What Should be turned into a movie?

[Firestorm]

Well Eddie Lebron's (Fan made) Megaman Live Action Movie came out the other day and it's got me thinking "what other Games/Books/Comics/Manga/Tv Shows/ETC should get movie Adaptations?" we've already seen transformers be made into a movie series (with opinions on the results varying from person to person) and there are plenty of other movies based on things so I'm wondering what people think should be addapted into a movie

I think the anime/manga Fullmetal Alchemist or the book series Animorphs would make decent movies (or Series of Movies)

[Gutsman Heavy]

Uncharted. But its already being made into a movie! So I'll say... DINO RIDERS!

[fatbot]

The list is quite long for me. But the first three in no particular order would be Thundercats, Silverhawks and M.A.S.K. A New and hopefully better He - Man Movie would be good shit as well.

Of course there is also Voltron to be considered as well.

[Eruntalon]

Neuromancer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer, which was going to be directed by Chris Cunningham around 10 years ago but never completed - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Cunningham.

That's one.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

They was gonna do a Neuromancer. Wooooo. But nuts.

Is the Megaman movie any good?

Fatbot, that Heman movie was GOLD! Makes me laugh.

I am gonna say The Last Ninja as my vote.

[SharkyMcShark]

Matthew Reilly's Scarecrow series or Jack West Jr series. To be directed by Michael Bay.

I don't even want to imagine that many explosions, it makes my head hurt.

[kup]

The list is quite long for me. But the first three in no particular order would be Thundercats, Silverhawks and M.A.S.K. A New and hopefully better He - Man Movie would be good shit as well.

Of course there is also Voltron to be considered as well.

Thundercats would make a kick ass movie if they concentrate on the setting, concept and characters instead of the actual episode to episode stories which were rather poor.

However Hollywood's 'need' to change things (often for the worse) makes me skeptical than any such adaptation of an 80s cartoon would fare well.

I'm skeptical of game-movie adaptations as the majority of them tend to suck. Although I didn't mind Resident Evil and Prince of Persia looks to be okay judging from the trailer - but these are exceptional.

The reason they suck is because of what I stated above which also applies to game movies. They end up changing so much of the source material in the adaptation that what you end up with only has a passing resemblance of what was originally and often feels like a nameslap. Much of what made the game appealing is lost during the 'Hollywoodtized' conversion. In recent times we have seen another form of Game to movie conversion in which the setting and costumes are spot on but the story and characters are radically changed to something different and lesser than the source - I fear this is the fate of Prince of Persia.

I believe that it's possible to make a good game-Movie adaptation since several video games have gotten some kick ass stories and characters - Many much better than anything Hollywood has given us.

The problem is that for it to work, you need someone who cares about the source material and won't just put it aside so he can introduce his own stuff.

[Eruntalon]

...much of what made the game appealing is lost during the 'Hollywoodtized' conversion. In recent times we have seen another form of Game to movie conversion in which the setting and costumes are spot on but the story and characters are radically changed to something different and lesser than the source...

I agree, just look at the film adaptions of House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark which were directed by Uwe Boll.

[Gutsman Heavy]

But Uwe Boll has his dogs doing DVD commentary, that makes up for it. Postal was alright, in a bad movie way...

[5FDP]

I was going to say Uncharted before it was mentioned that it is being turned into a movie. I had no idea.

I just hope that they don't turn it into some cheap Indiana Jones rip-off and stick to the original storyline of the game.

Pokemon.

I'm no Pokemon fan, but haven't there been numerous movies based on Pokemon