Your Movie Idea Thread

[Doctor Jones]

A thread where people can feel free to express their movie ideas that they've thought up with and share.

This thread will probably flop, but it's a cool idea. They don't have to be detailed, just an idea that's been in your head to maybe something you've really been wanting to share. The genre can be anything you want.

Who would you cast in them? Who would you have direct or write, etc?

Feedback is always welcome as well.

 

[MadVillainy]

damn double post

 

[MadVillainy]

A High School Noir Story. I really liked the idea of Brick (2006) which was a modern noir set in high school. But the film had so much dialouge that is from the 50s that not everyone could understand. So I would like to make a film that can connect to ppl who actually know what noir is and those who dont know

I dont know a cast except I would like to have Shannon Marie Woodward in a role

 

[Doctor Jones]

My run down of my Left 4 Dead script. If anyone's played the game.

You know that cut scene opening in the game? I wrote that and put it in the script. They wind up on the rooftop and decide they need to make their way to the hosptial, last they heard that's where the army took survivors away. After making it across the street with infected (I never refer to them as zombies in the script, but as infected) they make it to the hospital, completely empty. Zoey finds a transiver in the front desk. They go through the hospital and a horde of infected patients attack. They're facing elevators, they get in them just in time. Inside the elevator, they feel something move the elevator. Francis goes to check, he screams, they think something happend, but he's just kidding (Francis is the cheekiest character in the script) He tells them he threw one off the elevator. Bill reminds him he threw him downwards and they hear sounds of infected crawling up the elevator shaft.

They escape to the next floor and make it to the roof where they make their stand in the game and call for help. They figh toff infected, the helicopter comes, he tells them how the icty is infected, and the army has moved out, the last known place was Riverside of survivors and the army. And the survivors are now at an army base called Fort Thompson. The pilot is infected and he crashes the helicopter. Everyone is knocked out. Zoey wakes up first and discovers they are in a large tree. Knowing the infected oculd of heard it or see the smoke she wakes everyone.

They make there way across the national park and come to a ranger's outpost to load up on supples and food. Infected are surrounding the outside of the outpost. Now this scene is like Dog Soldiers if you've seen that. But Francis is a distraction and lights flares and jumps out from the roof of the outpost into the forest to lead the infected towards him while Zoey runs to the other side of the park and undoes a cover leading to the sewers. After many missaps, they make it into the sewers escaping the infected. Though they think Francis didn't make it he appears scaring Zoey. He's like a big brother to her.

The travel along the sewers and appear on a road at night when it's raining. A church sits next to the road. They reach the church and encounter the paranoid preist. They bust down the door and the priest is infected as a Smoker. He tries to strangle Bill until Zoey shoots it's head off. They go upstais and catch up on supplies and they need a vehicle to get to Riverside.

They discover a van owend by the priest in the garage and drive to Riverside. On the road, an infected takes notice and starts to follow them along with others.

They reach Riverside and are out of gas. They fill it up at a gas station. Louis says he has a bad feeling and he's right. Infected start to pour in. They get in the van and drive to the docks to get a boat. They crash into a house and scatter to the docks. They get in the boat and cast off. Infected can't swim.

Zoey discovers she was scratched. Bill is about to kill her when Louis stops him. They fight and Zoey is knocked out. She awkakens to men in suits boarding the boat and injecting her. She wakes up in a survivor camp deep in the woods run by the army.

After interaction, the army unviels that they will migrate towards Fort Thompson. Bill warns them that doing it at night will be more dangerous, they of course ignore him.

Bill plans to leave earlier until infected attack the camp. It's panamonium, but the group manages to escape in a jeep with one amry truck with them.

They stop on a road and discuss about where to go. Louis is wounded from earlier on. A leg thing. A nod to Jurassic Park when he's in the back of the truck and feels the ground shake.

*That is where I was last, the rest is what I planned*

It's a Tank and it chases the group down the road. They get to a whole road filled with abandoned cars. They get out and run between the unmvoing cars as the Tank chases them plowing through it. The army men don't make it but they escape.

There are other scenes but eventually I planned for Francis to sacrifice himself and they make it to the Fort.

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It got erased unfortunately and I hope to start another draft soon. There's some changes i still need to make. I'm struggling to decide if this can be a straight up fun horror film or something with a theme that says something. Right now I'm favoring the former but we'll see.

 

[Jochimus]

What would I make?

Probably one of two story ideas I've had in the back of my head the last several years, both of which I guess could almost be considered superhero movies in the loosest sense - they both involve heroes with what could be described as decidedly non-human abilities.

The difference between the two films would be that one idea is more of an upbeat sci-fi action-comedy in the vein of BTTF or Ghostbusters that also doubles as a love letter to one of my favorite bad-movie genres - the killer shark flick;
whereas the other is a much more serious film involving a Body Snatchers/The Thing-type 'takeover' invasion of a small town and the protagonist caught in the middle of it happens to be undergoing a much more harrowing genetic mutation on the order of Brundlefly, and as a result he ends up having to use his newfound abilities to fight for his life against an entire horde of mutations.

As for writing, directing, or casting, heck if I know. In either case, the hero in each one would probably be played by someone you really not expect to play a part like that - heck, the alien-mutation story would have to involve the poor guy being caked in pound after pound of rubber once the second hour kicks into high gear.

 

[8wid]

I've long considered a strong idea of a Cloverfield-esque film where an ancient Reptilian attacks the a major American city or a small distant village. Personally I liked the concept of a dinosaur on the loose in The Lost World, however weak it was done. Imagine a modern episode of this if it were considered a living fossil if a creature survived the asteroid collision somehow.

Even if the extinct creature was a giant sea turtle or fish, it would be an interesting science fiction epic if through the eyes of a scientific research team tracking cryptids in the oceans or rainforests of the world, what findings could be made or how dangerous the line of work is, if it killed the entire team.

 

[WeaponXProject]

1. A Beauty and the Beast-esque story taken in a darker tone from the Beast's point of view. A man made to a demon from his defiant decisions against God. He lives on his own in partially burnt down church in a less technological age than now. All he has to talk to is a gargoyle statue that doesn't return the favor. He hides in his church from everyone right outside of a small farming town until he meets a young woman curious of the church.

2. A dracula origin story similar to the Historian book. Vlad Tepes, the Impaler, becomming Dracula.

3. A futuristic military themed war film of Starship Troopers sense against humanoid creatures similar to us in intelligence and technology.

4. A Investigative thriller about how a detective's unsolved case comes back to haunt him. Evidence begins to come together placing the detective himself as a suspect and he comes to believe someone is following him.

 

[Doctor Jones]

A heist film with The Thomas Crown Affair meets The Usual Suspects meets Ocean's Eleven. A group of thives have to steal a famed painting in the Louvre.

A detective thriller type of film where murders happen all around some major city. A detective reluctantly takes on a reporter as the two try to solve the crime together. The detective in it for wanting to catch him, the reporter with his own intentions but gets cought up in it with the detective.

A british crime film about a one criminal meeting the other in the same interwining heist but one gets the other one caught by mistake. Both are released and one finds out he owes a big crime boss his money. They have to work together to steal the money without getting caught while a detective (A Stephen Fry type) is hot on their trail.

A origin mob story detailing the rise and fall of a fictional crime lord in the Italian mob. From his childhood all the way to old age where times change gradually. I called it The Big Times.

 

[Thundarr]

My working title for this movie is "Camp Blood", though I may have to change that because there's already a series of movies by that name. The idea is Camp Blood is a summer camp for young horror fans. The teens are there for 2 weeks. Week #1 is like any other summer camp, they go hiking, swimming, canoing, hoseback riding, archery, etc. The second week, a "psycho killer" starts "picking off" the campers one by one. This is all just a gag though, like those murder mystery parties. The "killer" attacks his "victims" with rubber axes and plastic knives with retractible blades. Once "killed", the campers go to a luxery cabin deep in the woods to wait out the rest of their stay. But this year, the actor that the camp hired to play the psycho killer is killed by an actual homicidal maniac, who takes over the role for real.

The working title of my next movie idea is Omega Force 7. It's an epic sci-fi action movie. A peaceful planet in a distant galaxy is attacked by an unknown enemy. The invaders are vicious, cruel, and ruthless, butchering women, children, and elderly with hardly a thought. Their identities are completely unknown because they wear helmets with tinted visors. The aliens who are under attack are humanoid, but don't look quite human. They're hairless, have only 3 fingers on each hand, different colour skin, etc. They finally manage to mobilize their military and turn the tide of battle. At the end of the final battle scene, one of the invading soldiers' helmet comes off when he's shot. The storys hero walks up, takes a look at the invader and says "Damn, they're ugly!" Then the camera pans down to the dead invader, and it's a human, wearing a uniform which reads "U.S. Army".

The Body Smasher. This is a novel about a bunch of communist terrorists planning to set off a nuclear explosion at The World Wrestling & Weight Lifting Games in New York City. The head of the CIA recruits an old army buddy of his. They were in the special forces together. In order to infiltrate the games he has to take a crash course in catch as catch can wrestling, by non other than the manager of champions Captain Lou Albano. Needless to say the hero, Rick Harrison, kicks some ass, saves the day, and gets the girl.

 

[Thundarr]

A live action adaptation of Thundarr The Barbarian.

 

[Commodore Schmidlapp]

I had an idea for a movie about a football player called "Mr. Irrelevant" Which is obviously about the last pick in the NFL draft. The movie would be about this player being drafted and going through an NFL camp trying to just make the team. All the crap he has to go through just to get a shot. In the end he'd be cut, but the movie would be about the journey through the summer.

 

[Hierofan]

Otopeni - about the events that happend there in 1989, shot Bloody Sunday style
Solus - after my book

 

[Sarge 2.0]

I've never really considered making movies or anything, but I've always thought that Kelly Reichardt makes the kind of films I'd like to make if I were a director.

 

[chaseter]

This smells like: give Fox movie ideas thread!