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I would like to see more movies made like "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" in which the female lead is ditzy, useless, and annoying.

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I'd love to see a biopic of Stevie Ray Vaughan like what was just made for Hendrix.  At one point there was going to be such a thing, with Brad Pitt playing SRV I believe, but for some reason or another it didn't happen.  His life story is fascinating.  At least I found it to be so.  He seemed to have a really great personality (judging from interviews from both people that knew him and random fans who came into contact with him).  One of my Uncles was a DJ at a radio station and got to have his picture taken with him.  Said he was the nicest man you could hope to meet.

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Well...I'm not at all surprised it was made, but I'd never heard of it, and never thought to check to see whether it had been after reading the OP....

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I've seen the version with John Hurt once. It was years ago, but I remember it left an impression on me. I remember it as powerful, heavy in the good sense of the word.

But the book really ripped my guts out. I must read the book again, and then see the movie.

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Love the 1984 John Hurt sample that the Manics used on the opener of Faster...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdQCb807jdE

and I just realised that both 1984 adaptations starred Doctor Who ;-)

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skyjedi2005 said:

Fang Zei said:

As for Dune, well, I'm surprised there hasn't been any talk of getting James McAvoy back for a God Emperor of Dune miniseries.

 That won't happen they see him as Professor X now.

That's the least of their potential roadblocks, imo.

At the time of the Children of Dune miniseries he was a complete unknown. They needed a big name like Susan Sarandon to anchor everything around, just like with William Hurt in the first one.

It seems like such a natural choice to get James McAvoy back now that he's become a big star. This time, the big name in the cast would actually be playing the main character!

The producers of the two miniseries were trying to get another movie of the first book made several years ago. Paramount got a four-year option on it starting in 2007, with Peter Berg and then Pierre Morel attached to direct, but nothing ever happened.

Frank Herbert's grandson Byron Merritt is the moderator of the official Dune messageboards. Not long after Paramount's option expired, he mentioned that a big name production company (he couldn't say who's) wanted to make the first three books into a film trilogy. But that was already a couple years ago.

It's worth mentioning that Dino wanted David to come back and film the next two books, something which proved all but impossible after the first one flopped hard at the box office.

I kinda see that movie as the Ralph Bakshi LotR of Dune. I think it's gonna take someone as passionate about the material as Peter Jackson and his cohorts were about Tolkien for us to ever see another big screen adaptation.

The recent Jodorowsky's Dune documentary got the director of Waltz with Bashir thinking about a potential animated movie adaptation.

In the meantime, television has become a much more viable medium. With Syfy channel taking on bigger stuff like 3001 and Childhood's End, the Game of Thrones producers doing Red Mars as a series and Jonathan Nolan spearheading a Foundation series at HBO, it would seem like an ideal time to revisit Arrakis.

I'm not gonna lie, though. I'd much rather see this get the big budget, big screen redo like LotR had. But even with the right people it's gonna be tricky getting it made and getting it out there into theaters with a hundred different franchises already competing with each other.

On the other hand, we're potentially getting four whole movies made of Stephen King's The Stand, so I guess anything's possible....

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If we get a new Dune movie, I hope to high heaven it goes to a studio and a marketing department who get the movie, and who want it to succeed--and know how to go about their business.

Otherwise, it risks being another John Carter.

If it isn't marketed rightly, I fear that the uninitiated might take one look at a Dune film trailer and say, "Man, what a total Star Wars ripoff."

“That Darth Vader, man. Sure does love eating Jedi.”

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These are films I'd love to see and am dying to make.

A great swashbuckler just like a 30's classic but in the form of a big epic.

The great Civil War film, the one that will actually tell it like it was.

More great classic literature adaptations. Especially a proper Sherlock picture complete with the romance of the stories.

A properly dark, honest and dramatic Western done practically in the vein of Leone, Peckinpah and Mann.

And anyone who knows me knows that beyond anything I want to make the first Bond film in decades that can at least stand alongside the novels and films properly.

Sequels that should be:

Mad Max 4 with Mel and shades of Apocalypse Now

Lethal Weapon 5-R rated, relentless, and actually made with a purpose.

The final Die Hard, rated a hard R, opens with McClane chain smoking and finally calling his ex-wife.

48 Hrs. 3

Midnight Run 2

A Better Tomorrow

Ronin 2

and many many more.

but most of all?  HARD BOILED 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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As much as i would like a retro classic Bond, with a harder edge it won't happen.  I don't think the screenwriters can balance the charm and wit along with the violence.

Would be interesting to see Craig try to pull it off though.  

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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captainsolo said:

These are films I'd love to see and am dying to make.

A great swashbuckler just like a 30's classic but in the form of a big epic.

Star Wars?

The great Civil War film, the one that will actually tell it like it was.

 Gettysburg perhaps?

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captainsolo said:

The great Civil War film, the one that will actually tell it like it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98gzk6VSzfU

100% fact!

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Movies I'd like to see made:

A great powerful epic about the life of MLK(and not just one march). 

a movie about Harriet Tubman.

one last verison of Christmas Carol. This exactly precisely how it is done in the book.  Not one piece of dialogue or scene missing and not one piece of dialogue or scene added.  With every actor perfect for the part and great director putting all together.

Another Godfather movie that is only a sequel to the first 2 movies and not the third and contains only great actors and not the daughter or the director that can't act.  Have it be not dumb and over the top and have Micheal be the kind of guy he was in the first two films.

A trilogy about the events leading up to the OT that didn't suck.

Airplane III.   In the credits of Airplane II they said it was coming soon.  Where the hell is it?

One last Rocky movie where he dies so they can't make any more.

ditto for Die Hard

a movie a local legendary football coach from South Jersey.  (I think it would make good movie)

a redo of all the musicals based on broadway musicals that I think were f***ed up by Hollywood.   This time done exactly how broadway shows did them with every song included nothing cut and no songs added, with  cast that can sing and is perfectly suited for the roles instead of a cast based on who the hollywood bureaucrats think will sell tickets.  Pick the casts from experienced broadway musical actors.

a movie about the 1951 penant race between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

a movie about the Boston Redsoxs comeback against the New York Yankees in the 2004 ALCS.

A 12 Angry Men style movie, but with a case styled after the Michael Brown shooting or the Treyvon Martin martin.

A movie accurately retelling the impeachment of Andrew Johnson

A movie accurately retelling the impeachment of Bill Clinton 

(perhaps they could combine the last 2 into on movie and acompare and contrast the only two times a President was Impeached?

A movie that accurate retells the events in the Hall of Independence the leads up the declaring independence. 

A movie about the events the lead to the resignation of Nixon. 

A movie about the War of the Roses (it might take multiple movies to tell the whole tale), and I don't mean movie versions of the Shakespeare plays about the events.

A movie about William the Conqueror and his coming to the throne and the Battle of Hastings.

A movie about the time frame in WWII when Britain was fighting Germany alone.

I'll post more when I think of them.

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Ryan McAvoy said:

captainsolo said:

The great Civil War film, the one that will actually tell it like it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98gzk6VSzfU

100% fact!

 I thought he was referring to the American Civil War.   If he is talking about the English Civil War,  I suggest Cromwell .

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Warbler said:

A movie about the time frame in WWII when Britain was fighting Germany alone.

Not sure I can help with the rest on that list but there are a few fantastic movies about that ^ subject...

Battle of Britain (1969) classic dogfighting which must have influenced the trench run in SW, from James Bond Director Guy Hamilton

Fires Were Started (1943) powerful contemporary docu-drama about Blitz-Firefighters by Humphrey Jennings

Hope and Glory (1987) absolute masterpiece about growing up amongst the rubble of London by the legendary John Boorman

One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942) Rewatched this just the other day on an HD-TV broadcast. Magnificent early film from Powell and Pressburger about a downed Wellington Bomber crew trying to get home with the help of the Dutch resistance. Also it being a contemporary movie adds weight to the emotions.

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I would love to see a movie about the American civil war that didn't white wash the horrors of slavery or the battles back then and would have the guts to take an NC17 rating if that is what it took to show a realistic version of these two events.

I know it will never happen, but I can dream.

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skyjedi2005 said:

As much as i would like a retro classic Bond, with a harder edge it won't happen.  I don't think the screenwriters can balance the charm and wit along with the violence.

Would be interesting to see Craig try to pull it off though.  

 They can't (balance the charm and wit along with the action, that is).

We don't live in a sophisticated society anymore.  That carries over into even Bond movies.  Not even the music is going to be as classy as the classic Connery Bonds. 

You would need a real dream team at the helm to go against pretty much every prevailing current trend to deliver a quality Bond movie again.

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A Terminator prequel which chronicles the resistance's victory over Skynet. Ideally, the events of Terminator 3 and Salvation would be ignored, John Connor would be played by a lesser known actor, there would be no more CGI in it than there was in Terminator 2, and Arnold Schwarzeneggar would not make an appearance (at least not as a terminator).

An adaptation of the video game Zombies Ate My Neighbors.

An adaptation of the video game Clock Tower with Jennifer Connelly in a supporting role.

David Lynch's Ronnie Rocket.

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Something I'd like to see happen is Universal pulling the trigger on the second and third installments of the trilogy David Twohy and Vin Diesel had in mind when they made Chronicles of Riddick back in 2004. Yes, they did pull off another film with their own money a couple years ago (Universal just happened to end up being the U.S. distributor), but that was more of a smaller side-story. The ending of the director's cut pretty clearly sets up the premise for part 2, which they always said would be The Underverse.

Vin Diesel said something about having talked with the people in charge at the studio, and that they'd said it was still a possibility. Obviously the box office failure of Chronicles wouldn't inspire much confidence in signing more checks, but IIRC it was the dvd sales that eventually led to another film being made. Maybe they can make it happen if they keep the budget just low enough.

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Tales from the Asylum: an anthology horror film set in the DC Universe which revolves around three of Arkham Asylum’s most criminally insane inmates. The Joker – played by Mark Hamill himself – would serve as the Cryptkeeper-esque host, relating each of the three tales from within his padded cell. In a supporting role would be Doug Jones, cast in the role of a Kelley Jones-styled Batman.

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Trooperman said:

I would like to see more movies made like “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” in which the female lead is ditzy, useless, and annoying.

i think those days are gone sadly.we now have movies like kill bill and resident evil that show females taking on a hundred men and killing them easily.female glorification movies.i mentioned this on a site that you sign in with google and google banned me from posting comments again on any site that has you sign in with google plus.i guess i cant say the truth.

you make a living by what you get,but you make a life by what you give. winston churchill

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i read ridley scott was going to direct dune but his brother died so he took some time off.i would like to see a justice league vs the legion of doom movie made.instead of this stupid batman vs superman movies being made showing good super heroes fighting each other.like iron man fighting with captain america.it should be super heroes fighting the bad super villians.also would like to see a sequel to zombieland with woody harrelson.

you make a living by what you get,but you make a life by what you give. winston churchill

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flukeskywalker said:

Trooperman said:

I would like to see more movies made like “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” in which the female lead is ditzy, useless, and annoying.

i think those days are gone sadly.we now have movies like kill bill and resident evil that show females taking on a hundred men and killing them easily.female glorification movies.i mentioned this on a site that you sign in with google and google banned me from posting comments again on any site that has you sign in with google plus.i guess i cant say the truth.

Possessed is right.

I like how you dug up a year-old misogynistic quote just to agree with it.