Making your own movie

[theintensifier 0]

If you could make your own movie, what would it be about, who would star in it, etc?

 

The budget is, say $100,000,000.00

[Guest SP-1]

I'd make the first installment of a trilogy I've been kicking around in my head for a while.

 

I'm not sure on the casting. I'll have to think about it.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I'd launch a porn empire.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

I'd finally finish up my script for a zombie movie that I've been retooling for the past 4 years. Since 28 Days Later, Dawn '04, and Shaun of the Dead all did really good box office in the States, I have little doubt that it'd be made and released nationally, either.

 

TITLE: Necrominatia

PLOT: The RYA Corporation is the leading company in the field of pharmaceuticals, military technology, and owns several fast food, retail, and home entertainment franchises. They have been testing new drugs to be used as vaccines for various new forms of bio-terrorism (think Anthrax and other rare, often man-made, diseases), but the drugs have some weird side effects: the testees, be they human or animal, turn into flesh-craving zombies.

 

CHARACTERS

Brian Gibson: Gulf War veteran whose wife died in a chemical weapon attack in the Middle East during a peace mission for their Church, leading him to abandon his faith and constantly contemplate suicide. Gibson now works for RYA as the head of their security.

Hiro Ezaki: Served with Brian in the Gulf War, and has minor post-traumatic stress disorder. He was brought onto the security team by Gibson himself, and only works for RYA to pay for his teenage son's chemo, as he has another job at a local steel mill.

Dr. Herbert Lovecraft: Lead scientist in developing new vaccines for chemical weapons, doing so because his sister was/is Gibson's wife. Lovecraft hired Gibson to make him keep busy, possibly preventing his death.

Dr. George O'Bannon: Lovecraft's second-in-command, and has been secretly skimming company funds for the development of new vaccinations to build his dream house on the beach. O'Bannon greatly dislikes Gibson because of his attitude towards life, believing him to be a "slacker."

 

CASTING CALL

-Tyler Mane IS Brian Gibson

Mane has the grizzled veteran look to him, and has, surprisingly enough, displayed decent amounts of emotion in his lesser-known, independent releases (although, to be truthful, all of his roles but Sabretooth are lesser-known). I'd also like to see Mane use a shotgun to blow up a fire extinguisher, taking out a horde of the charging undead.

-Jason Scott Lee IS Hiro Ezaki

Lee shined as the legendary Bruce Lee in Dragon, and I don't see why he can't be a more "schizophrenic" character in Hiro. He wouldn't need to put in an Oscar-worthy performance, but he would need to be able to take himself seriously while also reciting many of his lines tongue-in-cheek, which he demonstrated he could do in The Jungle Book.

-Clu Gulagher IS Dr. Herbert Lovecraft

Clu played Bert in Return of the Living Dead, and it's high time he faced some more zombies! He was terrific as the caring yet somewhat asshole-ish warehouse manager, and the role of Dr. Lovecraft calls for a similar personality.

-Brad Dourif IS Dr. George O'Bannon

Dourif can pull off any role given to him, really. Plus, having the combination of Dourif (the voice of Chucky in the Child's Play series, and one of the main scientists in Alien Resurrection, amongst other horror roles) and Gulagher would HOPEFULLY satisfy the elitist horror fans.

[The Mandarin 0]

Jesus Christ, Equestrian Star.

 

Starring Tom Sizemore as "Phil".

[Guest SP-1]

Corey, was Hiro Ezaki inspired at all by SNOW CRASH?

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

Pfft. I could write a better Zombie movie than that. And a Canadian one at that!

 

Title: STEM CELL

Starring: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie, David Cronenberg, Sarah Polley, Genevieve Bujold, Dave Foley, Colm Feore, and Leslie Neilson.

 

Characters:

 

Don McKellar ~#*IS*#~ Pete Sanchez

Sandra Oh ~#*IS*#~ Rose Dipasquale.

CKR ~#*IS*#~ DUPONT

David Cronenberg ~#*IS*#~ Dr. Elliot Smalls

Colm Feore ~#*IS*#~ Dr. Stan Wright

Sarah Polley ~#*IS*#~ Beth

Genevieve Bujold ~#*IS*#~ Mme Lilian LaLace

Dave Foley ~#*IS*#~ The Mayor

Leslie Nielson ~#*IS*#~ Dr. Van Roi

Jeremy Piven ~#*IS*#~ Unsuspecting Victim #1

 

PLOT:

 

Stem Cell is what happens when science goes too far. When life is taken from the human body and is manipulated by those who want to play GOD. When that hollow shell, that piece of clay, spreads into it's host, trying to find that life it lost.

 

It is the year 2020 and biotechnology and medicine have come a long way. Breakthroughs in Stem Cell research have cured Cancer, AIDS, Paralysis, and even the common cold. After being saved from the pains of Male Pattern Baldness, Unsuspecting Victim #1 starts to feel a little dizzy and passes out on a sidewalk. Darkness. Pete Sanchez awakens to a new day and a new woman and a new world. All the patients who have had Stem Cells injected into them have been taken over by the Stem Cells and now seek plasma, the life force, to quench its unquenchable thrist for blood.

 

Sanchez's neighbour DUPONT is a bounty hunter who roams the neighbourhood searching to kill these Zombies - who have super stem cell enhanced power - and also recruit new freedom fighters.

 

Rose is the woman Sanchez woke up next to, her entire family had Stem Cell enhancement done, she is now alone and seeks the companionship Sanchez believes he can't offer her.

 

Dr. Smalls and Wright are the two scientists who made the breakthroughs in Stem Cell technology. Two men who hide a insidious secret and whose motives were not just for the betterment of mankind.

 

Dr Van Roi is a local physician who has been against Stem Cell research from the very beginning and prefers a more holistic solution to lifes ailments. He was part of The Mayors medical commitee before getting framed for corruption and ethic fraud by Smalls and Wright.

 

The Mayor is the Mayor of Toronto.

 

Beth is the first Stem Cell patient who went crazy because she believes she is a genetically altered super soldier and tried to take over the city on her own. She has some relationship with DUPONT, but it has yet to be discovered.

 

Mme LaLace runs a whorehouse and finds herself in a sticky situation when all of the clients and whores turn against her.

 

All of these personalities meet as they find themselves to be the last people in Toronto, and perhaps Canada, fighting for their freedom.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Sounds a whole lot like Rabid, Rudo. But hey, mine sounds like every other "zombies trap people in a building" movie, so we're even.

 

But yours would definitely be the funnier of the two.

 

And no, SP, Ezaki was not based off Snow Crash. I haven't even seen that.

[The Mandarin 0]

Jeremy Piven ~#*IS*#~ Unsuspecting Victim #1

 

Your movie should be made as of this moment.

 

I'm an old-school Piven fan. Heat, Serendipity. None of that new "Ari" shit (although I hear it's good).

[Tawren 0]

RRR, your idea is lacking. Toss in some Ron Glass. Then we'll talk.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

Yeah well, YOU are lacking.

 

How about a Zombie movie in... THE ARCTIC! It can be all arty and stuff and have subtitles like Atanarjuat, but with Zombies. Don McKeller can be the apathetic RCMP officer who must face the undead army, and Sandra Oh can be the Arctic Ice Princess who warms his heart. Callum Keith Renne can be the local truck driver who has problems with the sauce.

 

RRR: Hoping SOMEONE gets the Last Night references.

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

Memoirs of Chevy Chase

 

Plot: A Satire chornicalling the end of Chevy's career. The drugs, debauchary, critical assasination he endured.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Hooiser Whores Vol 2.

[Mole 0]

You're all about the porn AoO.

[ArkhamGlobe 0]

Perhaps I should go for a bizarre spaghetti western I was thinking about a few years ago. Basically a vengeful ghost (this part would preferably be left ambiguos) returning to take down a warlord who's enslaved a small mining community. The warlord would be based on MacBeth, his wife on Medea, and his mistress on Lady MacBeth. Basically it would all end in a revolt from the community with a huge, spectacular battle scene. After the dust has settled we see the warlord walking around the ruins of his fortress coming across the vengeful ghost.

 

Warlord: "I thought I killed you"

 

Ghost: "You did"

 

Bang. Ghost kills warlord. Granted, this would all probably be pretty silly (not just because I'm ripping stuff off left and right) but it's a fun concept to play around with.

[Richard 0]

I'd like to do a movie where the blue states secede from the union to form the Democratic States of America. Of course Bush won't let this happen without a fight, and the second civil war breaks out.

[godthedog 0]

I'd make the first installment of a trilogy I've been kicking around in my head for a while.

 

I'm not sure on the casting. I'll have to think about it.

don't think you could find a way to possibly stretch that one hundred million dollars to three movies?

[Guest SP-1]

Probably, yes. But I'd spend what I needed to (reasonably) on the first and concentrate on that.

[Guest SP-1]

Sounds a whole lot like Rabid, Rudo. But hey, mine sounds like every other "zombies trap people in a building" movie, so we're even.

 

But yours would definitely be the funnier of the two.

 

And no, SP, Ezaki was not based off Snow Crash. I haven't even seen that.

It's a book. And a good one. The hero's name is "Hiro Protagonist". I'd recommend it. Cerebreal action syber-punk thriller.