The 10 Best Sci-Fi Films Never Made

Thanks David, I always wondered why the Matrix sequels sucked so much. It's the same thing that happened with Kill Bill. The studio gets the idea that a movie is long so why not split it into two? That logic works with Chico sticks, but not stories. Good article man.

I liked the hitchhicker guide to the galaxy movie, obviously not as much as i liked the novels but i liked it anyways, and i know alot ot ppl who did liked it, i guess it wasnt gread on USA but on other coutries it was great, like that movie about explosions on a tunnel with ppl trapped in it with lots of fire

Hitchhikers was a huge letdown. I tried hard to convince my husband that douglas adams was funny before we saw the movie.

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dungeons and dragons was made, with billy from the new adventures of superman. and how long has that been around? movie was as good as you think it is.

hitchhikers guide was the most retarted movies of all time

i love sci fi

I'm a Blizzard fanatic and I can tell you the only way there will ever be a good Starcraft movie. 1) If Blizzard controls it. Not writes it and releases it to some studio. Hollywood must not be involved. At all. 100% Blizzard. 2) if Blizzard takes their dear sweet fucking time like they do with everything to make the motherfucker perfect. 3) If there are no big name actors at all. 4) The CGI will take a fuckton of money. Only Blizzard will be willing to put the money into the movie that it needs. So, in essence it will never be done. I personally don't care. Give me Starcraft 2 and I'll be happy. Hey, guess what Blizzard is making RIGHT NOW! Also: To all the people talking about Starcraft and Starship Troopers. I don't work for Blizzard, I don't know what the development for the original game was like, but Starcraft took exactly 3 ideas from Starship Troopers: Space Marines, "Bugs" (Zerg), and "Skinnies" (Protoss). They then took those things in a radically new direction that is simply amazing. There was no Kerrigan in Starship Troopers, there were no Dark Templar, there were no Zerglings, there were no thick southern hicky accents that make the Terrans hilarious (If you haven't, click on one of the characters with a voice actor. A Vulture, a Seige Tank, a Dragoon. Keep clicking. Keep clicking. Listen. Hear that? That's comic gold.) My points: Starcraft the movie will and should never happen unless Blizzard does it, and they make games, not movies, and Starship Troopers was an influence, but Starcraft took the three races and made them infinitely better, with deep, engrossing storylines and characters that Robert Heinlein never dreamed of.

Well you guys can chill about the Starcraft movie. I tell you it will be made. But first we will have a Warcraft movie(and IIRC it has already been confirmed). I'm guessing that a Starcraft movie will depend on the sucess of the Warcraft one. But take this as a friendly warning : unless someone can actualy breed orcs/zerg/protss and build all the robots in starcraft, then both movies will be filled with CGI. On the subject of why they warent made until know, i'l just take a guess and say that they waited for Starcraft 2 to come out and to finaly close the 3d chapter of the Warcraft story(with the new WoW expansion).

And maybe James Cameron was the Michael Bay of the 80s. If that's true, let's all go back to the 80s and stay there. In that topsy-turvy world that is the 1980s, their Michael Bay equivalent was one of the most fascinating, compelling and greatest filmmakers of all time.

Yes, a lot of movies drew their influence from Starship Troopers, but only for the space-age military aspect of those films. I know this because there isn't anything else to the book, really. There are exactly two chapters and a prologue that discuss, in lengthy, boring technical detail, combat with "the Bugs". The rest of that book is nothing more than an in-depth moral and technical evaluation of military and citizenship- in general. Every three chapters or so it drops you a reminder that it's set in space. Apart from that, it's Full Metal Jacket, if Full Metal Jacket was less gritty, less psychologically compelling, less personal, and oh yeah, a manifesto for both a semi-fascist pseudo-Utopian state and why everyone should join the military. If you investigate, you'll find that "Starship Troopers" is on the mandatory reading the list for infinitely more government military groups than film crews. "Aliens" drew inspiration from it, but just the military part. Paul Verhoven said he tried reading the book but gave up. That's why the movie was almost good.

Starcraft, Warhammer 40k, and almost every sci-fi universe ever devised were all heavily influenced by the 1956 Starship Troopers novel. Now, I love Warhammer and I love Starcraft, but to accuse Starcraft of ripping all its content from Warhammer is to deny the fact that Warhammer gets most of its inspiration from Starship Troopers and Dune. Warhammer is nice because it offers us a really fucked up future, a future that is basically a fantasy setting, but with guns. Warhammer has space orks, elves, and magice, but it also has Titans, Predator tanks, and the Intersetaller Imperium. Its a nice almagation of fantasy and Sci-fi. Starcraft, however, offers us its own unique universe. Instead of Warhammer's Byzantinish Imperium of Man, we have a bunch of squabbling human groups that are just trying to survive while being attacked by an absolutely freaky insectoid species and the Protoss, in my opinion the most badass aliens every concieved.

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kudos on your pick of Edgar Wright to direct Hitchhikers, but boo to your secondary pick of Tim Burton. Tim Burton couldn't make even a decent movie without a) Johnny Depp b) Danny Elfman c) a brilliant Stop Motion Animation team.

as far as hhgttg goes, come on...how could anyone expect a movie to do justice to a book that was so full of dry humor that a nice chunk of american audiences would be left scratching their heads in confusion. The brits definitely have the corner on the market for dry humor...in case anyone hasn't noticed, americans like their slapstick. As for Ender's game...one of the least intellectual people I know recommended that book to me and I read it and loved it (even tho I thought a large percentage of the sequels sucked) but seriously...I agree with an earlier poster that the last half of the book is pretty much a kid playing a video game that isn't really a video game. Anyone ever seen The Last Starfighter? It's a cool idea for a book, but in the visual medium...I don't think so. I've sat around and watched my roomies playing video games. It's not exciting, or movie material. Well, maybe youtube video when their COD4 character gets whacked and they throw the controller and a tantrum at the same time.

I have to agree on the comment about HHGG. When I heard about a movie version of HHGG, I was torn. I loved the radio series and the books, and thought that the TV series was decent (specifically, the animation was brilliant, and the rest was OK, expecially considering the budget). The TV series was an indication that a visual version of the radio series was at least a possibility. The invention of CGI in the interim should have meant that the more challenging flights of fancy from the series would have been practical to realize. The last thing I would have expected was that whoever wrote the final version of the film would have chucked out most of the best part of it -- Adams' finely honed dialogue. Fortunately, I was forewared by an advance review, and saved my money. I ultimately got the movie out of the library for free, and it was worth exactly what I paid for it. Very sad. I think that a good movie of HHGG is possible, but I doubt I'll ever see it. Listen to the radio series instead.

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Ummm, because Starship Troopers WAS made... and I'm painfully aware of this fact.

HOW CAN YOU NOT HAVE STARSHIP TROOPERS IN THE LST

Er...you most definitely CAN have an opinion of the Hitchhiker's Guide movie without having read the book. There's that funny thing called the brain that allows thought, which typically takes place after experience. So, one can, I repeat, CAN have an opinion. Whether or not the opinion is one anyone should listen to is a different matter. Anyway, the movie was obnoxious on a level only Armageddon has been able to achieve, and I had happily forgotten it's existence before I read this...oh well, at least I laughed. A lot.