# Movie “unseen events” that would make a good movie of its own
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**Created:** [April 4, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842 "2024-04-04T23:09:01Z")
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### Author:  [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/1 "2024-04-04T23:09:01Z")
Oftentimes in a movie there is some event or happening that is only mentioned or discussed, but not depicted, which would make for a good flick in its own right.
Star Wars already did this. A New Hope begins with reference to an adventure to steal the Death Star plans. It was only later that they made that into a movie of its own, Rogue One.
I’m sure there are others that either have been made, or would be interesting candidates.
Quentin Tarantino seems to love these. In Pulp Fiction, you could do a movie about the unseen boxing match, where a guy dies. Or the tragic POW who never gives up his hope of seeing his boy become a man. Or the series of choices that leads one to become a gimp.
And Reservoir Dogs never actually shows the jewelry heist, let alone the heroic cops who swoop in to save the day.
Any others?
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### Author:  [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/2 "2024-04-04T23:15:17Z")
First thing I thought of was Keyser Soze.
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/3 "2024-04-04T23:17:16Z")
Bunny’s offscreen adventures during the events of _The Big Lebowski_.
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### Author:  [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/4 "2024-04-04T23:18:06Z")
The story of the Men of the White Mountains (the ghosts that Aragorn recruits in the Lord of the Rings) would be good. Or any of so many things in the Lord of the Rings (how Gollum becomes Gollum, the whole opening scene in the first movie where Sauron is defeated, the Balrog under Moria…lots to choose from).
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/5 "2024-04-04T23:23:35Z")
One where I thought it was good that they didn’t show it was in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Falcon has just told Cap and Black Widow about his wingsuit, and how it’s stored in a Level 5 secure facility, or whatever, and do they think that’ll be a problem? Cap turns to Widow for a moment, and says “No problem”. And then they don’t show it, because, well, for Captain America and Black Widow, it really isn’t a problem.
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### Author:  [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/6 "2024-04-04T23:25:59Z")
There have been many spinoffs of the cryptic “Giant Rat of Sumatra” mentioned by Sherlock Holmes, and in fact I think this was even mentioned in a cartoon TV version of it. Would definitely be a good topic for its own film.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/7 "2024-04-05T02:18:33Z")
My god. This isn’t quite on topic, but they made a book of “Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie”?
[https://images.app.goo.gl/iuEiLxhkMBj868sb8](https://images.app.goo.gl/iuEiLxhkMBj868sb8)
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### Author:  [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/8 "2024-04-05T02:25:04Z")
I’d like to see how and why the Benicio del Toro character in _Sicario_ turned out the way he did.
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/9 "2024-04-05T02:33:14Z")
Wait, didn’t he turn out that way because they killed his family? Or is that the part you want to see?
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/10 "2024-04-05T02:59:25Z")
**Marty McFly** : _“Doc, you don’t just walk into a store and-and buy plutonium! Did you rip that off?”_
**Doc Brown** : _“Of course! From a group of Libyan nationalists; they wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and, in turn, gave them a shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts…”_
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### Author:  [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/11 "2024-04-05T03:36:42Z")
There was another thread about the “Tears in the rain” monologue in Bladerunner, and I pointed out I definitely want to see the movie that ends with “Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.” and " c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate"
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### Author:  [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/12 "2024-04-05T04:26:43Z")
TV show, not a movie, but any true Sopranos fan doesn’t care about the ending, they only want to know what’s story behind the Easter baskets?
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### Author:  [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/13 "2024-04-05T04:30:32Z")
A prequel to “The Matrix” showing the first war between humans and AI would be cool. How did they “scorch the sky?”
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/14 "2024-04-05T05:28:48Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#):
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> A prequel to “The Matrix” showing the first war between humans and AI would be cool. How did they “scorch the sky?
That was covered in the Animatrix, actually - The Second Renaissance parts 1 and 2 is the backstory of the machine war.
It was, in fact, the humans who “scorched the sky” with a self-reproducing nanomachine swarm in a last-ditch attempt to deny the machines their energy source.
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/15 "2024-04-05T05:31:21Z")
Was it Calvin or Bart Simpson that was involved in “The Spaghetti Incident”?
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> [@Velocity](#):
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> There have been many spinoffs of the cryptic “Giant Rat of Sumatra” mentioned by Sherlock Holmes
At the very beginning of Firesign Theater’s [excellent Holmes parody](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXHcSBhfkx8) by that name, Sherlock mentions that story, but that he “will never be tricked into telling a tale for which the world is not yet prepared… The public must never know!”. You can hear Watson in the background: “Well, I’ll just write that down…”
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/16 "2024-04-05T05:53:56Z")
> [@digs](#):
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> Was it Calvin or Bart Simpson that was involved in “The Spaghetti Incident”?
If you’re referring to “The Noodle Incident,” then it was Calvin.
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### Author:  [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/17 "2024-04-05T10:13:38Z")
The story of how Hadley’s Hope got eventually over ran at the start of Aliens (I know a comic briefly showed this) My billionaire investor project would be getting the company that did Alien: Isolation to make a sequel called Aliens: Isolation where you play as Newt from the very first facehugger at Hadleys all the way to when the Marines arrived since IIRC they said it had been two weeks between distress call and the Marine arrival so there’s plenty of stuff to examine there.
Escape from New York, just the entire backstory of how exactly the United States finds itself in a losing war against the Soviet Union and the Chinese, and how Snake went from Medal of Honor winner in Leningrad to completely disillusioned soldier.
Red Dawn, the entire war that went on behind the protagonists, but especially the nuclear battle between the Soviets and Chinese that killed off 400 million Chinese.
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### Author:  [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/18 "2024-04-05T10:21:03Z")
Adventures of the Dread Pirate Roberts from _The Princess Bride_.
P.I. Eddie’s golden days with his brother from _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_.
The original quest for the cursed gold from _Pirates of the Caribbean_.
Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and others from _Monsters, Inc._ doing a kid friendly stand-up feature.
Basically the whole backstory of how the other world in _Coraline_ came to be.
That whole war against Sentinels that Wolverine was sent back in time to prevent in _X-Men: Days of Future Past_.
Hawkeye’s badass solo act for the years between _Avengers: Infinity War_ and _Avengers: Endgame_. I understand they told this story via a miniseries taking place after _Endgame_.
~Max
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/19 "2024-04-05T12:30:18Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> > [@digs](#):
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> > Was it Calvin or Bart Simpson that was involved in “The Spaghetti Incident”?
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> If you’re referring to “The Noodle Incident,” then it was Calvin.
I’m sure you wouldn’t want to see a movie of the Spaghetti Incident, it would be the most disgusting porn film ever.
(Warning: disgusting story. Read at your own risk)
> **[The Nikki Sixx's Spaghetti Incident | Metal Amino](https://aminoapps.com/c/metal/page/blog/the-nikki-sixxs-spaghetti-incident/2v8C_NuM4GM78emGdNqMa0D6ozp4mWR)**
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> Some of you might have listened to that punk-ish Guns N' Roses album titled "The Spaghetti Incident?
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### Author:  [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/20 "2024-04-05T12:31:45Z")
Yeah, I know what they did to him. I meant I’d like to see how all that occurred.
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