Produce your own film,unlimited budget!!!

Good taste.



I see this awe inspiring thread is still going !!!

 

Rock bio pics ?

I would like one on either Nick Drake or Scott Walker..not going to happen.

David Bowie would stand a better chance.

 

A comprehensive biopic of Charles Dickens, which would probably run several hours when it's done.

Also, a new version of "A Christmas Carol" with Ian McKellen as Scrooge and Daniel Radcliffe as Bob Crachit.

 

That's great! I'd think about a biopic about the early years of Pink Floyd.
From their times before psychedelia came up until the departure of Syd Barrett / arrival of David Gilmour, focusing on making the albums Piper and Saucerful.
If I may I'd like to play the role of Syd.^^

 

On the other hand, McTiernan directed the 2002 remake of Rollerball, and there's no punishment severe enough for that.

Morris Levy was colorful and intense enough that I think an entire film could easily be made on his life. The character of "Hesh Rabkin" in The Sopranos barely scratches the surface on what a fascinating figure Levy was. You could literally get a mini-series out of this man, whose influence goes all the way back to running NYC jazz nightclubs for the mob in the 1940s.

 

1- A comedy based on the assumption that TV signals went into space. The earth is visited by aliens who only communicate with us through words they seen used on old tv shows & commercials ("One of these days...Bang!, Zoom!" / A little dab'll do ya").

2-A global environment movie where all nations work together without political nonsense to save our world. The timer is ticking!

3-A "Rock & Roll Heaven" movie - A "Steve Hoffman" type character is in a coma & on life support in a hospital. While in limbo, he visits heaven & meets up with all the stars of early rock & roll. As he talks to them, he records notes into his portable tape recorder. At the end of the movie he is revived & learns he was speaking during his time in limbo & his wife recorded it all. He writes a successful book which is turned into a mega blockbuster movie.

 

1 sounds more plausible than 2.

 

On a side note: does anyone remember an '80s anthology show - it might've been a Twilight Zone revival - where one episode had a plot along these lines, where the nations of the world scramble to achieve permanent world peace in about a week when aliens threaten to wipe out humanity? With an ironic twist ending, of course.

 

It’s a cookbook!!

 

"To Serve Man" (The Twilight Zone - Season 3-Episode 89)

 

There is the New Twilight Zone episode A Little Peace and Quiet starring Melinda Dillon - I'm pretty sure it was in the first season. There are no aliens involved, but the U.S. and the Soviet Union threatening each other with nuclear war is a part of the story.

 

I've found it - the episode I was thinking of is indeed from the mid-'80s Twilight Zone, and was called "A Small Talent For War". A Small Talent for War - Wikipedia

 

An adaptation of Pale Fire with an unknown cast and director because Hollywood would ruin it.

 

I would adapt Dan Simmons Hyperion novels. They've been optioned by the Syfy channel as I recall. I'm afraid if they make it, they will mess it up.

James MacAvoy would lead a top notch cast. Directed by Chris Nolan with a screenplay by the Game of Thrones guys (Nolan will want to co-write it naturally).

If Chris isn't available Del Toro will do.

 

I'd watch this.

Jim Jarmusch directing in black and white. Or even better: Noah Baumbach in colour.

Adam Driver as Roger Waters is inspired.

It’s very curious that you chose this obscure point in time. 1973 to 80 would be the more obvious (and commercial) time period.

'panning to the rest of the audience (particularly Martin Scorcese)'
Why him? Did he say something in an interview about The Wall?

 

Dunno about a cast or director but my movie would be about a one humped animal causing havoc at a Wisconsin milk and cheese factory.

Title: Drama Dairy

 

Exactly because it's such a not known about and non-commercial period it would be so interesting to see. Not to say this period has more of a plot than the whole of 73/80 combined, of course

Oh, and that was a brain fart - I actually meant Steven Spielberg:

The premiere at Cannes was amazing – the midnight screening. They took down two truckloads of audio equipment from the recording studios so it would sound better than normal. It was one of the last films to be shown in the old Palais which was pretty run down and the sound was so loud it peeled the paint off the walls. It was like snow – it all started to shower down and everyone had dandruff at the end. I remember seeing Terry Semel there, who at the time was head of Warner Bros., sitting next to Steven Spielberg. They were only five rows ahead of me and I'm sure I saw Steven Spielberg mouthing to him at the end when the lights came up, 'what the **** was that?' And Semel turned to me and then bowed respectfully. 'What the **** was that?,' indeed. It was like nothing anyone had ever seen before – a weird fusion of live-action, story-telling and of the surreal.

 

Steven Spielberg listening to or watching Pink Floyd and liking it is very hard to imagine.

'as well as obviously the "I MUST NOT **** SHEEP" incident,'

Also what are you referring to here?

 

The Morris Levy bio film could be incredible. The Godfather of the music industry type flick. Oscar caliber performances, production design, and cinematography. Dirty dealin’ backstabbing creative accounting, pirated copies of albums pressed up for the cutout bins, a murder or two, maybe three. FBI wire taps all to the tune of Tommy James & the Shondells, and oldies from the pre-Beatles world of unproperly licensed or public domain hit comps - to Lennon’s Rock And Roll Tee-Vee offer album (think Baby Driver meets Casino but much more sinister and dark).

Enough of the tunes are public domain that music licensing might not kill this project dead in its tracks.

The only thing you’d have to worry about if is if script is so hot, Marty Scorsese wants to buy you out and direct himself. He’s telling the producers that he has the clout to get all the music including a Lennon track or two from the estate, and up the budget to 50 mil balloons. Bob De Niro’s agent is on line one, he wants this as his final “family” picture if Marty is attached.

I see green lights all over this one. And yes it’s a Christmas picture. The music is unreal good, the story riveting, and it’s all based on a true story with a sad dark ending for one sick and lonely guy who in the end... had it coming.

 

A remake of 'The Grapes of Wrath' but with Dolph Lundgren and Arnold Swarzenegger running around shooting everyone and blowing **** up

 

'Porgy & Bess' made by the people who did 'Team America'.

 

A Home Improvement movie. It would be about how the show would have a real proper ending instead of a 3 part what felt like rushed series finale.

 

Do believe you mentioned this before.
Anyway directing Predator gives him a free pass

 

I'd produce a movie set in the American colonies after the Revolutionary War from the point of view of the anti-federalists, who, I would argue, were correct in their predictions that the new proposed government and office of President would grow into tyrannical central planners and who were right to oppose the ratification of the 1787 Constitution, despite the inclusion of the Bill of Rights. We know the Federalists won the day, but sometimes the stories of the losing side are the most fascinating, particularly when history shines a light on their points of view. Character wise, it would obvious to focus on men like Patrick Henry or Samuel Adams, but I might consider telling the story from a woman's point of view, the writer Mercy Otis Warren.

 

Tensions soon emerged, and while Waters and Gilmour initially worked together, playing the video game Donkey Kong in their spare time, they eventually chose to work separately. Engineer Andy Jackson worked with Waters on the vocals, and Guthrie worked with Gilmour on the guitars. They would occasionally meet to discuss the work that had been completed; while this method was not in itself unusual, Gilmour began to feel strained, sometimes barely maintaining his composure. Kamen too felt pressured; Waters had never been a confident vocalist and on one occasion, after repeated studio takes, Waters noticed him writing on a notepad. Losing his temper, he demanded to know what Kamen was doing, only to find that Kamen had been writing "I Must Not **** Sheep" repeatedly.