If you could make any film ever what would it be?

[roosta]

Right, here's the deal. Imagine some Hollywood producer said he'd give you a big budget and total creative control over a movie production...what would you do? I have it down to about 3 choices at the mo....there's this Irish mythical warrior called Cuchullain who has this big epic bad-ass story about fighting a queen, summoning the gods, fighting his brother in a river etc. that i'd give the full swords-and-sandals treatment.

Other than that its between Ghostbusters 3 or the A-Team. I have the A-Team movie completely imagined from start to finish in my head, so much so that I don't think id ever be able to even sit through a big screen version...

what would you do?

[abcdefz]

I've got two scripts I'd want to do. One's the true story about a boxer back in the day, and the other is an original story about a media magnate who throws himself into disaster relief and winds up with lawsuits against him for it.

If I had to do someone else's property? I would love to do Salinger's "Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters." I also know how to do Catcher in the Rye. (y)

[zorra_chiflada]

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[zorra_chiflada]

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[roosta]

i also have some original ideas, but when ever I try explaining them they sound a lot shitter than they are..

[Waus]

I'd make a movie version of Robert Kirkman's "The Walking Dead" comic series. That'd be so sweet.

If I didn't do that, it'd be some kind of coming-of-age story ala Thumbsucker, Igby Goes Down troubled youth deal. I like those kind of flicks and I think I could write one.

[beastiegirrl101]

If I had to do someone else's property? I would love to do Salinger's "Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters." [/i]. (y)

that story is friggin great but the rest of the book ...just blew. and I am a total Salinger fan. The whole wedding scene in the beginning or the part where they are all in the car would be great to see.

[DIGI]

This old hippie I used to blaze with in college published a book years ago titled "Souls of Steel." It's a loose interpretation of his life and the only woman he's ever loved that died. It's pretty good. I'd hook that nigga up................then a romantic comedy starring Rosie Perez and Dakota Fanning. Shit would be hot.

[ToucanSpam]

There are a couple things I would want to make but two come to mind; one silly, the other is serious.

I'd love to do a movie that parodies something like the Iliad, except in Monty Python style; I think that would be pretty funny done by the Python crew.

On a more serious note, I'd love to do a Band of Brothers-esque movie on local Canadian soldiers in World War II. I know mar movies are kind of overdone but I think I could pull off something really interesting with Canadian soldiers' perspectives and the right actors.

[saz]

i have loads of ideas. the first would be a sequel to the big lebowski. it would involve more stoned adventures with the dude, john goodman, and julian moore. my sequel would take place in the mid-90s, co-star christian bale as a cop who's trapped in the 80s, ie always listens to the theme music from 'to live and die in la' in his car and dresses like don johnson, but then the dude gets him stoned and he totally changes and loosens up. the soundtrack would feature loads of humble pie and t-rex. jackie treehorn will also return. the second idea is a trilogy concerning all the craziest conspiracy stuff rolled into one: area 51, illuminati, the dulce base, new world order, grey and reptilian aliens, et al. it'd star edward norton, as a high-ranking member of the office of naval intelligence who works out of a secret navy base in the southwest, where they test fly american manufactured anti-propulsion aircraft, have grey aliens held captive, yadda yadda. essentially norton leads an inner revolt which wipes out the alien menace and saves ze world from the new world order. loads of violence, cool gadgets, cgi, creepy special effects, and the soundtrack would be strictly dark ambient/dark drum n' bass. a nice cross between the x-flies movie and aliens 2. my third idea is a scorscese-inspired gangster flick: in the early 70s, the mob moves in and begins taking over a southwestern town or city, possibly phoenix. it would star and be narrated by joe pesci, who plays the nice, symphetic guy who's mixed up with the mob; deniro, who's the crazy loose-cannon mobster; and gene hackman, who plays the badass sherriff who is trying to run the mob out. there'd be loads of scenes where hackman yells and beats the shit out of people. plus virtually every scene will feature tumbleweed, dust, cowboy boots, aviators, mustaches, fights, pick-up trucks, and music by jeff beck, the stones, humble pie, cream, mountain etc. oh also there'd have to be tough whisky woman bartender character, who has a strong southern accent, is always chewing gum, can out drink any dude, has a knife down one of her boots, and addresses everyone as 'sweet thang'. the fourth is about a fictional 60s band, who's founder and true creative genius is murdered by the jealous lead singer, and the band's second gangster-connected manager. the band would be called, say, gee, i don't know, the tumbling rocks, and chronicles how ryan lones starts an exciting blues-based rnb outfit that quickly explodes overnight, but eventually he's stabbed in the back big-time by the ultra-jealous lead singer, nick lager, rhythm guitarist and once close friend, kurt critchards, and slimeball manager alex loos youngham. they take credit for all of lones' musical ideas and songs, pick on and humiliate him constantly, critchards stealing his girlfriend, and lager eventually taking control of the band away from lones. they can't take the fact that lones is the most popular member, all the other 60s mega stars want to hang out with and record music with him, and is regarded as an icon of fashion and popular culture, whereas no one is really interested in the twins, ie nick and kurt. eventually manager youngham is fired and a mean, mobster-connected american manager is brought in. at this point lones quits the band, but they can't tour and are forced to answer to him, because he owns the rights to the name of the band, and has authored a great riff to a demo song called 'country tonk women', which they want to take the credit for and use as their own. problem is lones, who they could never control, stands his ground and threatens to sue them if they use the name of the band without his permission. lones is subsequently murdered in a highly-organized mob hit, ordered by lager and the american manager. the fifth would be a sequel for 'to live in die in la'. john pankow would return and star as treasury agent john vukovich, who's trying to track down a mysterious, unknown figure who is slowly consolidating control of the drug trade in los angeles. he eventually discovers that it's his old partner, richard chance, who everyone believed eventually succumbed to death via coma. the sixth would be a lyndon johnson bio-pic, starring tommy lee jones as president johnson, and directed by oliver stone. blah i'm tired of typing.

[Pres Zount]

Everyone's ideas sound (mostly) great; Cuchullain and media magnate being my favorites so far. They would be far more interesting than alot of movies that do actually end up being made.

I wrote a screenplay a long time ago about the horrors of the Eastern Front during WWII. To be called GOTTERDAMERUNG. It was about a young German soldier on the retreat from the Soviets, who winds up in the company of a psychopath who thinks he is a god.

The only thing holding me back is my English skills, which are deplorable, and my money skills, which are about the same.

[paul jones]

mine would be The Warriors,but they're all old (except for Rembrandt-cos the actor died) and they all meet up by accident or Swan and Mercy come back to New York and bump into Ajax or something then Ajax knows where Vermin lives then Vermin knows what Snow is up to and on on and on then they retrace the journey of that night back from The Bronx to Coney Island and come across some crackheads and stuff

sort of a dark humour kind of film

[Otis Driftwood]

I'd do some comic movie:
Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, cause there's plenty of social commentary including crotch kickings
Suicide Squad, a supervillain Dirty Dozen in 12 shades of gray

Or the book Naked came the sasquatch. It's a fun who-what-dunnit

Tyrone Biggums-The Life, Times and Death of a crack addict

[abcdefz]

that story is friggin great but the rest of the book ...just blew. and I am a total Salinger fan. The whole wedding scene in the beginning or the part where they are all in the car would be great to see.


Yup. It's such a funny story -- especially if you hold it in your head that his ribs are all taped up and he's just sweating and coughing through the whole thing.

"Seymour" is a tough "story." If I don't read it all in one gulp, I usually don't get through it. That's where Salinger really started to disappear up his own parenthetical ass.

Did you ever read "Hapworth...." ? It's kind of a better sort of "Seymour" story, but it still really doesn't work.



Another property I'd love to shoot is Lagerkvist's The Dwarf. Holy crap -- what a perfect novel about the sheer destruction of hatred.

[icy manipulator]

i'm horrible at explaining anything, even things i'm great at. so i think i'd sick to being a producer supplying funds behind the scenes and destroying any eccentric directorsz elaborate schemes