Movies you want to see made

(This one is more of a personal thing for me, but...)

A few yeras ago, someone who was the halfway point between Bob Jones and Jack Chick decided to use his fortune to create a Bible college. The guy decided that not enough ministers were being prepared to deal with the influx of "cults" in America, and so he established a college where would-be ministers would be trained in how to handle these "cults" in addition to receiving the regular training one would expect of a minister. Each major "cult" or category of "cult" would get their own class, and students would have to take so many credit hours of these classes to graduate.

The minister was so sure of himself that he tapped six students from what is about to be the first round of graduating students for a public debate, the opposing side being local members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He figured that his students knew enough to completely defeat any opponent they faced, no matter how good. As such, by putting his students on public display, not only would he prove their ability, he'd help "destroy" a "cult".

Instead, it's the college that is nearly destroyed.

It turns out that 100% of the curriculum for the classes on the "cults" comes from material hostile to the cults, including material written by the guy who founded the college; at no point did the students study anything actually, officially published by these groups. Because of this, the students were demonstrably ignorant of even basic matters of theology and history, and many of the claims and arguments they made were provably wrong, if not bigoted. ("You mean married Mormon women are allowed to style their hair as they see fit? Since when?!")

By the time everything is said and done, the Chick character and his students are booed off the stage by an audience that is completely unimpressed. A handful of audience members - mostly friends and family - openly embrace them, but most of the people in the event facility are too disgusted to do anything but shake their heads as they leave. The only people swayed by what took place are going to the LDS group to ask questions.

The Chick character's reputation takes a massive hit, as a number of congregations that were once proud to be associated with him aren't that proud anymore; some are putting his books away until they know for sure what's going on, while others are clearly trying to stuff him down the memory hole. The college itself is in jeopardy, as the accrediting body who was going to certify the place is now refusing to certify it. And without proper accreditation, the degrees are worthless... or, at least, even more worthless than they are now with the guy's name on it. That means a whole lot of angry students who just shelled out obscene sums for a degree that's not worth the paper it's printed on.

The film would follow the Chick character and the six as they try to make sense of what just happened and get their lives back on track, with some of them having to confront the prospect that they themselves were guilty of such sins as ignorance and bigotry.

are you referring to the Anne McCaffrey story? or another story?

Yes I have always have a soft spot for Anne McCafferys stories, ever since I broke my leg as a boy and was laid up with it in the air, for a few months, and was given 'Get Off the Unicorn ' to read.

You could also do the Crystalsingers, although they have the same Federated Sentient Worlds setting as the Mindships.

Addendum: I Know techincally Pern exists in the same setting, but as their system is under quarantine the Dragonriders are unaware of ways really exists out there and no real idea of their origins until they find the A.I. that the original colonists brought with them..

That's what editing and screenwriting is for, Alfred Hitchcock did all that with sprays of fireworks and trains going in to tunnels. Frankly all you need is a kiss, an embrace fade to black as in a Bond movie, we know what happens between him and a a Bond girl, they do not have to show it.

Although in case anyone else gets the wrong impression, we are not talking 50 shades here, Killashandra is a female protagonist who falls in love with other people and they make love, but it's done in a tasteful way, They might kiss, then it's .......... And wake up the next morning.

Well yes, in crystalsingers the symbiotic adds to it, and dragons and their mating habits and the effects on their riders.

1942 might be little early push it back to 1944, Vichy France was only occupied fully by the Germans in late 1942 after Operation Torch IIRC, before that the Vichy government was technically in charge. The Restistance in 1942 was concentrating more on the Northern Zone of Occupeied France Paris, Normandy, Cherbourg etc. where more of the German a military was based.

actually a very good prosthetics manufacturer.

That is going to be bloody difficult....
Smaug has as many different pronunciations as anything, and is argued over more than the right way to say Aluminium.
Whilst the interpretation of many of the songs, their importance, and even if they should be included in the story, with or without the music, is a huge argument amongst the Tolken spoken here crowd.

The language of Elven has almost become a official language, if you listen to them.
Its more important than Vulcan, or even Klingon to the trekkers....

I read the stories before many of these people were even born, I have a first edition copy, simply because it was bought by a family member when it first came out, and passed on as "You may like this", I was one of those eagerly awaiting the first print run of the third book of the ring trilogy, Return of the King, ...

Does this make me a "Super fan"?... Oh No.

I waited in line for the release of many of David Eddings "Belgariad series during the early 80's, as the first book came to me just after printing, 1982... I still have them "somewhere"?..

But just because I was "there" in the world somewhere doesnt mean I am the ultimate advisor on how to make screen plays out of them.

So the meaning of this post?.
Who would YOU trust to make the film?.

Quite a simple question, and I expect the discussion to go forwards with quite a few suggestions in mind, because we already know that maybe your idea of a good director would differ from mine.
And as we dont have the author of JRR Tolkein around to advise, our own personal interpretation of the story would get significantly differentiating mileage.

For a start, I found some of the swapping about between characters story lines a bit confusing in the books...
especially in the later Ring bearer trilogy.
I may have done a little moving of the actual scenes to better places to pause than the actual book states, and maybe in doing that, I am wrong?.

So who IS out there to be ultimate advisor on the making of that film?..
And I must immediately discount Tolkein family members, as the books they finished for him after his death were done badly.

I would have suggested maybe Mr Pratchett, but we lost him as well.
And yes he can/could do serious, look at the long world series with Stephen Baxter, that went down quite well.
Maybe then we can suggest Stephen Baxter as advisory?.. would he even want to try to help?..

Can the film be made "again", and even should it be made again?
The world of imagination can be irreparably damaged if you are forced to witness someone else's interpretation.
Especially if you do not like that interpretation.... it can spoil the book for you.

This is maybe why Shakespere is popular.
Not only does he give you the script, he gets the stage directions in there as well.

>>>>Exit stage left pursued by a bear>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>