SF Signal: 2008 SF/F Movie Slate: Which Ones Do You Want to See?

2008 SF/F Movie Slate: Which Ones Do You Want to See?

SciFi Wire has been listing 2008 genre movies, though I'm not sure how some of these fall under the guise of sf/f (blame SciFi Wire, not me!)

From 20th Century Fox: Jumper, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, Shutter, Starship Dave, The Happening, and Babylon A.D..

From Disney: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, WALL*E [w/ Pixar], South of the Border, Bolt, and Bedtime Stories

From Paramount:Cloverfield, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Ruins , Iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Kung Fu Panda , Nowhereland, Ghost Town, Madagascar: The Crate Escape, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Star Trek, and A Tale of Two Sisters.

From Universal: The Incredible Hulk, Wanted, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Death Race, The Tale of Despereaux, and Doomsday.

From Warner: One Missed Call, 10,000 B.C., Speed Racer, Get Smart, The Dark Knight, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Some of these I am unfamiliar with. Others I know only from trailers (and we all know how accurate those can be)

That said:

High Interest:

Dark Knight
Indiana Jones
Hellboy II
Harry Potter

Medium
The Mummy
Jumper
Star Trek
Kung Fu Panda
Iron Man

Low
The rest

Posted by Paul on Saturday December 29, 2007 at 8:45 AM

In order of enthusiasm...

Indiana Jones
Dark Knight
Speed Racer
Star Trek
WALL*E
Harry Potter
Cloverfield
Hellboy 2

Posted by Joe on Saturday December 29, 2007 at 12:34 PM

OMG, they're going to make a sequel to the awful Hulk movie from a few years ago?!?!?! As I recall, after falling asleep thrice, I was walking out of that movie thinking, "...it was like watching paint dry..." Will they be calling this one, "The Incredible Hulk: The Second Coat"?!!?

Posted by Peter Y on Saturday December 29, 2007 at 1:23 PM

Why don't they pick a good SF book to make a film out of? There are some really good stories out there waiting for a director with vision.

How about:
The Forever War (Joe Haldeman),
The Star Ships (Stephen Baxter),
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert Heinlein),
Ringworld (Larru Niven),
Rendezvous with Rama (Arthur C Clarke)
Colony (Ben Bova)
Eon (Greg Bear)
The Mote in God's Eye (Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle)
Chasm City - (Alastair Reynolds)
Icerigger - (Alan Dean Foster)
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

Blockbusters in the waiting. Just look at all the best SF movies and you will find a top novel behind it. Without which they are usually just mindless film director's burblings into the genre.

Anatole

Posted by Anatole Beams on Monday January 07, 2008 at 6:47 AM