# Movies you've fantasized about making **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737 "2002-10-24T20:22:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/21 "2002-10-25T12:40:25Z")
A good ‘Doctor Who’ movie. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/22 "2002-10-25T15:18:02Z")
A film adaptation of Moorcock’s Elric series…move over Conan… ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/23 "2002-10-25T15:34:03Z")
**Herbert Kornfeld** movie. While this has a lot of chances to go wrong, if it was done right, it could be quite excellent. Not as much a film but a music video: Adaptation of R.E.M’s “Losing My Religion” with the whole video having the camera focused on a bewildered small old man who is screaming the lyrics while the scenes from the regular video (Stipe on chair, angels and whatnot) play in the background. The old man keeps pointing behind him. Oh, and he sings in third person (That’s him in the corner. That’s him in the spot. Light. Losing his religion). I’m convinced that only sounds silly when I’m describing it to others. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/24 "2002-10-25T16:29:56Z")
> [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > _Originally posted by Mtgman_ > > \*\*Debbie does Mtgman 😉 > > \*\*\*Originally posted by rexnervous \* > \*\*Wouldn’t she be a bit…um, old now? 😃 \*\* Shush your mouth! This is a _fantasy_. 😃 Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/25 "2002-10-25T16:45:15Z")
I’d like to translate Deus Ex or the Hitman diology into movies. Snow Crash would make a cool movie. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/26 "2002-10-25T17:03:50Z")
I’d like to do a film adaptation of _Paradise Lost_. It would have to have an enormous budget, though, and it would be long. Althought it could be broken into three parts and done as a trilogy. Happy, sucker for Milton ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/27 "2002-10-25T19:20:14Z")
Movies I’d like to see: Snow Crash has already been mentioned The Earthsea trilogy is in the works. Master of the Five Magics could make a good movie I think Fountains of Paradise would translate well (I’d rather see that than Rama) I think Honor Harrington would work also. Movies I’d like to make: Not sure, anything I’d want to see would be a lot of work… Brian ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/28 "2002-10-25T19:40:39Z")
Another vote for **The Stars My Destination**. Best darned space opera ever written. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/29 "2002-10-25T20:25:31Z")
Philip Pullman’s **His Dark Materials** trilogy. I think I’d contract Miyazaki to make it as an animated film. If nothing else, at least the confrontation between Lord Azrael and the Metatron on the abyss bridge. And for a much more sprawling small-country’s-GNP-consuming epic production, George R.R. Martin’s **Song of Fire and Ice** series–assuming he ever finishes it, that is. (Hurry up, George!) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/30 "2002-10-25T21:18:40Z")
I would like to have done a proper remake of RollerBall. This time done by someone who actually cares about the subject matter. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/31 "2002-10-26T00:35:21Z")
I’d like a good, interesting, not _too_ cliched mob movie set in the Houston-Galveston area. I was reading _The Houston Chronicle_ the other day and was shocked to find this town actually had sum. :eek: And one of the near-immediate relatives is in the restaruant business. :eek: Or _1984_, since they already made a movie to that and it sucked, there’s no pressure on me. 😉 Instead of the dark, grimy thing the first one was this would be similar to _A Clockwork Orange_ , in color use. I saw _Soylent Green_ last Friday, and it sucked! It had this awesome concept behind it, but it had a poor plot, bad acting, everything about it spelled out campy 70s movie, and the Riot Control had **Football helmets** (WTH?) 😕 . A couple years ago I came up with the idea of making a sort-of-saga about a man and the entire story was based on Beatle’s songs. I even started writing out story notes. It started out as the guy leaving home and what not, having various ups and downs, and in the last scene he’d be on a bus going back home with _The Long and Winding Road_ playing. I’ll admit it, I have read all of the Left Behind books, and they sucked! So I figured I could write a MUCH better End-of-World epic. With actual blood and violence, and stuff. Instead of “God doing it because he wants our attention” the disasters would almost all be from Man, with a “fuck you, you’re doing this to yourself” kinda atmosphere. The stories would skip around as far as main characters goes, some of them might overlap, and the staple of Left Behind books that is rescuing someone in danger will NEVER, EVER be used. But if it is, it shouldn’t take more than a few minutes long. (I hope I hear cheers from the crowd that read the 10th one.) One of them centers around urban violence in Israel (no, none of the Palestinian suicide bomber stuff.) between Christian Crusaders and Muslim Jihadists. The shading/lighting of the Camera will be like _Black Hawk Down_, _Three Kings_, _Saving Private Ryan_ , the Christians will be read and white, Muslims green and white. In one scene I’ve imagined the main character falling through a roof, walking around, and seeing a big black man who recites a long verse from the Koran, feeling “whoaed”, and having him deal with seeing the Muslims as human (and perhaps even converting :eek: ). I know, I’ve broken something so sacred it’s not even a fucking Cardinal Rule, I’m so bad. In another seen I’d like to see a kind of fly by as the Christians take an important building and wave a red flag over it, in my head it looks pretty cool. In my head the whole thing is pretty cool. The antichrist assassination part (in another movie, no doubt) will **not** have someone “accidentally” fire, miss, and a near crippled jew stabbing the antichrist through the head with an ultra-long piece of pencil lead. It will have actual sniping, Book Depository, Grassy Knoll, take-aim-and-fire, in public eye, head shot, KAPOW, KAPOW, blood spewing, brains flying fucking everywhere! Maybe I should start off writing some books. A movie where almost the entire story is told _through the eyes_ of the main character, except when you need to see the person’s face, then the camera will look at that. I am/was in collaboration with a friend of mine and we are planning to do an **original** horror movie. Sure, we’d have this Nosferatu-styled vampire movie monster who kills people, but there’ll be a small twist. And then when that maaaaaybe predictable twist happens, there’ll be an even bigger twist! There’ll only be some gore (which will be pieces of meat and ketchup, chocolate syrup, etc.), most of the terror will be in less gorey things like Hitchcock’s work. Psycho had very little gore, you never see the knife go into her, but it’s one of the scariest movies of all time. There’ll be some scenes in the woods where we want to use something like the scary woman from _The Ring_ (we thought of that before the American version came up, long before). That thing was scary, and we want to figure out why, and use that. But of course not the figure herself, or a cheap knockoff, but the idea behind it. The movie will be shot almost entirely in black and white, or at least in the darker ranges of color, mostly silent except for a few lines of dialogue. And for a little bit in the end we’d go into color for a, hopefully, terrifying scene. For a couple of high school kids, it’s not _that_ bad. I’ve thought about a movie where this high school kid with bipolar goes through high school. He’s pretty damn sure he’s bipolar, but he starts to convince himself that he’s schizophrenic also, and then he keeps telling himself that since he’s certain he’s imagining things that aren’t there that by doing that if he wasn’t crazy before, he is now, and so on. Add some emotional problems. In some scenes he keeps envisioning a school shooting “fantasy” done by him, even though he would not do that kind of thing and this isn’t a “don’t pick on kids” movie, sometimes something might upset him and he’ll imagine it happening in his head. Then of course it will cut right back to him. He won’t be some misunderstood, full of rage kid; I want that to be CLEAR. I mention those as part of the guy’s hallucinations. And some parts he’ll look over something that happened from the day and imagine things differently so that he’ll tell himself that he is crazy because certain people don’t exist, he’s the only one who he’s seen interact with him. Or maybe not, maybe that one girl was talking to imagination Ben, but Ben could have just been standing there… etc. If all goes well the desired effect will be the audience not sure about what’s real or not. In one scene the kid will be feeling particularly down (he’s like that through much of the movie, the poor guy) in the commons area of his school, and someone will affront him and he will rage on that person, punching that person on the ground in this fit of rage, the others in around him just look at it. Then do a rare objective look at the scene and you’ll see that the person being beaten doesn’t exist. OR, the protagonist will be attacked by an imaginary person. He will be lying on his side in pain as he is being kicked repeatedly, but his attacker does not exist. That’d be freaky. I wanna do an ultra-racist, perhaps violent movie. Nearly all the characters are complete assholes who destroy each other. Hm. There may be more, but I forgot them. And in my modesty I suppose you might be bored, or with a killer headache after you’ve waided through my extended use of pronouns. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/32 "2002-10-26T00:38:19Z")
An alternate history detailing the exploits of “Snake” Pliskin before the \*Escape \* movies. A good movie based on a book or story by William Gibson, for once. _Neuromancer_ or _Idoru_ especially. An adaption of Cormac McCarthy’s _Blood Meridian_. It played out so beautifully in my head, it could be the ultimate “End of the Western” film. A remake of _The Assassination Bureau_ playing up the darker comedic tones possible in the material. ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/33 "2002-10-26T04:35:39Z")
I would love to make a movie based on [The 100 Things I Would Do If I Were An Evil Overlord](http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html). That would the absolute greatest to me. 🙂 It’d be an hour and a half of two minute clips (or thereabout) of each of the things on the list, each one with different villians and heros acting them out. In between each clip would be a small _ping_ sound and a narrator reading the rule out loud. Playing the villians would be such stars as Christopher Walken, Jack Nicholson, and others. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/34 "2002-10-26T19:55:12Z")
_Of Mice and Men_, not sure why. ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/35 "2002-10-26T21:15:14Z")
My “Great Scottish Epic” (perhaps set in the late 1600s to early 1700’s, as _Rob Roy_ was) starring… Mel Gibson Liam Neeson (yes, I know they’ve both been in movies about Scotland, but this one would be _bigger_) Ewan MacGregor Denis Lawson Russell Crowe Sean Connery Sean Bean Brendan Gleeson Angus McFayden Catherine MacCormack Gates McFadden Minnie Driver Catherine Zeta-Jones Cate Blanchett Kate Winslet It would be a sweeping tale (possibly a trilogy) set in the Highlands, maybe climaxing at the Battle of Sheriffmuir, which could include Liam Neeson reprising his role as Rob Roy MacGregor… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/36 "2002-10-26T21:21:08Z")
Considering what has been done to some of Heinlein’s books, I’d like to break the cycle and do \*Double Star \* or _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress._ ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/37 "2002-10-26T22:42:21Z")
**Memoirs Found In A Bathtub** by Stanislaw Lem. The back cover says ‘a paranoid second Pentagon where everyone is a spy, but no one knows his mission.’ It’s a masterpiece. Imagine the bastard offspring of Kafka and Dilbert. You need a sympathetic everyman actor for the lead-I think Tobey McGuire could pull off the various bouts of confidence, despair, paranoia, rage and confusion. **A Cotton Candy Autopsy** From the series **Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children** by Dave Louapre and Dan Sweetman. (non spoiler description)The story was in 3 parts. Part one-Anybody’s freak-The circus is on fire. 4 clowns, a 2-headed woman, and various poodles flee in stolen car. Foo Foo is beaten by bikers. Another, Joey Punchinello seems to be losing his mind. Bingo marries Ida, the 2-headed woman. One(whose name I can’t recall at the moment) ends up working at a used car lot. Part 2-Abajo-Clown and 2-headed woman find work in Mexico. Much pathos. Part3-The Resurrection Of Joey Punchinello-Joey comes back to reality in a strange town. He sleeps in the cemetery. Will he find peace for the agony he hid behind greasepaint? Head Clown-Dennis Hopper-intense, angry, strange Foo Foo-(I have problems remembering names) the actor who played Arthur on the live action Tick series. Bingo-Johnathan Lithgow-he can be loud, but he can also be quietly tragic Joey-Robert Downey jr-Joey has been through a lot. His oldd life is shattered beyond hope of repair. But can he heal himself or will his inner demons consume him? Downey’s performance in Chaplin and his battle with cocaine make him perfect for this. Ida-(um, the female assistant on Veronica’s Closet. She was in a few episodes of Chicago Hope as a manic-depressive psychiatrist)Ida, more than anybody else, goes through an emotional roller coaster ride. She can do this. Plus, Ida’s overweight. It doesn’t directly effect anything but Ida would lose something if they made her thin. MOVING ON Remake The Golden Child as Big Trouble In Little China 2. ---
**Author:** ![caffeine\_overdose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85e7bf/32.png) [@caffeine\_overdose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caffeine_overdose)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/38 "2002-10-27T04:03:42Z")
A Kung fu movie in which the main character ( a white ex-football player from Minnesota) moves to Japan to help his uncle an cousin run a hamburger joint. The uncle is being terrorized by the Yakuza. Comic kung-fu hijinks ensue with one exception, The Minnesotan wins by using brawling and dirty moves. Just once I want to see a movie where the bigger meaner guy wins ---
**Author:** ![Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bedrosian_Bixby)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2002, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/39 "2002-10-27T06:34:49Z")
Not very high brow I admit, but I would like to see a sweeping epic version of the Dragonlance Trilogy. But if it’s atempted, it would have to go for broke…ala Lord of the Rings. After seeing Riegn of Fire I’m sure the dragons could be done well in CGI…and the casting would be fun. Brad Pitt with long hair and a full beard would make an excellent Tanis. Or maybe the guy who was in American Psycho and Riegn of Fire. Hmmm…casting this movie could be a thread in itself. ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2002, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737/40 "2002-10-27T07:18:38Z")
I want to make a movie called “Process of Elimination”. It would be an action movie, and…well, that’s all I’ve got. I just think that would be a really good title for some kind of action movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-fantasized-about-making/133737.md?page=3)