[Zabraxas]

I work at a film produciton company and we are currently looking for ideas for a scfifi movie. Can anyone suggest any stroies that might be fitting. We're thinking along the lines of Blade Runner/Total Recall.

[FitzChivalry]

Check out a book called Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson, it's more cyberpunk, but it's totally cool.

[Rupert Avery]

There was a PC game by the name Deus EX that with a bit of good writing would make a great movie.The quetions it asked of the player and the Dark feel to it would be quite easy to translate to a movie with the right writers.

[Lady Fox]

How about the Honor Harrington series by David Weber? Lots of action scenes and space fights as well as good characters to build a movie around.

[Black Echo]

The short story that I would REALLY like to see be done as a movie would be "Night of the Trolls" by Keith Laumer. It is a BOLO story about a guy who goes into suspended animation as part of a long test at his facility. When he wakes up, he finds that his base has been attacked, his world is ruined, and people are trying to kill him. He makes it off the base back to his neighborhood to find that everything has been destroyed in some apocalyptic war.

I'll leave the rest to you all to read because it is a very nice post-apocalyptic short story (about 60 pages) that *I* always wanted to put into a short movie.

Find it in "THE COMPLETE BOLO" or some of his other anthologies. VERY highly recommended.

[yurisverdlov]

What's the name of your movie production company? I notice your e-mail account is at Duke University.

Blade Runner and Total Recall are two entirely different animals. The core conflicts are different. They both happen to be "sci-fi." What other similarity do you see between the two?

[Shehzad]

Actually, both Total Recall and Blade Runner were based on novels by Philip K. Dick. Now he's a rather eclectic writer, not very widely read, but because of these movie adaptations people are getting to know him.

Blade Runner was based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and Total Recall on "We can Remember it for You Wholesale."

And as an aside, anyone who wants to see an extremely underrated but very intelligent and thought-provoking SF movie should see "Gattaca".


[This message has been edited by Shehzad (edited May 01, 2001).]

[Metosblat]

I've got an idea for a Scifi apocalyptic movie, but I don't know whether you'll like it or not. It's probably a stupid idea. But i'll say it anyway.

Similar to Armageddon and Deep Impact the whole world is in peril, but not from a comet. The earth has somehow been knocked off it's axis and out of orbit. But it is not heading towards the earth, that would be too short of a movie (people getting fried). It is moving away from the sun and everthing is getting colder, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. NOTHING. What hell can you do in a situation like that?
Your dead that is all there is too it. The majority of the movie would be the documentation of the different people's reactions. Eg religious people, atheist people, agnostic people.

[Metosblat]

Yeah, I want to add that everyone dies at the end. Bruce willis doesn't save everyone in this movie idea.

[FitzChivalry]

That's a good idea for a short story actually. You could try writing it.