SF movies you'd like to see

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Arizona_Mike said:
In the 1970s Johnny Carson was doing a sketch where he needed a pair of 3D glasses, so the prop department got them out of an old Jack Kirby 3D comic they found. On the side of the cardboard glasses, 'JACK KIRBY - KING OF THE COMICS!" was printed. After doing the sketch, Carson noted what it said and thought it meant “comics” like “comedians” and started rifling on “Who’s Jack Kirby? Why’s he saying he’s King of the Comics, I’ve never heard of him!”

Kirby saw the bit and was apparently mortified and became very depressed about being attacked on the Carson show. Someone who knew Kirby got in contact with Carson’s producer, Freddie Cordova, who explained who he was to Carson. Carson felt terrible about what he said, so they invited Jack Kirby on to appear, and billed him as “Jack Kirby, the King of the Comics”. Kirby, smoking his trademark cigar, appeared and looked pretty happy as he chatted with Carson about the comic book industry after Carson explained the situation and apologized to him.

It was a graceful way for Carson and Cordova to deal with the situation and make amends to Kirby.
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Cool anecdote, Mike! I like that.
 
The Grand Wheel, by Barrington Bayley, would also make a film if it were done correctly.

He’s one of the greatest masters of the genre, though he’s little known.
 
Lion_of_Narnia said:
Whoa, explaining that briefly…

Interstellar civilization, 1000 years in the future. Colony of New Caledonia. During a period of interstellar civil war and dark ages, the isolated colony looks up to the night sky up at the Coal Sack nebula where they see a red giant which has yellow sun companion–and the yellow sun has gone green–coherent light green, as in massive laser complex from a star system not known to have ANY human civilization. After decades of green, the laser light goes out, the colony is rediscovered, and then 200 years later, an alien light-sail probe enters the New Caledonion solar system

Anyway, the Nebula sort looks like a human head, the red giant is the “eye” and the companion, yellow or green, is the speck or “mote”
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Ah, thanks. I had assumed it was something metaphorical, as in ‘humans (or Earth) is the mote in God’s eye.’
 
Arizona_Mike said:
In the 1970s Johnny Carson was doing a sketch where he needed a pair of 3D glasses, so the prop department got them out of an old Jack Kirby 3D comic they found. On the side of the cardboard glasses, 'JACK KIRBY - KING OF THE COMICS!" was printed. After doing the sketch, Carson noted what it said and thought it meant “comics” like “comedians” and started rifling on “Who’s Jack Kirby? Why’s he saying he’s King of the Comics, I’ve never heard of him!”

Kirby saw the bit and was apparently mortified and became very depressed about being attacked on the Carson show. Someone who knew Kirby got in contact with Carson’s producer, Freddie Cordova, who explained who he was to Carson. Carson felt terrible about what he said, so they invited Jack Kirby on to appear, and billed him as “Jack Kirby, the King of the Comics”. Kirby, smoking his trademark cigar, appeared and looked pretty happy as he chatted with Carson about the comic book industry after Carson explained the situation and apologized to him.

It was a graceful way for Carson and Cordova to deal with the situation and make amends to Kirby.
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I guess Carson being a man of his generation was unfamiliar with Stan Lee’s penchant for giving everyone on the Marvel staff colorful nicknames.
 
Exiled_Child said:
Oops, I stand corrected. Thanks, John. I think I read that in some science fiction who’s who encyclopedia, and either they got it wrong, or I just didn’t bother trying to find out what the “Celtic Christian Church” is. Still though, Lammas Night would make an interesting World War Two movie. It’s a lot different than any other war novel or film I’ve seen. I think Hollywood would be able to make something really entertaining out of it, if a bit trashy and pulpy.
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Disney did a movie about a witch fighting Nazis in England. Bednobs and Broomstics

Tom A.
 
If you want an action/adventure movie, do The Weapons Makers by A.E. Van Vogt. Tyrannical government, anti-government super scientists, both after the same man who steals an interstellar spaceship and encounters aliens; a beautiful queen, and giants destroying cities. It has everything!

Tom A.
A Weapon Shop gun threw up a defensive half shield that would stop 8 ordinary weapons, but he never underestimated the power of a blaster. - The Weapon Makers (from memory)
 
End of Eternity (Asimov), Door into Summer, Naked Sun, Caves of Steel, Robots and Empire, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Podcayne, Friday, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, The Shadow,
 
Good luck, the remake of **Flash Gordon **seems to have been in development hell for years.

ICXC NIKA
 
GEddie said:
Good luck, the remake of **Flash Gordon **seems to have been in development hell for years.

ICXC NIKA
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It’s probably too late (don’t know if any of the principle actors have died) but I’d love to see sequels to Buckaroo Banzai. Loved the fact that (unlike today’s super-hero movies where they still do it no matter how many reboots they’ve done) the origin story is almost a throw away scene. Just get right into the action!

(Reminds me of the old Pulp stories; It was months/years before the Shadow’s backstory was revealed.)

Tom A.
 
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