What would a billion dollar movie look like?

[Punisher Rising]

I'd imagine a DC and Marvel crossover movie would warrant a budget of about a billion or very close to it.

[Bruce Malone]

Originally Posted by Punisher Rising

I'd imagine a DC and Marvel crossover movie would warrant a budget of about a billion or very close to it.

So this but more photo-realistic than avatar and 3 hours long.

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[CGHulk]

Spending half the budget on research and development pushing the boundaries of CG. Then spending the rest of the budget to make the movie entirely CG.

[dude love]

This is the first time I've seen that DC Online promo. The child in me is now crying that it's Marvel running wild in cinemas and not DC. I've always been more of a DC guy (With the utmost admiration and support of Marvel's properties, except I'm as big an X-Men guy as I am a DC guy, but now I'm just rambling...).

Speaking of which. 1 billion in Matthew Vaughn and Bryan Singer's hand would get me that 4 hour Magneto biopic I've dreamed of.

[Majik1387]

If it were my movie to make with a billion dollars, it would be a disaster/apocalyptic movie with super heroes complete with the world exploding just cuz.

[:eek:]

Originally Posted by Punisher Rising

I'd imagine a DC and Marvel crossover movie would warrant a budget of about a billion or very close to it.

With the success of Avengers I can at least imagine that Disney/Marvel would want to make something like a Secret Wars-movie in the future if they for some reason could get back the rights to Spider-Man, X-Men and others that at the moment belong to other companies. Could be a pretty expensive movie, I suspect.

[Matt]

I'd say we've already had a billion dollar movie in the form of Avatar. The production budget itself may have only been around $250 million, but when you consider the 10 + years of work that Cameron and his company put into developing the technology and everything, I'd say it probably surpasses a billion.

[Airwings]

The big studios should work together on a project like this: New Line Cinema, Paramount, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, MGM, Disney.
It would have the best special effects ever seen. And lots of things in the film would have been done for real, and it would have been a 4 hour movie with a grand story of biblical proportions, and a great deal of character development bestween all the action sequences. Maybe directed by Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, JJ Abrams, Joss Whedon, Terry Gilliam, Peter Jackson and Tim Burton TOGETHER, with George Lucas as a producer. And the studios should give them free hands and no limits. I know it would be impossible because they have very different visions as filmmakers, but this is just make believe anyway.

And the cast then?
I would really have enjoyed a huge and epic sci-fi/fantasy/adventure movie with all of them: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jake Gyllenhaal, Elijah Wood, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Jude Law and Liam Neeson - all of them in big roles. They would share the screen with older guys such as Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Mel Gibson, Morgan Freeman, Harrison Ford, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Nick Nolte, Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Michael Douglas, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Max von Sydow, Peter O'Toole, Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee. Just to mention a few.
The actresses then? Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman should be among them, for sure.

Any story suggestions? Why not the actual war between the titans and the olympian gods?

EDIT: Cure Michael J Fox. Then throw him in together with Bruce Willis, Viggo Mortensen, Ralph Fiennes and Tom Hanks. Hm, perhaps this would cost 2 or even 3 billions, not just one?

[Donnie Darko]

I feel like with inflation and the higher budgets we are seeing in movies now, we will see a true one billion dollar movie in our lives. But like someone already pointed out, it is quite possible that a billion went in to the total development and production of Avatar.

[CGHulk]

With film making being done over seas, these movies made entirely in the states would probably cost a billion. Shooting over seas, visual effects companies farming work over seas cut the costs big time.

[luca_frontino]

A Transformers movie featuring every single generation one autobot and decepticon fighting in mass for 3 hours straight would cost pretty much that billion.

[Enriquespy]

Good, as long as half of that goes into finding and hiring real talent.

The rest can go to explotions and fights!!!!

[Midnyte_Sun]

Realistically, probably a 3-4 part masterpiece that took 2 years to make non-stop. Something involving war, coming of age, gotta have some love for the ladies, completely shot in 3D, at 60fps+, and with a MMO RPG tie-in that evolves with the game.

[DACrowe]

Originally Posted by Bruce Malone

Okay this may be a silly topic but movies are getting more and more expensive and the profits are getting bigger (although still not warranting a billion dollar budget).

Hypothetically let's say there was some movie obsessed billionaire who decided to put up a billion dollars for a feature let's say of the action/superhero/sci-fi/epic variety.

How do you think that movie would come out looking?

A giant waste of money and a flop for the history books.

Had to say it.

[DACrowe]

Originally Posted by Majik1387

If it were my movie to make with a billion dollars, it would be a disaster/apocalyptic movie with super heroes complete with the world exploding just cuz.

All that directed by Michael Bay, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg, plus some spectacular musical numbers directed and edited by Baz Luhrman given $100 million just to stage those suckers.

Now, we're talking about a mess that will be one of the most visually stunning things ever.

[Majik1387]

Originally Posted by DACrowe

All that directed by Michael Bay, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg, plus some spectacular musical numbers directed and edited by Baz Luhrman given $100 million just to stage those suckers.

Now, we're talking about a mess that will be one of the most visually stunning things ever.

And it will be amazing.

I wouldn't use Baz Luhrman though, and Bay would only be allowed to produce.

[DACrowe]

Well at a billion dollars it has to have musical numbers and Baz has shown an ability to "**** the frame" with musicals and let the budget shine. I mean would you rather have Rob Marshall's dull musical direction?

Oh and Nolan should be paid $10 million just to have his name on the trailer. Maybe he can do one 10-minute tracking shot in IMAX or something. Now, it's taking shape.

[Majik1387]

Originally Posted by DACrowe

Well at a billion dollars it has to have musical numbers and Baz has shown an ability to "**** the frame" with musicals and let the budget shine. I mean would you rather have Rob Marshall's dull musical direction?

No, Adam Shankman would be my go-to guy of course.

Oh and Nolan should be paid $10 million just to have his name on the trailer.

Hell ****ing no

Maybe he can do one 10-minute tracking shot in IMAX or something. Now, it's taking shape.

You know what, sure, I'd use his camera creations, why not.

[moviedoors]

Massive amounts of extras. More than we saw in the silent era or Gandhi. At least a million. Location shooting on every continent in the world. Set's that go beyond sets and are just literal cities. 3 years of shooting. 5 years of post production.

[luca_frontino]

I forgot to say shot and CGIed at RED EPIC's 28K.

[Incrediblejeff]

CGI some screen legends from the past,and put them in a huge CGI epic.

[Zanham]

Originally Posted by Airwings

The big studios should work together on a project like this: New Line Cinema, Paramount, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, MGM, Disney.
It would have the best special effects ever seen. And lots of things in the film would have been done for real, and it would have been a 4 hour movie with a grand story of biblical proportions, and a great deal of character development bestween all the action sequences. Maybe directed by Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, JJ Abrams, Joss Whedon, Terry Gilliam, Peter Jackson and Tim Burton TOGETHER, with George Lucas as a producer. And the studios should give them free hands and no limits. I know it would be impossible because they have very different visions as filmmakers, but this is just make believe anyway.

And the cast then?
I would really have enjoyed a huge and epic sci-fi/fantasy/adventure movie with all of them: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jake Gyllenhaal, Elijah Wood, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Jude Law and Liam Neeson - all of them in big roles. They would share the screen with older guys such as Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Mel Gibson, Morgan Freeman, Harrison Ford, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Nick Nolte, Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Michael Douglas, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Max von Sydow, Peter O'Toole, Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee. Just to mention a few.
The actresses then? Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman should be among them, for sure.

Any story suggestions? Why not the actual war between the titans and the olympian gods? [FONT=Palatino Linotype]

How about this: http://www.wowpedia.org/Warcraft_universe

[terry78]

Part of that money would consist of constructing the obligatory time machine to film and bring back dinosaurs, going to each significant era in history and filming every event as it happens, taking the figures from each time period to each destination and giving them lines and action sequences, THEN taking them back to their respective periods. Then you have to factor in catering.

[Punisher Rising]

Originally Posted by :eek:

With the success of Avengers I can at least imagine that Disney/Marvel would want to make something like a Secret Wars-movie in the future if they for some reason could get back the rights to Spider-Man, X-Men and others that at the moment belong to other companies. Could be a pretty expensive movie, I suspect.

No doubt. The effects and location filming alone would be hundreds of millions of dollars, and then there's also actor salaries and the marketing. Would be incredibly expensive.