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Scene from Sci-Fi story you'd love to see on film

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Tuesday, August 3, 2004 8:16 PM

Every so often when I'm reading a book I think to myself, "Man, I wish I could see that." My imagination is good but sometimes I just want to see how a crackerjack Hollywood crew would render that scene. One thing I share in common with a lot of you is a love of science fiction. So I just wanted to see if there was anyone else out there who was dying to watch a favorite section of a book on the big screen.

So I'll start the ball rolling with the title of the book, the author, and the particular scene. "The Honor of the Queen" by David Weber. Chapter 20. Honor and Nimitz foil the assassination plot against Protector Mayhew and family in a ferocious display of unarmed combat skill.

I shaved off my beard for you, devil woman!

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Wednesday, August 4, 2004 1:19 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

David Fincher has been rumored to be working on an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama for many years now, and I don't know if it will ever happen. But if it does, the scene I most look forward to is the first panoramic view of the inside of the Rama spacecraft.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Wednesday, August 4, 2004 2:45 AM

STARPILOTGRAINGER

Of Rama, the scene I'd be more interested in seeing is when one person is on top of a high cliff with no way down, and they realize that due to the difference in some variables, what would certainly not be a good option on earth may in fact be the best way to go in this situation. ;)

But for SF in general, I've really always wanted to see the Battle Room in Ender's Game come alive.

Star Pilot Grainger
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Wednesday, August 4, 2004 6:20 AM

SSJ4BLACKBELT

What I would not give to see Stephen King's The Dark Tower series be adapted into a movie!! Get Joss to direct it...and you'd def have an instant sure-fire hit. I'd die to see somebody like Hugh Jackman play the Gunslinger.

"I got my hands on a couple....of invites!"

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Wednesday, August 4, 2004 10:31 AM

SHINYHAPPYKLIN

Quote:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
David Fincher has been rumored to be working on an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama for many years now, and I don't know if it will ever happen. But if it does, the scene I most look forward to is the first panoramic view of the inside of the Rama spacecraft.

Have you ever seen/played the Rama computer game? We had it a few years back, and unfortunately, can't find it after the last move...beautifully done, great soundtrack and engaging mysteries to solve. As blown away as I was with this game, I know I'd love to see it as a movie!

"We gotta go to that crappy town where I'M a hero..."

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Wednesday, August 4, 2004 11:25 AM

ARODIN

I second the Rama spacecraft (or third, is it?). Clarke's description is so good that I can still see my own version of it in my mind even though its been years since I read it, but it would still be a sight to behold.

I'm also really looking forward to a lot of scenes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the whole movie, in fact)... the destruction of Earth by the Vogon fleet, a babelfish slithering into Arthur's ear, a sperm whale appearing in outer space and then smashing into Magrathea, and the inside of Magrathea's planet-manufacturing factory (somewhat similar to the interior of Rama, though not quite as vividly described).

I just hope they do it right... in the meantime, Don't Panic.

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Thursday, August 5, 2004 1:03 AM

NEDWARD

Quote:
Originally posted by StarPilotGrainger:
But for SF in general, I've really always wanted to see the Battle Room in Ender's Game come alive.

And it's coming, in case you didn't know:
http://www.frescopictures.com/movies/ender/endersgame_update.html
Eventually.

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Thursday, August 5, 2004 1:58 AM

STARPILOTGRAINGER

Quote:
Originally posted by nedward:
Quote:
Originally posted by StarPilotGrainger:
But for SF in general, I've really always wanted to see the Battle Room in Ender's Game come alive.
And it's coming, in case you didn't know:
http://www.frescopictures.com/movies/ender/endersgame_update.html
Eventually.

Oh, I know, but I've been seeing that page for literally years (hell, I remember it at least as far back as Star Wars Episode 1). So I'll believe it when they actually start filming and we see it.

Star Pilot Grainger
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Thursday, August 5, 2004 2:48 AM

HERO

I always enjoy reading the whole diplomatic conference part towards the end of Battlefield Earth. They really should consider making that book into a movie.

Also, in the first Battletech trilogy I'd love to see the Davion-Steiner wedding reception. For those who don't know its the union of 2 of the 5 big star empires in the game and everybody is there. The fine china plates all bear the name of a planet. Hanse toasts his bride, picks up a plate and says as a wedding gift he is presenting her with the Capellan Confederation (one of the enemy nations). Everybody realizes that the China only bears the names of Capellan worlds. The Capellan leader flips out and starts grabbing plates, meanwhile a massive invasion is kicking off. Its just a personal favorite moment.

There's alot more, I think I read too much.

H

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Thursday, August 5, 2004 3:22 AM

FREMDFIRMA

From David Drake's "Lt Leary" series

The very end where the Corvette Princess Cecille engages the entire Alliance battlegroup off strymon to keep them busy long enough for the rest of their forces to lift.

Especially if they'd actually run the tune that was in Leary's mind as background music for the scene...

If you haven't read the book, or it's predeccessor, give it a shot, most FF Fans would love it.

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Thursday, August 5, 2004 3:24 AM

JUSTME

Quote:
Originally posted by Hero:
I always enjoy reading the whole diplomatic conference part towards the end of Battlefield Earth. They really should consider making that book into a movie.

Ummm.. The one by L. Ron Hubbard? I think they already did, or at least there's one that has the same name and some of the same stuff (Kind of like the movie version of Starship Troopers versus the book)

The one I'd really like to see is any view of the Ringworld from Niven's series of the same name.

Just Me

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Thursday, August 5, 2004 4:02 AM

CALHOUN

I'd like to see the huge spaceship battles in the Honor Harrington Series rendered by the best special effects studios... oh man that would be way cool.. some Q-ship action or the prison planet(Hades?) excape.

The whole Honor Harrington Series of books would be an EXCELLENT TV/Movie adaptation. Imagine what Joss Whedon could do with those books...

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Thursday, August 5, 2004 4:30 AM

HERO

Quote:
Originally posted by justme:
Quote:
Originally posted by Hero:
I always enjoy reading the whole diplomatic conference part towards the end of Battlefield Earth. They really should consider making that book into a movie.

Ummm.. The one by L. Ron Hubbard? I think they already did, or at least there's one that has the same name and some of the same stuff (Kind of like the movie version of Starship Troopers versus the book)
Just Me

They made a movie, but apparently never read more then the back cover of the book before adapting the screenplay. Its a great book. Same thing with Starship Troopers. How can you do justice to that book without power armor and a bigger dose of History and Moral Philospohy? Also Wing Commander, lets take a great sci fi game with its built in audience and dumb it down enough to alienate the core audience while failing to appeal to the masses.

Some filmakers should be shot. Others should just be imprisoned for a long, long, long time. Some should be forced to make the movies I want to see the way I want to see them.

H

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Thursday, August 5, 2004 5:21 AM

NOOCYTE

I for one am itching to see the Lying Bastard's first approach to the Ringworld (from, um... Ringworld).

I know that SciFi is planning a miniseries based on the book, and that SciFi adaptations generally blow chunks, but just the thought of being able to see that scene outside of my head sends shivers down my back..wait..nope. It's a stroke. Oh, well...

Oh, and Rama would rock as well. Actually, I'd thought that Fincher was no longer associated with the project (too lazy to hunt down the link right now). Much as I've come to appreciate his work, though, I don't know how well he would have done Grand And Stately anyway... In any case, the project has been in Development Hell for many a year now, so I'm not holding my breath.

Oh, and I'm still bitter that NO ONE has done Dune with ornithopters whose wings actually FLAP (which is kinda what "ornithopter" means, after all!)...amid my many other gripes about the brutalizing which that novel has received in the hands of SciFi (or the Film maker Who Must Not Be Named, and his 1985 abomination). Grr.

Department of Redundancy Department

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Thursday, August 5, 2004 8:24 AM

DIXIEFLATLINE

Hmmmm. A couple of immediate examples come to mind from Iain M. Banks' Culture novels:

From Consider Phlebas: The demolition of Vavatch Orbital by the General Systems Vehicle Eschatologist. Also the running fight between the crew of the Clear Air Turbulence and the Idirans in the tunnels of the Command System.

From The Player of Games: The game of Azad being played. Also, the conclusion of the final game between Gurgeh and Nicosar.

From Use of Weapons: The interview between the protagonist and the Ethnarch Kerian, at the very beginning of the book. (Nothing inherently "SF-movie" about this scene, it's just very well-written and I'd enjoy seeing it translated to film.)

From other authors:

From Heinlein's Starship Troopers: The combat drop of the Mobile Infantry in their powered armour. (From a film version not made by people who despised the book, and which doesn't get rid of the powered armour.)

From C. J. Cherryh's Hellburner: The test-flight of the rider-ship prototype at the end of the book.

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Thursday, August 5, 2004 8:50 AM

HJERMSTED

from Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land:
1. The scene where the police/feds come to Jubal's estate to arrest Valentine Michael Smith.
2. The first summit between government officials and V.M. Smith (whom Jubal states should be considered a representative of Mars).

Both of these scenes are more dramatic than they are fodder for huge special f/x but any director who can pull off the same level of tension that Heinlein does in the book would be a genius in my mind.

from Zelazny's Nine Prines in Amber: I would love to see what modern special f/x artists could do with the main character's first walk from our reality (shadow Earth) to Amber.

mattro

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Thursday, August 5, 2004 8:59 AM

NORUDDINWAY

Speaking of Amber... I always wanted to see the battle between Corwin and Eric in The Guns of Avalon when Corwin returns to Amber with rifles... I just thought that would be a great scene. Also for soundtrack you could have Metallica's King Nothing playing in the background.

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Thursday, August 5, 2004 10:36 PM

SOUPCATCHER

Nice picks, Hjermsted. I just reread Stranger in a Strange Land and I'll definitely second both those scenes. Of course, the lech in me thinks that there are some other scenes from the book that would like nice on the big screen - but that would probably lead to an NC17 rating

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I'd also love to see how someone would render the equipment from the Hammer's Slammers series of stories by David Drake.

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Friday, August 6, 2004 6:31 AM

DIXIEFLATLINE

Quote:
Originally posted by NoRuddinWay:
Speaking of Amber... I always wanted to see the battle between Corwin and Eric in The Guns of Avalon when Corwin returns to Amber with rifles... I just thought that would be a great scene. Also for soundtrack you could have Metallica's King Nothing playing in the background.

Good thought, except that particular battle isn't between Corwin and Eric -- it's supposed to be, but there's this little invasion from the black road that gets in the way...

At any rate, there are definitely some bits of Amber I'd love to see onscreen. Particularly, the descent of the Faiella-bionin stairway to Rebma in Nine Princes in Amber (Rebma itself would be a fun challenge for the F/X folks), and I'd love to see Random's whole abortive attempt to rescue Brand from the tower, as described at the beginning of Sign of the Unicorn. (I'm in the middle of rereading the books for the first time in a long while, so this is all fresh in my mind.)

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Sunday, August 8, 2004 3:35 AM

WORDSMITH

Scenes I want to see:

(1) Almost anything from Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series (why didn't they start filming it years back when Michael J. Fox was a little younger and could suit the role ...), but especially the Quaddies from the Prequel, Falling Free.

(2) 20,000 leagues under the sea, with the same ship and Nemo as in LXG ... lovely CGI stuff.

(3) Slipping into the semi-fantasy genre for a moment, The Jerusalem Man series by David Gemmell, especially the re-sinking of the Titanic.

(4) Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter (Mars) series, with multi-armed martians, etc.

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