SF movies you'd like to see

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We’ve had discussions of Star Wars and Star Trek. What movies do you wish they would make.

For me, In the Country of the Blind by Michael Flynn. In the mid nineteenth century the science of “cliology” (think Asimov’s psychohistory) is discovered and the modern day bad guys use it to control current events.

Probably better for a movie franchise Turtledove’s Worldwar series. Aliens show up in the middle of WW2 expecting an easy win, all the enemies in WW2 become allies
 
3 books in the Space Trilogy of C. S. Lewis, from the 1940s:

Out of the Silent Planet - best exploration of Original Sin (set on Mars)

Perelandra - best exploration of conversion - (set on Venus)

That Hideous Strength - best exploration of where we are at, in 2016 (set on, guess where?)
 
Have to do them as a TV series, but SM Stirling’s Change novels, both the Islander (first 3) and the Dies the Fire series (12+ books).
 
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3 books in the Space Trilogy of C. S. Lewis, from the 1940s:

Out of the Silent Planet - best exploration of Original Sin (set on Mars)

Perelandra - best exploration of conversion - (set on Venus)

That Hideous Strength - best exploration of where we are at, in 2016 (set on, guess where?)
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You’d have to adapt the first two as Interstellar journeys now.

NICE in the 3rd one has to be the creepiest organization set to print.:eek:
 
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3 books in the Space Trilogy of C. S. Lewis, from the 1940s:

Out of the Silent Planet - best exploration of Original Sin (set on Mars)

Perelandra - best exploration of conversion - (set on Venus)

That Hideous Strength - best exploration of where we are at, in 2016 (set on, guess where?)
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I would love to see these as well set to screen.
I also agree with the above post that as of today you would have to set them in an interstellar setting.
 
Lion_of_Narnia said:
You’d have to adapt the first two as Interstellar journeys now.
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Not necessarily, although some retconning would be needed.

CS almost got Mars right: the world was unlivable and the air unbreatheable except in the shallow “hamdramits.” These don’t exist, but the vast canyons such as the Marineris are more likely as places that could conceivably trap air and water.

The idea that private citizens could own spacecraft is, sadly, fully impossible. Ransom’s captors would need to be an RAF, or USAF (move Ransom to the USA) “black opp.”

The floating islands in Venus’ nonexistent ocean could be retconned to floating bubble-lands in its Atmosphere, where temperature and pressure are earthly.

I like the way he travels in “Perelandra.”
NICE in the 3rd one has to be the creepiest organization set to print.:eek:
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No kidding.

Sadly, all of the Britannocentric mythology makes THS too strange as a film, IMNAAHO.

ICXC NIKA
 
GEddie said:
The floating islands in Venus’ nonexistent ocean could be retconned to floating bubble-lands in its Atmosphere, where temperature and pressure are earthly.

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Those clouds are full of sulphuric acid–so I don’t think so.

SM Stirling has a couple of novels set on livable Venus & Mars that were terraformed (and seeded by Earth life) LONG ago by unknown people/aliens
 
andrewstx said:
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Hienline.
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I am surprised that was never apparently made a movie. Back in the 1960s Heinlein was a pro military Republican who wrote a book the counter culture really got into.

It is one of my favorite book titles.
 
The Silmarillion, by J. R. R. Tolkein

They have mined his LOTR and Hobbit repeatedly for movie material, but I believe the rights to this book have never been purchased.
 
The Sheep Look Up, by John Brunner and The Anubis Gates, by Tim Powers would both make fantastic films, potentially at least. Also, virtually anything at all by the British science fiction author Eric Frank Russell holds massive cinematic potential. It’s actually quite shocking that he’s as overlooked as he is. In my view, he’s a hidden master of the genre; an exceptionally great storyteller and writer.
 
The Book of the New Sun tetrology:

The Shadow of the Torturer,* The Claw of the Conciliator*, The Sword of the Lictor, and The Citadel of the Autarch

If you allow fantasy, I’d like to see Katherine Kurtz’s Deryni series on screen.
 
John_Lazarus said:
The Book of the New Sun tetrology:

The Shadow of the Torturer,* The Claw of the Conciliator*, The Sword of the Lictor, and The Citadel of the Autarch

If you allow fantasy, I’d like to see Katherine Kurtz’s Deryni series on screen.
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I love Gene Wolfe, and especially the series you mentioned. And I agree, they could potentially make wonderful films, though it seems unlikely anything could match the books. As far as Katherine Kurtz goes, I haven’t read the Deryni books, but she did a really over-the-top novel called Lammas Night. The story revolves around a coven of English witches fighting HItler in WWII, and so it’s basically an occult novel. It’s a fun read, though.🤷 I think Kurtz herself is actually Catholic, but that particularly fantasy novel really isn’t.
 
I’d like to see a good movie adaptation of F Paul Wilson’s The Keep. Please include all the backstory that made the novel interesting. You can recycle the Tangerine Dream soundtrack from the 80’s disaster.
 
tvknight415 said:
I’d like to see a good movie adaptation of F Paul Wilson’s The Keep. Please include all the backstory that made the novel interesting. You can recycle the Tangerine Dream soundtrack from the 80’s disaster.
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There’s a recent graphic novel adaptation that has Dr. Wilson’s full cooperation–including an essay where he described that 80s “disaster” (hard to find on VHS and apparently never made it to DVD)
 
andrewstx said:
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Hienline.
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I used to be a fanatic Heinlein fan–I got better.
Really, I came across that book in 7th grade when I had NO filters to handle it, what I could understand at least. The religious “questioning” is shallow to say the least and the sexual liberation propaganda is pervasive and destructive throughout.

Roman Polanski is supposed to have had the movie rights but that would have lapsed long ago. The estate has been money grubbing enough (like Starship Troopers) that someone like Verhooven could take a shot at it.:eek:
 
E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith’s Lensmen series - imagine rolling out that long franchise.
 
Exiled_Child said:
I love Gene Wolfe, and especially the series you mentioned. And I agree, they could potentially make wonderful films, though it seems unlikely anything could match the books. As far as Katherine Kurtz goes, I haven’t read the Deryni books, but she did a really over-the-top novel called Lammas Night. The story revolves around a coven of English witches fighting HItler in WWII, and so it’s basically an occult novel. It’s a fun read, though.🤷 I think Kurtz herself is actually Catholic, but that particularly fantasy novel really isn’t.
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No.

“The Celtic Christian Church welcomed its second bishop, Katherine Kurtz, who joined the Celtic Christian Church on November 6, 2001, already a consecrated bishop, she transferred from the Apostolic Catholic Orthodox Church, and presides over All Angels Jurisdiction. Bishop Katherine’s career as an author is combined with her spiritual ministry.”
celticchristianchurch.org/allangelsjurisdiction.htm
 
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