This most likely has already been done but..conseter it an update
 

1.what books, video games, tv series that haven't been movie-fied that should be?

2. In what ways would it work ? or not?

3.what shouldn't have been movie-fied (of books, video games, or tv series)?

4. WHY?


1. romance of the three kingdoms and the the DW games

2A. great plot, good characters, Its got the romance (lu bu and DC) 2B. too long I would be more like three or four movies,and it would be a FOTR clone. (ahem troy) too much fighting

3.pokemon!

4. damn those picahu, money hords! movie after movie! it burns!


as I said earlier it would be 3 or 4 movies

movie 1: starts in the peach garden, then yellow turbans, then lu bu ordeal
ends at xia pi.

movie 2: wan castle, guan du, the guan yu excape.

movie 3: starts with the sun ce getting land,chan ban, enter zhuge liang, ends at chi bi

movie 4:starts death of pang tong at falling phenix slope, lui bei gets cheng do

movie 5: death of guan yu, zhang fei. ends at yi ling and death of lui bei.

movie 6: shu-han's invasion north, death of zhuge liang, ends with the death of jiang wei and the end of the shu-han

The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. That would just be fugging awesome.

Impossible, but awesome.

It would be funny if they made a Mega Man movie.

Starcraft could be pretty cool too.

Yeah, they could base Mega man on the charactor model on the original game's box.

They should make a Sabriel (by Garth Nix) movie. It could transfer very well to the movie screen because it had a pretty simple story, and a lot of action and adventure sequences.

Metal Gear Solid!

It would work if they could find an actor that looks like Snake(pick me!), and get David Hayter to play the voice. And there could be no Raiden allowed; if Raiden was in the movie, it would just fail. Unless it was Snake killing Raiden. Then it'd be much better.

I agree to Pokemon.

For the same reason.

Mechwarrior could make a kick ass movie.

Why? Giant Walking Tanks of Mass Destruction of course! It could also allow for a good plot, the people writing it would just have to be Mechwarrior fans or just good with stories in sci-fi. After a good plot's been worked out, it's not too hard to please people after that.

Since I can't think of anything, I must agree with Pokemon. This nightmare must be stopped!

Same reason as above.

any japanese card game with a movie (tv show) must be pure evil (god I saw an episode of duel monsters I truly burnt my eyes)

I of course fully agree with Otaku on Metal Gear Solid because it'd just be awesome. As long as they don't cast Kurt Russell of course. Other games would be Devil May Cry, A wild arms movie, armored core and pac man.

One book I'd really like to see is A river into darkness by Sean Russell.

What shouldn't have been turned into a movie? About every single movie they made based on a game. lol

Zelda. They've yet to make a movie on that.

And I thought they already made a movie on a japanese card game.

Mario Bros, that shouldn't have been movie-fied. That sucked , and I beat myself up for owning the video.

I want the Dark Tower to be moviefied. Or at least The Talisman.

Street Fighter. nuff said. Top that. Even Mario brother's didn't take itself seriously.

How is it that it's possible for movies to dominate as games but it sucks when games become movies?

Not all movies dominate as games lots of movie games suck.

Zone of the Enders 2 should be made into a movie. Lots of movie games suck because they cut out 90% of the game making it suck. But Z.O.E. 2 can be beaten in about two hours so they wouldn't cut out much. (not sure about Z.O.E. 1). It wouold make an awesome Giant Robot fighting movie like Mechwarrior would without cutting out 60% of the game like a MechWarrior Movie would. Also if Mechwarror was made into a Movie then how would you choose which Mech to use in each scene. Sorry if it seems like I'm raggin on Mechwarrior but I was just thinking of the reasons it wouldn't work. Thats the problem with games with too much customization they could never be transplanted into a movie well. Mecwarrior, Armored Core, Star Wars: KOTOR, Morrowind etc etc.

Pokemon Must be destroyed... dot com.

They need a Dead or Alive Porno....reasons are obvious.

Grim Fandango should have been made in to a movie. But not some disney happy happy crap. A god damn thriller if something.

im pretty sure they do man.
well...street fighter wasnt that bad too anyways. but it did suk a bit.

edit: naruto. it would kinda work i guess. for his kage bunshin they could use the effect they did with the smiths from the matrix or sumthin.

Usually it's me that says that kind of stuff about Grim Fandango. Osterbaum and I are so bonding.

1.What books, video games, TV series that haven't been movie-fied should be?

I'd like to see a good Watchmen movie, but it'd have to be like 12 hours long. Books I've always thought would work are the original five Richard Bachman novels (and as you know, that was the pseudonym of Stephen King). They are pretty dark, and the best of them are easily on par with things like Fahrenheit 451, with more action though. I'm thinking especially of Running Man

Okay, some of them *have* been made into movies, but they're not really true to the books. By which I mean, they share titles and that's it.

2. In what ways would it work ? or not?

Watchmen would work... if it was a high-budget TV series rather than a movie, with one hour or so time for each issue. That would rock. I think Terry Gilliam even had plans along those lines in the Eighties.

As for Running Man... [SPOILER]in the end, the protagonist flies a plane into a skyscraper, thus freeing the general public from the main TV station whose only purpose was to keep them stupid and happy. Show me one studio that will touch this idea even with a ten foot pole.

3. What shouldn't have been movie-fied (of books, video games, or tv series), and why?

Dreamcatcher for the ending
Lord of the Rings for the cheap jokes and the hollywoodification (I'm not even trolling here :D)
Way I hear it, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; I've neither read the comic nor seen the movie yet, but I heard things. Horrible things. Things that would drive you mad.

There was a movie entitled "Dead or Alive" made in Japan. Never came overseas, though. And from what I saw, it didn't resemble the video game much. But, the Japanese are known for taking video game titles and plastering them to movies completely unrelated to the game. Parasite Eve, for example...

Isn't Running Man already a movie? With Arnold Schwarzenegger?

It is, but it was so very very horribly astray from the source material.

Hitchikers Guide is getting made, I think.

Making Zelda into a movie is something I've always pondered, but it doesn't really make sense. It would have to stick to the storyline (not of a particular game, but of the series), and that would cause Link to go through multiple dungeons, solving many puzzles, and the viewer would get bored quickly, not being able to actually solve the puzzles. The only dialogue would happen between dungeons, and that would just be between Link and a Goron, Zora, Kokiri, or Hyrulian, trying to find the next dungeon. Sure, the boss fight scenes would be cool, but the rest would probably blow, as there would be a definite lack of plot. Zelda would not transfer well between game and movie.

Edit: And if they decided to add a different plot, not many people would be happy, including me.

I thought the same thing about From Hell, but look what happened there. :\ Watchmen is supposedly getting made and coming out next year, though.

I would really love a high-budget cable TV miniseries done for some of Terry Pratchett's Night Watch books, but only if the cast was UK-only, because the last thing it'd need would be some Angelina Jolie Lite knockoff like Jolene Blalock prancing around in a blonde wig as Angua.

There is a card game movie, its a yugioh movie. That thing is going to be the most gigantic gathering of 8 year olds i can fathom.

oh god, make it stop, make it stop.

A short series based on the Night Watch books would be cool as hell. Possibly an animated series, if you could find decent voice actors...they did Wyrd Sisters and a couple of other Pratchett things like that, and it worked very well. Even if I argued with how they pronouced names...

Note to self: Read Nightwatch (the Book) and Monstrous Regiment again.

It would be great if they used the japanese version of Yu-Gi-Oh for the movie, you know, the one where people get their body parts ripped apart for losing the card game and their minds destroyed and such.

That would be great. The little kiddies go in expecting the same old mushy friendship and anti-climatic card games, and they get 10 year olds with uzi's, people being dismembered, and all that good stuff. The looks that would be on their faces.

But I think duel monsters is the funniest show on TV! The plot, combined w/ that horrible dialouge, its funny at its purest!!

The plot and dialogue of Duel Masters is delibertly like that. I thinks it great because it's like a bunch of anime nerds got together and wing the dialogue of the entire series.

They do it to a minor extent in Rave Master.

I must say, I agree that the Discworld novels would be great. The Night Watch series would be very good, but I'd most love to see the Rincewind series. I'd love to see poor old Rincewind doing things like facing off against the terrible Things from the Dungeon Dimensions with a sock full of sand. :D I definitely agree with Mashirosen on the cast, it would pretty much have to be British, and probably have a British director as well. While Stephen Spielberg might be able to do it, there's too high a chance that an American director would miss much of the British humour and replace it with some lesser humour (there is a lot of precedent for this, but individual instances escape me right now).

Personally, I would prefer live-action to animation. I think that it would suit Pratchett's world a bit more than animation.

I never got to see the animated series over here. Unfortunately our TV stations seem to have missed out on this. :( Ah well, they may well show them some day...

A game series that might translate well is the Gabriel Knight series. The first two have already translated to book form, and the series is story-rich, so there is the potential for some very good movies there.

The Belgariad would be a good movie, but only if Daving Eddings himself did all of the casting, screenplay writing, producing and directing. Anyone else would suck. And Sean Connery would make a friggin' awesome Belgarath.

No one should have done timeline, because it made my eyes bleed, and caused my spleen to gibber for the merciful oblivion of death.

You're not missing much. A few years ago a friend of ours managed to get hold of a copy of the cartoon version of Soul Music, and it was pretty cruddy. The character designs were bland and the animation quality was really cheap-o in a very early '80s kind of way, which is sad because it was actually made in the mid-'90s. This page is the only thing I could find with screenshots, check it out.

It's too bad, because an animated Discworld could be really stunning -- somebody like Miyazaki or the folks who did the Iron Giant could do amazing things there.

One book series that shouldn't have been movie-fied was the bourne series. The movie was so far from the book it didn't seem possible. And I heard the second movie wasn't even close to the second book, maybe because the movie takes place in europe and the book took place in asia...

One good moviefication was Children of Dune. It was a well done movie/mini-series.

One that is in the works that i hope turns out good is Ender's Game. They have the author of the book help with the script so i have hope. Ok im done rambling.