What Would You Most Like to See Adapted for TV or Cinema?

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An adaptation of Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle.

Yeah, that'd be a fun series to see!

I also want a decent version of Michael Caidin's Cyborg that's faithful to the book (rather than the ridiculous Six Million Dollar Man series) and I'd love to see John Varley's Gaea trilogy made into a big-budget series (one season for each book).

"Eon", by Greg Bear. A fantastic high-concept SF novel from around 1980 which I think they could finally do justice to. (And probably add some better characterisation to while they're at it- he's a bit old-school in that regard.) It has a 21st-century Cold War element which still kind of works 'cos of parallel universes. A hollowed-out asteroid city from the future to explore, an infinite tunnel sculpted from raw space-time, and human characters who are less humanoid than some of the aliens. Genuinely mind-blowing stuff, and less stupid-overblown-action-sequence oriented than most SF cinema.

The second half of Arthur C. Clarke's Odyssey Series.

Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles.

Another choice of mine would be a regular series based on Marc Miller's Traveller universe, featuring...

• The Solomani (people of Earth) who conquered the Vilani's two-thosand-year Empire in less than two centuries.
• The Vilani, who never quite got over being conquered by the Solomani.
• The Zhodani, for whom psionics is their way of life.
• The honor-bound felinoid Aslan.
• The winged reptilioid Droyne.
• The sixfold-symmetric and manipulative Hivers.
• The centaur-like militant vegetarian K'kree.
• The uplifted wolf-hybrid Vargr.

As another Tolkien fan, i am always down with seeing Silmarillion or any specific story from it on TV!

Bravestarr , western/sci fi hybrid
MASK - Mobile armed strike kommand
Mandrake magician TAS
The Phantom TAS (plenty of scandi stories could be adapted : Golden runes , ww2 story Eden , P as 14-1500s knight etc)
LEGO pirates movie , based on 90s

A mini-series of Say Nothing which is a textbook I have for my class.

A new adaptation of William S. Burroughs' seemingly
unfilmable classic novel Naked Lunch!

That would be a dream!