What old movie/t.v show/book should be made into an AGS game?

[Babar]

I have all the books (collected a long time ago)

As do I . Perhaps I grew out of them or something, but they seem rather simple now, and don't appeal to me as much. Same with Archie comics (from the other thread). Still, they were a huge part of my youth .

[heribertovalle]

I've always thought that A series of unfortunate events would make an awesome adventure game too.

[Ghost]

...I think Enid Blyton's Secret Seven or Famous Five would make tasty Adventure game adaptations.

Agreed, they are prime adventure material. All the ingredients are there, wheter one would stick to the books or extend the story... Hmmmmm. *meaningful glance around the forums*

[GarageGothic]

A game based on "The man who was Thursday" by Gilbert Keith Chesterton! Imagine the potential of that!

Actually that's a great idea - so good that I may have to steal it  . I always wondered what The Man Who Was Thursday would look like as a movie directed by someone like Terry Gilliam, but I never thought about turning it into a game (not entirely true, I did use it as inspiration for a Deus Ex mod that I worked on, but Chesterton was only one of many influences along with Chuck Palahniuk and Brett Easton Ellis). If you're not going to make this game, I sure as hell am.

[heribertovalle]

And keep me posted about it. It would make a wonderful adventure game. I do want to, but I think it's hard to hold a candle to G.K.chesterton's work, even as homage.

[Jeopardy]

For a few years the concept of a Kolchak adventure game has been stuck inmy head, I would do it, but I've yet to finish a game under my own steam.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071003/

I like the idea of a guy not trying to be a paranormal investigator, he's sorta forced to be.

[NsMn]

A toy story adventure game would be cool. I loved the movies when I was younger, and well, maybe I'll also watch the 3rd movie...

Such an adventure should be easy to do, since the graphics are simple.

[gracenakimurafan]

I think 'The Collector' by John Fowles would be a great game premise. Set in England. It's about this guy. Frederick, who kidnaps a girl, Miranda. The thing is, this isn't some garden variety psycho rapist/serial killer. Frederick obviously has issues. He collects butterflies and lives with his aunt. One day he wins several thousand pounds. He has noticed Miranda before and decides to kidnap her and 'collect' her. She is really just another butterfly to him. Frederick is plain looking, skinny and comes from a lower class background, while Miranda is a beautiful art student who Frederick assumes comes from the upper class. Frederick wants to keep her in this house that he bought and make Miranda fall in love with him. He would keep her in there until she dies. Miranda constantly thinks of ways to escape. She tries to pick locks, thinks about suicide and plays mind games with Frederick to make him sympathetic to her and convince him to her out go outside or at least let her loose enough so that she would have a good chance at escaping. The book is amazing and it's written really well. Actually, I might write up a game script for this.
The gameplay would be based around Miranda trying to manipulate Frederick through specific dialogue choices and trying to think of ways to escape (finding hair pin to pick locks etc.).

[Derrick Freeland]

Two Books:

'Out of the Silent Planet' by C.S. Lewis

'Solaris' by Stanislaw Lem

Both have unique and amazingly detailed settings for their stories and a very complex and interesting cast of characters. 

With 'Out of the Silent Planet', you'd be exploring Malacandra, trying to avoid Weston & Devine, and trying to make your way to the Oyarsa.  I think it might be interesting to work in how Ransom learns to speak with the other races on the planet.  There's also a lot of puzzle/action potential for Ransom navigating the landscape on Malacandra.

With Solaris, it would be part mystery (figuring out what happened on the Solaris Station, and about Solaris itself) and part drama/character interaction (learning about the other crew members & their 'visitors').  You could also work in a part of the game that would teach the player about Solaristics and how the planet works. 

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Kolchak: Night Stalker.  Done in traditional Fate of Atlantis style artwork.  Gameplay would involve the usual Kolchak research and kill the monster phase, but with the addition of a 'snapshot' verb that would allow you to take specific photographs of murder scenes and monsters (quality could vary by how calm you are).  The money earned by these photos could be used in some seedy pawn shop to buy better monster hunting equipment so you could tackle higher profile cases.

[markbilly]

The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul - Douglas Adams.

[Scarab]

Paycheck, because it's the only movie I can think of which already has inventory puzzles in it 

[mkennedy]

Kolchak: Night Stalker.  ...

Would that be original, Columbo like Night Stalker, or the newer, more serious one?

[Technocrat]

A few years back, I saw an episode of The Avengers that seemed to me to have a plot that would slide quite neatly into an adventure game.

That, or The Saint.

Yeah, I watched far too much ITV4 back then.

[Pixelton]

Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker. Theres no puzzles in the book or anything but he creates such a strange, interesting world that it would be amazing to do the same in AGS. If you haven't read the book you should! Its the kind of material that instatly paints a picture in your mind as you read it - I love all things Clive Barker so I'm a little biased.

or even Cabal (Nightbreed for the movie goers)

[Derrick Freeland]

I really liked Barker's 'Abarat' series.  They would definitely make excellent adventure games.  'Thief of Always' maybe?  Also a pretty compelling setting.

[Bailey]

I'd love to see Matthew Reilly's Temple or Kate Mosse's Labyrinth being made into a game (the second one would work more as a quest, me thinks).

I can't think of any old tv shows right now, I mostly watched soap operas when I was younger.

What about Memento, does that count as an old film?

[Igor Hardy]

THEY SHOULD ALL BE MADE INTO AGS GAMES, SO THAT EVERY SINGLE GEEK IN THE WORLD IS HAPPY!!!