You can either post your idea for a movie, or riff on someone else’s idea, or both.
My idea is an update/homage to that classic comedy, The Love Bug. It would involve a little economy car with a soul of its own-an *electric" soul, to be exact. In fact that would be the title, Electric Soul. It wouldn’t do a Tokyo Drift, but it would do “The Slide”.
Yeah, I know…but what have you got? 
I’m currently writing a screenplay about a 20-year-old who unknowingly gets recruited by a member of a Philippine Islamic separatist group. As a result, he becomes involved in a tourist attack and has to be rescued by his police officer father from a remote Philippine island. It’s loosely based on a true story involving a kid who was recruited by ISIS and had to be rescued in Syria.
Sounds interesting! Almost like a mix of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Taken. I’d watch it.
I’ve had the same silly idea for a movie since forever ago: A modern infantry squad gets transported back in time to the middle of some medieval European conflict. They have to advise the locals (after first dodging accusations of heresy and witchcraft, of course) and then help defend against a siege with a combination of the equipment & know-how they brought back with them, along with improvised equipment.
It’s like “stupid Outlander for 8 year olds” 
Who knows if that’ll ever become a movie… but thankfully, someone made a video game about it! Finally, a game that lets me time travel to medieval Europe with an AK-47 and a pickup truck | PC Gamer
Every time I tell the story of my mother’s parents, of how her Russian father escaped after the October 1918 revolution when he was jailed in a Siberian prison, huffed it on foot west across Russia, into Manchuria and China, to catch a boat in Shanghai that stopped in the Philippines where he eventually met my mothers Filipina mother [for brevity I’m skipping details usually included] — every time I tell that story the listener invariably says that I should write a screenplay for it.
I’ve shared that story here on the Dope before. I found it, here ➜ Trivia Dominoes III — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia - #1125 by Bullitt ■ .
So yeah, that’s my movie idea.
Sounds a lot like this movie:
I’ve imagined a slapstick comedy tentatively titled “Road Trip”. The premise is that a woman living in Seattle WA is informed that she will inherit a large fortune if she can show up in Miami FL within 72 hours. Unfortunately this happens just as a national crisis hits: a nuclear terrorism scare results in the grounding of all civil aviation in the USA; and of course immediately all passenger trains are booked solid. The only recourse is to hit the road with her fiancé and her doltish brother. They figure if they take turns driving non-stop with no delays they should be able to make it in time; naturally delays galore arise. Along the way they pick up an Irish dwarf hitchhiker (do NOT call him a leprechaun!), receive some behind the scenes help from a guardian angel, and momentarily intersect with a James Bond-type agent battling the nuclear terrorists.
Vampires vs. Voodoo.
A remake of Revenge of the Nerds that doesn’t glorify illegal acts of sexual assault.
A remake of the 1980 film Midnight Madness, which is a PG-13 romp about five groups of college students all competing in some contest contrived by an eccentric layabout friend of theirs.
I want to remake Black Sunday.
It was Thomas Harris’ (of Silence of the Lambs fame) first book and it was made into a very forgettable movie in the 70s with Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern. The book reads like a movie. It’s about a troubled blimp pilot who decides to bomb the SuperBowl.
I can see it in my head. All I’d have to do is follow the book.
Hangover, only the leads are women.
Thanks. I’ll let you read it as soon as it’s completed if you’re interested. I would love your feedback on it.
A Peter Schickele biopic that takes place in the fictional universe from his concerts and recordings where P.D.Q. Bach is a real composer. (Something like Maestro meets Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.)
My understanding was that the pilot was a tool led down the primrose path by a manipulative terrorist.
I’ve ruminated on a few movie ideas lately:
“The Jigsaw Confessions”?
I always thought a movie about Bill Mauldin during WWII could be great, someone like a young Sam Rockwell would be perfect for the role.
I grew up reading the books, and I totally agree.
The moment when Patton and Mauldin met could be hilarious. Like a real life scene from Catch 22.
I think it’s more accurate to say they were using each other to achieve a shared goal. In the book the pilot, Michael Lander, had a problematic childhood. Then he was abused as a POW in Vietnam, thus triggering a desire to lash out. He was very intelligent and capable, but lacked the means to do the “job” as he envisioned it. That’s when he gets help from a terrorist group in the form of a woman who also becomes his lover.
In my mind, Lander has Jeffrey Dahmer’s eyes and also resembles someone I used to know. While the Mossad agent who hunts him looks very much like a young Tony Bennet.
It’s a shame such a great book was made into a very mediocre movie. Not sure why nobody else has ever remade it.
Oh, and I’d also love to see an expensive CGI animation of the Brian Jacques Redwall series.