Books/Comics that NEED to be adapted to the screen

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• Thunderfinger Das Boot Hill

  August 2017 Posts: 45,489

  Plus, Mandrake is fun.
• Torgeirtrap

  August 2017 Posts: 17,764

  Thunderfinger wrote: »

  Plus, Mandrake is fun.

  
  Indeed. Haven't read Mandrake for ages, though. Could a Phantom-movie be done in 2017?
• Thunderfinger Das Boot Hill

  August 2017 Posts: 45,489

  So much potential there, I certainly hope so.
• Torgeirtrap

  August 2017 Posts: 17,764

  Thunderfinger wrote: »

  So much potential there, I certainly hope so.

  
  There's plenty of material to find inspiration from. Doubt The Phantom is a very bankable superhero, compared to those we see on the big screen now. Still, would be interesting to see. A Netflix mini-series, perhaps?
• BeatlesSansEarmuffs

  August 2017 edited August 2017 Posts: 3,566

  Just FYI, there WAS a Phantom movie released in 1996 with Billy Zane as The Ghost Who Walks and Treat Williams as the bad guy...also featuring Catherine Zeta Jones as the femme fatale. Quite watchable but didn't really do boffo box office.
• Thunderfinger Das Boot Hill

  August 2017 Posts: 45,489

  I know. I will check it out some day. Judging from the trailer, it looks pretty bad.
• MaxCasino United States

  January 2019 edited January 2019 Posts: 4,638

  Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl.
  
  A Superman movie without Lex Luthor, General Zod or villains not from the comic books. Brainiac or Metallo would be nice.
  
  Those are my dream projects, for myself.
• Thunderfinger Das Boot Hill

  August 2019 Posts: 45,489

  
  Redbeard could become a great series of films.
• Gerard

  August 2019 Posts: 5,997

  Torgeirtrap wrote: »

  Thunderfinger wrote: »

  All right. COMANCHE, BERNARD PRINCE, BRUNO BRAZIL for starters. And a proper adaptation of BLUEBERRY.
  
  Would also love to see TORPEDO 1936 on the big screen.

  
  Tex Willer? :D

  
  Already done, in the 80s I think :
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_and_the_Lord_of_the_Deep
• Thunderfinger Das Boot Hill

  August 2019 Posts: 45,489

  I found the whole film on Yotube. Not going to watch it myself, but here you are.
  
  
• Tracy

  August 2019 edited August 2019 Posts: 1,709

  Toy line films : MASK , Defenders of Earth , Bravestarr
  
  Its not gonna happen but would like Lego Pirates movie based on the first toy line
• MaxCasino United States

  August 2019 edited August 2019 Posts: 4,638

  A few projects that I would like to be involved with, if I had my choice:
  
  Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. The audience is there, and it boggles my mind on why nobody's done anything with it, yet. Just get a new cast and crew, and I think it would go far.
  
  Superman: Brainiac. Done in live action. This graphic novel is what Man of Steel or even Batman v Superman should have been. It's shocking that we haven't gotten Brainiac in cinema yet. It's honestly time for him and a better cinematic adaption of Supergirl to be shown. The best thing of all though is that it's a great Superman story that isn't a origin story. WB and DC step up your game with this one!
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 2019 Posts: 13,823

  The Hunters.
  
  Filmed in 1958 with a pretty much ideal cast of Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, and others but unfortunately it ignored the important themes and especially the ending of the 1956 James Salter novel.
  

  

  
  
  Film it today with an opening title card using this quote from Salter's autobiography Burning the Days, regarding his personal experience during the Korean War as a Sabre jet pilot.

  It was victory we longed for and imagined.
  You could not steal it or be be given it.
  No man on earth was rich enough to buy it and it was worth nothing.
  In the end it was worth nothing at all.