10 Movies That Must Return As A TV Series

3. Starship Troopers

Four words: The Pacific in space. HBO's often overlooked companion piece to Band Of Brothers, The Pacific follows the experiences of three marines scattered across the wider Pacific War. With Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg both given Executive Producer credits, the 10 part series drew acclaim for its rich and well woven storytelling, as well as its visceral approach to showing one of the most gruesome parts of the Second World War.

Every single episode reminds you of the physical and mental cost of conflict. Now imagine all that set within the Starship Troopers Universe. Three different marines in different parts of the galaxy fighting in the final months of the war with the bugs, each with their own story and witnessing the horrors of intergalactic warfare. Slightly more highbrow than 1997's bullets and boobs offering, and considerably more grown up than the animated series, a gut-wrenching sci-fi epic that's still a lot of fun is something that's been sorely missing from TV schedules since Battlestar Galactica finished.

The series could even revive the more dystopian elements from the original 1959 book by Robert A. Heinlein, where moral arguments over capital punishment, juvenile delinquency, suffrage and war were as common a theme as shooting scary aliens with a big gun. There was even a third species in the source material, dubbed "the skinnies", which are strongly believed to be based on the Asian forces the Allies faced in World War II. See, it's The Pacific in space.