movies are:
"Bring the Jubilee" by Ward Moore (What if the south won the civil war and time travel wrapped into one)
"Dance Band on the Titanic" by Jack Chalker, an interesting story of a ferry that crosses time and a ferryman's experiences aboard the ferry.
"Eutopia" by Poul Anderson only because that short story's ending took me for a loop.
I have to think the Foundation novels came up on this already. So far not happening. I think I know but I figure they could handle the CGI stuff at the least.
Space Mountain is a recent graphic novel based off of the Tomorrowland ride of the same name. I feel that can be a good sci-fi movie if Disney wanted to triple down on Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars
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