Ideas

[Jimmy Ellis]

Nov 19, 2019 23:16:48 GMT -7 Admin said:

Paramount doesn't appear to have much in the way of set plans for the franchise since Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows under-performed (I think they're planning on another reboot), so the studio would be willing to entertain a TMNT pitch.

Alright cool

[alextheman]

Does anyone think this could be a movie. This could maybe be a fun dark comedy and drama.

youtu.be/UyspgCFiR5w

[dgallo]

Nov 24, 2019 23:01:30 GMT -7 alextheman said:

Does anyone think this could be a movie. This could maybe be a fun dark comedy and drama.

youtu.be/UyspgCFiR5w

There's barely enough material there for a comedy skit, let alone an entire movie.

[Mo Buck Writers Association]

I see you want to make a political movie based on your last comments, but if I were you, I'd steer clear of politics. It rarely makes good movies. I would have plenty of inspiration to make a movie about Canadian politics, but once again as the others said before me, nothing to make a fully-fledged feature film.

[alextheman]

I was just thinking I’d love to write something for Macaulay Culkin.

[alextheman]

He’s actually really good even when he got older and he seems like a hip dude

[jacobj]

Would anyone be interested in a Ryan Fitzpatrick movie? I know he's not the best QB out there, but I think his history provides some merit to making a movie.

[All New Matt Parker]

Dec 6, 2019 15:15:41 GMT -7 jacobj said:

Would anyone be interested in a Ryan Fitzpatrick movie? I know he's not the best QB out there, but I think his history provides some merit to making a movie.

I'm not sure exactly what you think about his story is film worthy. Sure, he finished the Wonderlic quickly (and scored 48/50), but his career has been that of mostly mediocrity (career journeyman with average to below average stats for his position for the bulk of his career). I feel there are only a couple of quarterbacks that could really warrant a film about their life: Joe Namath and Kurt Warner (for completely different reasons).

[jacobj]

Dec 6, 2019 19:55:06 GMT -7 All New Matt Parker said:

Dec 6, 2019 15:15:41 GMT -7 jacobj said:

Would anyone be interested in a Ryan Fitzpatrick movie? I know he's not the best QB out there, but I think his history provides some merit to making a movie.

I'm not sure exactly what you think about his story is film worthy. Sure, he finished the Wonderlic quickly (and scored 48/50), but his career has been that of mostly mediocrity (career journeyman with average to below average stats for his position for the bulk of his career). I feel there are only a couple of quarterbacks that could really warrant a film about their life: Joe Namath and Kurt Warner (for completely different reasons).

There has been a noted pattern about him regarding his career. Whenever he's signed onto a new team, the star QB gets injured and he gets a chance to play. He dominates for a good stretch, giving his team faith. But then his play gets exposed and his team loses faith in him, sending him away to another team and the cycle repeats. 

That said, I have to enter Ryan Leaf and Johnny Manziel in the conversation in as a quarterbacks who deserves their own movies. These are two of the most prolific busts in NFL history and a story based on them could be excellent if handled correctly.

[Chad Taylor]

Dec 7, 2019 0:07:05 GMT -7 jacobj said:

Dec 6, 2019 19:55:06 GMT -7 All New Matt Parker said:

I'm not sure exactly what you think about his story is film worthy. Sure, he finished the Wonderlic quickly (and scored 48/50), but his career has been that of mostly mediocrity (career journeyman with average to below average stats for his position for the bulk of his career). I feel there are only a couple of quarterbacks that could really warrant a film about their life: Joe Namath and Kurt Warner (for completely different reasons).

There has been a noted pattern about him regarding his career. Whenever he's signed onto a new team, the star QB gets injured and he gets a chance to play. He dominates for a good stretch, giving his team faith. But then his play gets exposed and his team loses faith in him, sending him away to another team and the cycle repeats. 

That said, I have to enter Ryan Leaf and Johnny Manziel in the conversation in as a quarterbacks who deserves their own movies. These are two of the most prolific busts in NFL history and a story based on them could be excellent if handled correctly.

Maybe it is just me but it's hard for me to imagine a movie about busts in that vein. Maybe it's because sports films tend to follow a similar, uplifting formula? There's nothing wrong with breaking that, obviously. With Leaf and Manziel, your protagonists would be cocky athletes who get their comeuppance when they fail on the big stage. Those movies exist but usually as comedies (I just wrote one recently) and not often in the sports genre. Maybe a small drama set 20 years later where Manning is considered one of the best of all time and we follow Leaf (out of prison) living a quiet life in the shadow of his failure on such a massive stage?

If you're going the "rollercoaster career" route like Fitzpatrick, a bust that would make more sense would be someone like Jared Goff. #1 Pick. Deemed a bust after a miserable rookie year. Leads his team to the Super Bowl the next. Now I'm not saying Goff deserves a biopic - at all - I'm just saying that trajectory would fit the mold more (with a higher high than Fitz has ever had, although there's nothing wrong with being a journeyman). 

[All New Matt Parker]

Dec 7, 2019 0:07:05 GMT -7 jacobj said:

Dec 6, 2019 19:55:06 GMT -7 All New Matt Parker said:

I'm not sure exactly what you think about his story is film worthy. Sure, he finished the Wonderlic quickly (and scored 48/50), but his career has been that of mostly mediocrity (career journeyman with average to below average stats for his position for the bulk of his career). I feel there are only a couple of quarterbacks that could really warrant a film about their life: Joe Namath and Kurt Warner (for completely different reasons).

There has been a noted pattern about him regarding his career. Whenever he's signed onto a new team, the star QB gets injured and he gets a chance to play. He dominates for a good stretch, giving his team faith. But then his play gets exposed and his team loses faith in him, sending him away to another team and the cycle repeats. 

That said, I have to enter Ryan Leaf and Johnny Manziel in the conversation in as a quarterbacks who deserves their own movies. These are two of the most prolific busts in NFL history and a story based on them could be excellent if handled correctly.

I struggle to see how Fitzpatrick having a handful of good games here and there would warrant an entire film. I would also hardly call Trent Edwards or Marc Bulger stars who got hurt. 

I have to beg to differ when it comes to Leaf and Manziel. Leaf was a dickhead who didn't put the work in, so he never developed and teams got rid of him. Manziel was more interested in partying. But neither actually has a full blown narrative. Just because a player has an uncommon personality amongst quarterbacks and didn't have good careers, doesn't necessarily mean they have a story worthy of a film. Namath and Warner have actual stories. Another former quarterback who could probably justify a film with their STORY would be Todd Marinovich. That story would have a really good villain (Todd's dad). A film needs a story. Manziel's story is still very much incomplete, and Fitzpatrick has never really had a story. Leaf has sort of had a story, but it would be when he became a drug addict several years after his playing career.

[alextheman]

Hey I have a new stupid idea. The whole kind of crazy shit with the Popeyes chicken sandwich. I was thinking it could be a fun Richard Linklater movie.

[Wesley Campbell]

So I just saw Hulu's In The Dark: Nasty Piece of Work and I soooo wanna make this into a movie! I really have been inching for years to make a X-Mas horror/comedy, that I almost thought about making a Gremlins reboot/sequel or remake/sequel but I didn't want to tarnish the original.

Then I saw this 79 minute movie that was like Ready Or Not mixed Family Stone mixed 13 Sins movie and was buzzing after seeing it. Its a pitch black comedy horror set around Christmas where five couples fight to impress a billionaire to be the heir of his company because his only heir died by natural or somewhat natural causes. I would cast b level comedy actors with dramatic chops and some crazy director to do it.

What does anyone think?

[Chad Taylor]

Dec 26, 2019 22:54:43 GMT -7 Wesley Campbell said:

So I just saw Hulu's In The Dark: Nasty Piece of Work and I soooo wanna make this into a movie! I really have been inching for years to make a X-Mas horror/comedy, that I almost thought about making a Gremlins reboot/sequel or remake/sequel but I didn't want to tarnish the original.

Then I saw this 79 minute movie that was like Ready Or Not mixed Family Stone mixed 13 Sins movie and was buzzing after seeing it. Its a pitch black comedy horror set around Christmas where five couples fight to impress a billionaire to be the heir of his company because his only heir died by natural or somewhat natural causes. I would cast b level comedy actors with dramatic chops and some crazy director to do it.

What does anyone think?

Can't speak on this specific story so don't have much insight on the adaptation process. You don't usually see remakes of recent films/shows in the same language so soon but this is an anthology series so a little different. I was considering adapting a Black Mirror episode to a feature-length adaptation and I'd say that's comparable (plus it doesn't seem that this show is on much people's radar).

I do think it would be nice to get some holiday-themed fare at the studio (on a related note: honestly surprised Gremlins hasn't had any reboots or remakes yet...seems prime for the taking if someone can capture the right tone).

[Wesley Campbell]

Dec 26, 2019 23:17:10 GMT -7 Chad Taylor said:

Dec 26, 2019 22:54:43 GMT -7 Wesley Campbell said:

So I just saw Hulu's In The Dark: Nasty Piece of Work and I soooo wanna make this into a movie! I really have been inching for years to make a X-Mas horror/comedy, that I almost thought about making a Gremlins reboot/sequel or remake/sequel but I didn't want to tarnish the original.

Then I saw this 79 minute movie that was like Ready Or Not mixed Family Stone mixed 13 Sins movie and was buzzing after seeing it. Its a pitch black comedy horror set around Christmas where five couples fight to impress a billionaire to be the heir of his company because his only heir died by natural or somewhat natural causes. I would cast b level comedy actors with dramatic chops and some crazy director to do it.

What does anyone think?

Can't speak on this specific story so don't have much insight on the adaptation process. You don't usually see remakes of recent films/shows in the same language so soon but this is an anthology series so a little different. I was considering adapting a Black Mirror episode to a feature-length adaptation and I'd say that's comparable (plus it doesn't seem that this show is on much people's radar).

I do think it would be nice to get some holiday-themed fare at the studio (on a related note: honestly surprised Gremlins hasn't had any reboots or remakes yet...seems prime for the taking if someone can capture the right tone).

Nah I'm thinking an entirely different story for this. It more Ready or Not during the Holidays. But I've been developing a Gremlins like sequel that avoids the second one and still has the same story just told differently.