What movie would you make?

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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)
 
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.
 
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. ;-)
 
I'd like to do an adaption of the Space trilogy by CS Lewis. I think those would make insanely great films.
 
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
 
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...
 
MiataFilmSomething said:
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.
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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 Rice said:
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!
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Hey, I think that would be pretty cool... :beer:
 
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.
 
Yeah... last sunday, the pastor at my church was explaining some of that, and I was like, dang, that'd make a crazy film!

tommyinla said:
Hey, I think that would be pretty cool... :beer:
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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.
 
I would really only be interested in doing an adaptation of the book about my father: "Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade"

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.
 
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tommyinla said:
You should have jumped up and did the "director's frame" with your hands... :beer:
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hehe! I don't know if that would have gone over so well, haha :)

kyle.presley said:
Brandon, dude, awesome idea!
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Yeah Kyle, I think the first book, "Out of the Silent Planet" is just fantastic! It even as a standalone film would be great!
 
Ooooh, that'd be cool... play the part of a Cocaine dealer... :)

Brandon Rice said:
hehe! I don't know if that would have gone over so well, haha :)
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They know you're a filmmaker though, so they wouldn't mind... :beer:
 
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.
 
Brandon Rice said:
Yeah Kyle, I think the first book, "Out of the Silent Planet" is just fantastic! It even as a standalone film would be great!
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I would love to see Perelandra on film.
 
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...
 
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