Great stuff Thundarr.
I have an idea which I am still working on. It's around 70-100 years in the future and set in San Francisco (because NY is overused
). All guns have been outlawed and many criminals have resorted to swords and other weapons. The main character is a young latin vigilante detective who is very popular around the community, giving food and money to the poor (which he takes from criminals).
The universe has influences from 1984, Dirty Harry, Dredd, Batman, and Asian culture. All water is privatised and gasoline is gone. That's what I have so far, I have many other interesting side characters and villains. And no, there is no super powers lol.
Interesting. So it's kinda like a crossover between Tank Girl and Mad Max.
There are a couple of novels I'd like to see adapted into films. The first is Harry Turtledove's
World War series. For those of you who haven't read it, aliens invade Earth during the height of World War II. They came here expecting to find armoured knights riding into battle swinging swords. Instead when they get here they find we have planes, tanks, firearms, radios, and even a rudimentary understanding of radiation. Their technology still far outshines our own, though not by nearly as much as they originally believed. Technologically speaking, they're relatively on par with humanity in the 21st century. Their only real advancement is in space travel, and we're pretty close to getting caught up with them there.
Anyway, they commense with their invasion (the colonization fleet is on its way, what else can they do?). When the world's governments see that there is a new global threat, they cease hostilities between each other and fight against the invaders from beyond the stars. Some humans welcome The Lizards as saviors (namely the Jews in Nazi occupied Europe), but most see them as invaders. It's an interesting story, with lots of side plots, and could make for a very interesting series of films.
Another book which I think would make for an amazing movie is called
In The Net Of Dreams. It's kind of like a cross between The Lord Of The Rings, The Matrix, and (in a way) Jumanji. It's set in the not too distant future. The world's most popular past time is VR gaming. Essentially you lock yourself inside a sensory deprivation chamber and your conciousness awakens in the body of your virtual reality avatar. Unfortunately something has gone wrong. The virtual realities have bled into each other and CG characters from one game are showing up in other games. And to make matters worse, people are getting trapped inside the Virtual Reality worlds of their games. And to top it all off, there's a information feedback loop, causing people to feel in real life what their avatars experience in the game. In other words, if your character dies in the game, the player dies in real life.
As luck should have it, the vice president of the United States is an avid gamer. And one day while playing in West World (a "cowboys & indians" VR game), he is suddenly abducted by a horde of orcs from Fantasy World. So the government calls in one of the games original designers to go in and rescue the Vice President. He's reluctant, due to a conflict of interest he has with the corporate heads who run the VR game he had designed, but he agrees. So he goes into Fantasy World and joins up with a party of adventurers, some of them the avatars of actual gamers, some of them CG characters created by the computer, and together they try and rescue the Vice President and at the same time discern what has gone wrong with the game and hopefully fix it before it gets any worse.
Another book I'd love to see made into a movie would be
Body Smasher. It's about a war veteran named Rick Harrison who is recruited by an old army buddy of his to work for the CIA as an undercover agent. Communist terrorists have stolen a shipment of weapons grade plutonium, and are planning on bombing The World Wrestling & Weightlifting Competition in New York City. The head of the CIA division in charge of stopping the attack recruits Harrison because he believes he has a leak in the department and he needs someone he can trust. Harrison is to go undercover as a catch-as-catch-can wrestler for Team USA, and is given a crash course in being a spy AND being a wrestler. And brought in to train Harrison as a wrestler is none other than the manager of champions himself . . . Captain Lou Albano! The rest of the book/movie is pretty much your standard "espianage action movie" fare. Still, it would be fun to watch.
Both
In The Net Of Dreams and
Body Smasher are from the 80's and are very much products of their time. For these stories to work, Body Smasher would have to be set in the 80's (for one thing, Lou Albano has passed away). In The Net of Dreams works pretty well as is, except that one of the main characters is an agent of the KGB. She would have to be rewritten into something more modern/futuristic, as the KGB has been disbanded. She'll need to be either an agent of the modern equivelant of the KGB, or she'll have to be rewritten as perhaps an officer in the Russian Army.
Thundarr, very nice
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