I'd take it in the other direction: I'd ban all sequels and remakes for ten years. That way we'd get to see some new (and hopefully fresh!) properties.
A moratorium on remakes and sequels would probably go a long way to fixing the audience relationship with the theatrical experience and cinema in general.
Not sure I’d force it but Harry Turtledove’s best alternate history novel, Rue Britannia, might appeal to a lot of people - Shakespeare trying to survive in an England under Spanish rule while Elizabeth languishes in the Tower. Both the Spanish and the English nationalist underground are trying to recruit Will to write a new play espousing their point of view while he’s trying just to survive. The novel drew heavily on Kit Marlowe’s Tamberlane for the excerpts from what Shakespeare showed both sides trying to satisfy them.
Alas, it’s too late for my choice: to give David Lynch whatever he needed to produce his desired final cut of Dune, even if it required reshoots. Otherwise, I’d like to see Ryan Coogler do NK Jemisin’s Great Cities books.
No time travel, no Groundhog day scenarios, no super heroes, no wake up and discover you're some kind of assassin working for some super secret agency, no action pics where cars fly through the air, no sci-fi where we spend long stretches in a space ship with someone we either need to kill or fall in love with, no contained thrillers that supposedly transcend the sheer tedium of that single awful location, no women having sex with their bras on, no men having sex and then getting out of bed with boxer shorts on, no sound effects that they use in trailers where there's this odd thudding crashing sound not related to anything on screen, a ten year break on dystopian thrillers, no hitmen that are really tender souls, no hitmen period, a ten year break on vampires, a 20 year break on zombies, a 10 year break on aliens, no remakes or sequels, nothing based on a comic book, graphic novel, video game or Disney ride. Let's start there and see where it takes us, we might just surprise ourselves!
(Besides 2D animated versions of my own books...).
An adaptation of G.K. Chesterton's novel "The Man Who Was Thursday". Other than Father Brown, the visual media hasn't touched his fiction- wonder why...
Despite really enjoying Kill Bill, I guess I'm over Tarantino at this point. If he leaves his filmography at Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, I'd be just fine with that because it still is technically ten movies. I could go for something interesting like The Dark Knight returns made by Christopher Nolan with Bale and the gang. Although, they'd have to recast the joker and that could be problematic. Maybe it could be possible with Burton and Keaton and Nicholson. They could do that right now, of course getting Jack back would be crazy. Maybe they could ask Christian Slater. 😉Anyways, since it's a fantasy question, that's what I'd go for.
Am I the only one one who read this question as asking the audience to imagine what our current despotic excuse for a president would force Hollywood to make? Because that would obviously be a U.S. TRIUMPH OF THE WILL. And I have no doubt it's coming. There are enough white Christian nationalist prodcos out there who are already trying their very mediocre best.
I know a TRIUMPH OF THE WILL shift toward more blatant propaganda is coming, but I expect that's something that will happen in the streaming space. YouTube and those mini-films they're producing for platforms like TikTok now. We're entering the mass recruitment phase of this hell.
I just wrote out a lengthy pitch only to have it bloody disappear much to my horror and frustration 🫤
Anyway...
My pitch is this -
Conan of the Isles. The last novel/story in the Conan saga but not written by Robert E. Howard, well this one would be a sure fire success.
Why?
It would require Arnold to reprise his role as Conan but in this film, he's an old King who is darkly brooding on his throne when dark malign forces suddenly begin snatching his people away in a flash of black sorcery. Conan sets out of one last adventure, team up with a few of his old pirate mates to cross the western Ocean to find who is behind thus insidious evil.
The book would be a cinch to adapt into a fast paced, action, adventure fantasy epic. It would be centered around the themes of never giving in to age nor evil, of courage and determination to be the one who stands against the darkness.
Arnold's visibility as the actor who embodied the role would be a major draw card and there's obviously an appetite out there for such a film.
So, it's not as publicly discussed as it probably could've been over the past 20 years or so, but KING CONAN was something Hollywood began to work on with serious interest once Schwarzenegger's political career started to wrap up. I know a couple of A-list writers who were very determined that their take be it. I don't know why it never came together. It should've been a no-brainer for Schwarzenegger, too, even now.
I think that’s a brilliant question, and I also agree with Celeste Ng. Our mutual passion for film allows space for diverse perspectives. An Octavia E. Butler adaptation or a movie about her life. Despite a mixed response, I, for one, really liked Branden Jacobs Jenkins’ “Kindred” on Hulu’s Onyx Collective. Butler’s extensive works allow for diverse narratives, expanding on sci-fi stories, especially those centered on heterosexual white men. Barry Jenkins, Janicza Bravo, Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Nikyatu Jusu are my top choices as directors.
After being obsessed with Peter Bogdanovich's adaptations of Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show and Texasville for decades (and falling in love with his newly released director's cut of Texasville even more), I think I'd like Alexander Payne or Tamara Jenkins to take a crack at the final books in the series, Duane's Depressed, When the Light Goes, and Rhino Ranch while the cast are still alive.
I'd take it in the other direction: I'd ban all sequels and remakes for ten years. That way we'd get to see some new (and hopefully fresh!) properties.
A moratorium on remakes and sequels would probably go a long way to fixing the audience relationship with the theatrical experience and cinema in general.
Not sure I’d force it but Harry Turtledove’s best alternate history novel, Rue Britannia, might appeal to a lot of people - Shakespeare trying to survive in an England under Spanish rule while Elizabeth languishes in the Tower. Both the Spanish and the English nationalist underground are trying to recruit Will to write a new play espousing their point of view while he’s trying just to survive. The novel drew heavily on Kit Marlowe’s Tamberlane for the excerpts from what Shakespeare showed both sides trying to satisfy them.
Fascinating. I don't know this novel, but you've convinced me to add it to my reading list.
Which means I need to correct the title I gave you! It’s actually called Ruled Britannia!
There has never really been a great film based on any of Kurt Vonnegut’s books, although I am a fan of Keith Gordon’s Mother Night
Yeah, just me. I know
I thought I was the only person in the world who loved that film. I've never understood why it flew so far below the radar.
I watch it at least once a year. I probably know it by heart.
Okay, I don’t love it that much. Heh.
Alas, it’s too late for my choice: to give David Lynch whatever he needed to produce his desired final cut of Dune, even if it required reshoots. Otherwise, I’d like to see Ryan Coogler do NK Jemisin’s Great Cities books.
Aaaand I've added Jemisin's trilogy to my reading list. This sounds wonderful.
No time travel, no Groundhog day scenarios, no super heroes, no wake up and discover you're some kind of assassin working for some super secret agency, no action pics where cars fly through the air, no sci-fi where we spend long stretches in a space ship with someone we either need to kill or fall in love with, no contained thrillers that supposedly transcend the sheer tedium of that single awful location, no women having sex with their bras on, no men having sex and then getting out of bed with boxer shorts on, no sound effects that they use in trailers where there's this odd thudding crashing sound not related to anything on screen, a ten year break on dystopian thrillers, no hitmen that are really tender souls, no hitmen period, a ten year break on vampires, a 20 year break on zombies, a 10 year break on aliens, no remakes or sequels, nothing based on a comic book, graphic novel, video game or Disney ride. Let's start there and see where it takes us, we might just surprise ourselves!
Hahahaha. Fair.
One of my books has been optioned & re-optioned many times since 2007–nice passive income, but I’d force them to make that one!! 😂
Not the film I most want to see, by the way, just a matter of total self-interest & personal closure.
I can relate!
A film about the Native American vampire hunters in "Sinners". Sterlin Harjo would direct, Ryan Coogler and Taika Waititi would produce.
I would love to see that film.
(Besides 2D animated versions of my own books...).
An adaptation of G.K. Chesterton's novel "The Man Who Was Thursday". Other than Father Brown, the visual media hasn't touched his fiction- wonder why...
The Piano, 30 years later.
My wife would especially appreciate this.
Holly Hunter is busy running Starfleet Academy, so, maybe, not yet.
Despite really enjoying Kill Bill, I guess I'm over Tarantino at this point. If he leaves his filmography at Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, I'd be just fine with that because it still is technically ten movies. I could go for something interesting like The Dark Knight returns made by Christopher Nolan with Bale and the gang. Although, they'd have to recast the joker and that could be problematic. Maybe it could be possible with Burton and Keaton and Nicholson. They could do that right now, of course getting Jack back would be crazy. Maybe they could ask Christian Slater. 😉Anyways, since it's a fantasy question, that's what I'd go for.
Am I the only one one who read this question as asking the audience to imagine what our current despotic excuse for a president would force Hollywood to make? Because that would obviously be a U.S. TRIUMPH OF THE WILL. And I have no doubt it's coming. There are enough white Christian nationalist prodcos out there who are already trying their very mediocre best.
I know a TRIUMPH OF THE WILL shift toward more blatant propaganda is coming, but I expect that's something that will happen in the streaming space. YouTube and those mini-films they're producing for platforms like TikTok now. We're entering the mass recruitment phase of this hell.
I just wrote out a lengthy pitch only to have it bloody disappear much to my horror and frustration 🫤
Anyway...
My pitch is this -
Conan of the Isles. The last novel/story in the Conan saga but not written by Robert E. Howard, well this one would be a sure fire success.
Why?
It would require Arnold to reprise his role as Conan but in this film, he's an old King who is darkly brooding on his throne when dark malign forces suddenly begin snatching his people away in a flash of black sorcery. Conan sets out of one last adventure, team up with a few of his old pirate mates to cross the western Ocean to find who is behind thus insidious evil.
The book would be a cinch to adapt into a fast paced, action, adventure fantasy epic. It would be centered around the themes of never giving in to age nor evil, of courage and determination to be the one who stands against the darkness.
Arnold's visibility as the actor who embodied the role would be a major draw card and there's obviously an appetite out there for such a film.
So, it's not as publicly discussed as it probably could've been over the past 20 years or so, but KING CONAN was something Hollywood began to work on with serious interest once Schwarzenegger's political career started to wrap up. I know a couple of A-list writers who were very determined that their take be it. I don't know why it never came together. It should've been a no-brainer for Schwarzenegger, too, even now.
I’d like to see Michael Bay’s remake of Eraserhead
Heh.
Meh.
I think that’s a brilliant question, and I also agree with Celeste Ng. Our mutual passion for film allows space for diverse perspectives. An Octavia E. Butler adaptation or a movie about her life. Despite a mixed response, I, for one, really liked Branden Jacobs Jenkins’ “Kindred” on Hulu’s Onyx Collective. Butler’s extensive works allow for diverse narratives, expanding on sci-fi stories, especially those centered on heterosexual white men. Barry Jenkins, Janicza Bravo, Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Nikyatu Jusu are my top choices as directors.
I am for more of anything based on Butler's work.
After being obsessed with Peter Bogdanovich's adaptations of Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show and Texasville for decades (and falling in love with his newly released director's cut of Texasville even more), I think I'd like Alexander Payne or Tamara Jenkins to take a crack at the final books in the series, Duane's Depressed, When the Light Goes, and Rhino Ranch while the cast are still alive.
This is an intriguing choice. I like where your head is at.
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