BRIGHT IDEAS

Dear Hollywood Or any other film/screen making entity:

I believe that if there were any BOOK READERS living amongst the moneyed and powerful media masters that they could mine a nearly endless treasure trove of film ideas.

I therefore humbly submit the following:



Dies The Fire by S.M. Stirling

 Big old EMP in1998 reduces civilization to living standards of 11th century England. There are survivors. Norman the Conqueror (Of Portland) meets Mike Havel, a superb ex-marine and his Bearkillers gang, Juniper McKenzies clan of warrior Wiccan farmers and a bunch of pissed off ranchers from Bend.



Dragons of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey


Disillusioned Star Trek generation leaves earth to colonize Pern a goldilocks planet in the Rukbat system. Everything is swell until they are visited by thread, which is a deadly rain of flesh eating organisms. The scientists quickly adapt some small local flying lizards and breed them to a much larger riding size. These dragons imprint on their riders at hatching and can chew a coal compound to produce phosphine gas that incinerates the thread. This series would be a good project for any studio that specializes in computer generation type films for the dragons doncha know.


Warprize by Elizabeth Maughn

Attila the Hun conquers all but the real Attila was never this interesting. His latest conquest is the land of X-something or other. The author really liked to name people with Xena names. Anyway the local X person is a very high ranking local girl who is also a healer. Her half brother, King X disapproves of her hobby and of her in general. The kingdom is defeated. Attila demands tribute and part of that tribute is the girl. Wait it gets better. The rest of the three books deal with the interaction and cultural misunderstandings between the girl and the entire horseback riding nation.


Oh yeah for the horror filmmakers? There are any of the Jane Austen-like stories that have been adapted to feature zombies, ghouls, vampires and intelligent sea monsters, etc.