The Future of Space Adventure Films

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It is no secret that Hollywood is notoriously unoriginal, Every time Disney has had a slew of successful animated movies some rival company (Dreamworks, Don Bluth) have risen to compete, When Star Wars first came out Hollywood responded with a whole slew of high budget fantasy and science-fiction blockbuster films, When Harry Potter was big we had nothing but wizards, When Twilight was successful there was nothing but vampires, With the MCU big right now all we're hearing from big studios is 'cinematic universes'.
I think we may be on the verge of another Hollywood trend.
Last year Guardians of the Galaxy $ 774,200,000 at the box office and became the third highest grossing film of 2014. The new Star Wars movie is already selling out ticket sales and is set to make a massive amount at the box office with Rogue One: A Tale of Star Wars, due to come out next year.
I believe that we are standing on the brink of a retro-space adventure craze. If Star Wars makes as much money as it's supposed to studios will immediately start trying to create their own space adventure franchises, either original or adapting existing properties like Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers. As well as greenlighting existed projects that have stuck in development like the Spierig Brother's Captain Blood remake in space.
I'm oddly excited.
I like space adventure films and even if this new craze doesn't hit it all out of the ball park there will certainly be a few enjoyable movies in the years to come.
What do you think? Am I right? Am I off my rocker? What are some space adventure properites you'd like to see get made into movies? What are some long gestating projects you'd like to see realized?
 
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I'd like to know when we had "nothing but wizards"

I dont remember this.
 
That Nic Cage wizard movie? :funny:

What was it called?
 
If anything harry potter spawned the tween book craze, not a wizard craze
 
I'd like to know when we had "nothing but wizards"

I dont remember this.

That one confused me too. Like Starlord mentioned.....there was the Nick Cage movie THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE.....but that's all I can think of.
 
Every time Disney has had a slew of successful animated movies some rival company (Dreamworks, Don Bluth) have risen to compete
that's factually wrong. while it is true that Dreamworks did a couple of movie to stick it to Disney, a lot of times Pixar copied ideas from them. they just managed to get the movie into the theatres earlier than Dreamworks. Also, while Pixar generally was comercially more sucessful, quality wise Dreamworks movies often had the upper hand (Ants vs The Bugs Life or Shrek vs Monsters Inc comes to mind) - Disney still bought the Academy Awards for some reasons
 
But actually moving on to the topic of the thread, there are many space adventures i'd love to see adapted.

I for one love both the more outlandish space fantasy franchises, (Star Wars/Guardians of the Galaxy) just as much as I love the more realistic science fiction space movies of late (Interstellar, Gravity, Martian, Moon, Sunshine). I also love the ones that fall somewhere in between. (Star Trek, Ender's Game, Serenity, Alien/Prometheus, Riddick)

So to answer your question:
A Dune Remake
A Serenity sequel
NuTrek Next Gen
2001: A Space Odyssey sequels/reboot
Metroid
StarCraft
Mass Effect?

The list must go on. But new/original properties would also be warmly welcomed.
 
In answer to pr0xyt0xin, StarLord, C. Lee and NotSoLongAgo The success of Harry Potter led to the creation of the Wizards of Waverly Place TV series for Disney Channel and the Worst Witch television franchise (yes I know the books already existed but they were only tuned into a series after Harry Potter was successful). you can also see Harry Potter influences in the Disney channel films series 'Twitches' and 'Halloweentown'. Harry Potter also influenced teen literature with the likes of Vampire Academy and Percy Jackson (which I actually like).
Harry Potter also started the trend of instant film adaptations for best selling novels. Sure it happened before but Harry Potter's success meant that any book (expecially aimed at young adults) that hit the best sellers list was guaranteed a film adaptation.
Sorry if my meaning was a bit vague before.
 
Luc Besson is finally directing his dream project Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets which stars Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Dane DeHaan and Rihanna. The movie comes out in 2017.

Valerian and Laureline has similarities with Star Wars. Hopefully the movie doesn't suffer the same fate as John Carter.
 
Not sure if there ever will by a space adventure craze in Hollywood, but it certainly seems to be an increased interest in adapting sci-fi novels for tv at the moment. The Expanse, Childhood's End. And I think there have been rumours about adapting Hyperion. Could be more.
 
But actually moving on to the topic of the thread, there are many space adventures i'd love to see adapted.

I for one love both the more outlandish space fantasy franchises, (Star Wars/Guardians of the Galaxy) just as much as I love the more realistic science fiction space movies of late (Interstellar, Gravity, Martian, Moon, Sunshine). I also love the ones that fall somewhere in between. (Star Trek, Ender's Game, Serenity, Alien/Prometheus, Riddick)

So to answer your question:
A Dune Remake
A Serenity sequel
NuTrek Next Gen
2001: A Space Odyssey sequels/reboot
Metroid
StarCraft
Mass Effect?

The list must go on. But new/original properties would also be warmly welcomed.

IMO Dune would be best suited for a big budget TV series on HBO.
 
I'd be really hyped for a metroid movie, that would be awesome
 
I forgot Luna Park, space heist movie with Tom Cruise that Doug Liman plans as his next project after Gambit.
 
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It is no secret that Hollywood is notoriously unoriginal, Every time Disney has had a slew of successful animated movies some rival company (Dreamworks, Don Bluth) have risen to compete, When Star Wars first came out Hollywood responded with a whole slew of high budget fantasy and science-fiction blockbuster films, When Harry Potter was big we had nothing but wizards, When Twilight was successful there was nothing but vampires, With the MCU big right now all we're hearing from big studios is 'cinematic universes'.
I think we may be on the verge of another Hollywood trend.
Last year Guardians of the Galaxy $ 774,200,000 at the box office and became the third highest grossing film of 2014. The new Star Wars movie is already selling out ticket sales and is set to make a massive amount at the box office with Rogue One: A Tale of Star Wars, due to come out next year.
I believe that we are standing on the brink of a retro-space adventure craze. If Star Wars makes as much money as it's supposed to studios will immediately start trying to create their own space adventure franchises, either original or adapting existing properties like Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers. As well as greenlighting existed projects that have stuck in development like the Spierig Brother's Captain Blood remake in space.
I'm oddly excited.
I like space adventure films and even if this new craze doesn't hit it all out of the ball park there will certainly be a few enjoyable movies in the years to come.
What do you think? Am I right? Am I off my rocker? What are some space adventure properites you'd like to see get made into movies? What are some long gestating projects you'd like to see realized?

I think you're bang on the money. When you have some time free, would you mind looking at my stock options too? That kind of intuitive ability to predict patterns over time could be very useful ;)

All joking aside, I agree. I love the 60s/70s/early 80s era space flicks and TV Shows - not so much the Buck Rogers type action ones, but the more thoughtful and explorative ones like The Black Hole, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek : The Motion Picture (yes, I liked it), Solaris (1972 version), etc. Even the original Battlestar Galactica TV Series.

It feels like we haven't had films like that over the last few years. Interstellar kinda went there, but also meandered off somewhat on an emotional journey. Gravity and Moon were both excellent IMO, but also somewhat enclosed - being mostly limited to 1/2 actors and a few small sets. Other than that, there's been a lot of humorous and action-oriented space films over the last couple of decades.

I'd like to see a return to the tone and feel of those earlier films, which were more about exploration and vision and going places in the universe we had never been, encountering beings we had never encountered. That 'epic' feel is missing from a lot of modern space adventure films. The 70s films managed it with meagre budgets and limited special effects, with the technology at Hollywood's disposal today they could be amazing.
 
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(cash in on two supposed trends)

Comic book:
Green Lantern Corps reboot.
Micronauts (it was inner but inner space none the less.)
ROM Space Knight.
NOVA
Silver Surfer origin reboot.
Adam Strange
If DC/WB was smart they would develop their whole Kirby New Gods mythology and aesthetic into a franchise (but they're not)

Comic strip:
Buck Rogers & Flash Gordon will inevitably get reboots.

Pulp:
Lens Men
Starship Troopers reboot.
Unfortunately Disney's John Carter bombed, but the Barsoom series would have made a great ongoing franchise.

Movies:
Alien / Prometheus franchise will keep building
Disney/Lucas themselves will saturate the market with the Star Wars anthology films (i think one every year?)
And Machete In Space will kill it.
 
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Micronauts (it was inner but inner space none the less.)
ROM Space Knight.

Actually, Hasbro's been trying to fold these two into the Transformers franchise - Rom got converted into an Autobot for an unproduced Bot Shots toy a couple years back (right down to the store registry listings before the line ended identifying him as ROM THE SPACE KNIGHT), and at their recent Investory Day Hasbro just announced that they've got plans to incorporate Micronauts into the TF brand (complete with preliminary promo art of Movie Optimus holding what's clearly Acroyear and a couple other people in his hand, and a small pic of what MAY be a new Biotron figure on their slideshow - so that may end up coloring any attempt at bringing these characters to the screen.

At the very least, Marvel may own the Spaceknights as a concept, but not the character who spearheaded them, so if a ROM movie gets made I'm not sure it'll sport that much resemblance to Marvel's version of him. And if Marvel ever does a Spaceknights movie, Rom probably won't be one of them (heck, Marvel couldn't even use him about a decade ago when they did that SPACEKNIGHTS mini - they had to give him a now-grown son as the protagonist and couldn't even refer to Rom himself by name).
 
Quick update; I just discovered that a Buck Rogers movie is currently in development from Angryfilms, the studio behind Real Steel. Writers Flint Dille (original Transformers series and animated movie) and Ed Neumeier (original RoboCop and Starship Troopers) are attached and the film will be based on the original Buck Rogers story 'Armageddon 2419 AD'.
If you think about it for a moment there are a lot of Space Adventure films that are in the tentative stages of development; I've alreayd mentioned 'Luna Park' and Matthew Vaughn's 'Flash Gordon', Then there's Luc Besson's 'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets', a Live-action adaptation of Space Adventure Cobra directed by Alexandre Aja, a Battlestar Galactica movie that was going to be directed by Bryan Singer but he left (thank god) and the most recent news was that Jack Paglen (writer of Transcendence) was attached to write.
It has begun!
 
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Actually, Hasbro's been trying to fold these two into the Transformers franchise - Rom got converted into an Autobot for an unproduced Bot Shots toy a couple years back (right down to the store registry listings before the line ended identifying him as ROM THE SPACE KNIGHT), and at their recent Investory Day Hasbro just announced that they've got plans to incorporate Micronauts into the TF brand (complete with preliminary promo art of Movie Optimus holding what's clearly Acroyear and a couple other people in his hand, and a small pic of what MAY be a new Biotron figure on their slideshow - so that may end up coloring any attempt at bringing these characters to the screen.

At the very least, Marvel may own the Spaceknights as a concept, but not the character who spearheaded them, so if a ROM movie gets made I'm not sure it'll sport that much resemblance to Marvel's version of him. And if Marvel ever does a Spaceknights movie, Rom probably won't be one of them (heck, Marvel couldn't even use him about a decade ago when they did that SPACEKNIGHTS mini - they had to give him a now-grown son as the protagonist and couldn't even refer to Rom himself by name).

Akiva Goldsman ‘Transformers’ Writers Room Leads Paramount & Hasbro To Set One For ‘G.I. Joe,’ ‘Micronauts’
 

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