BETTER movie versions of book/comics you wanna see?

[AnthonyO'Brien]

Costumed villain remake of Wanted

A Connecticut Yankee in King' Arthurs court - time travel causes DISASTER for the human race.

Steampunk or maybe 1938 era War of the Worlds

(Others?)

[j9ac9k]

Well, a better Green Lantern movie...

[AnthonyO'Brien]

Thanks. A Dark Tower series would be good NOT just a 90 minute "book trailer" version...

Also, Stephen King's Cycle of the werewolf with better creature FX than Silver Bullet . Shows the gradual fear and paranoia gripping the town each full moon..

[godisawesome]

Catwoman - Largely because it feels like making a cheap but good super-thief story can’t be that hard, and the old movie was an insane collection of nonsense that had nothing to do with the property.

[BeastieRunner]

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Green Lantern
A good live action Robin (not necessarily in a solo movie)
Eragon
His Dark Materials
Confessions of a Shopaholic

Kind of a short list for now.

[Rev9]

Blade Trinity.

[Immortal Weapon]

From Hell.

[chicago_bastard]

Watchmen of course. Biggest gap in quality between source material and adaptation I can think of.

[Vakanai]

Batman: The Long Halloween. I get that I'm literally the only person here who didn't like the recent "adaptation" but so what? I didn't like it. I felt like as an original story the film still would have been mediocre at best, but as an adaptation of my favorite Batman story is was a complete butchery. There's literally nothing positive I can say about it other than "I've seen worse."

Jonah Hex - a bit of a cheat, what I really want is just a really good PG or PG13 Western - there's been some decent westerns with Django and Hateful 8, but holy heck you shouldn't show those to kids. But I can't really name a western book or comic with a movie other than Jonah Hex, and that one wasn't really good.
Wait, is the Lone Ranger a book or comic character, or was his start that old black and white series? Because that's another western character in need of a good new movie.

A bit of a cheat, because these characters have had good movies already, but another adaptation of any Sherlock Holmes story or Dracula is welcome, just because they're some of my favorite literary characters and I haven't been as in awe of their recent outings as some. Ditto King Arthur, Robin Hood, Tarzan, Hercules, Frankenstein and other old and/or public domain favorites. How hard could it be to do right by these characters now? At least I have the relatively recent Mr. Holmes for a good modern Sherlock film (god, the money I would pay to see Sir Ian McKellan play Sherlock in his "prime" aka still solving mysteries, he was so perfect in the role). And the last Tarzan movie was fairly good. For the rest though, their best "recent" stuff is still decades old at this point!

Also, Stephen King's Cycle of the werewolf with better creature FX than Silver Bullet . Shows the gradual fear and paranoia gripping the town each full moon..

I'll second this, if only because it feels like there hasn't been a really good werewolf movie in the longest time. Never read the story, but I loved Silver Bullet, and if there could be a better version of that I'm all for it. Love me some good werewolf stuff.

Catwoman - Largely because it feels like making a cheap but good super-thief story can’t be that hard, and the old movie was an insane collection of nonsense that had nothing to do with the property.

This, for basically the same reasons you state. If they can do anime like Lupin III or a Netflix original like Red Notice, they can do a decent Catwoman. Only question is should it be a spin off of The Batman or it's own self contained universe like Joker. Personally I'm getting tired of the "everything is connected" shared cinematic universe obsession so my vote is stand alone movie verse - the fact we're already getting a GCPD and a Penguin spin off series of The Batman feels like a bit too much already. But hey, if Zoe Kravits is as good in the role as she looks in the trailers, I'd be okay with it.

[hyped78]

Spawn, Blade

[AndrewCrossett]

Stephen King's Dark Tower, but as a series rather than a movie. (This was in the works, but I have no idea what the status is.)

The Earthsea trilogy

The Hobbit

The Martian Chronicles

Millennium (John Varley)

The Black Cauldron (and the other Prydain stories)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

A Wrinkle in Time

[BeastieRunner]

Stephen King's Dark Tower, but as a series rather than a movie. (This was in the works, but I have no idea what the status is.)

The Earthsea trilogy

The Hobbit

The Martian Chronicles

Millennium (John Varley)

The Black Cauldron (and the other Prydain stories)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

A Wrinkle in Time

Agree on the Hobbit.

Disagree on Hitchhiker's Guide.

Douglas Adams wrote the script for the movie with Zooey Deschanel, Mos Def, Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, and Alan Rickman. He has a long history of changing the story for different mediums (radio, tele, novels, film, games, and series) and I would have loved a Restaurant at the End of the Universe sequel with that cast. One of his best gadgets came in that movie, too ( the Point-Of-View Gun). Sadly, Rickman is gone.

I hope the new series on Hulu/ Fox is good.

[Doom'nGloom]

Green Lantern. Geoff Johns' run is an absolute goldmine. A live action Sinestro Corps War or Blackest Night would be a dream come true.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

More Hellboy would be nice. A prequel could be fun and would've solved some of 2019's problems.

Another Being Human US remake based on the Tom/Hal/Alex years.

Another take on Iron Fist that's more of an Urban Fantasy like Buffy/Angel.

Another Constantine show based off the recent Spurrier/Campbell run would be great.

[TheBlackTerror]

The Saint
The Phantom
Actually making the Mandarin the villain he is in comics
Green Lantern
A better and more coherent Heroes series picking up on season 2
The Kelvin Star Trek Timeline--Sorry I just don't enjoy those movies
A non-comedy Green Hornet
And, er..Justice League? (runs and hides...)