It's too limited a subject to ever sell, but I always wished they would make a movie of the children's book _Thee, Hannah_ about a Quaker girl in Philadelphia in the 1850's. I'm a sucker for films with lots of costumes, but it has a nice little message about courage versus material frills.

I'd also like to see a film made about the escape from the Nazis of the Dutch writer Jan de Hartog (or, at least, Jan's version of his escape from the Nazis). If ever I could see Bruce Willis in a "historical" role, this is it.