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Plastic Man
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Adam Sandler as Plastic Man
Synopsis: Following the success of Batman and Superman all while bringing realism to comic book films, Christopher Nolan tackles Plastic Man. We find out exactly why he's able to stretch, what causes the stretching, and how it affects Plastic Man on a day to day basis.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Adam Sandler as Plastic Man
Synopsis: Following the success of Batman and Superman all while bringing realism to comic book films, Christopher Nolan tackles Plastic Man. We find out exactly why he's able to stretch, what causes the stretching, and how it affects Plastic Man on a day to day basis.
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Here's my idea for a huge sci-fi epic that I've been planning for years and IMO is better than any other ideas I have by miles. I hope 
The entire planet has been struck with a disease that severely affects physicality and brain function, reducing the person to a shell of their former selves and after six months, killing them. Once a person has it, they're contagious. Just short of a decade before, the world was plagued by nuclear war and shocking geographical changes resulting in the world becoming very different to how we know it now. This massive Skynet/Apple-esque global corporation, Medicol, with huge amounts of political and consumer power attempts to develop a cure, however it is no use.
"In a world of disease, the man with the cure is God."
To counter it, the CEO of the corporation, Jonathan Hunt (Ralph Fiennes), conceives a plan to move the human population elsewhere. Not to space, not an uninfected area. The sky. They develop vast, floating cities named "Sky Cities" which would house the surviving people of Earth. Any infected humans would be left on Earth.
1000 Years Later. The Sky Cities are the official home of the human population, connected via wireless signals across the globe. The world we live in is now purely digital, with the ability for governments and corporation to simply watch anything you do and you can't do anything to stop them. If you disagree, you're banished onto the Earth below where you'll die after six months at least, either from the disease or tortured/murdered by one of the several terrorist factions living there. Of course, this is unseen to the public and the theme that they are living in a perfect Utopian society has been forced down their throats so much over the centuries that they believe it. The powers-that-be choose what the public are taught, what they're told, what they believe.
All knowledge and history of the planet Earth from pre-Sky City times has been eradicated and replaced with the alternative, which glamorizes Medicol. Hunt is worshipped as the God who created Earth, with Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the rest completely unknown. However, the public has never seen Hunt. Not for a very long time. The only person alive who claims to have is his personal attorney/current CEO of Medico, Alexander Gaunt (Michael Emerson).
The military for Medico work in a dark, top-secret Area 51-esque floating cube below the other cities and that's where we meet our protagonist. Ryan Janek (Tom Hardy) is 31, good-looking, healthy, athletic and works as a soldier for the army. He is constantly praised as the best of the bunch, often teased with a promotion. When that opportunity comes again, the way to get there is to succeed on leading a mission to London where a local tribe have taken over a outlook post near there.
London is not like it is now. Remember I mentioned 'geographical changes' earlier? London is underwater. The sea level reaches about halfway up Big Ben and anyone living there gets around on wooden boats. Floating amongst buildings that used to be taller than the eye could see. Janek leads a small team down there and soon reaches the outpost, scorched with forgotten flames from a siege. They sneak quietly in and scout out the place. It's empty. They continue for a few more hours, yet no one shows up. They get back in their ship and wait it out until nightfall, when the entire city comes alive. Candles are lighted from the darkness and float out onto the water - soon the entirety of it is covered with small lights.
This is the first big action set piece. The tribe makes their appearance, and they're barely humans. They've evolved and been mutated so much to the point that their skin is bright blue and rough with black eyes and a hood over their heads. On the landing outside the main bridge they bring out a chained worker in some kind of horrific execution ceremony, preparing to throw him in the water.
That's when they make their move. Janek charges forward with his soldiers and attacks, in a fight that that spreads across the entire outpost and leaves it in flames. After a few more explosions, the place begins to sink. This new breed of humanity clearly isn't particularly smart. Janek and the survivors escape along with the rescued prisoners, while the tribe drown.
When he returns to The Cube, the entire army cheer him as he brings in every single rescued man and woman. Mere days later he's awarded with the promotion to general and that gives him the ability to attend a high-profile dinner party in a few nights, and be able to serve at the dozens of other outposts located across the planet.
Janek attends the party - he's the youngest there. Here he meets Alexander Gaunt who is hosting the evening and commends him on his bravery. So far so good, he's made some connections with more powerful people than he. Then the entertainment starts. A classic gladiatorial-style arena (but much smaller) is situated below the main floor where a bald, fat, beaten and bruised man steps out. However, he is more machine than man - a grey, thick chord runs up his back where his spine is and connects to various different places around his body with it beginning at the top of the head. A kind of back brace connecting the digital world to his conscience. A cyborg. In opposition, a large mutated bear-like animal steps out to confront the slave. It roars, and the audience cheers. Gaunt stands silently with a cold smile on his face. Everyone seems to be having a great time, all except Janek, who is utterly disgusted. He remains quiet and thinks he better stay that way if he wants to keep his job but has no choice but to watch on as pure barbarian entertainment unfolds in front of his eyes. The animal has the clear advantage, the slave being weak and slow from obvious prior attacks. It tears into his body, ripping off his right arm and throwing him easily to the floor. The bear wins. The crowd chant horrible abuse towards the slave, laughing at him. Two guards appear and drag his body off, leaving a trail of blood in his wake...
In the middle of the night, Janek heads to the holding cells to find the slave. After a while searching he finds him, barely alive. The slave sees him and recognises him instantly from the evening. The only reason he is still alive is because the robotics attached to his body include a life support machine. As long as it's running, the power from that will keep him alive no matter how bad the injury. The slave says his name is Darex and asks for him to turn off the life support. Janek doesn't want to. He wants to return him to his family living on the Earth, who Darex has told him about. He gives him their location and says to bring his body so he can be buried alongside his ancestors. Complying with his last wish, he turns off the life support.
Janek steals a ship and flies to the co-ordinates Darex gave him. A place in Scotland. At first the family are terrified, hiding in the house and convinced he's there to kill them. But once Janek explains that to his wife that he was sent here by her husband she is convinced. They bury him in a field behind their home wear dozens of others from throughout the centuries have also been buried. Janek did the right thing. Suddenly, an explosion rocks the area. Gunfire from the mountainside. Janek fears that it's the military who have discovered him, and orders the family to get in the house. After a mere few seconds of being inside a small missile fires out of nowhere and rocks the house, blowing it up. More soldiers charge towards Janek, firing electrical charges as he attempts to dodge them. Finally, one hits him and he blacks out.
From here on out it's really muddled, I haven't thought much about it except the ending and characters. The people firing at Janek were not Medico soldiers, but they were from the rebellion. Their name is uttered several times throughout the movie with no explanation, but here we get one. For the past few hundred years they've been the force of reckoning against Medico and their supposed terrorist-esque nature. Their hackers have recovered several leaked files and documents supporting this, however the corporation in question tells the public this group are terrorists themselves and they've been at war ever since, in secret.
Janek meets their leader Xandar (Liam Neeson) and his daughter (Anne Hathaway), who brings food to his cell and, secretly, becomes his close friend. He is kept for weeks until they figure out what to do with him, as Medico order full strikes against the known rebel bases. He finally finds out what they want him for - access into Medico's base of operations. Hacked documents have told them that there is a cure for the disease on Earth, and has been for some time. Xandar's daughter is infected with it and has six months to live. They want Janek to steal it for them.
From here on it gets even more muddled. I haven't really planned it at all but Janek agrees and goes there and the big finale is going to be the destruction of a whole sky city. Janek uncovers two massive secrets: Gaunt is a robot. Before he de-commissions him, he finally meets Jonathan Hunt...
The AI. Hunt was just a normal human who died shortly after the Sky Cities first floated up there. His conscience was uploaded into a computer and he runs the day-to-day operations of the entire network. He cannot be seen, heard and is incomprehensible; in several ways, he is God.
Janek gets a sample of the cure and manages to escape back down to the rebellion and saves the daughter's life. However, due to the wounds inflicted on him by the destruction, Janek can no longer function as a normal human. He too is now a cyborg. This gives him prolonged life, and he lives on helping the rebellion expose Medico's secrets. There's two sequels planned but I won't go into details here.
What do you guys think? Things like names (Medico isn't exactly sinister) etc need work and I want to include some elements that make it different from the typical summer blockbuster. It's essentially a commentary on religion, racism and class equality - along with a dash of environmentalism.
The entire planet has been struck with a disease that severely affects physicality and brain function, reducing the person to a shell of their former selves and after six months, killing them. Once a person has it, they're contagious. Just short of a decade before, the world was plagued by nuclear war and shocking geographical changes resulting in the world becoming very different to how we know it now. This massive Skynet/Apple-esque global corporation, Medicol, with huge amounts of political and consumer power attempts to develop a cure, however it is no use.
"In a world of disease, the man with the cure is God."
To counter it, the CEO of the corporation, Jonathan Hunt (Ralph Fiennes), conceives a plan to move the human population elsewhere. Not to space, not an uninfected area. The sky. They develop vast, floating cities named "Sky Cities" which would house the surviving people of Earth. Any infected humans would be left on Earth.
1000 Years Later. The Sky Cities are the official home of the human population, connected via wireless signals across the globe. The world we live in is now purely digital, with the ability for governments and corporation to simply watch anything you do and you can't do anything to stop them. If you disagree, you're banished onto the Earth below where you'll die after six months at least, either from the disease or tortured/murdered by one of the several terrorist factions living there. Of course, this is unseen to the public and the theme that they are living in a perfect Utopian society has been forced down their throats so much over the centuries that they believe it. The powers-that-be choose what the public are taught, what they're told, what they believe.
All knowledge and history of the planet Earth from pre-Sky City times has been eradicated and replaced with the alternative, which glamorizes Medicol. Hunt is worshipped as the God who created Earth, with Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the rest completely unknown. However, the public has never seen Hunt. Not for a very long time. The only person alive who claims to have is his personal attorney/current CEO of Medico, Alexander Gaunt (Michael Emerson).
The military for Medico work in a dark, top-secret Area 51-esque floating cube below the other cities and that's where we meet our protagonist. Ryan Janek (Tom Hardy) is 31, good-looking, healthy, athletic and works as a soldier for the army. He is constantly praised as the best of the bunch, often teased with a promotion. When that opportunity comes again, the way to get there is to succeed on leading a mission to London where a local tribe have taken over a outlook post near there.
London is not like it is now. Remember I mentioned 'geographical changes' earlier? London is underwater. The sea level reaches about halfway up Big Ben and anyone living there gets around on wooden boats. Floating amongst buildings that used to be taller than the eye could see. Janek leads a small team down there and soon reaches the outpost, scorched with forgotten flames from a siege. They sneak quietly in and scout out the place. It's empty. They continue for a few more hours, yet no one shows up. They get back in their ship and wait it out until nightfall, when the entire city comes alive. Candles are lighted from the darkness and float out onto the water - soon the entirety of it is covered with small lights.
This is the first big action set piece. The tribe makes their appearance, and they're barely humans. They've evolved and been mutated so much to the point that their skin is bright blue and rough with black eyes and a hood over their heads. On the landing outside the main bridge they bring out a chained worker in some kind of horrific execution ceremony, preparing to throw him in the water.
That's when they make their move. Janek charges forward with his soldiers and attacks, in a fight that that spreads across the entire outpost and leaves it in flames. After a few more explosions, the place begins to sink. This new breed of humanity clearly isn't particularly smart. Janek and the survivors escape along with the rescued prisoners, while the tribe drown.
When he returns to The Cube, the entire army cheer him as he brings in every single rescued man and woman. Mere days later he's awarded with the promotion to general and that gives him the ability to attend a high-profile dinner party in a few nights, and be able to serve at the dozens of other outposts located across the planet.
Janek attends the party - he's the youngest there. Here he meets Alexander Gaunt who is hosting the evening and commends him on his bravery. So far so good, he's made some connections with more powerful people than he. Then the entertainment starts. A classic gladiatorial-style arena (but much smaller) is situated below the main floor where a bald, fat, beaten and bruised man steps out. However, he is more machine than man - a grey, thick chord runs up his back where his spine is and connects to various different places around his body with it beginning at the top of the head. A kind of back brace connecting the digital world to his conscience. A cyborg. In opposition, a large mutated bear-like animal steps out to confront the slave. It roars, and the audience cheers. Gaunt stands silently with a cold smile on his face. Everyone seems to be having a great time, all except Janek, who is utterly disgusted. He remains quiet and thinks he better stay that way if he wants to keep his job but has no choice but to watch on as pure barbarian entertainment unfolds in front of his eyes. The animal has the clear advantage, the slave being weak and slow from obvious prior attacks. It tears into his body, ripping off his right arm and throwing him easily to the floor. The bear wins. The crowd chant horrible abuse towards the slave, laughing at him. Two guards appear and drag his body off, leaving a trail of blood in his wake...
In the middle of the night, Janek heads to the holding cells to find the slave. After a while searching he finds him, barely alive. The slave sees him and recognises him instantly from the evening. The only reason he is still alive is because the robotics attached to his body include a life support machine. As long as it's running, the power from that will keep him alive no matter how bad the injury. The slave says his name is Darex and asks for him to turn off the life support. Janek doesn't want to. He wants to return him to his family living on the Earth, who Darex has told him about. He gives him their location and says to bring his body so he can be buried alongside his ancestors. Complying with his last wish, he turns off the life support.
Janek steals a ship and flies to the co-ordinates Darex gave him. A place in Scotland. At first the family are terrified, hiding in the house and convinced he's there to kill them. But once Janek explains that to his wife that he was sent here by her husband she is convinced. They bury him in a field behind their home wear dozens of others from throughout the centuries have also been buried. Janek did the right thing. Suddenly, an explosion rocks the area. Gunfire from the mountainside. Janek fears that it's the military who have discovered him, and orders the family to get in the house. After a mere few seconds of being inside a small missile fires out of nowhere and rocks the house, blowing it up. More soldiers charge towards Janek, firing electrical charges as he attempts to dodge them. Finally, one hits him and he blacks out.
From here on out it's really muddled, I haven't thought much about it except the ending and characters. The people firing at Janek were not Medico soldiers, but they were from the rebellion. Their name is uttered several times throughout the movie with no explanation, but here we get one. For the past few hundred years they've been the force of reckoning against Medico and their supposed terrorist-esque nature. Their hackers have recovered several leaked files and documents supporting this, however the corporation in question tells the public this group are terrorists themselves and they've been at war ever since, in secret.
Janek meets their leader Xandar (Liam Neeson) and his daughter (Anne Hathaway), who brings food to his cell and, secretly, becomes his close friend. He is kept for weeks until they figure out what to do with him, as Medico order full strikes against the known rebel bases. He finally finds out what they want him for - access into Medico's base of operations. Hacked documents have told them that there is a cure for the disease on Earth, and has been for some time. Xandar's daughter is infected with it and has six months to live. They want Janek to steal it for them.
From here on it gets even more muddled. I haven't really planned it at all but Janek agrees and goes there and the big finale is going to be the destruction of a whole sky city. Janek uncovers two massive secrets: Gaunt is a robot. Before he de-commissions him, he finally meets Jonathan Hunt...
The AI. Hunt was just a normal human who died shortly after the Sky Cities first floated up there. His conscience was uploaded into a computer and he runs the day-to-day operations of the entire network. He cannot be seen, heard and is incomprehensible; in several ways, he is God.
Janek gets a sample of the cure and manages to escape back down to the rebellion and saves the daughter's life. However, due to the wounds inflicted on him by the destruction, Janek can no longer function as a normal human. He too is now a cyborg. This gives him prolonged life, and he lives on helping the rebellion expose Medico's secrets. There's two sequels planned but I won't go into details here.
What do you guys think? Things like names (Medico isn't exactly sinister) etc need work and I want to include some elements that make it different from the typical summer blockbuster. It's essentially a commentary on religion, racism and class equality - along with a dash of environmentalism.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt in GHOST BUTT
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Written by Paul Scharder
Music by Jack White
Also Starring Dolph Lundgren, Yaphet Kotto and Steve Buscemi
Rated R for Perverse Sexuality and Graphic Stylized Action
Plot:
JGL's butt dies and becomes a ghost. A wise wizard (Dolph Lundgren) teaches JGL to use his Ghost Butt powers for good. Meanwhile, God (Yaphet Kotto) and Satan (Steve Buscemi) battle for the soul of JGL's butt.
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Written by Paul Scharder
Music by Jack White
Also Starring Dolph Lundgren, Yaphet Kotto and Steve Buscemi
Rated R for Perverse Sexuality and Graphic Stylized Action
Plot:
JGL's butt dies and becomes a ghost. A wise wizard (Dolph Lundgren) teaches JGL to use his Ghost Butt powers for good. Meanwhile, God (Yaphet Kotto) and Satan (Steve Buscemi) battle for the soul of JGL's butt.
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In a world not unlike our own, but in a distant future where magic and technology have merged. Travel to other worlds is now possible through the use of portals controlled by the Mage councel. It is the duty of the Paladin to protect these worlds that are less advanced from those that would take advantage of them. Magic and technology are unable to move through dimensions without disasterous results, but that doesn't stop some from making the attempt and sometimes succeeding.
When unstable portals start opening at random through out their world, causing chaos and death in their wake the Paladins discover the cause. A giant, intelligent creature living between dimensions opening to shatter the dimensional barrier so it can exist in the physical realm.
When unstable portals start opening at random through out their world, causing chaos and death in their wake the Paladins discover the cause. A giant, intelligent creature living between dimensions opening to shatter the dimensional barrier so it can exist in the physical realm.
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Here's my idea for a huge sci-fi epic that I've been planning for years and IMO is better than any other ideas I have by miles. I hope
The entire planet has been struck with a disease that severely affects physicality and brain function, reducing the person to a shell of their former selves and after six months, killing them. Once a person has it, they're contagious. Just short of a decade before, the world was plagued by nuclear war and shocking geographical changes resulting in the world becoming very different to how we know it now. This massive Skynet/Apple-esque global corporation, Medicol, with huge amounts of political and consumer power attempts to develop a cure, however it is no use.
"In a world of disease, the man with the cure is God."
To counter it, the CEO of the corporation, Jonathan Hunt (Ralph Fiennes), conceives a plan to move the human population elsewhere. Not to space, not an uninfected area. The sky. They develop vast, floating cities named "Sky Cities" which would house the surviving people of Earth. Any infected humans would be left on Earth.
1000 Years Later. The Sky Cities are the official home of the human population, connected via wireless signals across the globe. The world we live in is now purely digital, with the ability for governments and corporation to simply watch anything you do and you can't do anything to stop them. If you disagree, you're banished onto the Earth below where you'll die after six months at least, either from the disease or tortured/murdered by one of the several terrorist factions living there. Of course, this is unseen to the public and the theme that they are living in a perfect Utopian society has been forced down their throats so much over the centuries that they believe it. The powers-that-be choose what the public are taught, what they're told, what they believe.
All knowledge and history of the planet Earth from pre-Sky City times has been eradicated and replaced with the alternative, which glamorizes Medicol. Hunt is worshipped as the God who created Earth, with Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the rest completely unknown. However, the public has never seen Hunt. Not for a very long time. The only person alive who claims to have is his personal attorney/current CEO of Medico, Alexander Gaunt (Michael Emerson).
The military for Medico work in a dark, top-secret Area 51-esque floating cube below the other cities and that's where we meet our protagonist. Ryan Janek (Tom Hardy) is 31, good-looking, healthy, athletic and works as a soldier for the army. He is constantly praised as the best of the bunch, often teased with a promotion. When that opportunity comes again, the way to get there is to succeed on leading a mission to London where a local tribe have taken over a outlook post near there.
London is not like it is now. Remember I mentioned 'geographical changes' earlier? London is underwater. The sea level reaches about halfway up Big Ben and anyone living there gets around on wooden boats. Floating amongst buildings that used to be taller than the eye could see. Janek leads a small team down there and soon reaches the outpost, scorched with forgotten flames from a siege. They sneak quietly in and scout out the place. It's empty. They continue for a few more hours, yet no one shows up. They get back in their ship and wait it out until nightfall, when the entire city comes alive. Candles are lighted from the darkness and float out onto the water - soon the entirety of it is covered with small lights.
This is the first big action set piece. The tribe makes their appearance, and they're barely humans. They've evolved and been mutated so much to the point that their skin is bright blue and rough with black eyes and a hood over their heads. On the landing outside the main bridge they bring out a chained worker in some kind of horrific execution ceremony, preparing to throw him in the water.
That's when they make their move. Janek charges forward with his soldiers and attacks, in a fight that that spreads across the entire outpost and leaves it in flames. After a few more explosions, the place begins to sink. This new breed of humanity clearly isn't particularly smart. Janek and the survivors escape along with the rescued prisoners, while the tribe drown.
When he returns to The Cube, the entire army cheer him as he brings in every single rescued man and woman. Mere days later he's awarded with the promotion to general and that gives him the ability to attend a high-profile dinner party in a few nights, and be able to serve at the dozens of other outposts located across the planet.
Janek attends the party - he's the youngest there. Here he meets Alexander Gaunt who is hosting the evening and commends him on his bravery. So far so good, he's made some connections with more powerful people than he. Then the entertainment starts. A classic gladiatorial-style arena (but much smaller) is situated below the main floor where a bald, fat, beaten and bruised man steps out. However, he is more machine than man - a grey, thick chord runs up his back where his spine is and connects to various different places around his body with it beginning at the top of the head. A kind of back brace connecting the digital world to his conscience. A cyborg. In opposition, a large mutated bear-like animal steps out to confront the slave. It roars, and the audience cheers. Gaunt stands silently with a cold smile on his face. Everyone seems to be having a great time, all except Janek, who is utterly disgusted. He remains quiet and thinks he better stay that way if he wants to keep his job but has no choice but to watch on as pure barbarian entertainment unfolds in front of his eyes. The animal has the clear advantage, the slave being weak and slow from obvious prior attacks. It tears into his body, ripping off his right arm and throwing him easily to the floor. The bear wins. The crowd chant horrible abuse towards the slave, laughing at him. Two guards appear and drag his body off, leaving a trail of blood in his wake...
In the middle of the night, Janek heads to the holding cells to find the slave. After a while searching he finds him, barely alive. The slave sees him and recognises him instantly from the evening. The only reason he is still alive is because the robotics attached to his body include a life support machine. As long as it's running, the power from that will keep him alive no matter how bad the injury. The slave says his name is Darex and asks for him to turn off the life support. Janek doesn't want to. He wants to return him to his family living on the Earth, who Darex has told him about. He gives him their location and says to bring his body so he can be buried alongside his ancestors. Complying with his last wish, he turns off the life support.
Janek steals a ship and flies to the co-ordinates Darex gave him. A place in Scotland. At first the family are terrified, hiding in the house and convinced he's there to kill them. But once Janek explains that to his wife that he was sent here by her husband she is convinced. They bury him in a field behind their home wear dozens of others from throughout the centuries have also been buried. Janek did the right thing. Suddenly, an explosion rocks the area. Gunfire from the mountainside. Janek fears that it's the military who have discovered him, and orders the family to get in the house. After a mere few seconds of being inside a small missile fires out of nowhere and rocks the house, blowing it up. More soldiers charge towards Janek, firing electrical charges as he attempts to dodge them. Finally, one hits him and he blacks out.
From here on out it's really muddled, I haven't thought much about it except the ending and characters. The people firing at Janek were not Medico soldiers, but they were from the rebellion. Their name is uttered several times throughout the movie with no explanation, but here we get one. For the past few hundred years they've been the force of reckoning against Medico and their supposed terrorist-esque nature. Their hackers have recovered several leaked files and documents supporting this, however the corporation in question tells the public this group are terrorists themselves and they've been at war ever since, in secret.
Janek meets their leader Xandar (Liam Neeson) and his daughter (Anne Hathaway), who brings food to his cell and, secretly, becomes his close friend. He is kept for weeks until they figure out what to do with him, as Medico order full strikes against the known rebel bases. He finally finds out what they want him for - access into Medico's base of operations. Hacked documents have told them that there is a cure for the disease on Earth, and has been for some time. Xandar's daughter is infected with it and has six months to live. They want Janek to steal it for them.
From here on it gets even more muddled. I haven't really planned it at all but Janek agrees and goes there and the big finale is going to be the destruction of a whole sky city. Janek uncovers two massive secrets: Gaunt is a robot. Before he de-commissions him, he finally meets Jonathan Hunt...
The AI. Hunt was just a normal human who died shortly after the Sky Cities first floated up there. His conscience was uploaded into a computer and he runs the day-to-day operations of the entire network. He cannot be seen, heard and is incomprehensible; in several ways, he is God.
Janek gets a sample of the cure and manages to escape back down to the rebellion and saves the daughter's life. However, due to the wounds inflicted on him by the destruction, Janek can no longer function as a normal human. He too is now a cyborg. This gives him prolonged life, and he lives on helping the rebellion expose Medico's secrets. There's two sequels planned but I won't go into details here.
What do you guys think? Things like names (Medico isn't exactly sinister) etc need work and I want to include some elements that make it different from the typical summer blockbuster. It's essentially a commentary on religion, racism and class equality - along with a dash of environmentalism.
Damn.
PM me if you want some help, I think I'm good with dialogue and ideas lol. Great job though 
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Damn.
Thanks! Will do, appreciate the help
Sounds like perfect blockbuster material. You should try and write it. Pretty risky though, reminds me a bit of Pacific Rim
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The Legend of Zelda
Directed by Alfonso Cuaron or Edgar Wright
Based around Ocarina of Time with Jamie Bell as Link, Jayne Wisener as Zelda and Dwayne Johnson or Mark Strong as Gannondorf.
Monkey Island
Based on the video games with Zach Braff as Guybrush, Zooey Deschanel as Elaine and Tim Curry as Le Chuck.
The Twits
Based on the Roald Dahl book, directed by Tim Burton with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter playing Mr and Mrs. Twit.
The Enormous Crocodile
Stop motion version based on the Roald Dahl book directed by Henry Selick.
--- The ones below are my own ideas (or at least plot wise in a couple cases) ---
Return to Labyrinth
About a teenage Toby who has nightmares of the labyrinth. Sarah asks Jareth to get rid of the nightmares but becomes trapped in the labyrinth so Diddimus, Hoggle and Ludo enlist Toby to help rescue her.
Looney Tunes to the Rescue
About an old black and white cartoon (voiced by Christopher Walken), bitter about been forgotten in the transition to colour and in particular the popularity of Bugs Bunny, kidnaps Bugs and threatens to 'rub him out'.
With money and viewing figures falling, the head of WB (Sam Rockwell) has a new but knowledgeable animation assistant (Zach Braff) who witnessed the kidnapping team up with a small team of Toons - Daffy, Foghorn, Wyle E, Porky and Sylvester to go search the Warner cartoon vaults and save Bugs.
John vs. The Underworld
Johns' wife is dying of cancer and in her last hours he sells his soul to the devil in order to save her. Two years later the Reaper comes for John but John refuses to go stating he still has his life to live and will only go when he dies. Lucifer, furious at this, takes his wife instead. John commits suicide and finds himself in the Underworld where he battles the Minotaur, Cerberus, the Hydra and Lucifer himself in order to save his wife.
The Hawk/Superhero Comedy
Similar in tone and style to Tropic Thunder.
Featuring Ben Stiller as millionaire playboy Gabriele Speed aka 'The Hawk', a Batman-esque superhero who is aided by Owen Wilson as 'Boy Blue' his plucky friend and sidekick. It would also feature Jeff Bridges as the venerable police captain who believes The Hawk stands for justice, Will Ferrell as a brilliant scientist turned villain working on a cure for Alzheimer's with Christine Taylor as his assistant and love interest of Gabrielle Speed and Vince Vaughn as John Ferguson, a corrupt cop who is secretly mob boss Johnny Domingo aka The Knave.
Gabriele Speed is funding Carlton Hughes research in to a cure for Alzheimer's where he has developed a thing for his research assistant, Daisy Foxe but she has a thing for masked vigilante The Hawk, Gabriel's secret alter ego.
The main villain, simply known as 'The Knave' as no one knows his true identity controls all the crime in the city. That is until one night The Knave pays a visit to Carlton to make a move on his research (a potentially lucrative product). The Hawk attempts to capture The Knave resulting in a fight at the lab which threatens to destroy his work. Carlton tests the cure on himself in desperation. The Knave escapes but not before losing his mask where Carlton sees his face. There is an explosion and Carlton is presumed dead.
Later on a Joker/Riddler-esque villain known only as "The Ghost" appears and starts attacking The Hawk. This will be Carlton who, as a result of testing the cure on himself has lost his memory prior to taking the cure but believes The Hawk responsible for what happened. It would end with the identity of The Knave being revealed as Johnny Domingo, the alter ego of corrupt cop John Ferguson.
Needs more work tbh I think...
The Rematch
Two rival groups of friends use to play football every weekend until they grew up and eventually went their separate ways. Years later at their sons pee-wee football game, two dads (Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler) on opposing teams bump in to each other and the rivalry is re-started. They track down their old friends for one more game. It would include plot points like the previously fastest one of the group now being fairly overweight and slow, one of them being a transsexual (thinking Will Ferrell for this part) and one person not wanting to play but there is the big moment where they appear a man down but they come back in time..
Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn and Jack Black vs. Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider.
Power Rangers
A reboot directed by Alex Proyas or Justin Lin.
- Zordon is a humanoid alien and not a giant head.
- Zordon and Zedd are of the same race, perhaps even brothers. They created the power rangers to act as guardians on their factioned/warring planet.
- There were 6 power coins in total and each symbolises a kind of energy/trait - Red - leadership/strength, Black - determination, Blue - intelligence, Pink - kindness, Yellow - loyalty and Green - jealousy/rage. The green coin, more powerful than others was only to be used in times of great need.
- The coins were created via channelling planetary energy into the coins. A mishap with the green coin is what led to it being a more powerful coin than the others.
- The coins power/energy would work by wrapping the user in a protective armour and provide them with a sort of heightened strength and reflexes (no powers) and also allow the user to control the respective zords.
- The coins only work with those who have certain 'genetic markers' and were handed out to those who were worthy to act as guardians. Zordon was entrusted as the Red Ranger.
- Zedd doesn't have this marker but unbeknown to Zordon, Zedd is plotting to take over and rule their planet. Inspired by the accident with the green coin, he secretly creates a 7th coin and maxes the potential energy resulting in the planets core/energy becoming unstable.
- Goldar is one of the original guardians but is loyal to Zedd. He uses the 7th coin which, due to its mass of power, makes him grow to a gigantic size. In the resulting battle, the planets core starts to tear apart.
- Zordon is entrusted with the 6 remaining power coins and flees his dying planet, and the attacking army of Lord Zedd, in his ship, 'The Alpha-5' which also serves as a command station and houses the Zords.
- Zedd has no powers like in the show, Rita is his queen who is always on the look out for a chance to backstab him and take over his army and Goldar is his loyal general.
- Zordon crash lands on earth and dying, he is confined to a life support chamber in his ship. Fearing Zedd will try to take over Earth, he gives the power coins to 5 teens who are near to or investigating the crash site. From this chamber he would interact and guide the teens, similar to the series but without being a giant head in a jar.
- The team would involve either the 1st or 2nd group of characters but miss out Tommy until the 2nd film.
- The group, from the local high school, are familiar with each other but aren't friends as they all belong to different social groups. Jason - athlete/Jock, Zack - party guy, Billy - science nerd, Kimberly - cheerleader, Trina - musician.
- So the movie would be about them shedding their perceptions of each other (for example, while Zack is a party guy, underneath he wants to buckle down and make something of himself) and learning to come together as a team just as much as the action.
- The zords would be based on the dino zords from the first series. The zords, as part of the power of the coin, have the power to 'morph' into what each new user desires (so the zords whilst in use on Zordons planet would look like the Shogun Zords). Dinozords are chosen, when Billy is the first to touch the coins and, being a science buff, they pick up on his hobby/fascination with dinosaurs.
- While the zords would resemble the Dinozords they would have a more alien looking influence (similar to how Oozes Metamophocons were alien looking bugs in the first movie).
- The rangers, on a training mission, end up using the zords to help out when an earthquake causes the suspension bridge to start breaking up, where they gain media coverage and thus gain the moniker, 'Power Rangers'.
- Zedd, following Zordon to earth would send out his putty men to try and track down the teens and the power coins
- The putty men who would act as minor villains are Zedds army, a group of his people that he turned into zombie-like beings to do his bidding. The putty men would not be as 'dumb' as in the series and while not a major threat, would be somewhat harder to beat. Once defeated the putty men would become 'dead' thus, giving Zedd the need to replenish his ranks whenever possible.
- The final showdown would be between the giant Goldar (who is bigger than the zords seperately but equal to the Megazord) and the Megazord.
The sequel would see Zedd finding the green power coin (lost in the crash of the Alpha-5 in the first film) which is the coin for the Dragon Zord, the biggest and most powerful Dinozord. Zedd would recruit an introduced Tommy and corrupt him with the power of the Green Coin. The 2nd film would basically be the whole Green Ranger saga leading to the 3rd film where he becomes the White Ranger.
Directed by Alfonso Cuaron or Edgar Wright
Based around Ocarina of Time with Jamie Bell as Link, Jayne Wisener as Zelda and Dwayne Johnson or Mark Strong as Gannondorf.
Monkey Island
Based on the video games with Zach Braff as Guybrush, Zooey Deschanel as Elaine and Tim Curry as Le Chuck.
The Twits
Based on the Roald Dahl book, directed by Tim Burton with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter playing Mr and Mrs. Twit.
The Enormous Crocodile
Stop motion version based on the Roald Dahl book directed by Henry Selick.
--- The ones below are my own ideas (or at least plot wise in a couple cases) ---
Return to Labyrinth
About a teenage Toby who has nightmares of the labyrinth. Sarah asks Jareth to get rid of the nightmares but becomes trapped in the labyrinth so Diddimus, Hoggle and Ludo enlist Toby to help rescue her.
Looney Tunes to the Rescue
About an old black and white cartoon (voiced by Christopher Walken), bitter about been forgotten in the transition to colour and in particular the popularity of Bugs Bunny, kidnaps Bugs and threatens to 'rub him out'.
With money and viewing figures falling, the head of WB (Sam Rockwell) has a new but knowledgeable animation assistant (Zach Braff) who witnessed the kidnapping team up with a small team of Toons - Daffy, Foghorn, Wyle E, Porky and Sylvester to go search the Warner cartoon vaults and save Bugs.
John vs. The Underworld
Johns' wife is dying of cancer and in her last hours he sells his soul to the devil in order to save her. Two years later the Reaper comes for John but John refuses to go stating he still has his life to live and will only go when he dies. Lucifer, furious at this, takes his wife instead. John commits suicide and finds himself in the Underworld where he battles the Minotaur, Cerberus, the Hydra and Lucifer himself in order to save his wife.
The Hawk/Superhero Comedy
Similar in tone and style to Tropic Thunder.
Featuring Ben Stiller as millionaire playboy Gabriele Speed aka 'The Hawk', a Batman-esque superhero who is aided by Owen Wilson as 'Boy Blue' his plucky friend and sidekick. It would also feature Jeff Bridges as the venerable police captain who believes The Hawk stands for justice, Will Ferrell as a brilliant scientist turned villain working on a cure for Alzheimer's with Christine Taylor as his assistant and love interest of Gabrielle Speed and Vince Vaughn as John Ferguson, a corrupt cop who is secretly mob boss Johnny Domingo aka The Knave.
Gabriele Speed is funding Carlton Hughes research in to a cure for Alzheimer's where he has developed a thing for his research assistant, Daisy Foxe but she has a thing for masked vigilante The Hawk, Gabriel's secret alter ego.
The main villain, simply known as 'The Knave' as no one knows his true identity controls all the crime in the city. That is until one night The Knave pays a visit to Carlton to make a move on his research (a potentially lucrative product). The Hawk attempts to capture The Knave resulting in a fight at the lab which threatens to destroy his work. Carlton tests the cure on himself in desperation. The Knave escapes but not before losing his mask where Carlton sees his face. There is an explosion and Carlton is presumed dead.
Later on a Joker/Riddler-esque villain known only as "The Ghost" appears and starts attacking The Hawk. This will be Carlton who, as a result of testing the cure on himself has lost his memory prior to taking the cure but believes The Hawk responsible for what happened. It would end with the identity of The Knave being revealed as Johnny Domingo, the alter ego of corrupt cop John Ferguson.
Needs more work tbh I think...
The Rematch
Two rival groups of friends use to play football every weekend until they grew up and eventually went their separate ways. Years later at their sons pee-wee football game, two dads (Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler) on opposing teams bump in to each other and the rivalry is re-started. They track down their old friends for one more game. It would include plot points like the previously fastest one of the group now being fairly overweight and slow, one of them being a transsexual (thinking Will Ferrell for this part) and one person not wanting to play but there is the big moment where they appear a man down but they come back in time..
Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn and Jack Black vs. Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider.
Power Rangers
A reboot directed by Alex Proyas or Justin Lin.
- Zordon is a humanoid alien and not a giant head.
- Zordon and Zedd are of the same race, perhaps even brothers. They created the power rangers to act as guardians on their factioned/warring planet.
- There were 6 power coins in total and each symbolises a kind of energy/trait - Red - leadership/strength, Black - determination, Blue - intelligence, Pink - kindness, Yellow - loyalty and Green - jealousy/rage. The green coin, more powerful than others was only to be used in times of great need.
- The coins were created via channelling planetary energy into the coins. A mishap with the green coin is what led to it being a more powerful coin than the others.
- The coins power/energy would work by wrapping the user in a protective armour and provide them with a sort of heightened strength and reflexes (no powers) and also allow the user to control the respective zords.
- The coins only work with those who have certain 'genetic markers' and were handed out to those who were worthy to act as guardians. Zordon was entrusted as the Red Ranger.
- Zedd doesn't have this marker but unbeknown to Zordon, Zedd is plotting to take over and rule their planet. Inspired by the accident with the green coin, he secretly creates a 7th coin and maxes the potential energy resulting in the planets core/energy becoming unstable.
- Goldar is one of the original guardians but is loyal to Zedd. He uses the 7th coin which, due to its mass of power, makes him grow to a gigantic size. In the resulting battle, the planets core starts to tear apart.
- Zordon is entrusted with the 6 remaining power coins and flees his dying planet, and the attacking army of Lord Zedd, in his ship, 'The Alpha-5' which also serves as a command station and houses the Zords.
- Zedd has no powers like in the show, Rita is his queen who is always on the look out for a chance to backstab him and take over his army and Goldar is his loyal general.
- Zordon crash lands on earth and dying, he is confined to a life support chamber in his ship. Fearing Zedd will try to take over Earth, he gives the power coins to 5 teens who are near to or investigating the crash site. From this chamber he would interact and guide the teens, similar to the series but without being a giant head in a jar.
- The team would involve either the 1st or 2nd group of characters but miss out Tommy until the 2nd film.
- The group, from the local high school, are familiar with each other but aren't friends as they all belong to different social groups. Jason - athlete/Jock, Zack - party guy, Billy - science nerd, Kimberly - cheerleader, Trina - musician.
- So the movie would be about them shedding their perceptions of each other (for example, while Zack is a party guy, underneath he wants to buckle down and make something of himself) and learning to come together as a team just as much as the action.
- The zords would be based on the dino zords from the first series. The zords, as part of the power of the coin, have the power to 'morph' into what each new user desires (so the zords whilst in use on Zordons planet would look like the Shogun Zords). Dinozords are chosen, when Billy is the first to touch the coins and, being a science buff, they pick up on his hobby/fascination with dinosaurs.
- While the zords would resemble the Dinozords they would have a more alien looking influence (similar to how Oozes Metamophocons were alien looking bugs in the first movie).
- The rangers, on a training mission, end up using the zords to help out when an earthquake causes the suspension bridge to start breaking up, where they gain media coverage and thus gain the moniker, 'Power Rangers'.
- Zedd, following Zordon to earth would send out his putty men to try and track down the teens and the power coins
- The putty men who would act as minor villains are Zedds army, a group of his people that he turned into zombie-like beings to do his bidding. The putty men would not be as 'dumb' as in the series and while not a major threat, would be somewhat harder to beat. Once defeated the putty men would become 'dead' thus, giving Zedd the need to replenish his ranks whenever possible.
- The final showdown would be between the giant Goldar (who is bigger than the zords seperately but equal to the Megazord) and the Megazord.
The sequel would see Zedd finding the green power coin (lost in the crash of the Alpha-5 in the first film) which is the coin for the Dragon Zord, the biggest and most powerful Dinozord. Zedd would recruit an introduced Tommy and corrupt him with the power of the Green Coin. The 2nd film would basically be the whole Green Ranger saga leading to the 3rd film where he becomes the White Ranger.
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At this rate Hollywood is more likely to lean toward more remakes, reboots, adaptations and sequels...so what I'd do:
* A reboot of TRON focusing on Alan Bradley - and Tron after a fashion, but I'll get to that in a little bit - as the main character rather than Kevin Flynn. It's Alan who, after being booted from ENCOM - here a military contractor specializing in programming war-game scenarios - attempts to uncover evidence that ENCOM's new Master Control Program has evolved beyond the control of its programmer Ed Dillinger and is looking to pull a Colossus/Skynet on the human race (this time it's not just "thinking about" accessing the Pentagon...). These attempts to find evidence are perpetrated by Alan's security program Tron, until the MCP captures and de-rezzes Tron before Tron can make off with the critical info. Yeah, you read that right, I'd kill Tron off in the first couple of minutes - so how can Tron possibly be a 'focus' character in this version? Well, in this version, programs cannot survive without their identity disks, but identity disks can survive without their programs, and it turns out that Tron managed to secret his identity disk away before the MCP got him. Through a series of events following Alan's arrival in the Grid after the MCP zaps him with an experimental laser, Alan somehow manages to get Tron's identity disk slapped onto his back, feeding everything that Tron knew into Alan's brain. And because the MCP has limited the recognition capabilities of other programs in the Grid, everybody else in the Grid believes Alan to be Tron (the dual-casting of the previous films would be another element carried over into the reboot), and his attempts to prove otherwise are thwarted by the fact that, thanks to having Tron's data downloaded into his own mind, he gradually finds himself more and more capable of doing things only Tron could do (like hellacious lightcycling). Basically, the whole thing mixes elements of the previous films with classic "mistaken identity/wrong man" tropes and a dash of "WarGames" to raise the stakes dramatically from the video-game framework of the original film; as for the look of the film...basically, imagine classic Greek or Roman motifs, historical AND mythological, with light-piped fashions and architecture and that gives you at least SOME idea of the visual style I'd aim for.
* A 'monster rally' version of Yojimbo/A Fistful Of Dollars, with vampires in one camp, werewolves in the other, and the lone stranger looking to pit them against each other being Frankenstein's Monster. I'd probably set it in December in 1823, when the Monroe Doctrine was drafted (I would have gone with having it set during the Revolutionary War, but neither "Frankenstein" (1818) nor "Dracula" (1897) would have been published yet - vampires at least had been in print since the 18th century; and since Hammer's "Curse of the Werewolf" is set in the same century that makes the choice of time fairly obvious for me in order to bring the Monster into things).
* This one's gonna be more blasphemous than the others, but here goes: a mysterious-bordering-on-supernatural re-imagining of Knight Rider, less Glen Larson and more Stephen King - if there's any humor creeping in, it tends to be of a surreal, dark kind more in the direction of "The Addams Family" than "Starsky & Hutch". I mean, sure, the initial premise is all there - presumed-dead crimefighter Michael Knight and his talking supercar partner KITT, working for Devon Miles on an endless mission to bring down the corrupt; and it even starts out following the basic set-up of the pilot episode "Knight Of The Phoenix" - cop Michael Long is betrayed and left for dead - but past that, things would get really weird really fast and would probably not go over too terribly well with 'hardcore' fans. Michael wakes up in a crummy, dingy motel room in a BODY he doesn't recognize (not just the face), and waiting for him is Devon Miles, who tells him he's been recruited as a member of FLAG - never once is it called the Foundation for Law and Government, to keep the mystery afloat - to help battle the forces of corruption, to right wrongs and avenge those who can't fight for themselves. Devon disappears shortly thereafter but develops an irritating habit of always, ALWAYS finding Michael no matter where the young man goes - so Devon is perpetually in this "Don't try to contact me; I'll find you" mode, disappearing again just as mysteriously as he shows up. KITT's introduction just makes things even more bizarre: the smart-aleck in me would probably put him back into a black '82 Pontiac Trans Am...that is, a black '82 Pontiac Trans Am with faded paint, a cracked windshield, beat up, patched, rusted and with a nice dent wedged into the front edge of the hood where you can see this weird reddish-orange glow that looks a lot more like the engine's on fire than it does an oscillating forward sensor. As for KITT's interior - no advanced computer controls; just the early-'80s dashboard standards...even the way KITT talks comes from vintage '80s Hollywood: he speaks through the static frequencies of the car's radio, akin to Carol Anne through the TV in "Poltergeist". But the thing is that it's NEVER established just how KITT came to be - is he possessed? Controlled by aliens? Or is he in fact computerized and this is just somebody's way of screwing with Michael's already-frazzled head?
There's more, but those are just off the top of my head.
* A reboot of TRON focusing on Alan Bradley - and Tron after a fashion, but I'll get to that in a little bit - as the main character rather than Kevin Flynn. It's Alan who, after being booted from ENCOM - here a military contractor specializing in programming war-game scenarios - attempts to uncover evidence that ENCOM's new Master Control Program has evolved beyond the control of its programmer Ed Dillinger and is looking to pull a Colossus/Skynet on the human race (this time it's not just "thinking about" accessing the Pentagon...). These attempts to find evidence are perpetrated by Alan's security program Tron, until the MCP captures and de-rezzes Tron before Tron can make off with the critical info. Yeah, you read that right, I'd kill Tron off in the first couple of minutes - so how can Tron possibly be a 'focus' character in this version? Well, in this version, programs cannot survive without their identity disks, but identity disks can survive without their programs, and it turns out that Tron managed to secret his identity disk away before the MCP got him. Through a series of events following Alan's arrival in the Grid after the MCP zaps him with an experimental laser, Alan somehow manages to get Tron's identity disk slapped onto his back, feeding everything that Tron knew into Alan's brain. And because the MCP has limited the recognition capabilities of other programs in the Grid, everybody else in the Grid believes Alan to be Tron (the dual-casting of the previous films would be another element carried over into the reboot), and his attempts to prove otherwise are thwarted by the fact that, thanks to having Tron's data downloaded into his own mind, he gradually finds himself more and more capable of doing things only Tron could do (like hellacious lightcycling). Basically, the whole thing mixes elements of the previous films with classic "mistaken identity/wrong man" tropes and a dash of "WarGames" to raise the stakes dramatically from the video-game framework of the original film; as for the look of the film...basically, imagine classic Greek or Roman motifs, historical AND mythological, with light-piped fashions and architecture and that gives you at least SOME idea of the visual style I'd aim for.
* A 'monster rally' version of Yojimbo/A Fistful Of Dollars, with vampires in one camp, werewolves in the other, and the lone stranger looking to pit them against each other being Frankenstein's Monster. I'd probably set it in December in 1823, when the Monroe Doctrine was drafted (I would have gone with having it set during the Revolutionary War, but neither "Frankenstein" (1818) nor "Dracula" (1897) would have been published yet - vampires at least had been in print since the 18th century; and since Hammer's "Curse of the Werewolf" is set in the same century that makes the choice of time fairly obvious for me in order to bring the Monster into things).
* This one's gonna be more blasphemous than the others, but here goes: a mysterious-bordering-on-supernatural re-imagining of Knight Rider, less Glen Larson and more Stephen King - if there's any humor creeping in, it tends to be of a surreal, dark kind more in the direction of "The Addams Family" than "Starsky & Hutch". I mean, sure, the initial premise is all there - presumed-dead crimefighter Michael Knight and his talking supercar partner KITT, working for Devon Miles on an endless mission to bring down the corrupt; and it even starts out following the basic set-up of the pilot episode "Knight Of The Phoenix" - cop Michael Long is betrayed and left for dead - but past that, things would get really weird really fast and would probably not go over too terribly well with 'hardcore' fans. Michael wakes up in a crummy, dingy motel room in a BODY he doesn't recognize (not just the face), and waiting for him is Devon Miles, who tells him he's been recruited as a member of FLAG - never once is it called the Foundation for Law and Government, to keep the mystery afloat - to help battle the forces of corruption, to right wrongs and avenge those who can't fight for themselves. Devon disappears shortly thereafter but develops an irritating habit of always, ALWAYS finding Michael no matter where the young man goes - so Devon is perpetually in this "Don't try to contact me; I'll find you" mode, disappearing again just as mysteriously as he shows up. KITT's introduction just makes things even more bizarre: the smart-aleck in me would probably put him back into a black '82 Pontiac Trans Am...that is, a black '82 Pontiac Trans Am with faded paint, a cracked windshield, beat up, patched, rusted and with a nice dent wedged into the front edge of the hood where you can see this weird reddish-orange glow that looks a lot more like the engine's on fire than it does an oscillating forward sensor. As for KITT's interior - no advanced computer controls; just the early-'80s dashboard standards...even the way KITT talks comes from vintage '80s Hollywood: he speaks through the static frequencies of the car's radio, akin to Carol Anne through the TV in "Poltergeist". But the thing is that it's NEVER established just how KITT came to be - is he possessed? Controlled by aliens? Or is he in fact computerized and this is just somebody's way of screwing with Michael's already-frazzled head?
There's more, but those are just off the top of my head.
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Two things I'd love to watch:
A down to earth, non-jingoistic (Oscar bait-ty, if you must) account of the five years of American occupation of South Korea after its liberation from Japan post-WWII. How John Hodge's delegation had to come at a moment's notice, without translators, without knowledge of the land, how they had to deal with, and stifle, the local attempts to form their own government for the sake of preventing comunism, and how it all led to the hugely devastating Korean War. Maybe two POVs - an official from the US Military Government and a S. Korean peasant. A big, sprawling epic with plenty of tragic touches.
A "Social Network"-esque account of the forming of Image Comics in 1992 that deals with those hot young talents in comics, their gigantic success, how they all eventually succumb to ego, hubris and irresponsability, and how they ultimately bring the whole comics industry down with them. Christian Bale as McFarlane, etc.
NOT writen by Rob Liefeld.
A down to earth, non-jingoistic (Oscar bait-ty, if you must) account of the five years of American occupation of South Korea after its liberation from Japan post-WWII. How John Hodge's delegation had to come at a moment's notice, without translators, without knowledge of the land, how they had to deal with, and stifle, the local attempts to form their own government for the sake of preventing comunism, and how it all led to the hugely devastating Korean War. Maybe two POVs - an official from the US Military Government and a S. Korean peasant. A big, sprawling epic with plenty of tragic touches.
A "Social Network"-esque account of the forming of Image Comics in 1992 that deals with those hot young talents in comics, their gigantic success, how they all eventually succumb to ego, hubris and irresponsability, and how they ultimately bring the whole comics industry down with them. Christian Bale as McFarlane, etc.
NOT writen by Rob Liefeld.
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I have no idea what you're talking about
there's been a Dragon Ball: Evolution live action movie which was released in 2009.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1098327/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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I know lol. But.....**** that movie, I always try to enjoy every movie no matter how stupid it is... I turned that thing off about 20 minutes in.
I'm gonna make a Dragon Ball Z fan cast to express my inner child's anger
I'm gonna make a Dragon Ball Z fan cast to express my inner child's anger
wow, looks like i may get one of my wishlist films.
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni55888998/
James Cameron Will Develop Battle Angel in 2017, After Avatar 3
Filmmaker James Cameron is currently prepping his Pandora-set sequels Avatar 2 and Avatar 3, which do not officially have release dates set at this time. Once that trilogy is complete, the writer-director confirmed he is moving on to develop Battle Angel in the year 2017.
The filmmaker revealed the news at the Tag Df technology forum in Mexico City. Take a look at a segment of James Cameron's conversation with Alfonso Cuarón , where he discusses the 3D in current blockbusters such as Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel, then read on for more information.
It isn't known if Avatar 3 will be released in 2017 or before then. Actress Zoe Saldana revealed in May that the filmmaker wants to shoot both Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 back-to-back sometime in 2014.
This news falls in line with comments James Cameron made in September, where he said he wants to focus on .
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Here's my idea for a huge sci-fi epic that I've been planning for years and IMO is better than any other ideas I have by miles. I hope
The entire planet has been struck with a disease that severely affects physicality and brain function, reducing the person to a shell of their former selves and after six months, killing them. Once a person has it, they're contagious. Just short of a decade before, the world was plagued by nuclear war and shocking geographical changes resulting in the world becoming very different to how we know it now. This massive Skynet/Apple-esque global corporation, Medicol, with huge amounts of political and consumer power attempts to develop a cure, however it is no use.
"In a world of disease, the man with the cure is God."
To counter it, the CEO of the corporation, Jonathan Hunt (Ralph Fiennes), conceives a plan to move the human population elsewhere. Not to space, not an uninfected area. The sky. They develop vast, floating cities named "Sky Cities" which would house the surviving people of Earth. Any infected humans would be left on Earth.
1000 Years Later. The Sky Cities are the official home of the human population, connected via wireless signals across the globe. The world we live in is now purely digital, with the ability for governments and corporation to simply watch anything you do and you can't do anything to stop them. If you disagree, you're banished onto the Earth below where you'll die after six months at least, either from the disease or tortured/murdered by one of the several terrorist factions living there. Of course, this is unseen to the public and the theme that they are living in a perfect Utopian society has been forced down their throats so much over the centuries that they believe it. The powers-that-be choose what the public are taught, what they're told, what they believe.
All knowledge and history of the planet Earth from pre-Sky City times has been eradicated and replaced with the alternative, which glamorizes Medicol. Hunt is worshipped as the God who created Earth, with Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the rest completely unknown. However, the public has never seen Hunt. Not for a very long time. The only person alive who claims to have is his personal attorney/current CEO of Medico, Alexander Gaunt (Michael Emerson).
The military for Medico work in a dark, top-secret Area 51-esque floating cube below the other cities and that's where we meet our protagonist. Ryan Janek (Tom Hardy) is 31, good-looking, healthy, athletic and works as a soldier for the army. He is constantly praised as the best of the bunch, often teased with a promotion. When that opportunity comes again, the way to get there is to succeed on leading a mission to London where a local tribe have taken over a outlook post near there.
London is not like it is now. Remember I mentioned 'geographical changes' earlier? London is underwater. The sea level reaches about halfway up Big Ben and anyone living there gets around on wooden boats. Floating amongst buildings that used to be taller than the eye could see. Janek leads a small team down there and soon reaches the outpost, scorched with forgotten flames from a siege. They sneak quietly in and scout out the place. It's empty. They continue for a few more hours, yet no one shows up. They get back in their ship and wait it out until nightfall, when the entire city comes alive. Candles are lighted from the darkness and float out onto the water - soon the entirety of it is covered with small lights.
This is the first big action set piece. The tribe makes their appearance, and they're barely humans. They've evolved and been mutated so much to the point that their skin is bright blue and rough with black eyes and a hood over their heads. On the landing outside the main bridge they bring out a chained worker in some kind of horrific execution ceremony, preparing to throw him in the water.
That's when they make their move. Janek charges forward with his soldiers and attacks, in a fight that that spreads across the entire outpost and leaves it in flames. After a few more explosions, the place begins to sink. This new breed of humanity clearly isn't particularly smart. Janek and the survivors escape along with the rescued prisoners, while the tribe drown.
When he returns to The Cube, the entire army cheer him as he brings in every single rescued man and woman. Mere days later he's awarded with the promotion to general and that gives him the ability to attend a high-profile dinner party in a few nights, and be able to serve at the dozens of other outposts located across the planet.
Janek attends the party - he's the youngest there. Here he meets Alexander Gaunt who is hosting the evening and commends him on his bravery. So far so good, he's made some connections with more powerful people than he. Then the entertainment starts. A classic gladiatorial-style arena (but much smaller) is situated below the main floor where a bald, fat, beaten and bruised man steps out. However, he is more machine than man - a grey, thick chord runs up his back where his spine is and connects to various different places around his body with it beginning at the top of the head. A kind of back brace connecting the digital world to his conscience. A cyborg. In opposition, a large mutated bear-like animal steps out to confront the slave. It roars, and the audience cheers. Gaunt stands silently with a cold smile on his face. Everyone seems to be having a great time, all except Janek, who is utterly disgusted. He remains quiet and thinks he better stay that way if he wants to keep his job but has no choice but to watch on as pure barbarian entertainment unfolds in front of his eyes. The animal has the clear advantage, the slave being weak and slow from obvious prior attacks. It tears into his body, ripping off his right arm and throwing him easily to the floor. The bear wins. The crowd chant horrible abuse towards the slave, laughing at him. Two guards appear and drag his body off, leaving a trail of blood in his wake...
In the middle of the night, Janek heads to the holding cells to find the slave. After a while searching he finds him, barely alive. The slave sees him and recognises him instantly from the evening. The only reason he is still alive is because the robotics attached to his body include a life support machine. As long as it's running, the power from that will keep him alive no matter how bad the injury. The slave says his name is Darex and asks for him to turn off the life support. Janek doesn't want to. He wants to return him to his family living on the Earth, who Darex has told him about. He gives him their location and says to bring his body so he can be buried alongside his ancestors. Complying with his last wish, he turns off the life support.
Janek steals a ship and flies to the co-ordinates Darex gave him. A place in Scotland. At first the family are terrified, hiding in the house and convinced he's there to kill them. But once Janek explains that to his wife that he was sent here by her husband she is convinced. They bury him in a field behind their home wear dozens of others from throughout the centuries have also been buried. Janek did the right thing. Suddenly, an explosion rocks the area. Gunfire from the mountainside. Janek fears that it's the military who have discovered him, and orders the family to get in the house. After a mere few seconds of being inside a small missile fires out of nowhere and rocks the house, blowing it up. More soldiers charge towards Janek, firing electrical charges as he attempts to dodge them. Finally, one hits him and he blacks out.
From here on out it's really muddled, I haven't thought much about it except the ending and characters. The people firing at Janek were not Medico soldiers, but they were from the rebellion. Their name is uttered several times throughout the movie with no explanation, but here we get one. For the past few hundred years they've been the force of reckoning against Medico and their supposed terrorist-esque nature. Their hackers have recovered several leaked files and documents supporting this, however the corporation in question tells the public this group are terrorists themselves and they've been at war ever since, in secret.
Janek meets their leader Xandar (Liam Neeson) and his daughter (Anne Hathaway), who brings food to his cell and, secretly, becomes his close friend. He is kept for weeks until they figure out what to do with him, as Medico order full strikes against the known rebel bases. He finally finds out what they want him for - access into Medico's base of operations. Hacked documents have told them that there is a cure for the disease on Earth, and has been for some time. Xandar's daughter is infected with it and has six months to live. They want Janek to steal it for them.
From here on it gets even more muddled. I haven't really planned it at all but Janek agrees and goes there and the big finale is going to be the destruction of a whole sky city. Janek uncovers two massive secrets: Gaunt is a robot. Before he de-commissions him, he finally meets Jonathan Hunt...
The AI. Hunt was just a normal human who died shortly after the Sky Cities first floated up there. His conscience was uploaded into a computer and he runs the day-to-day operations of the entire network. He cannot be seen, heard and is incomprehensible; in several ways, he is God.
Janek gets a sample of the cure and manages to escape back down to the rebellion and saves the daughter's life. However, due to the wounds inflicted on him by the destruction, Janek can no longer function as a normal human. He too is now a cyborg. This gives him prolonged life, and he lives on helping the rebellion expose Medico's secrets. There's two sequels planned but I won't go into details here.
What do you guys think? Things like names (Medico isn't exactly sinister) etc need work and I want to include some elements that make it different from the typical summer blockbuster. It's essentially a commentary on religion, racism and class equality - along with a dash of environmentalism.
This sounds amazing. Seriously. I would watch this in a second. And nice cast. Dat Hardy
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Nicholas Cage plays Nicholas Cage in...Nicholas Cage.
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A prequel to Wes Craven's A Nightmare On Elm Street, depicting Freddy's time as The Springwood Slasher, abducting and killing the children of Elm Street. It will star Robert Englund as Freddy, and end with his trial, getting released on a technicality, and eventually being burned to death by a lynch mob.
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This sounds amazing. Seriously. I would watch this in a second. And nice cast. Dat Hardy
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Immortal (working title)
Contemporary, grounded science-fiction drama about a man called Jacob (Michael Fassbender) who has not aged since 1885. He's completely lost the meaning of life, referring to his existence as the "prolonging of death".
A young student (Carey Mulligan) is working on a school project where she notices the same man (Jacob) appear in several old photos from different points in time. She tracks him down however he wants nothing to do with her. The main plot revolves around the two falling in love and the student's brother, a medical scientist, trying to gain a sample of Jacob's blood as he believes it will have the ability to cure things like cancer, AIDS etc along with improve life qualities.
However that storyline may be cut out. Thoughts?
Contemporary, grounded science-fiction drama about a man called Jacob (Michael Fassbender) who has not aged since 1885. He's completely lost the meaning of life, referring to his existence as the "prolonging of death".
A young student (Carey Mulligan) is working on a school project where she notices the same man (Jacob) appear in several old photos from different points in time. She tracks him down however he wants nothing to do with her. The main plot revolves around the two falling in love and the student's brother, a medical scientist, trying to gain a sample of Jacob's blood as he believes it will have the ability to cure things like cancer, AIDS etc along with improve life qualities.
However that storyline may be cut out. Thoughts?
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