From childhood we become experts at putting together wish lists. Christmas wish list. Birthday wish list. As we get older us guys change direction a bit and start developing our “Women I would cut off various body parts to have one night with” wish lists (and just for trivia’s sake, mine currently includes Courtney Cox who I’ve been in love with ever since Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Jennifer Garner, Yvonne Strahovski from the TV show “Chuck” and a few others).
But one wish list I’m constantly thinking about is the list of movies I would love to see happen. But like most wish lists, mine includes projects that in all likelihood will NEVER come to fruition.
So even though I know it’s all just wishful thinking, I thought I’d share with you guy my top 6 movies I’d love to see happen, that will probably never happen. Here we go:
1) Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy
I flat out do not like Star Wars novels. The vast majority of them are just fan fiction tripe. Having said that, the Thrawn trilogy (Heir To The Empire, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command) was nothing short of pure genius. The book take place 5 years after the battle of Endor (the events in Return of the Jedi). The Empire still exists, even though it now only controls a small percentage of what it once did since the New Republic’s victory. Their new commander is a hyper genius called Grand Admiral Thrawn who learns everything he needs to know about a culture just by looking at its art. The most brilliant strategist in the galaxy, he launches a new plan to destroy the New Republic and restore the Empire to dominance.
If you have not read these books, you simply MUST add them to your reading list. They are just phenominal, especially if you count yourself a Star Wars or sci-fi fan. Yeah, these movies will never happen in a million years, but I’d do almost anything to see them made. Sigh…
2) Starblazers
The Japanese show was actually called “Space Battleship Yamato”. The story was fantastic… earth came under attack by a mysterious allien race and was pelting the earth with radiation bombs forcing the human race to live underground. However, the radiation is seeping deeper and deeper into the earth and will soon wipe out the human race. Then, just when all hope seemed lost, earth gets a message from a princess on a far away planet who says she has a device that will clean the radiation off earth… the trick is they have to come and get the device. They have just under one year to travel to her distant planet to get it and return to earth before the radiation penetrates deep enough into the earth to kill everyone.
So, they dig up the old legendary Battleship Yamato from WW2 and refit it to become a space battleship to travel into space to get the device.
The show was AWESOME! A live action version of this thing would be amazing. It would also be unbelievably expensive and thus will probably never get made despite rumors that there are some studios wanting to do it. Sigh….
3) Live Action G-Force movie
No, I’m not talking about those stupid talking hamsters. I’m talking about the original “Battle of the Planets” show. Mark, Jason, Tiny, Princess and Keyop. I remember as a kid that show was crazy popular amongst all my friends who lived on my street. We used to play G-Force. We’d get blankets and make little makeshift capes and run around our street. I was always Jason.
It was the first show that I recall using the idea of a big main ship (called The Phoenix) that had smaller vehicles it could deploy that the different members of the team would pilot. The ship also had one weapon… a little missile launcher that was controlled by one big red button.
And while the adults had the big shock of “Who Shot J.R.”, us kids at the time had the big major shock of discovering that the bad guy, Zoltar, was actually a woman!!!!!!!
They are currently working on an animated version of this which is terrific… but I want a live action film… and it’ll never happen. Sigh….
4) Megaforce 2
It’s hard to put into actual words how cheesy the original Megaforce movie was… but at the same time… when I was a kid… there was no describing how flat out AWESOME it was too! In essence, Megaforce was really just a basterdized version of G.I. Joe. An elite international counter-terrorism fighting force with all of the world’s top technological weapons and cool ass vehicles at their disposal. Their leader was a dude called “Ace”. How great is that?
Flying Motorcycles with rocket launchers were their main weapons of choice followed by these high tech dune buggy things they had.
This will never happen again in a million years because it was so damn cheesy, there is a G.I. Joe movie now, and no one even remembers the original. Sigh….
5) X-Men: The Age Of Apocalypse
Probably my all time favorite comic book story line. The basic idea is this: A mutant named Legion (who just so happens to be Professor X’s son) goes back in time to when Charles and Magneto were friends to kill Magneto. However, Charles sacrifices himself to save Magneto, thus changing history. The Age of Apocalypse is basically a look at what the world would look like if Charles Xavier died years ago before he ever founded the X-Men. The answer is that the villain Apocalypse takes over most of the world… and Magneto, so moved by Charles’ sacrifice to save him so many years ago ends up forming the X-Men (named after his fallen friend) to stand against Apocalypse.
The story is just insanely good. You MUST read it.
Sadly, X-Men is a dying film franchise… and the cost of doing an Age of Apocalypse movie is beyond calculation. Minimum you’d be looking at is about $350-$500 million. This film will never happen. Sigh….
6) Shogun
This is the one that doesn’t quite fit with all the other selection on my list. Shogun is the bestselling James Clavell novel that was later turned into a fantastic television mini series. The story is rich and deep with fantastic character and ever evolving plot turns with an immersive history behind it all.
I can’t remember the last time the mini series was on television… it was originally aired way back in 1980. It was one of the first novels I’ve ever read (it’s a long one). If you read it, you’ll totally see why I have it on this list. It would clearly need to be done as a trilogy or a big 2 parter. But sadly no one really knows about Shogun anymore, and it’s far too old now to have a following I think. Most likely will never happen. Sigh….
SOOOOO….
What do you guys think of my list? I’m sure you have about 50 movies you’d like to see done too.
So jump down to the comments and start listing movies YOU’D like to see made that will probably never happen. GO!
