Film Concept Suggestions

[Stewball]

(Edited, renamed thread)

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to have a forum for suggesting film concepts. Some popular ideas might actually be made into movies. The only qualifications for suggestions would be that they would have to be interesting to at least a segment of the population, and it would have to be something original or a great improvement on an old idea.

What do you think of these?:

Quantum Trip: A guy invents a high powered quantum computer (an actual new science/technology) that can tap into the universe (which itself may actually be a [sentient?] quantum computer) and can replay events from anywhere in the past. He goes back to see once and for all who Jesus was, and discovers nothing supernatural. It would, of course, be very controversial. Would that help or hurt the box office?

Eros and Psyche: A classic mythological tale, using graphic but quality X-rated erotic scenes, about the god Eros being commanded by a jealous goddess, Aphrodite (because humans are worshiping the mortal Psyche instead of her), to cause Psyche to fall in love with the ugliest man on Earth. But he falls in love with her himself. Cast an actual man and wife (like Eyes Wide Shut, though its eroticism was severely wanting) to undercut at least some of the inevitable prudish outrage. They'd have A-list actresses standing in line to do cameos pro-bono as the different goddesses attempting to influence Eros, either allied or in contention with Aphrodite.

The Money Bin: A Disney family friendly animated adventure, using its most underdeveloped property, Uncle $crooge McDuck. His wealth alone would be a draw as it was in the original comics and even in the low quality Ducktales. It would show, as it always did, that the rich can be driven and honorable at the same time. It could be a new fantastic-fable, or the development an old one, like where he and Donald are engaged in a selling-ice-to-Eskimos style contest to show he's still got it (City of Golden Roofs). The first line could be, "Who is Scrooge McDuck?"

Anne Royall: A Common Scold: She prowled the halls of Congress in the 1820s/30s, often getting scoops before her male counterparts, and she interviewed every President, at some point, from Adams to Polk. John Q. Adams liked her and called her "a virago errant in enchanted armor.” That was before some of her reporting favored Jackson over him when they were running for President. She'd become so hated that they tried her for the archaic female crime of being a common scold. She was convicted and they had even constructed a ducking stool for her punishment (which would likely have killed her), but the judge only fined her $10, which two other reporters paid, it being a freedom of the press issue for them.

She went from the trial straight to the Mississippi R. which she discovered was a hotbed of religious activity. The Blackcoats (her term for Presbyterians) were using Army and Indian Affairs facilities to distribute their religious tracts and intimidation. She may have been the first to use the phrase "Bible Belt" in reference to what she saw along the river. She stopped in St. Louis to tell what she'd found to an acquaintance, Gen William Clark of Lewis and Clark fame, but he refused to see her. She finally did corner him cowering in a back office, and realized it was pointless. The intelligence she obtained and forwarded on to Jackson was more ammunition for what he needed to fight the coup and/or secessionist alliance of the Blackcoats (aka Copperheads, Blueskins), headed by the evangelist Ezra Styles Ely, the National Bank which was reapportioning government funds inappropriately and finally removed by Jackson, and his VP John C. Calhoun who was ruined for his presidential aspirations after his leadership in the Nullification Crisis. The waning of the blackcoated Presbyterians left a vacuum that was filled soon enough by the white sheets of the Southern Baptists and their justification of slavery.

She is perhaps the greatest unsung hero in American History. She's buried in the Congressional Cemetery.

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I know there are ideas out there that are better than rehashing superheroes and upping the gore ante in horror.

Post your suggestions.

[martryn]

I have an idea for an "artsy"... "film". Basically it's just all the most famous actresses, even the shit ugly ones, and they walk in from the left in front of a plain white wall. They then strip off their clothes at a leisurely pace, do a slow rotation in front of the camera, and then walk off to the right. If the movie doesn't run long, I'd also like a lesbian orgy scene.

I have had this idea for a while, though, of a guy who is incredibly unlucky at everything. Nothing seems to go his way. People cut him off in traffic, he gets stuck between two cars in the drive-thru and has to wait 45 minutes for a milkshake and fries, he sits next to people who smell awful at the theater, etc. He keeps complaining to his wife that the world must be out to get him. As it turns out, the entire world, and everyone in it, exists just to make his life miserable. They all communicate with each other to make sure he has a shit time constantly. Even in like... China and shit they go about their lives in such a way that he gets shit "Made in China" products that break at inconvenient times for him. People in India, who speak perfect English without an accent, put on a heavy accent when he's on the customer service line with them. EVERYTHING exists to make his life hell. When he finds this out (in a small slip-up like in the Truman Show) he confronts his wife and asks her why. Why do this to me? Who is making you? She doesn't understand. She literally cannot comprehend why anyone would NOT make his life a living hell. The movie ends without a resolution.

[Stewball]

I have an idea for an "artsy"... "film". Basically it's just all the most famous actresses, even the shit ugly ones, and they walk in from the left in front of a plain white wall. They then strip off their clothes at a leisurely pace, do a slow rotation in front of the camera, and then walk off to the right. If the movie doesn't run long, I'd also like a lesbian orgy scene.

I have had this idea for a while, though, of a guy who is incredibly unlucky at everything. Nothing seems to go his way. People cut him off in traffic, he gets stuck between two cars in the drive-thru and has to wait 45 minutes for a milkshake and fries, he sits next to people who smell awful at the theater, etc. He keeps complaining to his wife that the world must be out to get him. As it turns out, the entire world, and everyone in it, exists just to make his life miserable. They all communicate with each other to make sure he has a shit time constantly. Even in like... China and shit they go about their lives in such a way that he gets shit "Made in China" products that break at inconvenient times for him. People in India, who speak perfect English without an accent, put on a heavy accent when he's on the customer service line with them. EVERYTHING exists to make his life hell. When he finds this out (in a small slip-up like in the Truman Show) he confronts his wife and asks her why. Why do this to me? Who is making you? She doesn't understand. She literally cannot comprehend why anyone would NOT make his life a living hell. The movie ends without a resolution.

I like it except for the ending. It'd just piss people off, especially me. It doesn't have to be the heavens opening and the Hand of God coming down to save him, but something other than just............nothing. Offer the audience a crumb at least if you can't deliver. Endings are the hard part that separate the men from the wusses. Hard part.....get it.

Do we need to have a seminar on the subject here? I'm sure someone will volunteer--I haven't got the patience.

[martryn]

I have had this idea for a while, though, of a guy who is incredibly unlucky at everything. Nothing seems to go his way. People cut him off in traffic, he gets stuck between two cars in the drive-thru and has to wait 45 minutes for a milkshake and fries, he sits next to people who smell awful at the theater, etc. He keeps complaining to his wife that the world must be out to get him. As it turns out, the entire world, and everyone in it, exists just to make his life miserable. They all communicate with each other to make sure he has a shit time constantly. Even in like... China and shit they go about their lives in such a way that he gets shit "Made in China" products that break at inconvenient times for him. People in India, who speak perfect English without an accent, put on a heavy accent when he's on the customer service line with them. EVERYTHING exists to make his life hell. When he finds this out (in a small slip-up like in the Truman Show) he confronts his wife and asks her why. Why do this to me? Who is making you? She doesn't understand. She literally cannot comprehend why anyone would NOT make his life a living hell. The movie ends without a resolution.

I like it except for the ending. It'd just piss people off, especially me. It doesn't have to be the heavens opening and the Hand of God coming down to save him, but something other than just............nothing. Offer the audience a crumb at least if you can't deliver. Endings are the hard part that separate the men from the wusses. Hard part.....get it.

Do we need to have a seminar on the subject here? I'm sure someone will volunteer--I haven't got the patience.

I sorta thought that was the point, though. Leave the audience frustrated in a film that's full of frustration.

If there had to be an ending, I think the coolest idea is that the man is actually Satan, the apocalypse has occurred, and God is trying to teach him a lesson by creating this pocket reality for Satan to troll around in until he's not as much of a douche.

[Stewball]

I sorta thought that was the point, though. Leave the audience frustrated in a film that's full of frustration.

We pay to be relieved of frustration, not to have more for practice.

If there had to be an ending, I think the coolest idea is that the man is actually Satan, the apocalypse has occurred, and God is trying to teach him a lesson by creating this pocket reality for Satan to troll around in until he's not as much of a douche.

I like it. Needs some polish of course, as all concepts do, but I like it. Maybe for his final test he could be presented with two choices, eternity with his leprous harpy of a mother-in-law, or oblivion. I mean, he is Satan after all, and oblivion would be merciful.

[Stewball]

This one woke me up, so it must be good, or at least inspired.

It's called The Three Crowns starring Tom Cruise as the titular head of a Norwegian crime family in the US who is very narcissistic (good casting there), irresponsible and hedonistic. His sister, Amy Adams is the sex is only for manipulation, power behind the throne, telling Cruise to STFU all the time, for which he hates but fears her. Adams is grooming their kid sister, Natalie Dormer, to be her second in command, and who is currently the enforcer. She has a showdown with a mob family during a Blues Festival in Memphis. Her forces prevail, and for the coupe de gras, she dresses their enforcer, Christoph Waltz, up as a naked Elvis and executes him by the tried and true Native American method of staking him down in a field of fire ants with every orifice, including his urinary tract, stuffed with honey. Death by a million bites we could call it. Time-lapse to the scattered skeletal remains being investigated by the local sheriff.

The climax comes when Cruise finally musters the courage to pay someone to kill Adams, but the job is botched, inuring Dormer and causing the amputation of her left foot. Cut to a small island with nothing but a concrete block shelter under a 300' tower. A helicopter lands and Cruise is forced off and left behind. He has a note from Adams explaining that the bracelet on his left ankle is a locator and also has a charge that will blow his foot off if tampered with or if he tries to leave the island. "There's also a daisy cutter bomb on top of the tower which I can drop for any number of reasons, including on a whim. I've always thought death was too merciful for some. But hey, you still have your eyesight so you can enjoy the Sun coming up and going down every day--and the shelter is stocked with 300 cases of Spam. I'll air drop another pallet this time next year, so you'll have something to look forward to. As always, your adoring Ice Queen, Lilly ."

I expect Cruise will be reluctant to sign on to this project, but I know someone who has an in with his dominatrix, so I think it's a done deal. A sequel is certain and will be titled, The Three Crowns: Three Heads and Four Feet.

[ShogunRua]

This one woke me up, so it must be good, or at least inspired.

It's called The Three Crowns starring Tom Cruise as the titular head of a Norwegian crime family in the US who is very narcissistic (good casting there), irresponsible and hedonistic. His sister, Amy Adams is the sex is only for manipulation, power behind the throne, telling Cruise to STFU all the time, for which he hates but fears her. Adams is grooming their kid sister, Natalie Dormer, to be her second in command, and who is currently the enforcer. She has a showdown with a mob family during a Blues Festival in Memphis. Her forces prevail, and for the coupe de gras, she dresses their enforcer, Christoph Waltz, up as a naked Elvis and executes him by the tried and true Native American method of staking him down in a field of fire ants with every orifice, including his urinary tract, stuffed with honey. Death by a million bites we could call it. Time-lapse to the scattered skeletal remains being investigated by the local sheriff.

The climax comes when Cruise finally musters the courage to pay someone to kill Adams, but the job is botched, inuring Dormer and causing the amputation of her left foot. Cut to a small island with nothing but a concrete block shelter under a 300' tower. A helicopter lands and Cruise is forced off and left behind. He has a note from Adams explaining that the bracelet on his left ankle is a locator and also has a charge that will blow his foot off if tampered with or if he tries to leave the island. "There's also a daisy cutter bomb on top of the tower which I can drop for any number of reasons, including on a whim. I've always thought death was too merciful for some. But hey, you still have your eyesight so you can enjoy the Sun coming up and going down every day--and the shelter is stocked with 300 cases of Spam. I'll air drop another pallet this time next year, so you'll have something to look forward to. As always, your adoring Ice Queen, Lilly ."

I expect Cruise will be reluctant to sign on to this project, but I know someone who has an in with his dominatrix, so I think it's a done deal. A sequel is certain and will be titled, The Three Crowns: Three Heads and Four Feet.

I'm always expecting something insane with Stewball's movie pitches, but I think he outdid himself here. As a demented comedy, this could definitely work!

[MmzHrrdb]

Call it Risky Behavior or Schizo

I was just reading up on this parasite (toxoplasmosis gondii aka Toxo) that actually changes it's human host's behavior!

Men for example

reduced brain function, increased jealousy, introspectiveness, boredom; reduced psychomotor activity and reaction times, increased emotional instability, suspicion, and short temperdness; lowered self-esteem, and disregard for social rules.

Essentially, Toxo turns men into DC Comic's Joker...
Additionally, men also become more prone to guilt and start showing greater group dependency after infection with Toxo.

Women experience these symptoms..

Women on the other hand showgreater self-esteem, and exhibit more intelligence, awareness, cordiality, amicability, attentiveness to others, loyalty and self-sufficiency. Women reportedly also become more sentimental, socially precise and affective. (Toxo does appear, however, to be linked with schizophrenia in women more often than in men).

Other interest details of symptoms...

one very well documented side effect of Toxo infection, for both men and women, concerns loss of psychomotor skills, lack of concentration and increased risk taking. Indeed the effect are so dramatic that


"T. gondii were significantly associated with traffic accidents", and in the Czech Republic" and
"the risk for car accidents [is] 2.65 times greater in infected individuals, no matter if they were drivers or passengers."

Toxo is now also being implicated with schizophrenia, due to the increased number of antibodies against Toxo that are regularly found in schizophrenics. Additionally, there appears to be a general understanding of the chemical processes in which Toxo influences schizophrenic disorders, Suffice it to say, though, that Schizophrenic subjects infected with Toxo show a five-fold increase in mortality rates, over those without Toxo,

I thought it would be interesting to take a parasite that chronically infects 15 to 85 percent of humans... and emphasize the very worst case scenario to make a real frightening drama / thriller / horror film.

[Stewball]

I'm always expecting something insane with Stewball's movie pitches, but I think he outdid himself here. As a demented comedy, this could definitely work!

Yes, a dark dramedy with a very straight face.