With the news of yet ANOTHER remake in the pipeline for Total Recal...
Surely there must be other decent stories that can be made into a films?!

Posts with the following details please:
- Name of Original SciFi Story
- Author
- Suggest a Film Title
Also...
- Why this story? Have you read it? What you think of it? etc just some ideas....

Story: The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Author: By A.E. van Vogt
Film Title: As Above

This story originally influenced the creation of StarTrek and Alien(s)
There are four main parts covering seperate encounters the crew face, if done well this could be a blockbuster with big effects for the ship and plenty of scope for leading & supporting actors.
Id suggest the lead character Dr. Elliott Grosvenor is played by Morgan Freeman

Doint knowing books to well!

The Rama Series (well the last three specifically, I know they are making a lame first one).

BattleTech. Theres scope for everything from an all out action fest through to a quite intense political drama.

I second that one. Though not sure what audience it would end up catering to.

Ringworld would be good, though you just know in the cinema loads of uneducated folks will be going "Such a halo rip-off..."

Quote from: Chris HBattleTech. Theres scope for everything from an all out action fest through to a quite intense political drama.

Would love this, Im a dedicated Mech-Head.  They have been talking about it for about 7 years now, but nothing has come of it.  

David Weber - Honor Harrington series of books, plenty of good material there.