# 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:** 3
**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, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/41 "2026-01-01T20:20:31Z")
No worries. It’s really about a father and his estranged son, and the lengths he will go to in order to reconnect with him. I want people to read it and tell me if it rings true before I submit it to a competition. I’m just trying to polish it at this point, and it should be done soon, although I’ve been saying that for over a year now… ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/42 "2026-01-01T21:00:34Z")
I recently listened to podcast about baseball’s Negro Leagues and briefly mentioned there were the women who played in them. I immediately thought their stories would probably be a good movie. Looked up about them and found this article: > **[Toni Stone, Connie Morgan and Mamie Johnson blazed a trail for women in the...](https://baseballhall.org/discover/baseball-history/toni-stone-connie-morgan-and-mamie-johnson-blazed-trail-for-women-in-negro-leagues)** It was the end days of the Negro leagues, as talent and fans followed Jackie Robinson to the majors. Apparently there is a [play](https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/toni-stone/#:~:text=Toni%20Stone%20is%20an%20ace,her%20own%20set%20of%20rules.) about the first one of them, Toni Stone. My angle though would be not focused exclusively on the trials she experienced due to her gender, too formulaic even if interesting, but the as a lens through which to view the end years of the Negro Leagues, the impact of their loss on local Black economies and culture, (spoiler - the necessary good of integration had costs), and a view of fitful progress. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/43 "2026-01-01T23:22:06Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Oh, and I’d also love to see an expensive CGI animation of the Brian Jacques _Redwall_ series. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > I would like to see an animated _Valdemar_ movie based on the Mercedes Lackey books. I would like Aardman make a movie based on a Discworld novel. _Men At Arms_, or _Last Continent_, or _Jingo_ perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/44 "2026-01-01T23:24:02Z")
We see her as a 9yr old in the _Obi-Wan Kenobi_ TV series. I can’t see any reason not to subsequently see her as a 14yr old having some diplomatically complicated adventure. ---
**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 2, 2026, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/45 "2026-01-02T00:50:48Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > So I imagined plots where people insure pets then put hits on them The very first _Trailer Park Boys_ show had them working as pet assassins. They’d kill a pet that a neighbor or a family member wanted dead, for whatever reason. But they stopped taking hits on cats, because catching them was too hard. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/46 "2026-01-02T00:54:02Z")
There was that horrible Kevin Spacey as a cat movie in 2016. We wish @Czarcasm had been in the pitch meeting on that one ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/47 "2026-01-02T01:14:53Z")
I wrote a movie screenplay I am still pretty proud of. It was inspired as an inverse _Romancing The Stone_, with a nerdy Estate Agent who crash lands on a remote island, and encounters a weekend hiker. She is very competent, and prefers to be alone, but reluctantly has to lead the clumsy oaf safely out of the jungle. Adventures ensue. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/48 "2026-01-02T20:33:46Z")
With all the live action Disney remakes I want to see a remake of The Black Cauldron. If you don’t know it was Disney’s version of the Prydain series, one of my favorite teen fantasies. To do it right they’d have to give it the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe treatment ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/49 "2026-01-02T20:39:38Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > I’d expect a Spielberg/Tom Hanks style of production, focusing on the honor guard riding the train, Good idea. > [@furryman](#): > > With all the live action Disney remakes I want to see a remake of The Black Cauldron. If you don’t know it was Disney’s version of the Prydain series, one of my favorite teen fantasies. To do it right they’d have to give it the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe treatment The whole series would be a mini-series. Mind you i found the original film to be pretty good. Okay, my idea- some SCA heavy weapon fighters, live steel fighters etc are in a tavern getting drunk- or ? Anyway, they wake up in a real dungeon. Venomous snakes, hungry lions, devious traps. Not horror but a scary action film- only the jerkwad gets killed. Or maybe it starts out with Real Life dangers, then goes into mythical monsters. ---
**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 2, 2026, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/50 "2026-01-02T20:43:47Z")
It sounds like SCA trained fighters shoved into a Dungeons And Dragons scenario, and former doesn’t necessarily train you much for the latter. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/51 "2026-01-02T20:45:10Z")
Well, they can have great armor, and good weapon skills. If one of them is a army medic or paramedic, you have a cleric or sorts. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/52 "2026-01-02T21:26:43Z")
I had an idea for a horror movie. A group 5 people set off for an excursion in the woods. But when they arrive at the campsite there are 6 of them - yet no one can remember who among them wasn’t there when they started out. Another idea: A smart kid is proudly working on science fair project. the step-mom takes the kid to school the day of. Later that afternoon the dad arrives to pick up the kid and she is nowhere to be found. Panic ensues. They ask the other children, who remember seeing her but doesn’t know where she went. Cops are called. Security camera footage is checked showing her arriving but not leaving. The step-mom is questioned as a suspect, the dad is question as a suspect. The only trace of her that is found is her backpack in the auditorium where the science fair is held. As they stand around discussing possibilities, someone glances at the strange looking science fair project and casually asks, “What was her project anyway?” “A time machine” her dad answers with a nervous laugh. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/53 "2026-01-02T21:32:56Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > I had an idea for a horror movie. A group 5 people set off for an excursion in the woods. But when they arrive at the campsite there are 6 of them - yet no one can remember who among them wasn’t there when they started out. I think that’s actually pretty ingenious. I’m not a fan of horror movies, but the possibilities and potential intrigue are, well, intriguing. The challenge might be crafting how they got from five to six, but once you figure that out, it’s off to the races! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/54 "2026-01-02T21:36:07Z")
I’ve had several ideas over the years: 1.) Fredric Brown’s _Arena_. The story’s in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. It’s beenripped off by both the original _Outer Limits_ (“Fun and Games”) and Star Trek TOS (“Arena”), both of which changed it significantly. I’d like to film it with modern CGI and no voice-overs. It could be one helluva film. 2.) Alfred Bester’s _The Stars my Destination_ (AKA _Tyger! Tyger!_). Having a rapist hero would be a hard sell, but we’ll change that. The story has an absolute _KILLER_ opening that I long to film. 1. Before the 1974 film came out, I wanted to film Frederick Forsyth’s _The Odessa File_. They ended up doing some of the things the way I would have, but they changed the story near the end. 4.) Speaking of Forsyth, _The Devil’s Alternative_, done as a period piece, set during the Cold War. 5.) Arthur C. Clarke’s _Rendezvous with Rama_. I know other people have held the rights and it’s been through development hell, but this could be a great straightforward hard SF movie with a feel like _2001_, but with more fleshed-out characters. Ignore the sequels. 6.) _This Island Earth_, but actually follow the book, instead of halfheartedly doing the Interociter test, then throwing the rest of it away. Only fix up the ending so it’s satisfying. ---
**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 2, 2026, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/55 "2026-01-02T21:38:51Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > I had an idea for a horror movie. A group 5 people set off for an excursion in the woods. But when they arrive at the campsite there are 6 of them - yet no one can remember who among them wasn’t there when they started out. This is broadly similar to the plot of a Star Trek Next Generation episode called [Conundrum.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conundrum_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/56 "2026-01-02T21:41:38Z")
A horror film! I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/57 "2026-01-02T21:43:55Z")
I want a Biopic of Robert Smalls, the enslaved man who stole a confederate ship and piloted it to the North. He eventually became a Congressman. Actually, a good story about the Underground Railroad would be excellent, too. It can be a fictional account of a person’s escape to freedom. I’d be explicit with the abuse and violence of slavery, to make viewers uncomfortable, I’d also like to see a biopic of Lee Harvey Oswald. I’d obviously end with his death following the assassination, and I wouldn’t include any conspiracy stuff. For fiction, I’ve long mused about writing a story about a depressed, lonely guy who wins the lottery. It’d probably end up being some dark comedy; he’d still have problems even after getting the money, but maybe he’d finally find himself happy once the money gets eaten up by some maligned situation. Speaking of money, there’s “Trailing Lincoln” - it’s a night of following a $5 bill as it is passed around a college town. There’d be different vignettes; a drug deal, some sort of party, a guy and a girl having a moment, etc.. It would have to be quirky and dialogue driven. ---
**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 2, 2026, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/58 "2026-01-02T23:27:02Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > some SCA heavy weapon fighters, live steel fighters etc are in a tavern getting drunk- or ? Anyway, they wake up in a real dungeon. Venomous snakes, hungry lions, devious traps. You mean like AD&D meets _Saw_? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/59 "2026-01-02T23:53:05Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > You mean like AD&D meets _Saw_? Not a horror film, those new style slasher horror films i detest. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/60 "2026-01-03T00:50:47Z")
A Busby Berkeley-style musical, made in Imax 3D. ~~A porn flick~~ err, I mean, an erotic film, made in Imax 3D. _Tarzan at the Earth’s Core_. It has Tarzan, dinosaurs, lizard-men, and a zeppelin. Who cares whether the plot makes any sense? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235.md?page=4)