Pop Culture Timelines Go-To Thread

[ANARCHY_4_ALL]

Originally Posted by Brainbin

What's interesting is that your timeline will likely have a POD in 1965 - making it earlier than any of ours (including mine, by about a year).

Assuming that you don't make it some formative incident from Morrison's childhood or the like, that is, which pushes it back even farther.

Definitely looking forward to your take on the late 1960s and early 1970s, naturally.

The POD will be a simple one he decides to focus on film, since he is in film school. He loses his interest in music and focuses his talents on film. So, the POD is while he is tending film school. As mentioned now I just have to figure out what films he would make. I def foresee his version of Lestat the Vampire. Of course with him performing the title role himself.

[jack_donaghy_is_the_shado]

I've had an idea brewing in my head for awhile:

1948- The big cheeses of RKO, Toho, and Bray studios meet with a mysterious benefactor with ingenious and possibly mad scheme: to create a loose confederation of movie studios.

In the decades to come, "New World Films" will rule the entertainment industry; with their film, music, and writing warhorses.


Due to some legal wrangling, the juggernaut is spared from anti-monopoly suits and proves a breeding ground for actors, authors, directors, singers, etc.

I'll post some examples later.

What do y'all think?

[ANARCHY_4_ALL]

Originally Posted by jack_donaghy_is_the_shado

I've had an idea brewing in my head for awhile:

1948- The big cheeses of RKO, Toho, and Bray studios meet with a mysterious benefactor with ingenious and possibly mad scheme: to create a loose confederation of movie studios.

In the decades to come, "New World Films" will rule the entertainment industry; with their film, music, and writing warhorses.


Due to some legal wrangling, the juggernaut is spared from anti-monopoly suits and proves a breeding ground for actors, authors, directors, singers, etc.

I'll post some examples later.

What do y'all think?

That's very interesting basically United Artists but in the 50's with Orson Welles and Akira Kurosawa.

[jack_donaghy_is_the_shado]

Originally Posted by ANARCHY_4_ALL

That's very interesting basically United Artists but in the 50's with Orson Welles and Akira Kurosawa.

Exactly! Kurosawa's the Dark Knight with James Dean as Batman, Kirk Douglas as the Joker, Lois Maxwell as Vicki Vale, Edward Judd as Two-face, and guest starring Marlon Brando as Superman- written and produced by Orson Welles

[Electric Monk]

The Hayes Code will kill most ambition alas. There is a POD to alter that but it doesn't help you much.

[ANARCHY_4_ALL]

Originally Posted by Electric Monk

The Hayes Code will kill most ambition alas. There is a POD to alter that but it doesn't help you much.

Well with their fame and fortune's combined they could by pass the Hayes Code the same way it established it's control. By buying out theatre chains. That's pretty significant.

[ANARCHY_4_ALL]

Originally Posted by jack_donaghy_is_the_shado

Exactly! Kurosawa's the Dark Knight with James Dean as Batman, Kirk Douglas as the Joker, Lois Maxwell as Vicki Vale, Edward Judd as Two-face, and guest starring Marlon Brando as Superman- written and produced by Orson Welles

And don't forget Toshiro Mifune as Ra's al Ghul.

[John Fredrick Parker]

Here's a thread on how Star Wars Episode I could have been good; another on if Titanic wasn't such a ground breaking box office success.

I've got in mind a TL that combines these two 1996 PoDs, along with Edward Norton being cast in lead of Devil's Advocate, and, partly as a result of Air Force One shooting six months earlier*, Harrison Ford gets offered male lead in Eyes Wide Shut. And any more films in the late 90's are re-cast besides; also sees Batman Year One, directed by Arnofsky, starring Tom Cruise, and many other weird films...

*By any chance, would you buy this having the traceable effect of Titanic being released on time in the summer? That would simplify matters for me...

[jack_donaghy_is_the_shado]

Originally Posted by ANARCHY_4_ALL

Well with their fame and fortune's combined they could by pass the Hayes Code the same way it established it's control. By buying out theatre chains. That's pretty significant.

Ah yes, what alternate history of Hollywoodland would be complete without greased palms, studio detectives, and producers in bed with horses?

[jack_donaghy_is_the_shado]

Originally Posted by ANARCHY_4_ALL

And don't forget Toshiro Mifune as Ra's al Ghul.

That's what I was thinking. I thought about him being Joker; Mifune could definitely pull off a madman; but I didn't want to bring back the "Yellow menace" theme in postwar movies.

BTW, I'm trying to brainstorm an actor to play Bond in a 1953 Casino Royale. Any suggestions?

[Zacoftheaxes]

I have a (sadly defunct) timeline about what would happen if Cliff Burton did not die in 1986. After I finished Controlled Chaos (Part 1), I intend on returning to that since the atmosphere for cultural only timelines seems much better now.

Originally Posted by jack_donaghy_is_the_shado

BTW, I'm trying to brainstorm an actor to play Bond in a 1953 Casino Royale. Any suggestions?

Cary Grant?

[jack_donaghy_is_the_shado]

Yeah he would be good, but I'd like someone in their 20's to 40's. And yes Sean will still be Bond

[Ace Venom]

I updated In the Heart of Metal.

[ColeMercury]

Originally Posted by jack_donaghy_is_the_shado

Yeah he would be good, but I'd like someone in their 20's to 40's. And yes Sean will still be Bond

The obvious choice is David Niven, who was Fleming's first preference for the part. He'd be 43 that year.

[jack_donaghy_is_the_shado]

Originally Posted by ColeMercury

The obvious choice is David Niven, who was Fleming's first preference for the part. He'd be 43 that year.

That should work. Anyone have a pic of him without a mustache?

[Brainbin]

I have got a new update,
I hope that you think it's great.
I made sure that it's not late!

That Wacky Redhead!

Please feel free to hop into your old LaSalle and stop on by!

[jack_donaghy_is_the_shado]

I'm reading over Niven's Wikipedia entry, he would make an excellent Bond.

Did he and Fleming ever meet before Dr. No was cast?

[ANARCHY_4_ALL]

so I have figured out a basic outline for my Jim Morrison tl. but my internet is down. after a period of hippie style b movies i will take great liberties with his film career. but would anyone like to colloborate by contributing to the greater cultural and societal impetus. as i will be focusing on jim and his career not the wider world. sorry for the grammar using my mom's phone since i dont have internet and i broke my smart phone. also on a lighter side ive been busy with my new baby girl.

[Brady Kj]

Jack Donaghy: I LOVE the idea of Superman in a Batman film, and I think it's plausible in the 50s, but I think George Reeves would be better.

Anarchy: Don't you think Toshiro Mifune was a little young to play Ra's Al Ghul?

JFP: You know, I had an idea to cast Tom Cruise as Batman myself. But that was because I wanted DC to stop making Batman films and focus on other characters. Cruise would actually be good in the role, I think, but his controversial views hurt his career for a while.

[Unknown]

Here's a WI that I think nobody's done:

WI Elizabeth Taylor is killed with Mike Todd in that plane crash in 1958? (OTL she had a persistent cold.)