# 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:** 4
**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 3, 2026, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/61 "2026-01-03T00:58:02Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > ~~A porn flick~~ err, I mean, an erotic film, made in Imax 3D. This does not sound like a good idea to me at all! If anybody tries it, I’m joining the protests against. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/62 "2026-01-03T01:14:59Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > ~~A porn flick~~ err, I mean, an erotic film, made in Imax 3D. **Kentucky Fried Movie** was years ahead of it’s time! ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/63 "2026-01-03T01:22:26Z")
I’d make Jodorowsky’s Dune as 2 or 3 anime films. ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/64 "2026-01-03T01:49:04Z")
> [@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 intriguing. > [@Moriarty](#): > > 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, For a long time, this would have been my answer too. Hollywood finally made a movie about Harriet Tubman. Opinions vary on whether it was good but I thought it was worthwhile. [Harriet (2019) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4648786/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_7_in_0_q_harriet) My ideas: 1. A roughly historic account of the last days of the American embassy in Iran. Among the key details are the dilly-dallying that put American secrets at risk and the tension of when to authorize the Marine guards to fire on invading Iranian protesters. 2. An account of the son of an American diplomat to East Germany who smuggles a friend/political refugee out at a precarious moment when the secret police are poised to capture him. The movie is about the intersecting lives of the numerous people on both sides of the Berlin wall who help with the escape despite their being no official involvement by the US government. 3. A family drama about three siblings with a wealthy upbringing gathering together after years apart when their beloved mother dies, not long after their father died. Although their father had intended to provide for them equally, various financial market advances and setbacks meant that they were anywhere but equal. The eldest got a trust with lots of money but blew it because he took the types of financial risks that made his father rich but he lacked his father’s acumen and luck. A middle daughter, who, due to bad luck and bad timing, got comparatively little - just enough to launch a normal middle-class life, and a youngest who got a lot in her trust, managed it reasonably, and is very wealthy. The movie is about the petty resentments they never put behind them. The eldest angry at the youngest for not bankrolling his continuing financial misadventures. The middle because her father never made good on the promise of fair treatment for all three of them (even if doing so was effectively impossible for him). The youngest because her oldest sibling saw her as a piggy bank for years while she, despite being very wealthy by ordinary standards, can’t shake the feeling that she is poised to lose it all at any moment just as her father and brother had each done more than once. All are stories based on people I’ve known. ---
**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 3, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/65 "2026-01-03T01:53:05Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > 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. But wouldn’t it be obvious to the audience? How would you film that? ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/66 "2026-01-03T01:57:30Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > How would you film that? Possibly using a similar twist that **Home Alone** used when they miscounted the kids when they loaded up to go to the airport. Lot of action, confusion, and movement leading up to the “what the hell?” moment. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/67 "2026-01-03T02:06:29Z")
_Free Dirt_. A small town man needs some fill dirt for a landscaping project at his house. He see’s a billboard advertising “Free Dirt” along with a telephone number and gives it a call. Instead of learning where he can get some fill dirt, an unknown voice at the other tells him the dirty secrets of other townsfolk. He hangs up in horror, not believing at first, but calls back when he finds corroborating evidence the voice tells the truth. He calls back frequently, each call revealing more disturbing secrets as he tries to use them for his advantage. ---
**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 3, 2026, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/68 "2026-01-03T02:20:27Z")
There won’t be a dry pair of pants…er, I mean eye in the theater! ---
**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 3, 2026, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/69 "2026-01-03T03:22:46Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > But wouldn’t it be obvious to the audience? How would you film that? Hire a bunch of actors who all kind of look alike. People will be rewinding trying to figure out who is who. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/70 "2026-01-03T03:36:37Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > _Free Dirt_. … [Snip.] I like it, and think that it would be a great _Twilight Zone_ episode. But I wonder if there would be enough there for a movie. Maybe the “dirt” starts innocently enough, with how when Mr. Smith leaves on a business trip, Mr. Jones visits Mrs. Smith a lot. That sort of thing. But maybe over time, the “dirt” becomes more and more about the man. And he realizes that he may not be the only caller to “Free Dirt.” Not sure where to go from there, but I like the idea! ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/71 "2026-01-03T04:50:52Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I like it, and think that it would be a great _Twilight Zone_ episode. But I wonder if there would be enough there for a movie. I saw a sign for free dirt here in Arkansas and I thought it was the oddest thing. I mentioned it to Mrs. Odesio and she explained that people sometimes need fill dirt and advertising you had some was a great way to get rid of excessive soil. The idea came to me instantly and it struck me that it sounded like a Stephen King short story. Maybe I should work on that first and let someone else adapt it into a crappy movie? ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/72 "2026-01-03T18:52:47Z")
It’s 1945, and to escape the Allies Hitler is leaving Berlin to go to an Axis country he considers safe. Hiroshima. He flies in a Messerschmitt Me 262 with 2 other planes and lands in Hiroshima after refueling in secret airfields. The Allies learn he is in Hiroshima and sends a group to take him out so they can put him on trial, _not_ leave him to die when the bomb drops. On the way, the rescue learn finds out that POWs are being held in a location in Hiroshima and decide to free them along with getting Hitler. The Allied leaders tell them to forget the POWs. The group destroys their radio and decide to disobey orders and get both Hitler and the POWs. After finding the POWs, the team decides that Hitler will die when the bomb drops and the POWs are more important. But the POWs say no, let’s go get Hitler. They find Hitler and start to leave Hiroshima after stealing a plane. But the plane is destroyed by the Japanese military and they have to find a different way out. They get another plane and the POWs stay behind to keep the Japanese from attacking the plane. The plane flies to China with Hitler and the rescue team to stand trial. He is found guilty and is hanged in Auschwitz. OR The only plane they can find is a 2 seater Kawasaki Ki-45. A POW and Hitler take off and fly to China leaving the other POWs and the rescue team to die when the bomb drops. OR They find a bigger plane and everyone escapes. Or 17 other different ways to end it. ---
**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 3, 2026, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/73 "2026-01-03T19:08:20Z")
I kind of like movies that openly state “Screw history-I’ve got a better tale to tell.” ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/74 "2026-01-03T19:17:54Z")
I’ve always thought that Roger Zelazney’s _Doorways in the Sand_ would make an incredible movie, but only if it was filmed without interference from the studio- no love interest added, for example. ---
**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 3, 2026, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/75 "2026-01-03T20:56:31Z")
“Free Dirt” is also a horror short story written by Charles Beaumont. ---
**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 4, 2026, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/76 "2026-01-04T00:16:48Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Free Dirt” is also a horror short story written by Charles Beaumont. As has been mentioned actors that resemble one another. Facial hair, hoodies, caps, balaclavas, etc. also long shots of hiking. Similar clothing. I’m sure a clever director could pull it off. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/77 "2026-01-04T00:31:36Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > > [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > > > 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. > > But wouldn’t it be obvious to the audience? How would you film that? Maybe start the movie when all six are already at the campsite. One of them goes back to the car, parked some distance away, to get something, and that person notices the capacity of the car is only five–two in front and three in back. Then there’s a sneaking suspicion that something isn’t right because he knows damn well that (a) they all came in the same car, and (b) no one sat on someone else’s lap on the way there. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/78 "2026-01-04T02:41:29Z")
Have them dress in similar clothing and don’t show their faces when they’re heading out, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/79 "2026-01-05T00:53:23Z")
I believe such a movie was made back in the ‘40s or early ‘50s. I don’t recall who played the Maulden character (possibly Tom Jowell), but the title was something like Up Front or Willy and Joe. ---
**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 5, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/80 "2026-01-05T00:56:22Z")
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