Captain Blood – You’re kidding me, right? The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has made a zillion dollars and you don’t want to compete with that?! Captain Blood is the best Pirate story ever written period. Even better than Treasure Island which gets filmed all the time. There is a LOT of excellent material in the original books untouched by the old movies.
Rainbow 6 – Tom Clancy’s best novel, a book with everything the Jason Borne series has and much more. This should start shooting tomorrow, and yet Hollywood is fooling around with making up their own Jack Ryan books.
The Tar-Aiyam Krang – The lead in for Alan Dean Foster’s Commonwealth series is a very solid science fiction story. Compared to the stuff they are filming, e.g. Prometheus, Battleship, etc. this is an amazing story. Young kid goes on an adventure to discover the secret of an ancient alien weapon. This is the real treasure island in space.
The Passion II – The Passion was a great movie, but it wasn’t the end of the story. We have the Acts and that is the obvious and a very important follow up. Mel can produce if he doesn’t want to direct. Even bad sequels make 80% of the original.
The Iliad – One of the most famous books of all time, it has NEVER been filmed, unless you count the movie “Troy” which I don’t as it got the story wrong from beginning to end. e.g. in defiance of both history and a literary work ranked with Shakespeare they changed the ending?!?!? Please find a writer and director that realize they are not better writers than Homer and film this book.