Summer Fantasy Poll Question: Movies You’d Like to See Made

Thinking of all the books you’ve ever read, common stories passed down from generation to generation, the lives of real people who you find interesting, radio shows or more, what movie would you like to see made which has never been produced? Or, to widen the field a bit, we could include movies which actually were made, but were done poorly or before the technology was available to do them justice.

In the fiction / sci-fi field, I’ve been wondering for some time why we haven’t seen a big screen production of Ender’s Game. It just seems as if it would lend itself to the theater in this age of cinematic miracles and magic and would come with a built in audience by way of its established fan base. It’s been in the works on and off for a while now, and Orson Scott Card has developed at least three screen plays, but it just never seems to come to fruition. The latest rumors were circling around Odd Lott Entertainment picking up the project, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

From the real life / biography realm, I’d like to see a definitive work on the life of Curt Cobain, preferably without Courtney Love getting too heavily involved in the production of it. (She can do a cameo herself as the older widow if she likes, but we’ll need somebody else to stay sober long enough to play her as a young rocker.)

From the real flights of fancy, I’d love to see a historically accurate movie based on the Iroquois Nation native Americans and their initial dealings with the European invaders and their eventual betrayal by the French. Current history tells some truly twisted tales about how “wonderful” relations between the English and the Mohawks (among other members of the league) were, but the old men in the tribes laugh bitterly at those stories. That would make an eye-opening film.