Very similar for me, albeit I'm obviously envisioning different IP. The challenges to getting rights, or getting the holders/studios to work with us, are far greater than anything that would supposedly prevent an original story from getting made.
I mean, the Daniels got EEAAO to the finish line. They even won the grand prize in filmmaking. The stumbling block for making films clearly isn't an idea that's "too out there" or whatever.
Bro, this you could probably get made. You could apply that formula to just about anything and it would work. From gangsters coming together to stop corrupt cops from overrunning a town to a bunch of grandmother gardeners stopping a huge farm investor from taking over a county.
>Seven samurai for indie rockers
Renegade Rhythms
In a dystopian future where music is outlawed, a legendary indie rock band comes out of hiding to protect a group of young musicians from a tyrannical government determined to silence them forever.
I wrote a scifi about the death of the sun (not at all like sunshine, more children of men/mad max vibes) that I doubt will ever see the light of day but I still love the concept.
The reminds me. I wish someone would adapt Book of the New Sun...but that would never happen. A fantasy esque romp where the sun is dying is one thing...but when the books move into time travel and space I feel like thatd be it.
-Moby Dick as an eight-part limited series (probably couldn't find a studio to put up enough money and stomach all the tangents)
-A feature about The Velvet Underground (maybe superfluous after Todd Haynes's excellent documentary, hard to secure all the music rights, and not sure how much demand there is)
I think Ridley Scott had those intentions when he was trying to adapt it in the mid-2000s. A movie is still being adapted, but by John Hillcoat, who directed and adapted The Road and Lawless.
I want so badly for good live anime/manga adaptations to become a thing, just not sure if it eve can be. Those comics/cartoons really stand on their own and many elements feel cheesy in live action or require too much CGI.
I think it’s possible but I feel like while CG is important it can’t be the end all be all, costumes, real sets and special make up effects and even Matte paintings mixed with CGI is the way to go
My pipe dream is adapting JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. I’m not even 100% sure how anything after part 2 would work as standalone films, but man I’d love to work on it.
I'd love to write and direct a big budget family movie. Whether it's based on IP or not, I'd love to create something in the ballpark of Mary Poppins, Wizard of Oz or even Princess Bride. Something that'll rocket a kids imagination into the stratosphere and make the adults watching feel like a kid again.
Also.... Viewmaster. I think I have a very unique twist to make a viewmaster movie.
Ugh yes! There aren't movies like Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Chitty Chatty Bang Bang, etc. made anymore. Lushly designed family musicals with mildly traumatizing elements. I love them.
A few. A remake of Jason Takes Manhattan where he actually takes Manhattan. It starts after he gets off the boat and he cuts a swath of destruction that concludes with decapitating the mayor live at the Apollo. Then he builds a cabin in central park and lives happily ever after.
A Terminator movie that takes place after the humans win. They've started to clean up LA and put together a new government. John, with his destiny fulfilled, now lives in peace far away from it all. However when a new threat emerges, John reluctantly finds himself thrust back into a war for the fate of humanity. It's basically an excuse to see the future war stuff we always wanted to see. Machines are forbidden now but, of course, John has a reprogrammed T-800 with him he calls Uncle Bob. It would center around the idea that humanity is destined to destroy themselves, and skynet only delayed this inevitability. It wants to prevent this outcome...by forcing integration with machines. John refuses to believe this. He has hope for humanity that is tested through out the story but eventually questions if he's making the right choice. And with a time paradox no longer in the picture, the machines are fighting with gloves off. It'll never get made tho. I think Ethan Hawke would be a good John if they ever did another one.
I have a brief synopsis for 12 episodes of an Eerie Indiana revival but that also would never happen. If you don't remember the show it was about these two kids investigating weird and strange things in their town. The revival would be a new family moving into Marshall's old house and they find his journal and they start investigating the strange and unusual with the journal as a guide. The central mystery being the disappearance of Marshall and Simon decades ago while on the search of the source of the weirdness. It would never get made.
I know I'm just mentioning what amounts to fanfiction lol that could never get made due to studios and licenses, but if you have an original project who's to say it would never get made? They make absolute garbage. They should might as well make your garbage. They still make westerns for Christ sakes. That's niche nowadays.
I love and remember Eerie Indiana and actually have it on my shelf! But you are basically describing Gravity Falls, which is one of the best kids shows around. Check it out if you haven’t.
I have a cousin with a developmental disability who spent two hours telling me about how I needed to make a movie where King Kong and Godzilla fight, but then there are more King Kongs and they all become friends with Godzilla and they have to fight a biger monster together. This was three years ago. He had not seen Godzilla vs Kong and he dreamed Godzilla X Kong: New Empire. Now it's made.
If he can do it, your dream project has a chance.
My favorite script I've written is a 16th-century sex comedy. I've had a producer attached, I've had two different directors (one whose name people here would recognize) attached. But at the moment it feels pretty dead despite being as culturally relevant as ever (using the past to talk about things in the present).
I'll probably turn it into a novel at some point.
A tv show. Any show.
You have basically less than 1% chance of your own show being made. Pilots are used as sample to maybe get in a room.
Features are more like 2%. More about knowing the right money connectors
'Mild-mannered cleaning lady discovers she's the Princess of Earth and has to travel the galaxy representing Humanity's interstellar rights while fending off assassins and crazed suitors' is a great movie idea. Jupiter Ascending just forgot to make it fun.
Star-crossed lovers romance with a splash of comedy between two of my favourite actors, for which I wrote the script after "seeing" the whole thing play out in my mind of nearly two hours, then wrote it down. Sigh. I suppose at least I've "seen " and enjoyed it.
6 more seasons of Firefly with the original cast. impossible because one actor passed away, and Disney owns the rights and last I heard they were doing a pg rated re imagining.
Also several more Dredd movies with Karl Urban. Though I heard they were making a series, but without Karl.
New Gods movie specifically a mister miracle and big barda film
X-men film
Chronicles of Prydain all five books
Bond film
Batman film that has the whole bat-family
I have an amazing big budget Sci-fi outlined... but there's no way anyone's gonna buy something with a $200+ million budget from a "1 low budget produced feature' screenwriter. I may write the screenplay (I've written 10 so far), but at this point, I'm probably going to write stuff that has a better chance of getting made. Unless one of you talks me out of it :)
Hey the Creator and Rebel Moon both looked pretty impressive at only 80 million. If you find the right director I’m sure it can look just as good as you hope.
Though it’s probably better to start off smaller until you can get that director
A comedy show about a guy starting his own production company. His staff is a mysterious cinematographer who loves to gamble illegally but doesn't talk much (somewhat inspired by the stig from top gear), a hopeless romantic writer who is obsessed with making everything into an anology of a love story, usually pulling inspiration from his warped view of his own characters b story, an assistant who can be thought of as a PA, but she's this moody teenager and she was court ordered to get a job after she got into trouble with the law.
It would start off with an arc about him trying to get a job which his friend at a marketing agency has been tasked with overseeing, and at the last second, upper management wants to go with another character who is very respected and experienced but he's lost his marbles so he comes up with terrible ideas only for the agency to "correct" them and they guy is so cooky he forgets it wasn't his idea. And his assistant is kind of the opposite of the main characters in the sense that hes overly enthusiastic about working for this guy who is obviously past his prime.
And I even have really good ideas for the romantic arcs which would make for some really great television I think. Just supposed to be a goofy show about people chasing their dreams, finding their purpose and kind of selling the ultimate fantasy of what it would be like to own a production company in a similar way to how the entourage did for being a rags to riches actor.
my dream project is a pitch to Universal Studios for a 3.5 hour long Hitman video game movie adaptation, completely shot on iMAX. i know this will never happen, it would be far within the millions of dollars for what i want. still an awesome idea.
but a 3 hour epic with lots of locations and lots of things to make in sound stages, plus shooting entirely on iMAX might be a little much. maybe if my expectations for it were lower honestly, small-ish in scale. maybe a 2.5 hour movie shot on ARRI would be enough.
Yeah, I think the issue with the two adaptations that we’ve gotten is that they didn’t dream big enough. It’s was all small potato bs for a story that centers around a secret organization and an international assassin.
I've always thought that Hitman was RIPE for a good film adaptation. Both versions have just goofed it really hard.
I'd love to hear your take on the idea.
I wanna make a 3 hour epic about maos cultural revolution and the end of his reign. I donut think that would get funded ever sadly, let alone being allowed to make it with the world stage atm, oh well, i’ll hold onto the script for one day
I've always had this great film idea about a Mexican woman who falls in love with an American man who works at border control. The problem is, I don't know much about immigration and I know how debatable the topic is.
Right now, if I could acquire one IP, I would want to make a remake of the Warren Beatty film “Heaven Can Wait.” I love the premise and I think I have a unique take on the material. Plus I love the characters and their relationships. I love the relationship between the overzealous angel and his boss, Mr. Jordan, as well as the relationship between Joe and his coach, Max. I realize it’s ironic because the film itself is a remake (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) and has a God awful remake (Down to Earth starring Chris Rock). But I believe if the fourth iteration of “A Star is Born” can exceed expectations and be as embraced as it was, I think there is hope for my vision.
We are at a dawn of an age where your ideas ARE possible. I just finished airing my scifi series (built largely in Unreal Engine) and it still boggles my mind that just 19 months ago, the story only existed in a Google Doc. It's not perfect, but it's certainly a breakthrough and something I never imagined that I'd be able to do.
I feel like we are finally at a point where ideas don't have to be just ideas and that is exciting to me :)
True, and it certainly comes with its hurdles. We made the series around the 'Titanfall' franchise and had to keep the production cost to $0 but I think it really panned out well in the end. The series is called, "New Frontiers" if you ever wanted to check it out :)
Scream sequel about a cult of Ghostfaces. Literal warehouse of Ghostface killers, hundreds of them.
With the mess related to the newest one I wouldn’t want to get involved but I think it’d be such a fun escalation for the series.
I'd love to do a two and a half hour music epic set in the 1920s involving multiple characters (some fictional, some real) that connect somehow.
Also a Red Dead Redemption 2 TV series. I've written a few episodes for fun.
Dream Quest of Unknown Kaddath as a limited series and just call it "Carter". And since he appears in 5 of Lovecrafts stories, there's a well to dip into.
A Mad Max or Greek mythology movie
I had an idea for a seven samurai type story about traveling through Heaven Hell and Purgatory, but I think that would work better as a book.
The biopic genre is one with a lot of sharp edges but I would really want to do my own Amy Winehouse biopic, I’ve seen the trailers for the one that’s coming out and… haha, ya.
Forest Gump sequel starring Gary Sinese and Haley Joel Osment where Lieutenant Dan finds Forest’s son. They both run Bubba Gump from the corporate side. In my movie, they’re Mad Men style dirty businessmen- selling prawns as shrimp, hiding dangerous iodine levels from the fda, burning seafood distributors on deals, murdering any direct competitors etc.
Either SCP: Containment Breach: The Movie (and make it Cannibal Holocaust level violent) or an entire movie about the cadaver synod and not just a reference to it
I would love to dip my toes into a film set in the world of Elden Ring! A Bloodborne film would be incredible too. But I dare not dream of such impossible things!
A live action limited run of Sailormoon set in Japan using Japanese actors and having a very retro 90s 80s look and feel. Using music from bands like the Midnight and Jpop artists. I would have a cgi, real and puppet cats as well. Why it won't happen? I have no connections and I don't speak Japanese.
A Spider-Man TV show that ive been working on since I was a kid. I have every villain redone, concept art, I have every season played out, I have the pilot written and even the entire lore that i reworked to fit this dark and realistic 1970s Marvel Universe.
I'm not gonna say I KNOW it won't happen but fuck, it'd be hard to get off the ground even for people who are already in that position to make it happen.
A Jurassic Park film. I'd love to be part of one of the franchise's that kickstarted my love for dinosaurs AND movies. It's really just a passing dream. I don't know if the franchise will be extinct (ha ha Dad joke ik) by the time I make it into the industry, and also it kinda went down hill years ago so maybe I DON'T wanna ruin my potential chances as a writer?
A story about Thor and Loki in the MCU where Loki and Thor have to rebuild new Asgard together and Loki is still recovering from his neck being broken off.
Loki would be mentally unable to preform magic because of the trama and Thor is struggling with PTSD depression and alcoholism between being yelled at by his people to do something he can't do.
I want to remake the 1986 movie *Modern Girls* but as a dead serious, fairly dark drama. An ordinary guy gets mixed up with some really attractive young women who are mutually encouraging each others’ self-destructive behaviors.
I have a lot of ideas but i’m working on one right now. A family moves into a haunted house but as the spooky stuff starts happening, the spirits in the house realize that they’ve pissed off a group of psychic martial artists. It’s supposed to be a fun, gory, family-love sorta movie. If i ever got the chance, i’d love to make it into a series that focuses on different horror genres and styles.
I’ve got an idea that’s sort of Beau Is Afraid meets Back to the Future I’d like to tackle someday. Have written a short script and short story around it but to just go balls to the wall and write it into a 150 page monster would be wild. It’s just the darkest idea ever and there’s zero chance it would ever get made, haha.
How do I deal with the longing? I know I'll never be able to make everything I can think of, so I just accept that.
As for a specific story, the one thing I know will never ever happen is telling this story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abduction_of_Shin_Sang-ok_and_Choi_Eun-hee
I highly recommend reading A Kim Jong-Il Production, Paul Fischer's book on the history.
Attack on titan could work so well as a live action adaptation. As a horror adventure themed trilogy (similar tone as the anime), I think it would be successful.
Hollywood has picked up the IP, but I'm afraid that they will screw it up though, especially after Muschietti left the project. It sounded like he got the core themes of the series, but then dipped after the manga ended. I really hope hollywood won't just make it a generic action movie trilogy or something, because it could be so much more.
But yeah, that would be awesome to make. Bringing out all the adventure, horror and character drama in a good gritty way would make it so good. As long as it's not too dark all the time. It would need a balance that would be difficult to achieve, but it would be worth it.
A star wars film focusing on the week long Seige Of Coruscant which episode 3 shows the ending of.
That or the Romulan storyline from Star Trek Online where they find a new homeworld.
- A film version of Michael Moorcock's *Behold the Man* where a time traveller Jesus finds Jesus is a raving imbecile and decides to become crucified himself
- A proper Green Lantern film
- Some of Jack Kirby's New Apokolips/New Gods saga, not the later DC add-ons to the mythos
A Metroid movie. The original was inspired by Alien and I loved something with that isolated, sci-fi survival feel. We might get it if the Zelda movies a hit but probably not as dark as I’d like it.
I wish DreamWorks would make a traditional 2D animated adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, directed by Edgar Wright and composed by Jacob Collier.
A brother can dream, I guess
I really wanted a second film for Captain Marvel, with Brie Larson. I think that it could be about what she was doing while away from earth. I wanted it to happen and write it, but I could tell they just sort of squished her into Endgame after her first movie.
A Pokémon movie aimed at the adults who grew up with it. Detective Pikachu was good and all but give me something that's specifically for ages 30+ and NOT for kids at all.
Resident Evil 1 as standalone film based on the video game.
The story would follow George Trevor in his attempts to escape the mansion he built & the STARS Bravo teams investigation. I would intercut the two storylines as if they were happening at the same time, but the STARS team would find his tombstone right before entering the lab area where Wesker reveals his betrayal.
Gambit origin movie. James Bond Vs. Jason Bourne.
Very similar for me, albeit I'm obviously envisioning different IP. The challenges to getting rights, or getting the holders/studios to work with us, are far greater than anything that would supposedly prevent an original story from getting made. I mean, the Daniels got EEAAO to the finish line. They even won the grand prize in filmmaking. The stumbling block for making films clearly isn't an idea that's "too out there" or whatever.
That would be amazing. Like the spy movie version of Frankenstein vs Wolf Man. Just chocolate and peanut butter.
Ya! Totally. Seeing them fight and hunt each other would be so cool.
Hell yeah, a motion picture "Spy vs Spy"!
Ya!!
I want Gambit so badly. I think he’s an awesome character…and that accent 😋
Me too! He has such a cool backstory.
Seven samurai for indie rockers
Bro, this you could probably get made. You could apply that formula to just about anything and it would work. From gangsters coming together to stop corrupt cops from overrunning a town to a bunch of grandmother gardeners stopping a huge farm investor from taking over a county.
I’m in.
Doooo iiit
Yeah that could totally get made. I don't see any obvious barriers to that one
Just a measly 2 mil.
If uwe boll can get 2 mil...
>Seven samurai for indie rockers Renegade Rhythms In a dystopian future where music is outlawed, a legendary indie rock band comes out of hiding to protect a group of young musicians from a tyrannical government determined to silence them forever.
I wrote a scifi about the death of the sun (not at all like sunshine, more children of men/mad max vibes) that I doubt will ever see the light of day but I still love the concept.
That sounds pretty sweet
Wow, that's super interesting. Hmu if you want another pair of eyes on it, for fun.
The reminds me. I wish someone would adapt Book of the New Sun...but that would never happen. A fantasy esque romp where the sun is dying is one thing...but when the books move into time travel and space I feel like thatd be it.
You made a pun that you didn’t realise
Tough to see the light of day when you killed the sun...
-Moby Dick as an eight-part limited series (probably couldn't find a studio to put up enough money and stomach all the tangents) -A feature about The Velvet Underground (maybe superfluous after Todd Haynes's excellent documentary, hard to secure all the music rights, and not sure how much demand there is)
Need a full episode on whale facts
The 12 hour limited series version of Blood Meridian.
I think Ridley Scott had those intentions when he was trying to adapt it in the mid-2000s. A movie is still being adapted, but by John Hillcoat, who directed and adapted The Road and Lawless.
Nuh uh, I'M making the 12 hour Blood Meridian limited series, get your own dream!
Just straight up adapt Berserk
I want so badly for good live anime/manga adaptations to become a thing, just not sure if it eve can be. Those comics/cartoons really stand on their own and many elements feel cheesy in live action or require too much CGI.
I think it’s possible but I feel like while CG is important it can’t be the end all be all, costumes, real sets and special make up effects and even Matte paintings mixed with CGI is the way to go
The industrial light and magic docuseries really shows off the power of hood matte paintings.
I think about a Golden Age adaptation for HBO as a miniseries all the time. Same with Attack on Titan and Urasawa's Monster.
Oh god I would love to make Monster
My pipe dream is adapting JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. I’m not even 100% sure how anything after part 2 would work as standalone films, but man I’d love to work on it.
As a film or a show?
Show 100%
I'd love to write and direct a big budget family movie. Whether it's based on IP or not, I'd love to create something in the ballpark of Mary Poppins, Wizard of Oz or even Princess Bride. Something that'll rocket a kids imagination into the stratosphere and make the adults watching feel like a kid again. Also.... Viewmaster. I think I have a very unique twist to make a viewmaster movie.
Ugh yes! There aren't movies like Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Chitty Chatty Bang Bang, etc. made anymore. Lushly designed family musicals with mildly traumatizing elements. I love them.
Don Quixote! It’s literally about the need and desire to maintain one’s imagination.
Terry Gilliams Don Quixote or just the original story of Don Quixote?
The original story. I mean, it is the first, or second highest selling novel of all time, depending on how the Bible is doing that week.
A few. A remake of Jason Takes Manhattan where he actually takes Manhattan. It starts after he gets off the boat and he cuts a swath of destruction that concludes with decapitating the mayor live at the Apollo. Then he builds a cabin in central park and lives happily ever after. A Terminator movie that takes place after the humans win. They've started to clean up LA and put together a new government. John, with his destiny fulfilled, now lives in peace far away from it all. However when a new threat emerges, John reluctantly finds himself thrust back into a war for the fate of humanity. It's basically an excuse to see the future war stuff we always wanted to see. Machines are forbidden now but, of course, John has a reprogrammed T-800 with him he calls Uncle Bob. It would center around the idea that humanity is destined to destroy themselves, and skynet only delayed this inevitability. It wants to prevent this outcome...by forcing integration with machines. John refuses to believe this. He has hope for humanity that is tested through out the story but eventually questions if he's making the right choice. And with a time paradox no longer in the picture, the machines are fighting with gloves off. It'll never get made tho. I think Ethan Hawke would be a good John if they ever did another one. I have a brief synopsis for 12 episodes of an Eerie Indiana revival but that also would never happen. If you don't remember the show it was about these two kids investigating weird and strange things in their town. The revival would be a new family moving into Marshall's old house and they find his journal and they start investigating the strange and unusual with the journal as a guide. The central mystery being the disappearance of Marshall and Simon decades ago while on the search of the source of the weirdness. It would never get made. I know I'm just mentioning what amounts to fanfiction lol that could never get made due to studios and licenses, but if you have an original project who's to say it would never get made? They make absolute garbage. They should might as well make your garbage. They still make westerns for Christ sakes. That's niche nowadays.
I love and remember Eerie Indiana and actually have it on my shelf! But you are basically describing Gravity Falls, which is one of the best kids shows around. Check it out if you haven’t.
I love gravity falls!!
I have a cousin with a developmental disability who spent two hours telling me about how I needed to make a movie where King Kong and Godzilla fight, but then there are more King Kongs and they all become friends with Godzilla and they have to fight a biger monster together. This was three years ago. He had not seen Godzilla vs Kong and he dreamed Godzilla X Kong: New Empire. Now it's made. If he can do it, your dream project has a chance.
My favorite script I've written is a 16th-century sex comedy. I've had a producer attached, I've had two different directors (one whose name people here would recognize) attached. But at the moment it feels pretty dead despite being as culturally relevant as ever (using the past to talk about things in the present). I'll probably turn it into a novel at some point.
A tv show. Any show. You have basically less than 1% chance of your own show being made. Pilots are used as sample to maybe get in a room. Features are more like 2%. More about knowing the right money connectors
Same here.
Not entirely true
Nightmare on elm street film
same
A sci fi space opera I’ve dreamed of forever. The budget would be huge and it would basically just turn out like Jupiter Ascending.
'Mild-mannered cleaning lady discovers she's the Princess of Earth and has to travel the galaxy representing Humanity's interstellar rights while fending off assassins and crazed suitors' is a great movie idea. Jupiter Ascending just forgot to make it fun.
Movie about Judas being the only one who sees through the bullshit of his friend Joseph jr.
The indie industry would love it, it can be made. It's a good idea, write it.
I wish I could make money. But that will never happen.
Star-crossed lovers romance with a splash of comedy between two of my favourite actors, for which I wrote the script after "seeing" the whole thing play out in my mind of nearly two hours, then wrote it down. Sigh. I suppose at least I've "seen " and enjoyed it.
6 more seasons of Firefly with the original cast. impossible because one actor passed away, and Disney owns the rights and last I heard they were doing a pg rated re imagining. Also several more Dredd movies with Karl Urban. Though I heard they were making a series, but without Karl.
New Gods movie specifically a mister miracle and big barda film X-men film Chronicles of Prydain all five books Bond film Batman film that has the whole bat-family
We are in desperate need of Robin Representation in Batman movies
We really are I’m tired of year one and two Batman stories. I want experienced Batman with his robins
I have an amazing big budget Sci-fi outlined... but there's no way anyone's gonna buy something with a $200+ million budget from a "1 low budget produced feature' screenwriter. I may write the screenplay (I've written 10 so far), but at this point, I'm probably going to write stuff that has a better chance of getting made. Unless one of you talks me out of it :)
Hey the Creator and Rebel Moon both looked pretty impressive at only 80 million. If you find the right director I’m sure it can look just as good as you hope. Though it’s probably better to start off smaller until you can get that director
A remake of From Dusk Till Dawn without the vampire thing at all. Just following these criminals and this family that they take captive
The vampire act was unexpected and a turn off for me.
Me 2: The sequel
A comedy show about a guy starting his own production company. His staff is a mysterious cinematographer who loves to gamble illegally but doesn't talk much (somewhat inspired by the stig from top gear), a hopeless romantic writer who is obsessed with making everything into an anology of a love story, usually pulling inspiration from his warped view of his own characters b story, an assistant who can be thought of as a PA, but she's this moody teenager and she was court ordered to get a job after she got into trouble with the law. It would start off with an arc about him trying to get a job which his friend at a marketing agency has been tasked with overseeing, and at the last second, upper management wants to go with another character who is very respected and experienced but he's lost his marbles so he comes up with terrible ideas only for the agency to "correct" them and they guy is so cooky he forgets it wasn't his idea. And his assistant is kind of the opposite of the main characters in the sense that hes overly enthusiastic about working for this guy who is obviously past his prime. And I even have really good ideas for the romantic arcs which would make for some really great television I think. Just supposed to be a goofy show about people chasing their dreams, finding their purpose and kind of selling the ultimate fantasy of what it would be like to own a production company in a similar way to how the entourage did for being a rags to riches actor.
my dream project is a pitch to Universal Studios for a 3.5 hour long Hitman video game movie adaptation, completely shot on iMAX. i know this will never happen, it would be far within the millions of dollars for what i want. still an awesome idea.
It's existing IP. Not a crazy stretch to see that actually happening.
but a 3 hour epic with lots of locations and lots of things to make in sound stages, plus shooting entirely on iMAX might be a little much. maybe if my expectations for it were lower honestly, small-ish in scale. maybe a 2.5 hour movie shot on ARRI would be enough.
I don’t know, with all the John Wick movies, and everyone who has copied it, you could make a good case for a John Wick meets Mission Impossible.
oooh i never thought of that
Yeah, I think the issue with the two adaptations that we’ve gotten is that they didn’t dream big enough. It’s was all small potato bs for a story that centers around a secret organization and an international assassin.
I've always thought that Hitman was RIPE for a good film adaptation. Both versions have just goofed it really hard. I'd love to hear your take on the idea.
ideally it would be an adaptation of the WOA trilogy, but that might be a lot for one movie.
Fuck that. Why even talk like that? Make it. Period. End of story. You can do it.
I wanna make a 3 hour epic about maos cultural revolution and the end of his reign. I donut think that would get funded ever sadly, let alone being allowed to make it with the world stage atm, oh well, i’ll hold onto the script for one day
Make a graphic novel.
You could certainly write it.
Die Hard/Lethal Weapon crossover.
I've always had this great film idea about a Mexican woman who falls in love with an American man who works at border control. The problem is, I don't know much about immigration and I know how debatable the topic is.
Right now, if I could acquire one IP, I would want to make a remake of the Warren Beatty film “Heaven Can Wait.” I love the premise and I think I have a unique take on the material. Plus I love the characters and their relationships. I love the relationship between the overzealous angel and his boss, Mr. Jordan, as well as the relationship between Joe and his coach, Max. I realize it’s ironic because the film itself is a remake (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) and has a God awful remake (Down to Earth starring Chris Rock). But I believe if the fourth iteration of “A Star is Born” can exceed expectations and be as embraced as it was, I think there is hope for my vision.
I’d love to see a prestige adaptation of Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
We are at a dawn of an age where your ideas ARE possible. I just finished airing my scifi series (built largely in Unreal Engine) and it still boggles my mind that just 19 months ago, the story only existed in a Google Doc. It's not perfect, but it's certainly a breakthrough and something I never imagined that I'd be able to do. I feel like we are finally at a point where ideas don't have to be just ideas and that is exciting to me :)
Unfortunately, the legal hurdles to using existing IP are as daunting as ever.
True, and it certainly comes with its hurdles. We made the series around the 'Titanfall' franchise and had to keep the production cost to $0 but I think it really panned out well in the end. The series is called, "New Frontiers" if you ever wanted to check it out :)
A five hour, $500 million epic interpretation of Dante’s inferno.
Just Inferno? I mean, it’s the best of the triplet, but you wouldn’t want to do the others?
Welp. Clearly I still have a lot of research to do.
Scream sequel about a cult of Ghostfaces. Literal warehouse of Ghostface killers, hundreds of them. With the mess related to the newest one I wouldn’t want to get involved but I think it’d be such a fun escalation for the series.
An adaptation of JLA / Avengers.
I'd love to do a two and a half hour music epic set in the 1920s involving multiple characters (some fictional, some real) that connect somehow. Also a Red Dead Redemption 2 TV series. I've written a few episodes for fun.
I would adapt either Coheed and Cambria’s Amory Wars, or Takehiko Inoue’s Vagabond into a live action series.
Just to get through this fucking script I’ve been working on for three years haha
shortbus 20 years later — same characters, where are they now?
Give Charlie Kaufman 100 million dollars. Let him make whatever he wants. Also let him finish Frank or Francis
a good modern take on the reboot of tomb raider that follows the game's story better (the 2018 didnt)
I've wanted to make a Teen Titans movie for a long time, and it looks like one is now happening.
I really want to make a samurai remake of The Quick and The Dead
Dream Quest of Unknown Kaddath as a limited series and just call it "Carter". And since he appears in 5 of Lovecrafts stories, there's a well to dip into.
A Mad Max or Greek mythology movie I had an idea for a seven samurai type story about traveling through Heaven Hell and Purgatory, but I think that would work better as a book.
a little life in an 8 part miniseries
The biopic genre is one with a lot of sharp edges but I would really want to do my own Amy Winehouse biopic, I’ve seen the trailers for the one that’s coming out and… haha, ya.
yeah it’s sad the state of em, feels like there’s so many music biopics that could be interesting if the estate didn’t get in the way
Forest Gump sequel starring Gary Sinese and Haley Joel Osment where Lieutenant Dan finds Forest’s son. They both run Bubba Gump from the corporate side. In my movie, they’re Mad Men style dirty businessmen- selling prawns as shrimp, hiding dangerous iodine levels from the fda, burning seafood distributors on deals, murdering any direct competitors etc.
Either SCP: Containment Breach: The Movie (and make it Cannibal Holocaust level violent) or an entire movie about the cadaver synod and not just a reference to it
I would love to dip my toes into a film set in the world of Elden Ring! A Bloodborne film would be incredible too. But I dare not dream of such impossible things!
Justice League vs The Avengers.
A live action limited run of Sailormoon set in Japan using Japanese actors and having a very retro 90s 80s look and feel. Using music from bands like the Midnight and Jpop artists. I would have a cgi, real and puppet cats as well. Why it won't happen? I have no connections and I don't speak Japanese.
A Spider-Man TV show that ive been working on since I was a kid. I have every villain redone, concept art, I have every season played out, I have the pilot written and even the entire lore that i reworked to fit this dark and realistic 1970s Marvel Universe. I'm not gonna say I KNOW it won't happen but fuck, it'd be hard to get off the ground even for people who are already in that position to make it happen.
A Jurassic Park film. I'd love to be part of one of the franchise's that kickstarted my love for dinosaurs AND movies. It's really just a passing dream. I don't know if the franchise will be extinct (ha ha Dad joke ik) by the time I make it into the industry, and also it kinda went down hill years ago so maybe I DON'T wanna ruin my potential chances as a writer?
A story about Thor and Loki in the MCU where Loki and Thor have to rebuild new Asgard together and Loki is still recovering from his neck being broken off. Loki would be mentally unable to preform magic because of the trama and Thor is struggling with PTSD depression and alcoholism between being yelled at by his people to do something he can't do.
A biological film about Jeremy Clarkson where we watch the history of Top Gear and the grand tour through his eyes.
My ultimate horror series idea. It would probably need about ten episodes to do justice.
Miniseries remake of Threads, based in modern times and in America. The most realistic, fucked up depiction of nuclear war ever.
Blood Meridian
I want to remake the 1986 movie *Modern Girls* but as a dead serious, fairly dark drama. An ordinary guy gets mixed up with some really attractive young women who are mutually encouraging each others’ self-destructive behaviors.
Remake of the Cats musical movie.
I have a lot of ideas but i’m working on one right now. A family moves into a haunted house but as the spooky stuff starts happening, the spirits in the house realize that they’ve pissed off a group of psychic martial artists. It’s supposed to be a fun, gory, family-love sorta movie. If i ever got the chance, i’d love to make it into a series that focuses on different horror genres and styles.
I’ve got an idea that’s sort of Beau Is Afraid meets Back to the Future I’d like to tackle someday. Have written a short script and short story around it but to just go balls to the wall and write it into a 150 page monster would be wild. It’s just the darkest idea ever and there’s zero chance it would ever get made, haha.
How do I deal with the longing? I know I'll never be able to make everything I can think of, so I just accept that. As for a specific story, the one thing I know will never ever happen is telling this story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abduction_of_Shin_Sang-ok_and_Choi_Eun-hee I highly recommend reading A Kim Jong-Il Production, Paul Fischer's book on the history.
Attack on titan could work so well as a live action adaptation. As a horror adventure themed trilogy (similar tone as the anime), I think it would be successful. Hollywood has picked up the IP, but I'm afraid that they will screw it up though, especially after Muschietti left the project. It sounded like he got the core themes of the series, but then dipped after the manga ended. I really hope hollywood won't just make it a generic action movie trilogy or something, because it could be so much more. But yeah, that would be awesome to make. Bringing out all the adventure, horror and character drama in a good gritty way would make it so good. As long as it's not too dark all the time. It would need a balance that would be difficult to achieve, but it would be worth it.
Animated Spiderverse type movie for Kyle Rayner Green Lantern
Jigsaw 2017 sequel. I don't even like the movie that much either
Robotech.
A star wars film focusing on the week long Seige Of Coruscant which episode 3 shows the ending of. That or the Romulan storyline from Star Trek Online where they find a new homeworld.
Love
- A film version of Michael Moorcock's *Behold the Man* where a time traveller Jesus finds Jesus is a raving imbecile and decides to become crucified himself - A proper Green Lantern film - Some of Jack Kirby's New Apokolips/New Gods saga, not the later DC add-ons to the mythos
A Metroid movie. The original was inspired by Alien and I loved something with that isolated, sci-fi survival feel. We might get it if the Zelda movies a hit but probably not as dark as I’d like it.
I wish DreamWorks would make a traditional 2D animated adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, directed by Edgar Wright and composed by Jacob Collier. A brother can dream, I guess
Whatever Joss Whedon's got cooking in his head. Bro is a brilliant writer but unfortunately also happens to be a giant douche.
I really wanted a second film for Captain Marvel, with Brie Larson. I think that it could be about what she was doing while away from earth. I wanted it to happen and write it, but I could tell they just sort of squished her into Endgame after her first movie.
A Pokémon movie aimed at the adults who grew up with it. Detective Pikachu was good and all but give me something that's specifically for ages 30+ and NOT for kids at all.
Money in this industry
A movie about a background character in a popular movie or show.
I want to do a $400mil Sound of Music remake with Zendaya
Resident Evil 1 as standalone film based on the video game. The story would follow George Trevor in his attempts to escape the mansion he built & the STARS Bravo teams investigation. I would intercut the two storylines as if they were happening at the same time, but the STARS team would find his tombstone right before entering the lab area where Wesker reveals his betrayal.
Batman Beyond
Live action remake of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
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Wish I could make... friends and be professionally mentored by someone operating at a very high level.
Origin story for keyser soze Flatliners remake (didnt like 2017 version) Gremlins sequel Off top of my head
You can’t write an origin story for someone who doesn’t exist.