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- Camino Real, the experimental play by Tennessee Williams
- Gershwin
- Aleister Crowley. "Do what
thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". He named
himself the wickedest man in the world
- a Shakespeare or Webster play
- George Butterworth. An English
composer who died in battle in the first world war
- Captain Webb, the first English
Channel swimmer
- Erik Satie
- Beethoven Fantasy
- Doris Lessing´s The Marriage
Between Zones Three, Four, and Five
- anything that is not firmly
based in reality
- Son of Man
- any of the Narnia stories
by C.S. Lewis
- a film on the life of Friedrich
Nietzsche the brilliant philosopher whose life was as
tragic as his writing great. Nietzsche went insane in the
last ten years of his life (1890-1900) so Ken could use a
vast amount of his near legendary OTT imagery
- a film on the life of David
Bowie
- a sequel to The
Devils since the middle of the
Huxley book is where the story in the movie ends
- the novel Morvern
Callar by Alan Warner
- Ned Kelly
- Donald Cammell the film
director who has been compared to Russell. His only
totally successful film was Performance
co-directed with Roeg. White of the
Eye shows his flawed genius.
Cammell committed suicide
- Joan of Arc
- Judas Iscariot
- Screamin´ Jay Hawkins
- Tom Baker, the best "Dr
Who". He also appeared in a Pasolini film (without
his scarf)
- the Laurence Olivier and
Vivian Leigh story
- anything that would not
sacrifice creativity
for restraint
- Kathryn Kramer's Lost
Things and No
Fun
- Elton John's musical Aida
- an expose of the British
royal family
- what the hell. Let him
direct the next Star Wars
movie. When's he gonna do another rock opera? the time is
right!
- the life of Timothy Leary
- The Story of O
- Aleister Crowley ... We
know someone who could and would write it !
- lots of crappy films to get
enough money to produce some truly original work. And
then his space opera he wrote with Jarman
- I would love to see him
adapt the play "The Dream Engine." It would be
a rock opera that ONLY Ken could direct. It is little
known. It was written by rock-opera man Jim Steinman, the
man who created Meat Loaf. It takes place in the
post-apocalyptic future, and concerns a tribe of Lost
Boys (Steinman is obsessed with Peter Pan) that want to
lead an anarchist rebellion of violence and sex against
the war-mongers of Wall Street, which, in this world, has
joined forces with the Catholic church!
- anything he's always wanted
to do. Please point out somewhere ... the way Ken Russell
directed back in the 70s is how most directors direct
today -- with none of his taste (I maintain he shows more
taste and discrimination than all but the best directors
in Hollywood today). Coppola consciously imitated his
style on Apocalypse Now! I'm sure others would admit his
influence. This should be said now, not after he dies.
- Dracula. Ken Russell is the
most under-rated film director/ designer/ visionary of
our time
- I would like to see him
tackle another horror pic. Or maybe its about time he
showed how brave he is and do a biopic on HIMSELF!
- he should have done Velvet
Goldmine. With a better script, of course
- anything he damn pleases -
carte blanche
- the novel Lanark
by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray
- a bio of Enrico Caruso
- a restoration of The
Devils !!!! let's hear it people!
- a remake of Billion Dollar
Brain with Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland in their
original roles
- on artists like Jawlensky, Nolde, Schiele
- Alice Cooper bio-pic.
Alice's boa constrictors, dead babies and guillotines
would be pretty cool. Especially in light of the
fact that Alice is pretty religious
- T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of
Arabia) and his last years in hiding as Ross
- I agree with another person
who suggested a biography of A. Crowley . . . though it
might upset a few people
- anything!!!!! Mr. Russell
is one of the most underrated directors of all time
- another vote for Elton
John's Aida.
It is not as if Ken Russell and Elton John have not
worked together before, as both were in Tommy
- that one with Fergie
playing Queen Boadicaea
- a film about the Russian
mystic composer Alexander Scriabin who thought he could
bring about the end of the world with his unfinished
"Mysterium." Seems ripe Ken Russell material!
- another film like The
Boyfriend which plays in the 1920s
- the next James Bond film.
Tomorrow Never Dies was directed as if it was to be taken
seriously, not the tongue-in-cheek romp it should have
been, and I skipped the latest film. Ken could bring some
life back into the ageing franchise. (I also once dreamed
that he HAD directed a James Bond film...and it was the
worst received of the series. Sigh.)
- the Charles Ives film bio he
mentioned somewhere: I live in Danbury, Connecticut, USA,
Ives' hometown. Ives' house still exists, is open to
visitors at certain times, and if he filmed here it would
give me a chance to actually meet Russell! (I missed
being in areas of Boston and Cambridge where he filmed
Altered States by a week)
- something original,
important, sensual and dazzling -- to catch the attention
of the world once again as he did with Women
In Love and Altered
States
- anything where he has
creative control, and the cash to realise it - how about
a biography of Oliver Reed?
- an adaptation of notorious New
York recluse/nutcase Henry Darger's epic novel, The
Adventures of the Vivian Girls In What Is Known As The
Realms Of Unreal, Of The Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm,
Caused By The Child Slave Rebellion.
This book has never been published, except in excerpts,
because the bloody thing is fifteen
thousand pages long and, if you can
believe it, even more insane than its title. Difficult
material to which the term "bizarre" doesn't
even begin to apply, written by a reclusive lunatic? Sign
Ken up, is what I say!
- anything that would
definitely NOT get Hollywood funding
- I considered a film about
Thomas a Beckett, and coincidentally thought that only
Oliver Reed could play the part, in which case Ken would
have to direct, as he's the only director that could ever
get a worthy performance out of the man. Unfortunately
someone already had that idea, and Reed is now dead
- Andrew Lloyd Webber's
Phantom of the Opera
- Timothy Leary
- the Who's story
- a film about Barbarians
fighting Vikings
- Aleister Crowley (again)
- a film version of the novel
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
- A hallucinogenic, fabulous
look into the life of Warhol Superstar Edie Sedgwick (or
even better, Nico!)
- the rumored Exorcist
prequel
- the story of ABBA
- anything in collaboration
with composer Peter Maxwell Davies
- Sybil Leek's A
Shop in the High Street
- the musical High
Spirits from Coward's Blithe
Spirit
- I agree with the Camino
Real, Butterworth, and Crowley
ideas
- stuff he did like in the
movies Tommy
and Lisztomania. Ken
Russell is the BEST DIRECTOR!! I love the Bizareness in
his movies because I love weird movies a lot!
- Helter Skelter
- Shakespeare's The Tempest
- The Bible
- Cesare Borgia
- a new Rock Opera
- Morven Caller is being done
by Lynn RATCATCHER Ramsay. Ken should do Nikolai Gogol's
life, or something in ancient Egypt. Or Boadicea
- Aleister Crowley. I, er,
have a script... (and worst subject is Aleister Crowley,
using anyone else's script)
- a film on the life of Paul
Robeson
- the life of Jean Paul II
- another musical with Twiggy
and Barbara Windsor and Antonia Ellis! Ken Russell is the
best advocate for movie musicals. They are a dying form,
that have gone unused
- doesn't matter - as long as
he keeps on doing them
- Tim Powers Last
Call, with James Woods in the role
of Scott Crane
- something to do with a
man's near death experience including a journey into HELL
(imagine the possibilities...)
-
I think he should team up
with David Lynch on a new project, based on Peter
Straub's novel, Houses Without Doors
- Anton Bruckner
- a musical with music from
70`s
- Dracula - love to see his
version get off the ground
- horror movies
- a film about Corporate UK
(or world) and the darker side of the
"ordinary" people found there!
- Patrick Suskind's Perfume.
That would be perfect
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez's
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- Lewis Carroll's Alice in
Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
- Borges' short story
Labyrinths
- Gulliver's Travels
- Lewis Carroll's Hunting of
the Snark
-
John Ruskin's The King of the
Golden River
- Mozart's Die Zauberflote
- a remake of Women
in Love
- does Ken know the music of
neglected genius Franz Schmidt (1874-1939)?
-
Proust´s Remembrance of Things
Past
- more on composers/classical
music. I learned all I know about classical music from
him
- I thought he should have
done the film Dangerous Beauty
which had the worst hollywood ending I've seen in years.
They made the life of a prostitute seem glorious? I would
have seen this film at the theater instead of video if
Ken had directed it. They never seem to give the really
talented directors any jobs, while directors like Michael
Bay get millions of dollars to make Pearl
Harbor
- Dracula - film his '78
script on digital
- as many as possible. He's
against the Hollywood grain
- China Blue II
- I'd be interested in seeing
him, in theme with his passion for biographies, do a film
on William Blake
- The Phantom of the Opera
- something about the
internet and virtual reality
- a film on the artist Percy
Wyndham-Lewis and the Vorticist art movement
- a story about the roman
catholic persecution of the Gnostics (Kathars)...or a
film about the ancient Greek mystery cult of Demeter...or
(and this is my biggest wish) a story of King Ludwig of
Bavaria. And I want to play Ludwig!!. Ken Russell makes
it easier for a tired, jaded artist like myself to keep
on breathing. (Poets are for each other)
- Scriabin
- an up to date version of Tommy
with different rock stars like Ozzy Osbourne as Uncle
Ernie
- I heard he was about to do
a film on Aleister Crowley. I hope he does the film, it
would be interesting
- his Dracula could be cool,
and I wouldn't mind another composer bio-pic. There was
some interesting material at the end of Huxley's
"Devils of Loudun" about Sister Jeanne that
could make an interesting sequel...
- more on composers- I'd be
happy to suggest some
- I want to see films like The
Music Lovers
- ANY!!!!!!! Hopefully
another biopic
- an adaptation of Huysman's Against
the Grain, or a film version of
Wagner's Lohengrin
-
Madonna the Rock Opera!
- one about D.H. Lawrence.
Ken Russell is god
- Dracula (authentic but
Ken's way)
- Bram Stoker's The Jewel of
the Seven Stars and Bram Stoker's The Lady of the Shroud
- Batman and Batgirl
- Lewis Carroll's Alice in
Wonderland
- Sweeney Todd, the Demon
Barber of Fleet Street (Sondheim opera)
- Anything he wants. Russell
will always be a giant. THE DEVILS still has the power to
shock; CRIMES OF PASSION says more about modern marriage
and relationships than most movies that are considered in
"good taste." ALTERED STATES is a romantic
movie. I mean I could go on. I will always go see a movie
directed by Ken Russell. How do we get him to come to New
Orleans?
- another one with Robert
Powell!
- a film about Carl Orff. I
love Ken Russell's films
- Dracula, Moon of Ice (Brad
Linaweaver about what would have happened if the Nazis
had won the war), Fountains of Paradise (Arthur C.
Clarke's sci fi novel about a bridge from Earth to
space)
- a D. H. Lawrence biopic
- Marilyn Manson
- a film on the early
years of Delius
- he should film his Dracula
script
- Phantom of the Opera
- a new OZ movie based on
one of the many Frank L. Baum books
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- Sunset Blvd
- something about American
TV evangelists. Maybe the Jim Bakker story
- the one I haven't written yet... but
will. Send Guy Ritchie back to film & media studies and let Ken make a
funded movie ...also I want Billion Dollar Brain on DVD
- GB Shaw. Good luck
with all new ventures
- life
of composer, Astor Piazzolla
- Bring Gregory McGuire's
book Wicked: The Life and Times of The Wicked Witch of the West to the
screen. The wicked witch is portrayed as an abused misunderstood hero of
the dark oppressed world of Oz. Randy munchkins, Glenda as social climbing
snob, politics, murder ,and Dorothy as executioner
- a Vampire Opera movie
(and never film = Non-vampire opera movies). You ever see Mario
Bava's Blaf Friday? Well, the last episode, The Vuderlak (sp?) It's from a
grand novella by a lesser Chekhov and if you read it , it will make a Ken
Russell movie in your head
- his
"take" on The Jeffrey Dahmar Story
- just give him money!!! Film of the book Life of the Virgin Mary by
Stephen Marley
- any opera
- Edgar Allan Poe biography
- something sci-fi, perhaps an adaptation of Larry Niven's Ringworld.
Amazing site overall
- anything
- Ken should tackle the modern sexual phobias and anachronisms. We
still insist on sex being treated as dirty and something which we have to
tolerate like having a tooth out
- Robert Graves and the White Goddess
- a biography of Beatrice Lillie
- the 1926 General Strike
- Paul Bowles re: his music
- Lucy Boston and Green Knowe
- Handel's difficulties in England
- Night's Daughter by Marion Zimmr Bradley
- somebody mentioned Franz Schmidt (1874-1939). How about a movie of
his apocalyptic oratorio, The Book With Seven Seals (Das Buch mit
sieben Siegeln)? I'd love to see the War In Heaven between St Michael and
the Dragon, as directed by Ken!
- Sweeny Todd. He could cast Ann-Margret as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeny
Todd
- how about a movie of Richard Stern's 1960 novel, Golk, with Edward
Asner in the title role?
- an adaptation of Thomas
Middleton's play The Changeling. Perhaps a biopic of Byron? Henry James'
Turn of the Screw. Stuff by M R James...
- that version of Dracula that he's always wanted to do
- he should have done Evita! But really, anything. We miss you, Ken
- something to match his extraordinary visual style
- Arabian Nights (an adults only version - but much different from
Pasolini's version)
- Whore II AKA "If you didn't like the first one, don't see it"
- thriller & horror movies
- more artist's bio-pics, those are always fun
- he defines Britain as a magical island in his autobiography-Why?: A
film on the English-speaking community in Florence
- hardcore sci-fi porn and global religious films
- aristocratic sex lives of the 1800s
- anything with a budget and on a subject he is passionate about.
Yes his early films are sensational, and we need more DVD, especially the
full version of The Boyfriend, with Twiggy and Antonia Ellis and Georgina
Hale doing a voice over
- the story of an African Farm by
Olive Schreiner combined with Kanga Creek by Havelock Ellis
- Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera or Aspects of Love
- Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm! That's a bloody hard question, it may take some time
to come up with an answer. Like never
- Revenge of the White Worm
- a biography of Malcolm Arnold
- film version of Phantom of the Opera
- the next Harry Potter
- film version of Huxley's Brave New World. Great website
for Britain's greatest living film director. Much appreciated - keep up the
good work!
- The Prodigy by Amy Wallace. Biography of American William Sidis
an outstanding child prodigy who was ridiculed for his strong views on
celibacy so much he dropped out and died a street bum
- biography of Charlie McMahon- Australian one armed didgeridoo player
currently performing solo with a seismic microphone in his mouth and a slide
didgeridoo (click for link
here).
His life has had many strange cycles including a post accident stint as a
university lecturer in town planning followed by eight years driving a three
ton water truck in the corner of the five deserts in central Australia for
the dot painting aboriginal tribe. Lots of opportunities for great
territory visuals and his composer off-sider Peter Carolan [ex Coventry UK]
writes very melodic sight as sound music- listen to back catalogue albums
under name Gondwanaland (click for link
here)
- life of Dostoevsky
- a bio on the pitiful life of M. Monroe. This would allow for Ken's
assault on Hollywood, his preoccupation with drugs and cocks not to mention
her B movie skills. Lets face it, she was a terrible actress. Right up Ken's
alley
- he should not do any more, period
- a bio on the tempestuous and tragic life of the late French singer
Dalida!
- I'd love to see an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's The Man Who Died
- Boris Vian, the French genius, writer, musician, inventor, singer,
actor, engineer, translator, journalist, painter and more
- Sweeney Todd! The only guy that could do justice to this Sondheim
musical
- Peter Maxwell Davies' Resurrection, and possibly The Lighthouse.
Anthony Burgess' End of the World News. Consisting of three (or more?)
storylines entailing different meanings of the concept 'end of the world': a
musical about Trotsky in New York (political revolution), a brief biography
of Freud (psychological revolution), and your standard sci-fi cosmic
apocalypse. When I read the Freud segments I became convinced that Burgess
*must* have seen some of Ken's films, particularly Mahler, because the
writing, the style, and the humor (and Nazis!) seemed so very Russellesque
- Robert Graves and Laura Riding
- Life of Aleister Crowley
- Sybil Leek: A Shop in the High Street
- documentary on St. Tiggywinkle's
- Midsummer Night's Dream, as choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon,
with Koichi Kubo
- Giselle
- leFanu's Carmilla
- I think he should do Jesus Christ Superstar -- a new big screen
version is being planned and it seems right up Mr. Russell's alley
- a tell all biography of Cole Porter, or just film Truman Capote's
diary
- Passion of the Christ
- a biopic about Hieronymus Bosch
- biopic of Hans Rott
- a biography of the surrealist painter Max Ernst
- a film about Elton John's life
- I like him continuing his own artistic evolution, whether I like it
or not. Of course, I personally would like to see more films like Mahler
or The Devils, because of its emotional intensity and expressionism.
I live in Belgium and most Ken Russell films are so hard to find. I'm still
looking forward to seeing The Music Lovers or The Boy Friend
for instance. I would like to see all his films edited on DVD
- I think he should do a serious film about a FEMALE composer and this
would be his "come back" film! Also a biopic on the SINGING NUN is
right up his alley!!;)
- dunno- maybe something like The Davinci Code
- Tesla!!
- a biopic of surrealist painter Victor Brauner
- the Life of the Cellini (16th century artist) -based on his diary - I
feel Ken Russell is one of the few filmmakers who could do justice to
Cellini's desciptions of casting large bronze statues and who would take
risks in depicting Cellini
- he should do everything- he´s my favorite film director
- his autobiography would be great. Sweeny Todd, the musical. (Wrestle
it away from Sam Mendes and give it some blood.)
- I'm pleased to hear he's doing Tesla. Such a film is long overdue and
he's the one to do it
- anything. We are in desperation
- a sequel to Tommy!
- the Life of Christ, or John Lennon!
- more more more D.H.Lawrence! And more yet again. Though Ken
interprets Lawrence in some areas (necessary as a director on a budget) he
always does a terrific job of it
- any Thomas Hardy novel
- it would be interesting to see his take on the inner lives of either
H.P. Lovecraft or Robert E. Howard
- composer biopics
- Salvador Dalí meets Frank Zappa
- Napoleon's biography
- he should do another project with Theresa Russell and do a period
piece about the 1970s drug culture
- Dracula, The Monk (from the M. Lewis book), Lolita vs. Bathory and
the films he really wants to do
- anything. Should have done Phantom of the Opera
- Angela Carter's Wise Children or Nights At The Circus
- Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- Violin, by Anne Rice. And he must work on Antonin Artaud
- a biopic of Christopher Marlowe would be perfect. After all, if
we're to believe the rumours about him (homosexuality, murderous rage,
blasphemy, double life as a spy, etc) he's almost too ideally suited to
Ken's subject matter!
- it'd never happen, I'm sure, but a Dennis Potter biopic would be
interesting... Just think: sex, disease, religion, reality/fantasy, class,
music. Sounds very apt to me
- although the titular story has been made into the film Kissed, Ken
should adapt the remaining short stories from Barbara Gowdy's book 'We So
Seldom Look On Love'. A perfect match of director and subject material
- something non-narrative and more experimental, like Stan Brakhage...
With the lack of budget he should have done it years ago
- given his incredible ability to use available light and colour, he
should do a biography of one of the Impressionists
- definitely a Biblical interpretation
- Thundarr the Barbarian
- anything... and soon
- something new. Something original. Anything except a biography of a
composer or artists. He's done too many films like that. Although it would
be interesting to see him do a Harry Potter movie
- Satanic verses! Ken Russell was my boyhood hero. I wanted to
write books just like he made films
- more horror with more shocking scenes like The Devils, he has
very sinister mind and honest, I love his ideals, great talent
- just about anything mr russell touches comes out
interesting/fascinating
- Eaten By Image - The Ken Russell Story with lots of excerpts from all
the films and shorts. Could be done as a home DVD and sold as such
- I wish he could contiue with artists -- maybe an Expressionist like
Munch or Kadinsky or someone from the Dada movement
- the truth about the way archbishop Laud persecuted the puritans
- please finally do Moll Flanders
- Proust
- I'll happily watch anything that Ken Russell does. It would be
wonderful to see affordable video/dvd releases of projects like Clouds of
Glory and many of the early British TV programs not already released by the
BFI
- a film treatment of Trevor Ravenscroft's novel "The Spear of Destiny"
may be right up Ken's alley. (If only I had the $$ to front such a project!)
- remakes of The Wizard of Oz and Valley of the Dolls
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- a remake of Lang's Die Nibelungen
- he should make any film, I'll love it
- the Lady GaGa Story
- the Umbrella Academy
- Wicked
- anything based on Edger Allen Poe
- something starring Christopher Walken (they were made for each other)
- the Awakening by Kate Chopin
- a remake of Bride of Frankenstein
- Judas Iscariot
- An adaptation of On the Far Side of the Caddilac Dessert with Dead Folks by Joe R. Lansdale. It's a mixture between zombie-horror, the Island of dr. Moreau, Frankenstein, fascism, spaghetti-western and blends Disney-land, prostition, mad scientist and religion with each other. Especially striking is the whorish nun who converts genetically altered zombies with the singing of It's a small world after all. It's a mad, rambacious mixture of religion, popculture science and critique on fascism and capitalism which trough the mixing of genres and symbols has something to say about all these. Like Russell does in his movies
- Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men"
- Ray Harryhausen
- Anything based on Neil Gaiman
- Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
- Lewis Carroll
- "The Umbrella Academy"
- "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway"
- Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
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