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Post by kims on May 20, 2023 18:15:34 GMT
Any genre, any stars, directors, etc from any time period. Doesn't have to be a full blown screenplay.
I'd do a suspense/mystery on the Trans-Siberian railway after the Russian Revolution. Scorsese direct because he did wonderful period film AGE OF INNOCENCE. The locales along the railway are diverse with varied cultures along the way.
The characters would be a few Europeans and Russian aristocrats trying to get out of the country by getting to the far east and on to Shanghai. There would be counter revolutionaries in disguise and red army going east to control the eastern cities. Maybe some danger from Chinese as the train gets close to the border. The main character should be sinister, ambiguous for he is a Communist official maybe more Trotsky than Lenin, but gives advice to those trying to escape Russia. Is it a trick, is he defecting? And of course, that has to be played by Yul Brynner.
Actors like David Niven and Vanessa Redgrave as Europeans. Russian aristocrats played by Martina Hunt and Alec Guinness Gregory Ratoff.
There have to be a variety of Russian peasants on the train, some political prisoners on the way to Gulag.
As I say doesn't need to be specific. I'm interested in what others would make into a film.
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Post by Guest on May 20, 2023 20:25:04 GMT
Good idea for a thread, kims.
This may not be exactly what you wanted but I always thought someone could do a Joe Louis bio-pic. I know about 1953's The Joe Louis Story but thought there's room for another one. Maybe get a newcomer to star.
I read a book called "After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story.". The writer's father was a reporter in Chicago. The author investigates the mysterious circumstances behind his father's death who was found on the street in 1970. He left behind his wife and young kids. Think Mad Men Noir with newspaper reporters rather than ad men. Mid-century smoking drinking, carousing, hard bitten reporters. David Mamet could do the screenplay. Maybe Eddie Muller could get a cameo.
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Post by kims on May 20, 2023 20:49:09 GMT
Louis deserves a better bio-pick and I love the idea of a Mad Men Noir, especially a Muller cameo.
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Post by kims on May 21, 2023 22:18:50 GMT
I am surprised that with over fifty views only one other person ever thought of a film they'd make. Hopefully no one is shy. Of course, I could never write a movie, but since retirement I've had time to think about extraneous ideas  |
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Post by Guest on May 22, 2023 1:45:55 GMT
I am surprised that with over fifty views only one other person ever thought of a film they'd make. Hopefully no one is shy. Of course, I could never write a movie, but since retirement I've had time to think about extraneous ideas I'll add another one to help jump star the discussion: Catcher in the Rye. Salinger refused all offers to have his most famous work turned into a movie after a bad earlier experience with a Hollywood adaptation, My Foolish Heart. Billy Wilder, Spielberg, Brando, Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio among others all tried to get a version approved. Salinger was probably right, Hollywood would just screw it up. But ... my dream production would be directed by Elia Kazan and starring River Phoenix. |
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Post by kims on May 22, 2023 15:05:52 GMT
I'll give a film that should be made.
Paramount announced "it is time" to remake the KING AND I. Presumably to the dreaded words be racially correct. With the hope that the disappointment of the WESTSIDE STORY remake box office, Paramount will pause the idea. Not that the original ANNA AND THE KING or THE KING AND I are untouchable, but the more relevant film should be ANNA IN SIAM.
This film would be about the lengths a person would go to hide her mixed heritage in order to enjoy the full privileges of British citizenship, the lack of knowledge of most Europeans and Americans who accepted her stories in spite of British and Americans who had lived in Siam who said her books were fabrications. In fact, her books were in her lifetime reclassified as fiction.
The film should start not with her early life, but in Siam showing that Anna did not have access to the King as she said, that the King prior to her arrival gave lavish European style banquets for the foreigners, that the only correspondence work she did was at the King's request correct any errors in his grammar.
That she is mixed race is revealed when she refuses to acknowledge the British officer who sees her in Siam and the correspondence from her sister inquiring what happened to her and Anna's genuine letter, that if she ever sees any of her family again, she will not know them, never write them and they should not contact her again.
The final part of the film would be showing Anna writing and lecturing and how she continually embellishes the stories to show how a brave, pure white woman could bring a savage country into civilization.
There needs to be a screenwriter and director who can tell the story based on academic sources and the book MASKED and tell without preaching. I would get a Thai historian to contribute to the first half of the film and biographers of Anna to contribute to the second half. I think Paramount should consider "that it's time" for the true story of Anna.
I think the film should end with the actual incident of 1897. The prince, now King, invited Anna to visit him at the Thailand legation in London. He confronted her about her stories making the former King look cruel and the whole world laughing at him. Anna replied that the King was cruel, ridiculous and wicked refusing to deny the stories which made her a celebrity. After the audience the now King orders to send her 100 pounds, she meant no harm and she needs it.
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Post by NoShear on May 22, 2023 21:46:32 GMT
I'll give a film that should be made. Paramount announced "it is time" to remake the KING AND I. Presumably to the dreaded words be racially correct. With the hope that the disappointment of the WESTSIDE STORY remake box office, Paramount will pause the idea. Not that the original ANNA AND THE KING or THE KING AND I are untouchable, but the more relevant film should be ANNA IN SIAM. This film would be about the lengths a person would go to hide her mixed heritage in order to enjoy the full privileges of British citizenship, the lack of knowledge of most Europeans and Americans who accepted her stories in spite of British and Americans who had lived in Siam who said her books were fabrications. In fact, her books were in her lifetime reclassified as fiction. The film should start not with her early life, but in Siam showing that Anna did not have access to the King as she said, that the King prior to her arrival gave lavish European style banquets for the foreigners, that the only correspondence work she did was at the King's request correct any errors in his grammar. That she is mixed race is revealed when she refuses to acknowledge the British officer who sees her in Siam and the correspondence from her sister inquiring what happened to her and Anna's genuine letter, that if she ever sees any of her family again, she will not know them, never write them and they should not contact her again. The final part of the film would be showing Anna writing and lecturing and how she continually embellishes the stories to show how a brave, pure white woman could bring a savage country into civilization. There needs to be a screenwriter and director who can tell the story based on academic sources and the book MASKED and tell without preaching. I would get a Thai historian to contribute to the first half of the film and biographers of Anna to contribute to the second half. I think Paramount should consider "that it's time" for the true story of Anna. I think the film should end with the actual incident of 1897. The prince, now King, invited Anna to visit him at the Thailand legation in London. He confronted her about her stories making the former King look cruel and the whole world laughing at him. Anna replied that the King was cruel, ridiculous and wicked refusing to deny the stories which made her a celebrity. After the audience the now King orders to send her 100 pounds, she meant no harm and she needs it. Of colonial Britain and a mixed-race element, kims... Dr. NO I have envisioned a period piece of the 1958 work which, if true to Ian Fleming's sixth James Bond novel, would present a problem of political incorrectness such as my wariness of even mentioning the name given the servient-yet-formidable black Chinese henchmen who carry out the specialized bidding for the freaky '58 title character. The mixed-race characters' possible influence - the 1955 anti-colonial Afro/Asian meeting known as the Bandung Conference - could be culled for the opening of the film a la the partial documentary style of JFK (1991). As to all that crawls in the Fleming piece, the 1962 adaptation only touched eight legs upon superspy Bond, so that left plenty of untapped appendages from the book to creep viewers out. NoShear |
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Post by kims on May 24, 2023 20:41:01 GMT
I read the Ian Fleming Bond books in high school-didn't he have a lot of wild character names that would be offensive today? Or maybe it was in the films which I also watched.
You are right, Anna's father was born in England and her mother's father was British, her mother Indian and unfortunately didn't merit having her name recorded. As such, Anna would be educated in a charity institution which function was to educate the mixed racial girls in domestic subjects and (holy cow) arrange for them to marry by fifteen a British man employed by the East India Company. Anna is to be applauded for her determination to avoid that fate. And it is sad the lengths she had to go to "pass."
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Post by NoShear on May 25, 2023 0:50:32 GMT
Re: "I read the Ian Fleming Bond books in high school-didn't he have a lot of wild character names that would be offensive today? Or maybe it was in the films which I also watched." Both, kims: The fifth chapter title of Ian Fleming's LIVE AND LET DIE was censored by Macmillan while some risque names such as Plenty O'Toole were created for the screen. |
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Post by Broadway on Jun 14, 2023 23:47:05 GMT
I would love to make more movies based on Damon Runyon's stories because I think they are quite amusing and the world needs more comedic gangster pictures. George Chandler would definitely need to be cast as Broadway (the narrator who was given a name in the Damon Runyon Theater radio show). The rest of the cast I don't have ideas on, but George Chandler would be perfect as Broadway. I think that every time I listen to the radio show or read the books.
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Post by kims on Jun 16, 2023 18:44:42 GMT
Damon Runyon's stories could be done in his time settings or updated to today.
I'm temporarily burnt out with superheroes, aliens, zombies. Would like some Fannie Hurst and Edna Ferber novels updated.
I'm in the mood for a western that the town women are featured as resourceful and enduring. There is a plethora (love that word) of westerns with the prostitute/saloon woman with the heart of gold while all the other townswomen are bigoted prigs (ex. STAGECOACH-and I love this movie) I'd like another with women like in THE OKLAHOMA KID and WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE.
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