Quote Originally Posted by smaughazard
Another excellent translation from print to screen: A Boy and his Dog -from the Harlan Ellison short story

Another Turkey: Dune -the awful version with Sting

The Director's Cut is a much better version though the tv mini-series is the best of them all as adaptions, but, DUNE did have some great visuals, the first appearance of hte Navigator was just awesome.

As an adaption Blade Runner isn't that great,(note I sad adaption, I like the movie a lot) it's mainly based on one chapter of thte book. Minority Report is the same way and a good movie by the way. A Scanner Darkly looks to be the closest adaption of Dick's work to the original to date.

The Lensman Anime movie is a decent adaption of the Lensman books, a fave series of mine.

I would like to see Jack Williamsons book Humanoids adapted into a movie.

Starship Troopers the ovie was a satire and a grwat homage to the 50's bug movies.

CJ Cherryh is an excellent writer her Merchanter Universe rocks, DOWNBELOW STATION, CYTEEN,etc as well as the Chanur novels.

Also William Gibson and Bruce Sterling are two great writers, part of the original cyberpunk movement they continue to create consistantly good works.

Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad would be excellent as a series on HBO.

Comics writer Warren Ellis has a respect and love for old pulp writers and he does excellent homages to them, TRANSMETROPOLITAN and ORBITER Aare just two examples.

Rob