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Frankly I'm amazed there haven't been a bunch of "blob" movies made.  There was the original, a parody sequel so bad Larry hagmsn deserved to be shot for making it (what kind of sick b@st@rd has a kitten being eaten by the blob and thinks people will not be turned off by it?!?!)  Then the 1988 remake.

There's been talk about a new remake with Samuel l. Jackson for years. Talk talk talk.

Frankly I'm surprised there wasn't a few more blob movies made.

There hasn't been a good biopic about Andrew Jackson done in fifty years.
Such a total BA would be good movie fodder!

Yeah, I think I can see why that hasn't been made.  The studio where it was being filmed would be burned to the ground under a hail of fire arrows and the director would be found scalped with a tomahawk buried in his skull.

Yet, if Jackson had not forcibly relocated the Cherokee, they likely would have been massacred to the last brave instead of being the largest, best organized, and most influential tribe in America as they are today!

History is rarely as black and white as the far left or far right would have us believe.
Jackson was a complex man and a surprisingly deep one at times.

South African history in the 20th century: told from both sides and points of view, not just from one side or the other.

* DOC SAVAGE - The movie from the 1970s starring Ron Ely is terrible. There have been many rumored remakes, but nothing has materialized. At one point or another, there was chatter of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vin Diesel, Chris Hemsworth, and (most recently) Dwayne Johnson starring in a remake. Apparently Shane Black wrote a script that is in development, but this may never get off the ground.

* INCIDENT AT TWENTY-MILE - The novel by Trevanian is absolutely riveting. It's a western about a psychopath who escapes from jail and holds a small mining town hostage. It would make a great movie.

* PREY - The novel by Michael Crichton is great. Needs to be adapted for the big screen.

The doc savage movie was made in the spirit of the batman series and was about as enoyable.

Given the unending flood of comic movies I'm amazed we never had a Spectre movie. You know, pure torture porn done in the name of holy righteousness which is what the spectre basically was.

After the original Jurassic Park made millions and millions of dollars, I'm surprised they haven't been more big budget dinosaur movies.  Sure, there's plenty of lower budget straight to video films, but no other major studio seemed eager to throw some major cash behind a project.  We could have competing dinosaur franchises right now.

Also, there doesn't seem to be a lot of movies based around the second Punic Wars, the wars between Rome and Carthage.  Its famous for Hannibal's crossing of the alps with elephants, but there is so much more to the story. 

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As the host of the video says, its basically the real world's epic fantasy.

I always wondered why Hammer never did a werewolf movie beyond CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF. They did Vampire, Frankenstein, and Mummy movies- but no werewolf movies.

I think the reason for that is the same reason we don't see any modern films made of the SHADOW ( yeah, the flop with Alec Baldwin), GREEN HORNET ( yeah-I know, that tanked too) or Charlie Chan films. They were products of the pulp era of the 30's and 40's. The audiance for them is just not there.  Who now remembers Bulldog Drummond, or Dr. Mabuse? When's the last time they made a Fu Manchu film,. Or a comedy about Dagwood Bumstead or Ma and Pa Kettle? They're out-dated. No teenager cares about that ancient stuff. They went the way of Little Dot comics and playing jacks.

I think perhaps because of the unsteady political atmosphere at the time? Or perhaps it was simply because it's easier to film on a sound stage or in a local that's closer to home.


Hammer also did another couple other dino movies...can't recall the names now...
I don't think Hammer made many dino movies because of the same reason Harryhausen stopped working. Stop-motion animation was costly and time consuming.  By the 70's they were becoming passe- Lee's Dracula abandoned the gothic settings and moved into modern era with the last 2 crappy Dracula films. Plus- how can Frankenstein and Dracula compete with the EXORCIST, the realism of the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, and the big budget JAWS type of films? The old monsters gave way to human monsters, and big budget sci-fi.

Hammer kinda failed to get into the budding SF genre except for the actually pretty good except for the western stuff "Moon Zero two". It did some SF horror like " Island terror" and the very similar "burning island of the damned".

If  they had gotten it together they might have spat out a couple more Dr. Phibes movies. 

They did the QUATERMASS series.


That was AIP.

Wow, I just assumed those were hammer, never looked closely.

A movie aboutt the CSS Albemarle could be interesting. It was a hell of a civil war story and really one of those incredible but true ones. The CSS Albemarle was for a time one of the most advanced and powerrful warmachines on earth, she was built in a cornfield out of scrap and confiscated iron and for a brief time she was running on bacon fat.  The stoery of her short life and death would make a great movie.

They should do one on Albert Fish, the cannibal serial killer. The've done every other serial killer, some good, (DERANGED-1973) some bad (GEIN), but not Fish.

They should have Martin Landau play Fish, and directed by Rob Zombie, because this would be his kind of movie.

Honestly, a good movie that could be made would be RoboCop vs predator. Might have to shoot a few lawyers to get it made but that's a bonus not a problem. "It came to hunt. It came to the wrong city."

I did see a Robo Cop Vs Terminator Vs Alien comic some years ago so there is a precident.

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The Batman series is a classic. The Doc Savage movie is on the opposite end of the spectrum.

Oh, oh, we can have him fight zombies!!

As another reviewer pointed out, I find it kind of interesting that before Krampus came out in what was it, 2015?  There hadn't really been any horror movies about him.  I'm betting most of you already know this, but Krampus is NOT an idea they just made up for the film, it's a folk legend that's been around for some time (some even speculate his origins pre-date Christianity.)  Regardless, I don't think there'd ever been a film about him. 

Course, after the release of Krampus there were several low budget (and from I've read, rather crappy) clones.

I'm surprised none of Richard Laymon's books (to my knowledge) have been made into movies.  A lot of them would be perfect B-Movie fodder, like The Island, The Traveling Vampire Show, The Stake, One Rainy Night, In the Dark, and so on.  And yet, again, as far I know, nothing outside the novels have been done with any of the them.

What I think killed mrampus was the fact it killed innocent poeople who weren't part of the "bad" family. That kinda shot his whole meme to hell.

I think a lot of ideas for stories are only now maybe becoming acceptable.  Certainly, the younger you are the more jaded you must be.  Those words are well considered.  Our culture is not what we grew up in, indeed. 

So, I think perhaps now someone could float a genuine historical narrative of the life and experience of VLAD THE IMPALER or his father, VLAD DRACUL. 

Good luck getting a realistic Dracula based movie made. The last one was basically a movie with Dracula as a half-assed superhero.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0829150/

I wrote "historical narrative" not some half-ass TV horror. 

Dracula the Dark Prince was mostly accurate, but they tacked on a little bit about vampires at the very end.

ronny my love, landau died last year, unfortunately.  :bluesad:

Dam. I didn't know that.  :bluesad:

broke my heart. and i'm SERIOUSLY glad he won the oscar for "BEING" bela in the ed wood movie. he was BRILLIANT!

I was always kind of surprised we never got a movie spin-off of later Trek TV series such as DS9 or Voyager..

With all the superhero stuff on the go nowadays, kinda surprising Legion of Super-Heroes hasn't come around as of yet

They also did a number of Batman vs. Predator comic series..

I've always wanted to Gamera vs. Godzilla but as two different companies have rights it probably won't happen anytime soon...

Yeah. That gave me a warm fuzzy feeling. It was kinda like...."Finally!"  :cheers:

I kinda wish Marvel would do this guy....

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I'm surprised they never made Leonard Parts 1 - V  :wink:

Ah. I'm not.
If they do- it ain't gonna be pretty.
"Old Leonard dies in prison! Co starring his wife and his TV wife!"

The story of a roguish vagabond and his adventures and misadventures in the Caribbean, Europe, South America, etc. during the 1st 2 decades of the 20th century. Based upon a series of Italian comic books.

Corto Maltese

While there was an animated TV series on French TV in 2002, there never has been a live action film.


And maybe not surprised, but interesting, that both C. B. de Mille and John Ford, who were on opposite sides of the political spectrum, both wanted to do a film on Lord Baden Powell, the founder of the worldwide scouting movement. Both died ere the film could be made.

Then if John Ford had lived even longer, he wanted to make a film version of Sir Arthur Conan's Doyle "The White Company," which is about a band of British mercenaries in France and England during the 100 Years War. And what makes it more interesting, he wanted Sir Alec Guinness, Lord Laurence Olivier, and John "the Duke" Wayne to appear in the film.

Some of the country & western songs of the 1970s that somehow got turned into TV movies sort of have me wondering how the narrative works of Harry Chapin & Jim Groce didn't get picked up & stretched out by some greedy corporate executive...

Given the utter obsession with zombies and comic heroes I'm amazed we haven't seem "Zombieman!" yet... :lookingup:

ronny, i KNOW i've seen that character, but i'm drawing a blank on the name... ?

I thought that character was Nikos The Impaler from the German film Violent Sh-t.

Morbius, the Living Vampire. He was quite popular in Marvel Comics in the 70's.

I'm surprised that there isn't a whole series of films based on Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
Given the right director-or directors- that would be fantastic. IF they can manage to do it right. I've yet to see a half-way good Lovecraft film adaption. (I really don't count the Herbert West films...they have about as much in common with Lovecraft as FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER has to do with Shelly.)

 Being as taking old TV shows, that were meant to be serious ,into goofy movies are a thing Hollywood has ass-f**ked us with for the last 10 years, that we haven't been cursed with a KOLCHAK, the NIGHT STALKER movie, starring some jerk-off like John C. Reilly in the lead. 

Morbius the living vampire, marvel comics.

The HPLHS have done The Call Of Cthulhu and Whisperers In The Dark that I thought were decent. I'd love to see Del Toro finally get At The Mountains Of Madness off the ground, but am resigned to it not happening.

I never heard of either of those. I may have to look them up!

As far as Del Toro... I don't think iv'e ever seen a movie by him.  I'm aware of who he is and what he's done, but I just ain't interested in seeing any of his movies.

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Oh yeah- I seen Blade 2.

The Call was done as if it had been made in the 1920's so its silent and they use the sort of special effects you'd have seen back then. Whisperer In Darkness is more akin to a modern made film, but still in black and white. I picked them up on iTunes, but I'd imagine they'd also be available on the HPLHS website.

I almost sort of wish this had been made. No idea how familiar people in the USA are with the old Carry On... movies.

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However, I own the board game.

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thank you gentlemen , i knew he was familiar.
  ronny, you DEFINITELY would like the call and whisperers, we have them on dvd, they come off the shelf frequently.
 

What do these 5 films have in common?

Made, but by a different studio, with a varying degree of success.
Peter Rabbit
The Swan Princess
Tin Tin

Apparently this idea dates from the '50's and was suppose to star the original Mouseketeers.
Rainbow Road to Oz

And this ought to give it all away. In the mode of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, almost a century of characters from animated films, all appearing in the same film.
It Was All Started by a Mouse.

We don't know why those films were never made. We do know these films were never made because of a lack of financing.

2 American reporters + Prince Charles + a woman painted all in blue and frozen in time + an abandoned tube station + the British museum = Return of the White Worm
and
William Tell with Errol Flynn in the title role.

While the former never got past the script stage, the later had some footage shot, in color, ere the money ran out. Not I, but those who have seen the footage say it is unfortunate that the film was never finished, as it was shaping up to be one of the best films Flynn ever did, since his appearance in The Adventures of Robin Hood.

While lack of money is the main reason films are never made, there are a number of other reasons, including . . .
Coming up with a suitable script
Conflicts with the studio
Creative differences among the filmmakers
Failure to find . . .
--a distributor
--the right actor
--the right director
Lawsuits that prevent a film from being finished or released.
The original film dies at the box office, which puts the kibosh on the idea of doing a sequel.
And many other reasons.

Given we've had recent threads on movies never made, sympathetic villains, an d sexy monsters, it got me thinking.  There really aren't any stories about Medusa from her perspective.  If you know her origin (she wasn't born a gorgan) you know she's primed for a story in the vain of Wicked or Maleficient or such.


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She's been in movies, and shows for certain, but usually as a villain.  The only one I can think of that has her in a more sympathetic position is an episode of Tales from the Darkside that had her revived in modern day and she falls in love with a blind man.

The comic book guy Plastic Man. 

I think we have to get a ren and stumpy movie, followed by a spin off of "POWDERED......TOAST....MMMAAAAANNNNNN!!!!

At one point there was plans to do that with Bruce Campbell as Plastic man.  I would have loved that.

The long-running action paperback series "Mack Bolan, The Executioner" has been optioned for film countless times since the 1970s. I have seen old copies of the books from back in the day with banners on the front covers saying "Soon to be a major motion picture," but nothing has ever come of it.

Pretty much every action-hero type of the last 40 years (Steve McQueen, Sly, Arnold, Bruce Willis, Vin Diesel, etc.) has supposedly been involved with it at some point. Last I heard was three or four years ago, when Bradley Cooper of "The Hangover" was attached but he's since moved on.

After all this time I doubt a Mack Bolan film is ever going to happen. The books used to be published monthly, but due to falling sales they've been pared down to four new installments a year, and they're not even available in paperback anymore, just e-book/digital format (yuk!).

Besides, even if they did make a movie, audiences would likely dismiss it as a ripoff of Marvel's "The Punisher" (even though the Mack Bolan character pre-dates the Punisher by several years)...

Yeah the punisher was a ripoff of the executioner, marvel's lucky pendelton didn't sue.

Then again they made a remo williams movie and look what happened to that.

Legend has it that Marvel originally wanted to do a Mack Bolan comic series, but they couldn't reach a deal with Mack's publisher (which I believe was Pinnacle Books)... so they basically went "Fine, screw you guys then" and "created" the Punisher, who was basically Mack Bolan with a super hero costume on.

You're close on the details but not quite. 

"I was fascinated by the Don Pendleton Executioner character, which was fairly popular at the time, and I wanted to do something that was inspired by that, although not to my mind a copy of it. And while I was doing the Jackal storyline, the opportunity came for a character who would be used by the Jackal to make Spider-Man’s life miserable. The Punisher seemed to fit." -- Gerry Conway creator of the Punisher.

However he didn't come up with the characters name or look on his own.  The name came from Stan Lee.  Gerry wanted to call him The Assassin, but Stan nixed that.  The idea was that Punisher would eventually become a hero and they couldn't have a hero called "The Assassin." 

John Romita Sr. is responsible for the Punisher's look as we know it.  Gery had drawn Punisher with a small badge-like skull.  Romita blew the symbol up to take over the whole chest. 

For a brief time the punisher became a replacement for captain america.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/articles/7-heroes-who-wore-the-captain-america-costume/1100-149261/

Stanley Kubrick was obsessed with making an epic about Napoleon Bonaparte, yet surprisingly never got around to it (before the Illuminati replaced him with a clone, then killed the clone).

They could still do it. Not with Bruce Campbell, he's getting like me (potbellied.) That would have been great, though. I loved him in the EVIL DEAD series. The best TV I have seen in decades.

I'm surprised that CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON never got a remake. Not that I wan't one. And no- the fish monster love story that won an Oscar this year don't count. I never seen it. I never will.

I'm also surprised METROPOLIS (1927) has never been remade. I mean- not even close.  No one has even tried to try.
Not that I want it to happen (I don't-or maybe just to see it four ways of f**ked by the idiot who made TRANSFORMERS :bouncegiggle:).

Seeing how badly the Tom Cruise Mummy went I doubt we'll see a standalone Creature From the Black Lagoon remake.

Or the new Frankenstein movie, or the new Dracula movie. These have been out for quite a while. Never seen em? Neither has anyone else. And these were big budget movies. And we all know how the Del Torio Wolfman movie was. It sucked. Del Torio is a great actor. Don't get me wrong. But the movie sucked.
They're trying-clawing desperate- at that Marvel Superhero thing. Trying to turn the old monsters into F/X extravaganzas.
It's sad.  :bluesad:

Always wanted there to be a movie of the DC (I think) hero "ROM Spaceknight". One of the very few comics I actually read and vaguely remember. Guess I shouldn't exactly be surprised to have never seen it since it's probably really obscure, but I still remember liking the character and thinking that it might make for an interesting film.

Actually- I think the comic was based on a toy.

ROM was an action figure toy first, then Marvel made a comic series on.

It was,  and it was. MARVEL,.not DC.

I'm surprised there was never a movie about a guy who ate a radioactive cannot beans and started letting nuclear farts.

As far as I know no one's used that exact plot, but there was BumMan, who used super BO & farts to defeat bad guys:

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Haven't seen it, but Micro Filmmaker Magazine had a review. I can't link there right now; my antivirus software lists it as a potentially dangerous site.

EDIT: Here's their review: http://www.microfilmmaker.com/critiques/Issue29/BumMan_1.html (http://www.microfilmmaker.com/critiques/Issue29/BumMan_1.html)