# Your movie ideas **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 1, 2026, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235 "2026-01-01T11:02:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/1 "2026-01-01T11:02:14Z")
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? 😄 ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/2 "2026-01-01T12:47:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/3 "2026-01-01T13:04:59Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > I’m currently writing a screenplay about a 20-year-old who unknowingly gets recruited by a member of a Philippine Islamic separatist group. Sounds interesting! Almost like a mix of _[The Reluctant Fundamentalist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist_(film))_ and _[Taken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(franchise))_. I’d watch it. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > your idea for a movie 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](https://www.pcgamer.com/finally-a-game-that-lets-me-time-travel-to-medieval-europe-with-an-ak-47-and-a-pickup-truck/) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/4 "2026-01-01T14:21:25Z")
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](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/1125) ■ . So yeah, that’s my movie idea. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/5 "2026-01-01T14:33:20Z")
Sounds a lot like this movie: > **[The Way Back (2010 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Back_(2010_film)#)** > > The Way Back is a 2010 American survival film directed by Peter Weir, from a screenplay by Weir and Keith Clarke. The film is inspired by The Long Walk (1956), the memoir by former Polish prisoner of war Sławomir Rawicz, who claimed to have escaped from a Soviet Gulag and walked 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to freedom in World War II. The film stars Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, and Saoirse Ronan, with Alexandru Potocean, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Gustaf Skarsgård, Dragoș Bucur and Mark Strong. > ... ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/6 "2026-01-01T14:48:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/7 "2026-01-01T15:24:52Z")
Vampires vs. Voodoo. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/8 "2026-01-01T15:26:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/9 "2026-01-01T15:27:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/10 "2026-01-01T15:46:58Z")
Hangover, only the leads are women. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/11 "2026-01-01T15:56:39Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Sounds interesting! Almost like a mix of _[The Reluctant Fundamentalist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist_(film))_ and _[Taken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(franchise))_. I’d watch it Thanks. I’ll let you read it as soon as it’s completed if you’re interested. I would love your feedback on it. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/12 "2026-01-01T16:19:12Z")
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_.) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/13 "2026-01-01T16:38:41Z")
My understanding was that the pilot was a tool led down the primrose path by a manipulative terrorist. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/14 "2026-01-01T16:46:11Z")
I’ve ruminated on a few movie ideas lately: - A movie about a secret pro-Western North Korean dictator who wants more humanitarian aid and support for North Korea and agrees to nuclear disarmament in return for lots of aid, but does so in a ruse - he does more and more nuclear “testing,” but each test is actually North Korea detonating an existing nuke underground to reduce its arsenal. Thus, NK gives its populace and neighbors the impression that it is gaining more and more nuclear capability when in fact it is disarming. - A movie about the ongoing Ukraine war, but specifically focused on the first few weeks - A movie about incels, but the good kind - the traditional “involuntarily celibate” folks who are not sexist or bitter, such as burn victims, dwarfs, autistic folks, physically disfigured in some other way, etc. - A movie about marriage infidelity, but told from the perspective of the cheaters rather than the cheated - A movie in which a Catholic priest in a confessional is the only person in a village who gets the overall big plot of what is going on, while every other villager sees only their small puzzle piece of the story - A movie about the real-life story of a dying father who left his 1-year old daughter 19 birthday cards for each birthday from age 2 through 20. This could be an easy low-budget movie. - A movie about Covid, and specifically, antivaxx and anti-masking folks - A movie about Uyghurs in the concentration camps in western China - A movie about corrupt sports referees, bribe-taking, game-fixing, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/15 "2026-01-01T16:50:21Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > A movie in which a Catholic priest in a confessional is the only person in a village who gets the overall big plot of what is going on, while every other villager sees only their small puzzle piece of the story “The Jigsaw Confessions”? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/16 "2026-01-01T16:52:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/17 "2026-01-01T16:54:18Z")
I grew up reading the books, and I totally agree. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/18 "2026-01-01T16:55:35Z")
The moment when Patton and Mauldin met could be hilarious. Like a real life scene from Catch 22. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/19 "2026-01-01T17:10:58Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > My understanding was that the pilot was a tool led down the primrose path by a manipulative terrorist. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/20 "2026-01-01T17:12:26Z")
Oh, and I’d also love to see an expensive CGI animation of the Brian Jacques _Redwall_ series. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235.md?page=2)