What movie would you make?

[wallachiaproductions]

Ok, you have just made an absolutely incredible indie film, you win every award going and Hollywood is beating a path to your door with a blank cheque.

You do a 3 picture deal for mega bucks, the only condition placed on you is that you can't make a script/idea of your own.

You can do a re-make, adapt any comic book character, also any film rights to whatever book is going to be bought for you....

What three movies do you make/re-make/adapt?

for me....

1. Altered Carbon by Richard morgan (a hard boiled cyper punk-type SF novel)

2. Conan by Robert E Howerd (time to do it right!)

3. The Trigan Empire (SF comic book series written mainly by Mike Butterworth and most notably drawn by Don Lawrence)

[MiataFilmSomething]

I'd like to do some "re-imagining" of some films. Take films that have a good story line to them, but were considered to be cheesy or campy and really turn them around into good character dramas.

Of course, the basis of this idea is the new version of Battlestar Galactica. They took an old concept, very cheesy, and re-envisioned it into a great character and political drama.

I think the movie I'd start with first would be a "re-imaging" of, of all crazy things, Robocop.

Think about it for a sec. That's a great premise. All the action can still be there, except the film takes a lot more time to develop the inner struggle of the character and what he has to go through. You can combine all kinds of new technology that is out now that wasn't out in the 80's, and add in a plot of someone really struggling over who they are, and that's a good drama.

Another thing I'd love to do is to take stories from the Bible and make them into what they should be. Usually most movies based on Bible stories are older or lower budget, and just weren't convincing. Some of the greatest stories ever are found in the Bible. I'd love a chance to finally have the money to do them right.

[Tlalconetl]

I'd do Clockwork Orange, with a southern KKK twist.
I'd like to re-do Star Wars too--really make it right because Lucas didn't know what he was doing. ;-)

[Ralph Oshiro]

2001: A Space Odyssey.
2010.
Silent Running.

[Brandon Rice]

I'd like to do an adaption of the Space trilogy by CS Lewis. I think those would make insanely great films.

[FutureDVXUser]

Well, as for comics... I wouldn't be able to decide... There's just too many I'm influenced by... So it'd have to be my own...

But if I could do a movie using a specific toy or object... I'd use the Rubik's Cube... Make a some sorta psychological thriller out of it... I wish I could invent something based on it so I could do it... haha...

Than I dunno about the other two...

Cool thread

[Tom Marshall]

I'll throw one in for now...

Running man, which had Arnold in it. But make it really gritty and raw. Skip the cheesy 80s crap and you might have something...

[Brandon Rice]

Another thing I'd love to do is to take stories from the Bible and make them into what they should be. Usually most movies based on Bible stories are older or lower budget, and just weren't convincing. Some of the greatest stories ever are found in the Bible. I'd love a chance to finally have the money to do them right.

I agree... I just thought the other day that a facinating film would be about the events leading up to the great flood in Genesis... where the demons cohabitated with human women and bore children... some crazy stuff there!

[Tom Marshall]

I agree... I just thought the other day that a facinating film would be about the events leading up to the great flood in Genesis... where the demons cohabitated with human women and bore children... some crazy stuff there!

Hey, I think that would be pretty cool... :beer:

[Thomas J. O'Hara]

I think I'd like to re-do Starship Troopers.

I read the book and had a completely different vision about it than the movie.

I was hoping it would be more in the style of "Alien". If you haven't read the book, it's a good read - intense, and not super long either.

[Brandon Rice]

Yeah... last sunday, the pastor at my church was explaining some of that, and I was like, dang, that'd make a crazy film!


Hey, I think that would be pretty cool... :beer:

[Tom Marshall]

You should have jumped up and did the "director's frame" with your hands... :beer:

[kyle.presley]

I'd like to do an adaption of the Space trilogy by CS Lewis. I think those would make insanely great films.

Brandon, dude, awesome idea!

[Jon Starr]

Well I'm assuming you mean take any adaptable storyline, and since I wasn't around to see a lot of old films, and have no books I'd want to do (or they've already been done) therefore I'll chose some games:

1) Splinter Cell - They were originally going to make a film, but I guess they didn't like the script and cancelled it (it really didn't sound like a good idea). I love the games and I'm reading one of the books. It wouldn't be a game adaptation, like say Doom, but something more realistic. Not an espoinage film like James Bond, but more along the lines of 24.

2) Karate Kid - I loved this movie as a kid and still enjoy it.

3) Battlefield 2142 - Strange choice of a game, yes, but even though the game is so-so, I loved the background story of the game. The new ice age (think The Day After Tomorow) but furthur in the future. Alliances have developped and war has erupted for the only remaining habitable land. There could be a great story amongst this idea. Too bad the game didn't go into it much.

[Zak Forsman]

I would really only be interested in doing an adaptation of the book about my father: "Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade (http://www.robertsabbag.com/work1.htm)"

as for remakes... an english language remake of Rosetta or the Son. or maybe a remake of Double Life of Véronique that does not star Demi Moore.

as for CS Lewis, a friend/collaborator of mine produced a documentary on CS Lewis called Dreamer of Narnia and is currently in negotiations to direct an adaptation of one of his novels.

[Brandon Rice]

You should have jumped up and did the "director's frame" with your hands... :beer:

hehe! I don't know if that would have gone over so well, haha :)


Brandon, dude, awesome idea!

Yeah Kyle, I think the first book, "Out of the Silent Planet" is just fantastic! It even as a standalone film would be great!

[Tom Marshall]

Ooooh, that'd be cool... play the part of a Cocaine dealer... :)


hehe! I don't know if that would have gone over so well, haha :)

They know you're a filmmaker though, so they wouldn't mind... :beer:

[seejay1031]

Remake of Metropolis (with full original story intact)

World War Z by Max Brooks (although I think its already optioned)

And for my third choice it would definatly be a Vonnegut novel... but which one? Probably Cat's Cradle or Hocus Pocus.

[kyle.presley]

Yeah Kyle, I think the first book, "Out of the Silent Planet" is just fantastic! It even as a standalone film would be great!

I would love to see Perelandra on film.

[MiataFilmSomething]

I used to be a somewhat junkie for the video game Starcraft, and always thought that storyline would make a great film as well.

For more Bible stories, I'd love to do a big budget sendup of the book of Revelation. That would be talked about for quite some time...

[-zach-]

1. Artemis Fowl
When reading the book I always imagined my own specific way of doing it, re-imagining it better than the illustration on the front cover. I hope could make it really cool, a good PG-13.

2. Eragon
And do it right.

3. Metal Gear Solid
Yeah, the videogame. You know it would rule. Don't even.

and because my last three movies were hits, they let me do

4. Agent 47
Adaptation of the videogame Hitman, with Jason Statham, not some fricking Timothy Olyphant.

[blckhawk542]

I must agree with Zach on MGS..that would be a kick ass movie

but anything else...id say any Tom Clancy novel. He's got some reallyy awesome stuff!

[-zach-]

I must agree with Zach on MGS..that would be a kick ass movie
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[Mark Harris]

One of these threads comes up like every 6 months. My answer really hasn't changed:

"THE MASTER AND MARGARITA"

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[hoz]

as for comics i would do the x-men, in part the story which involved the future of the x-men and where the sentinels where succesful in killing off all mutants and much of the x-men ( save for kitty pride ). its old now (1980's ?) and it was real dark but really well written. chris claremont/ john byrne stuff.

as for any book, catcher in the rye, although that is sacrilegeous so maybe i wouldnt do it. best to leave it alone, now that i think about it. that was the best story i have ever read.

as for redoing movies? someone mentioned star wars, id love to redo the last three for sure. recast anikan somebody, please! ( amongst other things) id leave the first three alone though. empire strikes back was too cool.

or maybe do a movie version of the robert mcnamara story. anyone see the documentary "fog of war"? truly, truly sick. maybe do it in a style of "the insider".

oh, yeah, tom clancy novels are real good, i agree. red october was awesome.

[Zak Forsman]

as for a comic, i'd do The White Llama (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky#Comic_books).

[Mark Harris]

comic, "Mage."

[Blaine]

The Mote in God's Eye (http://www.amazon.com/Mote-Gods-Eye-Larry-Niven/dp/0671741926/sr=1-2/qid=1172012285/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-0832909-7734260?ie=UTF8&s=books)

Thunderhead (http://www.amazon.com/Thunderhead-Douglas-Preston/dp/0446608378/sr=1-1/qid=1172012354/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-0832909-7734260?ie=UTF8&s=books)

The Blue Nowhere (http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Nowhere-Jeffery-Deaver/dp/0340767510/sr=1-1/qid=1172012451/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-0832909-7734260?ie=UTF8&s=books)

[hoofandmouf]

"Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk (I dont really care too much for his other work but this book is f**king great and would translate very well on the screen.... I'm not sure why they havent adapted this yet?)

"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville (yeah. probably my favorite book of all time)

"Paradise Lost" by John Milton (I can assure you, it would be THE greatest and most epic movie ever laid to tape/stock/hard drive/etc)

CLOSE runners up.... (a tie pretty much)

"El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" (Don Quixote) by Miguel de la Cervantes Saavedra

and

"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas


one can only dream and orgasm at the thought :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG) :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)

[-zach-]

"Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk (I dont really care too much for his other work but this book is f**king great and would translate very well on the screen.... I'm not sure why they havent adapted this yet?)


Fight Club!?

[hoofandmouf]

yeah, fight club is pretty good..... although I prefer Survivor

I thought the film was better than the book (a RARE case)

[Evan S]

1. Terminator - Yeah yeah, James Cameron it's classic blah blabh bhalhb, but honestly I probably know more about the terminator films and mythos than Cameron does. I'd probably make it even more horror oriented though. I'd also probably do some weird casting. http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Michael-Biehn---Terminator-Photograph-C10103994.jpeg
(also, I think biehn in terminator is more iconic than arnolds character... but I'm weird)

2. Survivor - Someone was just talking about this. Amazing book.

3. I don't really like any comics, so I'd probably do a video game, and I'd want to adapt Fallout. http://www.hodnoceniher.cz/obaly/fallout.jpg

[Robert Eldon]

I agree... I just thought the other day that a facinating film would be about the events leading up to the great flood in Genesis... where the demons cohabitated with human women and bore children... some crazy stuff there!

Brandon,

Are you refering to the Nephilim? Giants in the land? That would be so cool?

I'd consider doing 'This Present Darkness' by Frank Peretti.

I think it would be cool to re-make 'The Phantom of the Paradise'

[Brandon Rice]

Brandon,

Are you refering to the Nephilim? Giants in the land? That would be so cool?


Yep! The Nephilim! That would even be the title of the film!

[spidey]

survivor or choke by chuck p for novel.

remake hmmm interesting....well to save a few movies either oldboy, bittersweet life and battle royale.

comic book. either battle chasers or crimson since they will probli never be touched
crimson i would make it like dark city/matrix/contantine-esque

video game. well i would do metal gear but its alreay underway.... so i guess i would do the legend of zelda series

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[-zach-]

Spidey - THAT'S RIGHT!

I was recently having a reminisce-fest with N64, and thought, wow, with big sweeping crane shots and decent FX, Ocarina of Time would be like, the perfect movie.

[Lost Water Studios]

A Redo of Shaving Ryans Privates.

I think that might have just come out wrong.

[Lost Water Studios]

And Halo.

[They Live]

Is Halo still happening?

[Brandon Rice]

I hope not...

[Lost Water Studios]

Nah Peter Jacksons working on some Game/Movie thing all in one with Bungie instead now...makes no sense if you ask me.

[They Live]

1. Terminator - Yeah yeah, James Cameron it's classic blah blabh bhalhb, but honestly I probably know more about the terminator films and mythos than Cameron does. I'd probably make it even more horror oriented though. I'd also probably do some weird casting. (also, I think biehn in terminator is more iconic than arnolds character... but I'm weird)


Yeah, based on that I don't know if you'd be the best man for the job. Kyle Reese more iconic than the Terminator?????? Come on. Don't get me wrong, he was badass, but seriously. How was he more iconic than the metal endoskeleton rising from the fire? Than the Terminator doing surgery on its eye? Than it dragging itself forward with one arm after having its lower half blown off? Than a naked Arnold approaching the punks (Bill Paxton), asking for their clothes, and proceeding to kill them all, one by punching through their torso.

Kyle knew how to make bombs with mothballs. He had PTSD. I'm not seeing the iconography.

[Tom Marshall]

Yeah... Arnold WAS the Terminator...

[Evan S]

I understand how Arnold carried it. I understand all of that. The endoskeleton. However, If I were to remake it I would focus on trying to get Kyle Reese right. Ultimately, I believe that character would have to be played by an amazing actor. HOWEVER, notice that most of what is iconic about the terminator is not Arnold, but the endo. At least IMO. I like the idea of a sly more sophisticated terminator (i.e. robert patrick)

I guess something more in-line with the very first drafts of T1

[Tom Marshall]

I think Arnold pulled it off quite well. I think his personality made the terminator what it was. If played by anyone else, it wouldn't have had the effect or rawness that Arnold brought to the part. If played by a lesser actor, I don't feel that the film would have lasted as long as it has. It's definitely one of the best films made in my opinion. It just kind of came out of nowhere and really kicked you in the ass.

That being said, I think Biehn's (Reese's) character was played well. If there were a better actor, it might have been better, true... but I think he did a good job at the part.

[Evan S]

C'mon henrikson wouldn't be good as a terminator?

I agree with the two of you on everything your saying, but in terms of a remake. I think I'd be doing it alot different. hmm yeah.

[Tom Marshall]

Man, Henrikson was so brilliantly cast as the cop who got no respect...

He's a great actor. He did a really good job as Bishop in Aliens. I think he's very underrated as an actor.

But I see where you're coming from...