What would a billion dollar movie look like?

[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?

 

[dude stannis]

4 Avatars.

 

[Octoberist]

The thing is that, I don't know what can justify a 1 billion dollar movie. I guess the CG would be picture perfect and the scope huge.

 

[dude stannis]

With a billion dollars you wouldn't need CG. I'm sure you could do anything you wanted practically.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I thought they were calling it MIB3.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Some sources put the 1960's Russian film war and peace at an adjusted 700 million dollar budget in today's money.

 

[Iron_Stark]

Secret Wars with DC heroes and villains involved.

 

[Lighthouse]

It really depends on who the creative team behind the film would be, and where you would film it. There are a lot of 250 million dollar movies that look far, far worse then some that cost 100 million less. Not to pick on John Carter, but Stanton's production technique, basically reshooting a great deal of the movie, cost that film far more then it normally would have.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

A 2 or 3 year movie shoot at expensive locations.

 

[chaseter]

The creation of actual superheroes through genetic manipulation.

 

[kvz5]

You could burn a good chunk of that with an A-List ensemble who gets 15-20M each.

 

[Sentinel X]

Definitely something absolutely groundbreaking from a technical standpoint in the film world. Avatar did this with its motion capture, cg, and 3D technology and ended up with a reported budget of 237 million dollars although many people believe it can be as high as 350 million.

So definitely something extremely epic that has never been done before. Like holograms. A lot of on location shooting. Maybe building authentic sets just to blow it up, like the hospital in the dark knight, or the bridge in matrix reloaded.

 

[Soapy]

 

[<(o_o)>]

It would look like a really great Transformers movie minus the humans.

 

[:eek:]

James Cameron building a space ship and going to Mars to make a movie

 

[Rocketman]

I imagine a billion-dollar movie as something that has to make 2+ billion at the box office, so it's something that not only jacks up the ticket prices like 3D does, but it's something substantially beyond 3D.

Just thinking outside the box here:

- A 3D movie without the use of glasses. It's 3D for real.
- A holographic film
- A hologram - a movie that literally comes out of the screen, and comes into the audience.
- The use of more than our two senses (sight and sound), but touch, smell, taste.

Any combination of these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2VusJwGTQQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deoOTqT-SMI

You're sitting in the theater, and the lightsaber fight between Luke and Vader suddenly comes out of the screen, and they're fighting up the aisles, right next to where you're sitting in the row. They fight up and down the aisles, walking to scale of real people, like they're regular folks in the theater... so, a movie that is seen from different angles according to where YOU'RE sitting in the theater. It's a different movie for everyone who goes, at that exact moment.

 

[dude stannis]

You could burn a good chunk of that with an A-List ensemble who gets 15-20M each.

So lets say you spend $200 million and get George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Christian Bale and Tom Cruise. You've still got $800 million left to make the film!

 

[redhawk23]

You could hire the Russian space agency and actually film in space.

 

[psylockolussus]

A sci-fi/action/adventure movie series that consists of 3 to 5 movies.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

an escape from New York remake...

where instead of using sets, they just rent New York for a year, destroy half the city, and then rebuild it

 

[marvelman2006]

Good question, I have a hard time envisioning what a $300 million movie looks like let alone a billion. It would have to have all of hollywoods ELITE A-listers along with avatar CGI told on the scale of Avatar/Star Wars/ Lord of the rings combined with expensive shoot locations and the best limo rides to work and the greatest lunches and double decker RV's for the crew. Also actually shoot in space with the actors.


Oh and Michael Bay should direct with an unlimited amount of resources at his disposal.

 

[Hotwire]

NO matter what it looked like, there would still be fanboys posting comments on it saying, "Meh."

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Don't know, but the only director that I can see handling something this ambitious is Uwe Boll.

 

[dude stannis]

That would be glorious.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

It would be.

- A movie with all A-Listers
- All shot in IMAX 3D
- Shot in hard to reach locations
- Other scenes are photorealisitic
- Lot's of fights and explosions
- A long movie, at least 3 hours long.