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After having played James Bond for seven years, in 1980 Roger Moore decided to make 1981's "For Your Eyes Only" his final film as 007. The studio offered him more money to stay on, but Moore declined in order to pursue other projects. But what if Moore had decided otherwise, and he continued...

In 1988, fresh of the success of Beetlejuice, Tim Burton cast Alec Baldwin as the star of "Batman." Baldwin was chosen over comedic actors like Bill Murray and Michael Keaton, as Burton wanted a more dramatic and serious tone for his take on the Caped Crusader. But what if Baldwin hadn't been...

In 2007, Tom Cruise was going through a rough period in his career. Paramount had ended their relationship with him the year before, his most recent movie Lions for Lambs bombed, and he'd endured numerous public controversies involving his personal life and political views. But in summer 2007...

After Tim Burton was fired from Batman III, Michael Keaton also considered leaving the project. But despite his misgivings about Schumacher's new direction for the franchise, Keaton ultimately agreed to return as Batman on the condition that he have input on the film's story and character...

The horror genre is considered the black sheep of the pantheon of Hollywood genres. Films of that genre ended up as marginalized second-rate B-movies done with low budgets and sub-par talent. Those films were filled with cheesy special effects and hammy acting. Due to the Production Code, many...

Similar to my thread on "Return of the Jedi," your challenge is to improve the sequels to "The Matrix." While the original was widely panned, the sequels received mixed to negative reception. What could the filmmakers have done to make them better?

Most everyone will agree that "Return of the Jedi," while an entertaining and satisfying movie, is by far the weakest entry in the original "Star Wars" trilogy. Your challenge, should you chose to accept it, is to propose how the filmmakers could have turned "Return of the Jedi" into an overall...

In the original scripts for "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back," Vader wasn't Luke Skywalker's father. Instead he was a mere servant of the Emperor who hunted down and killed the Jedi, including Anakin Skywalker. In fact if you watch the original 1977 film it's clear that this was Lucas'...

Tim Burton's "Batman" turns 30 years old this year. The movie is regarded as a classic of the superhero genre, as it launched the Batman film franchise and laid the groundwork for our modern era of dark superhero movies. But many fans and critics take issue with Burton's execution of the story...

After nearly a Decade since directing Batman and Batman Returns Tim Burton went back to the superhero genre with Superman Lives, bringing back the iconic Superman back to theaters since 1987 Coming to mixed to positive reviews

Pretty simple really. For one, this take on Umbridge as such seems pretty accurate...

If Disney (right before the "Renaissance") and Warner Bros. go bankrupt and somehow become one entity (being bought by a third party, perhaps), how might this change the future landscape of entertainment?

In 1981, a deranged lone gunman named John Hinckley Jr attempted to kill US President Ronald Reagan. As an inspiration, he cited the 1976 movie Taxi Driver directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert DeNiro as a psychotic gunman who tries and fails to kill a popular U.S. Senator. Hinckley...

So in 1979 Jim Shooter pitched a weird Movie about Dazzler. The whole plot was too weird to describe here. Read it here http://comicsalliance.com/dazzler-movie-jim-shooter/ So what if this movie was made?

One of the most infamous decisions in cinema history was George Lazenby's rejection of a one million dollar deal to play James Bond in six more movies after "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969). His agent told him that Bond was a fad who would be irrelevant in the 1970's. Lazenby foolishly...

-------------------------------- A man slumped down at the corner of an alleyway. He hadn’t showered in weeks, and his stomach rumbled incessantly. He was currently living off of a lone ham and cheese sandwich he’d managed to scrounge out of the trash, but he’d eaten that two… no, three days...

You can read the entire leaked script here if you want, but to summarise; Movie begins with dinosaurs attacking people on the mainland, particularly Compies in Costa Rica and pterodactyls (possibly the ones from the last scene of JP3) attacking a baseball game John Hammon hires an ex-military...

What if the Comics Code Authority and Hays Code never came to be. How does this effect pop culture?

“Give a guy a gun he think he’s Superman. Give him two and he thinks he’s God.” In 1990 John Woo was pretty much finished with Hong Kong even if he didn’t know it. He was getting calls from Hollywood; the heroic bloodshed genre he had helped create was becoming stale, his relationship with...

THE WEED OF CRIME BEARS BITTER FRUIT Alternate History Pop Culture Vignette The weed of crime bears bitter fruit -- crime does not pay! The Shadow knows! 1996 In the mid-1990s, the world of cinema was consumed by superhero fever. Directed by Tim Burton and co-starring Michael...