Film and book titles that were discarded

[hardsciencefanagain]

I'll start

Biography af an Aston Villa goalkeeper Fifty grades of Shay

Frank Herbert Dune Buggy

A life in movies:Sir Ian McKellen Rendezvous with Drama

Isaac Asimov on undergarments :Foundation and Lingerie

Isaac Asimov on affirmative cybernetics: Aye,Robot

Ridley Scott on heating technology: Radiator

Nobody knows about Frank Herbert's Tyneside football muscial :Toon Tune

Oppenheimers biography: Da Bomb

Larry Niven on Molly: Ringwald

Mick Jagger was rumoured to have a cameo appearance in a movie with Mrs Jolie
the film was to be about the horrors of cosmetic surgery and was going to be called
"read my lips"

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

Hal Clement's book on the CÍA's attempt to infiltrate Islamic State with a Catholic priest: Mission of Brevity

 

[dask]

The Restroom Of The Robots by Isaac Asimov

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

You had me laughing there ,Dask.
(I'm laughing for another reason too:Someone GAVE me A Yank at Walhalla yesterday

Of course there's Asimov's novel of growing grapes in zero gravity: The Currants of Space

and Ike again,on naval history: The rest of the Rowboats

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

They sacked the writer who wrote the scenario for the new alien movie:
the script was provisionally titled: Alien,the New one in a quite possibly reasonably long series which might progressively get worse
One source is quoted as having said "the title was insipid,to say the least,and it lacked vision"

 

[dask]

Of course there's Asimov's novel of growing grapes in zero gravity: The Currants of Space

Or his galaxy spanning ballet: The Courantes Of Space

 

[K. Riehl]

You forgot Dune book # 37 Shopping Malls of Dune

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

James Blish A Crate of Conscience
Isaac Asimov the Goats Themselves
Richard Wilson And Then Her Gown Flew Off
Fred Pohl Viagra(AKA Man Plus)
Gordon R Dickson the Longdistance Call
Philip J Farmer (on Football) Inside Offside
Clifford D. Simak on Poetry:Rhyme Is the Simplest Thing
J R R Tolkien( on overweight people on ladders):Lard on the Rungs
Larry Niven Ringworld Plumbers
J R R Tolkien(on needlepoint work) The Hobby
Robert A Heinlein The Moon is a Tough Missus
C.M.Kornbluth The Ambling Idiots
William Rotsler(on the Simpsons)Patron of the Barts

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

Wrong way around:
famous titles,wrong authors:

Sepp Blatter : A case of Conscience

 

[Grimward]

Cornelius Ryan, adapted by William Goldman (a docudrama on addiction enablers), A Bridge To Bar

 

[Cat's Cradle]

A troubled young man decides to become a plastic surgeon so he can remove his own facial tattoos in Alfred Bester’s classic SF novel The Scars my Destination.

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

*presses like button*

J.G.Ballard,writing about indigestion and dyspepsia: The Wind from Nowhere

Poul Anderson,writing about a famous actor's drugged personal assistant:The High Cruise Aide
George O Smith on the inadequacies of Google maps and SatNav:Highways in Hiding
Clifford.D.Simak: Why Call A Hack from Denver? (ace special,cover by Dillon)
James H.Schmitz:The Watches of Paris
Wilson Tucker: The Clinton Hunters
Poul anderson on inadequate clothes repair: The Makeshift Pocket
Jack Williamson on poker playing: Legion of Spades
Jack Vance on the dearth of good comedy:The Dying Mirth
Robert Silverberg on roses:Thorns

 

[Zoe Mackay]

Robert Heinlein on the difficulties of sleeping in low gravity: The Moon Is A Harsh Mattress
Walter M Miller writes about a Catholic monastery being attacked by Great Cthulu in: A Tentacle For Leibowitz

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

Absolutely brilliant,""Bob""
*presses like button**
(which doesn't seem to work for me)
aarggh

James Blish tetralogy on Urban Young Frequent Flyer felines: Kitties in Flight
Frank Herbert on positivity: Heisenberg's "Ayes"
Keith Laumer wrote about an insufferable temporal voyager in : Time Prat
Keith retracted one of his novels(guess why):Relief and the Warlords

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Philip K. Dick: Do Hemorrhoid Sufferers Dream of Preparation H?

Screenplay written under the title: Blade Bummers

(Both works were extensively reimagined, rewritten, and retitled for release.)

 

[Venusian Broon]

Greg Bear's near-future SF epic on German electricity and gas companies: E.on

Charles Dicken's lost Zombie book: Great Eviscerations
And coincidently Arthur Ransom's Swallows and Amazons, originally had the children having a spiffing adventure in the Lake district stumbling across a secret government biological testing site that examined zombies, however the publishers rejected the title Swallowed by Amazons

Larry Niven's follow up to Ringworld involved characters stumbling across the universes hottest Chile: Sting Ringworld.

Ray Bradbury originally set his dystopia as a place where no one could have hot beverages, hence the title Fahrenheit 212.

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

*thumbs up*
Ray Gallun's oldie on losing oné's religion: Old Faithless
Robert A .Heinlein's tourguide: Coventry
Ditto,on hairloss: Baldo

**whoa what's this: McLaren Newcastle coach??***
Hal Clement on heroin addiction: Needle
A.E.van Vogt on past famous deans of Oxford Uni: The University Makers
Algis Budrys,on the 1972 Olympics bronze medalist discus throwing:Who?

 

[dask]

Kinda hate to say it, but---Demon Semen by Dean R. Koontz

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

That's better than all of my titles put together
*presses "like" button*

 

[dask]

I wouldn't say that but I admit pretty much exhausting my neuron with that one.