10 Films That Would Make Great TV Shows

10. Total Recall

Sure, Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger's barmy, three-breasted, science-fiction classic, Total Recall, may have only just been given an underwhelming remake in 2012, but we've had three different Spider-Men in fifteen years so it practically happened decades ago in the world of showbiz.

If you haven't seen the 1990 original yet, then do so soon. In the year 2084 Douglas Quaid is bored of life so he gets memory implants to trick him into believing he was a secret agent, and then things get weird - crazy action on Mars, mutants and aliens, and Arnie pulling that face in the picture above.

Loosely based on Phillip K. Dick's We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, Total Recall's incredibly original and psychedelic trip of a story has the legs that could provide an unlimited number of narrative directions. It wouldn't even have to involve Quaid, leading to more inadequate recasting, as it could follow a new character visiting the Rekall company.

Anyone thinking there isn't anything more to explore in this story should be dragged to the nearest television in order to binge-watch HBO's Westworld to show you how a science-fiction story that can be told in two hours can also be told in ten, and with excellent results.