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[Jim Ohara]

We're in a great place as comic book, fantasy and science fiction fans. Almost all the big movies are drawing from material we read as kids and they're executing at an incredibly high quality, as a generation of producer and director geeks are transforming Hollywood and now TV. With things like Game of Thrones or the Marvel movies we're getting high quality productions of stories we could only have dreamed of as a kid.

So that begs a question: which books, comics or stories do you really want to see on the big screen? Specifically which scenes would you most eagerly anticipate?

Two things come to mind for me: I really want to see the Infinity Gauntlet on the big screen. Maybe not with the Avengers and X Men, but a cosmic movie with Thanos getting the glove and maybe the Guardians of the Galaxy or the Annihilators going after him. I think Thanos could be a great a villain as Vader or Voldemort. Just for the scene where he remembers his promise to Death.

What about you?

[Arjan Dirkse]

Sandman the Movie! Or HBO series I guess.

Not sold on keanu Reeves though

[Victor C]

For personal reasons I would love to see the following adapted in any way possible.

[Noel Luperon]

Planetary. I still very much want to see it. I mean:

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The drummer is an easy fill. The cast is there, Ellis is there, the buzz is there behind the property, it is a complex translation but much more complex, non-cinematic material has already been brought to screen.

And speaking of Ellis' properties, Black Summer, with a different, escalating ending. The original story ended in a bit of a quiet note.

[Jim Ohara]

I think Planetary would work great as a TV show, but it'd be X File like. There's not alot of story to replicate, so you'd basically take some of the ideas from the comic and build a bigger universe around them.

Vic, you're shameless. Having read all of them I think the one I'd like to see most is Pencilneck.

[Victor C]

Vic, you're shameless. Having read all of them I think the one I'd like to see most is Pencilneck.

But you haven't read CAREFUL... yet. But you will - I'm bringing the trades that just came from the printer yesterday!

[Mike]

Without a shadow of the doubt, The Culture. So many ways you could do it these days - a Game of Thrones style TV series'd suit me better than a film I think.

[Johnny Henning]

As far as books I read as a teenager:




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And of course...

[Elliot Balson]

I want to see The Avengers end up like Batman, Superman and James Bond - good movie series' that just keep giving and stick around for a long time. There's plenty of source material, and if the movie rights all end up in Marvel's pockets (Spider-man, X-Men, FF etc.) then they've got a LOT to play with. Could be a massive movie empire and universe - and a shared movie universe of that scale is only just being explored now with The Avengers. It's ripe for some fantastic movies and stories as long as Avengers works and sets up the foundations (though the set-ups to Avengers have kind of done that too).

I'd also love to see a great Wolverine movie, one along the tone of The Dark Knight or Eastwood's Unforgiven. That'd be brilliant.

I think a more faithful adaptation of Hellblazer would be fantastic fun on the big screen.

To a lesser extent, a 3 part Red Dead Redemption movie (New Austin, Mexico then West Elizabeth s as to fit it all in - each section would work on its own too). RDR is brilliant as a game, but my favourite part was the story and it could really be explored in 6 hours. I also want to see a modern Western that can stand alongside the golden oldies - though the fear is that it's too much of a love-letter to those movies that RDR could seem boring and derivative rather than exciting.

[Christian U]

Yeah, I'd really like to see a Planetary movie. And The Sandman would make for a great HBO show... but then, we're already getting American Gods, so, you know.

What I'd also like to see would be The Invisibles as a big-budget TV show.

[Rory Abel]

I'd love to see the Joe Pitt casebooks adapted into films, though off the top of my head no one really comes to mind who would be perfect to play Pitt.

I really wish Locke & Key had been picked up as I think it really lends itself to TV.

As a kid I dreamed of seeing Earth by David Brin adapted to the screen. I still think it would make a great movie.

[Mike]

From SF, Dan Simmons' Hyperion has potential to make an interesting TV series I think.

Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold could be a great film.

[Martin Smith]

Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold could be a great film.

Yes. Especially if starring Neil Patrick Harris.

[Johnny Henning]

From SF, Dan Simmons' Hyperion has potential to make an interesting TV series I think.

Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold could be a great film.

Hyperion is probably one of the few unfilmed SF epics that hasn't, as yet, been rendered a bit dated by other movies and television shows using its ideas (I suppose Terminator and The Matrix both use elements of it, but nothing to similar). Back in 2009, Scott Derrickson (The Day The Earth Stood Still remake) was attached as writer-director for WB, but I can't believe it is still in development. Seems like he was also attached to the Paradise Lost adaptation at one point... or maybe that was Proyas.

Personally, I think it would be easier to adapt Simmons' Ilium/Olympos to film since it really all takes place over a relatively short period of time. Hyperion's basic format as the tales of Chaucer would be hard to capture.

[Christian U]

From Jonny's choices, I would quite like to see a Ronin movie, and a Mage TV series could be fantastic.

Come to think of it, they should've just adapted Mage instead of fooling around with Grimm and Once Upon a Time and stuff.

[David Meadows]

I want to see a serious (i.e. reasonably faithful) adaptation of Moorcock's work -- any of his work, really, but I'm thinking more of the Elric/Corum/Runestaff fantasy books. Though Oswald Bastable would be awesome with the right visual designer.

[Mike]

I think the structure of Hyperion, modelled on the tales, is why it would work fairly well as a TV series.

I wasn't as impressed by Ilium/Olympos to be honest.

[garjones]

Button Man film.

[Mike]

I read that as Button Moon film and thought 'bit weird, but possible...'

[garjones]

I'd watch that too.