AHC: Some of your favorite films premade into classics.
- Thread starter ANARCHY_4_ALL
- Start date
Inspired by one modern turned classic film poster.
2001: A Space Odyssey (2001年宇宙の旅) (1957)
Co-directed by Akira Kurosawa and Ishiro Honda
Released by Toho
Starring:
Haruo Nakajima- Moonwatcher/ Alien of the Monolith/ Hal 9000 (Android form)
Takashi Shimura- Dr. Floyd (Original: Dr. Yamada)
Toshiro Mifune- Dr. Bowman (Dr. Ken Sugikawa)
Yoshio Tsuchiya- HAL 9000 (Voice)
A classic of Tokusatsu film making, the film revolves around several events that involve a black monolith: a tribe of ape-man in the distant past comes across it, and gain the ability to hunt, A Japanese scientist investigates reports of the Monolith on the moon, and an international expedition to Jupiter ends with the accompanying computer/robot HAL 9000 killing the crew except for Dr. Sugikawa, who battles the android, and deactivates HAL. He then reaches Jupiter, where the monolith absorbs him. He finds himself in a traditional Japanese home, and ages rapidly. Before he enters his next stages, he sees a vision of one of the energy based aliens who made the monolith. Known for the incredible special effects (made by Eiji Tsuburaya), and the art direction, led by famed Manga artist and writer Osamu Tezuka (who released a manga version of the story in 1959.)
2001: A Space Odyssey (2001年宇宙の旅) (1957)
Co-directed by Akira Kurosawa and Ishiro Honda
Released by Toho
Starring:
Haruo Nakajima- Moonwatcher/ Alien of the Monolith/ Hal 9000 (Android form)
Takashi Shimura- Dr. Floyd (Original: Dr. Yamada)
Toshiro Mifune- Dr. Bowman (Dr. Ken Sugikawa)
Yoshio Tsuchiya- HAL 9000 (Voice)
A classic of Tokusatsu film making, the film revolves around several events that involve a black monolith: a tribe of ape-man in the distant past comes across it, and gain the ability to hunt, A Japanese scientist investigates reports of the Monolith on the moon, and an international expedition to Jupiter ends with the accompanying computer/robot HAL 9000 killing the crew except for Dr. Sugikawa, who battles the android, and deactivates HAL. He then reaches Jupiter, where the monolith absorbs him. He finds himself in a traditional Japanese home, and ages rapidly. Before he enters his next stages, he sees a vision of one of the energy based aliens who made the monolith. Known for the incredible special effects (made by Eiji Tsuburaya), and the art direction, led by famed Manga artist and writer Osamu Tezuka (who released a manga version of the story in 1959.)
Last edited:
"Frozen" *** a Czech-German live action film in 1988
Sněhová Královna / Die Schneekönigin
(English title: "The Snow Queen")
CSSR/FRG/GDR/Soviet Union, 1988
Directed by Václav Vorlíček
Queen Elsa of Spitzberg..................................................Katja Riemann
Princess Anna, her sister.......................................................Anja Kling
Prince Hans, Anna's love interest....................................Christoph Waltz
Christoph, a reindeer-handling jack-of-all-trades..............Jan Josef Liefers
Count Ferdinand von Witzbühl, devious Russian ambassador...Petr Narozny
Count Wenzel von Witzbühl, more devious Prussian ambdr......Petr Narozny
Olaf, a living snowman...................................................Achim Mentzel
Padislav, Chieftrain of the Mountain Trolls.........................Zdenek Sverak
This lavish production is famous in Central Europe for many reasons. First of all, it is the last and most ambitious film in the long tradition of Czechoslovakian fairy-tale-movies.
This alone justifies that it is, alongside with "Tři oříšky pro Popelku" (Three Gifts for Cinderella), which was also directed by Vorlicek in the early 70s, a common Christmas staple on TV stations in many European countries. For "The Snow Queen", the Czech Studios in Barrandov were able to combine their earlier partners in East Germany (DEFA movie studios) and West Germany (public TV stations NDR and WDR); Sovietfilm was also co-producing in order to obtain assistance with some of the special effects and filming locations.
Despite these arrangements, the producers managed not only to keep filming under control, but to ensure the use of various remarkable locations:
the High Tatras in Slovakia for the mountain scenes, the Castle in the City of Schwerin in the Northern GDR for the Royal Castle with additional city scenes shot in Cesky Krumlov. The showdown amid frozen sailing ships was re-created on the actual ice of Lake Ladoga near Leningrad (St. Petersburg).
The bridge connecting the Royal Palace to the City Centre of Spitzberg's capital Arendahl.
The special effects of the movie have been called "the best FX created outside of Hollywood in the 1980s". Especially the creation of the ice-palace by Elsa's magic, combining life-action, hand-drawn animation and stop-motion to a mesmerizing resultation, has become a classical sequence.
Film historians attribute this creative success to the collaboration of Barrandov's experienced traditional tricksters, animators and matte-painters with some new computer-savvy talents brought to the production via the consultant Roland Emmerich (at the time known for creating movies in the German Provinz almost without a budget which managed to look like an average B-movie). Emmerich also insisted as a precaution of his involvement that the resulting movie was to have a theatrical run in West Germany instead of ending up as premiering on TV, possibly cut into a mini-series.
Costumes and production design were impeccable (given that the archives of Barrandov AND Babelsberg were at disposal, everything else would have been a major failure). The look of the film evoked a magical version of the mid-19th-century.
Vorlicek would have prefered to work mainly with Czechoslovak talents, but actually he got orders to restrict them to the minor roles, in the hope of drawing more "valuta" from a successful theatrical run in Western Germany.
The subsequent casting drew generally young thespians in their 20s, some of them only having acted on stage and on TV beforehands.
For all of them, "Snow Queen" meant their breakthrough to lasting popularity. While the odd couple of Christoph and Anna were played by the East Germans Liefers and Kling; the apparent royal villain Elsa and actual villain Hans were portrayed by the West Germans Riemann and Waltz.
Zdenek Sverak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdeněk_Svěrák), who as Padislaus the Troll stole every scene he was in, later on starred in the Academy Award Winning "Kolya".
***
Almost until the beginning of the production, it remained undecided whether the Snow Queen should include musical numbers or not. In the end, tests with the cast proofed that Riemann could hold her ground with the dramatic ballads of the titular character.
Whereas Liefers could convincingly handle a guitar (ironically, while he tours as a singer in OTL, his character in the movie is not supposed to sing particularly well), Kling and Waltz made up for slightly lacking voices with great musical comedic timing.
Given that the main characters would get dubbed into Czech anyways, director Vorlicek felt less worried about their performance and thus the Snow Queen ended up as a musical.
This decision paved the way for the historical importance of "The Snow Queen" as a movie. The premiere took place in Prague in late October 1988 and the movie gained high critical acclaim. Throughout the winter, it played to sold-out houses wherever it opened in the Eastern Bloc.
It also proved to be a commercial success in the FR Germany and Austria, where it ended up among the ten most successful movies of both years 1988 and 1989. Over the course of the spring of 1989, the movie also opened to theatrical release across the non-German speaking countries of Western Europe.
"For the first time in forever, at least I got a chance"
With the beginning of 1989, though, in the GDR and CSSR it became noticeable that the lyrics of some of the songs started to become associated with (and used by) the political opposition. Singing or whistling tunes from a fairy tale movie increasingly became political in both countries. Basically, it turned out that some songs almost had more loaded than harmless lines in them.
In the political interpretation of the movie, Queen Elsa has been the representative of an establishment which acts out of fear and is unable to take the steps which are actually necessary to save her country ("conceal, don't feel, put on a show - or everyone will know").
Especially the central piece of the movie, called in Czech "Najednou" (Suddenly) resp. in German "Ich laß los" (I let go), as a song of self-liberation and simultaneously as a call to let go (of power) has continued to grow until it became a fixture at demonstrations in Prague as well as in East-German cities later on in 1989. Czechoslovaks emphasized "Suddenly, suddenly, I finish this silly game" and "the fear which ruled me from within, is suddenly powerless".
"Here I am and here I stay - and a storm breaks loose" could be read on banners at demonstrations in Leipzig and East-Berlin.
Wheras "they open the windows and the door,I didn't know they'd do that any more [...] finally they open up the gate." was more relevant in East Germany. In a very rough edit, GDR-censorship had already deleted Katja Riemann ordering singingly "tell the guards to open up the gate!"
The CSSR did however not dare to pull the movie completely from theatres as it had submitted it months earlier to the 61st Academy Awards for "Best Foreign Language Film" and feared embarassment. The regime in East-Berlin was less considerate, banning the movie on January 29th. This gave the film a buzz which had sometimes been called undeserved and it actually went to win the award in March (won by the Danish "Pelle the Conqueror" in OTL).
Directly after this triumph, Prague also yanked the movie from the last cinemas; but it was too late.
The songs were on heavy rotation on Radio Free Europe; there were underground showings everywhere (sometimes even amateur theatre "Sweding" the movie) and bootlegged copies of the soundtrack went from casette player to casette player.
So, if the Revolutions of late 1989 have sometimes been called "the singing revolutions" - it is the fault of two fairy tale princesses named Anna and Elsa.
Sněhová Královna / Die Schneekönigin
(English title: "The Snow Queen")
CSSR/FRG/GDR/Soviet Union, 1988
Directed by Václav Vorlíček
Queen Elsa of Spitzberg..................................................Katja Riemann
Princess Anna, her sister.......................................................Anja Kling
Prince Hans, Anna's love interest....................................Christoph Waltz
Christoph, a reindeer-handling jack-of-all-trades..............Jan Josef Liefers
Count Ferdinand von Witzbühl, devious Russian ambassador...Petr Narozny
Count Wenzel von Witzbühl, more devious Prussian ambdr......Petr Narozny
Olaf, a living snowman...................................................Achim Mentzel
Padislav, Chieftrain of the Mountain Trolls.........................Zdenek Sverak
This lavish production is famous in Central Europe for many reasons. First of all, it is the last and most ambitious film in the long tradition of Czechoslovakian fairy-tale-movies.
This alone justifies that it is, alongside with "Tři oříšky pro Popelku" (Three Gifts for Cinderella), which was also directed by Vorlicek in the early 70s, a common Christmas staple on TV stations in many European countries. For "The Snow Queen", the Czech Studios in Barrandov were able to combine their earlier partners in East Germany (DEFA movie studios) and West Germany (public TV stations NDR and WDR); Sovietfilm was also co-producing in order to obtain assistance with some of the special effects and filming locations.
Despite these arrangements, the producers managed not only to keep filming under control, but to ensure the use of various remarkable locations:
the High Tatras in Slovakia for the mountain scenes, the Castle in the City of Schwerin in the Northern GDR for the Royal Castle with additional city scenes shot in Cesky Krumlov. The showdown amid frozen sailing ships was re-created on the actual ice of Lake Ladoga near Leningrad (St. Petersburg).
The bridge connecting the Royal Palace to the City Centre of Spitzberg's capital Arendahl.
The special effects of the movie have been called "the best FX created outside of Hollywood in the 1980s". Especially the creation of the ice-palace by Elsa's magic, combining life-action, hand-drawn animation and stop-motion to a mesmerizing resultation, has become a classical sequence.
Film historians attribute this creative success to the collaboration of Barrandov's experienced traditional tricksters, animators and matte-painters with some new computer-savvy talents brought to the production via the consultant Roland Emmerich (at the time known for creating movies in the German Provinz almost without a budget which managed to look like an average B-movie). Emmerich also insisted as a precaution of his involvement that the resulting movie was to have a theatrical run in West Germany instead of ending up as premiering on TV, possibly cut into a mini-series.
Costumes and production design were impeccable (given that the archives of Barrandov AND Babelsberg were at disposal, everything else would have been a major failure). The look of the film evoked a magical version of the mid-19th-century.
Vorlicek would have prefered to work mainly with Czechoslovak talents, but actually he got orders to restrict them to the minor roles, in the hope of drawing more "valuta" from a successful theatrical run in Western Germany.
The subsequent casting drew generally young thespians in their 20s, some of them only having acted on stage and on TV beforehands.
For all of them, "Snow Queen" meant their breakthrough to lasting popularity. While the odd couple of Christoph and Anna were played by the East Germans Liefers and Kling; the apparent royal villain Elsa and actual villain Hans were portrayed by the West Germans Riemann and Waltz.
Zdenek Sverak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdeněk_Svěrák), who as Padislaus the Troll stole every scene he was in, later on starred in the Academy Award Winning "Kolya".
***
Almost until the beginning of the production, it remained undecided whether the Snow Queen should include musical numbers or not. In the end, tests with the cast proofed that Riemann could hold her ground with the dramatic ballads of the titular character.
Whereas Liefers could convincingly handle a guitar (ironically, while he tours as a singer in OTL, his character in the movie is not supposed to sing particularly well), Kling and Waltz made up for slightly lacking voices with great musical comedic timing.
Given that the main characters would get dubbed into Czech anyways, director Vorlicek felt less worried about their performance and thus the Snow Queen ended up as a musical.
This decision paved the way for the historical importance of "The Snow Queen" as a movie. The premiere took place in Prague in late October 1988 and the movie gained high critical acclaim. Throughout the winter, it played to sold-out houses wherever it opened in the Eastern Bloc.
It also proved to be a commercial success in the FR Germany and Austria, where it ended up among the ten most successful movies of both years 1988 and 1989. Over the course of the spring of 1989, the movie also opened to theatrical release across the non-German speaking countries of Western Europe.
"For the first time in forever, at least I got a chance"
With the beginning of 1989, though, in the GDR and CSSR it became noticeable that the lyrics of some of the songs started to become associated with (and used by) the political opposition. Singing or whistling tunes from a fairy tale movie increasingly became political in both countries. Basically, it turned out that some songs almost had more loaded than harmless lines in them.
In the political interpretation of the movie, Queen Elsa has been the representative of an establishment which acts out of fear and is unable to take the steps which are actually necessary to save her country ("conceal, don't feel, put on a show - or everyone will know").
Especially the central piece of the movie, called in Czech "Najednou" (Suddenly) resp. in German "Ich laß los" (I let go), as a song of self-liberation and simultaneously as a call to let go (of power) has continued to grow until it became a fixture at demonstrations in Prague as well as in East-German cities later on in 1989. Czechoslovaks emphasized "Suddenly, suddenly, I finish this silly game" and "the fear which ruled me from within, is suddenly powerless".
"Here I am and here I stay - and a storm breaks loose" could be read on banners at demonstrations in Leipzig and East-Berlin.
Wheras "they open the windows and the door,I didn't know they'd do that any more [...] finally they open up the gate." was more relevant in East Germany. In a very rough edit, GDR-censorship had already deleted Katja Riemann ordering singingly "tell the guards to open up the gate!"
The CSSR did however not dare to pull the movie completely from theatres as it had submitted it months earlier to the 61st Academy Awards for "Best Foreign Language Film" and feared embarassment. The regime in East-Berlin was less considerate, banning the movie on January 29th. This gave the film a buzz which had sometimes been called undeserved and it actually went to win the award in March (won by the Danish "Pelle the Conqueror" in OTL).
Directly after this triumph, Prague also yanked the movie from the last cinemas; but it was too late.
The songs were on heavy rotation on Radio Free Europe; there were underground showings everywhere (sometimes even amateur theatre "Sweding" the movie) and bootlegged copies of the soundtrack went from casette player to casette player.
So, if the Revolutions of late 1989 have sometimes been called "the singing revolutions" - it is the fault of two fairy tale princesses named Anna and Elsa.
Last edited:
Chris Oakley
Banned
The Hunt For Red October(1961)
Starring:
Curt Jurgens as Marko Ramius
Kirk Douglas as Jack Ryan
Cecil Kellaway as Admiral James Greer
Sidney Poitier as Jeffrey Pelt
Hardy Kruger as Tupolev
Carroll O'Connor as Skip Tyler
Simon Oakland as Bart Mancuso
Directed By:
Howard Hawks
Torn between devotion to his motherland and a desire to prevent the more militant factions in the Kremlin from a forcing a nuclear showdown with the United States, a Soviet submarine captain makes a fateful decision to steal an experimental missile submarine and take it to New York to get it out of Moscow's hands. Tensions quickly escalate, however, as faulty intelligence convinces the White House the captain is getting ready to launch a preemptive strike on the United States and only the ingenuity and linguistic talents of a State Department maritime analyst can prevent the ultimate disaster.
Winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Screenplay and Best Original Score(Franz Waxman).
Starring:
Curt Jurgens as Marko Ramius
Kirk Douglas as Jack Ryan
Cecil Kellaway as Admiral James Greer
Sidney Poitier as Jeffrey Pelt
Hardy Kruger as Tupolev
Carroll O'Connor as Skip Tyler
Simon Oakland as Bart Mancuso
Directed By:
Howard Hawks
Torn between devotion to his motherland and a desire to prevent the more militant factions in the Kremlin from a forcing a nuclear showdown with the United States, a Soviet submarine captain makes a fateful decision to steal an experimental missile submarine and take it to New York to get it out of Moscow's hands. Tensions quickly escalate, however, as faulty intelligence convinces the White House the captain is getting ready to launch a preemptive strike on the United States and only the ingenuity and linguistic talents of a State Department maritime analyst can prevent the ultimate disaster.
Winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Screenplay and Best Original Score(Franz Waxman).
All of these are fantastic. Glad to see this return. I'll come up with something to contribute to this revival.
Chris Oakley
Banned
Hornia: And a pretty nice editing job at that. 
Anyhow....
Robocop(1974)
Starring:
Steve McQueen as Officer Alex Murphy/Robocop
Joanna Pettet as Officer Anne Lewis
Martin Balsam as Sgt. Reed
Jack Palance as Dick Jones
Richard Chamberlain as Bob Morton
Barnard Hughes as the OCP Chairman
Charles Bronson as Clarence Boddicker
Fred Williamson as Leon Nash
Rob Reiner as Emil Antonowsky
Roscoe Lee Browne as Dr. McNamara
Special Guest Stars:
Faye Dunaway as Jess Perkins
George Takei as Casey Wong
Roddy McDowall as the voice of ED-209
Directed By:
Sam Peckinpah
Ironically, despite Peckinpah's long-standing reputation for blood and gore, this was actually one of the least violent films he ever made. Set in what was then considered the distant future-- the year 2010 --this science fiction drama also marked a rare departure from the Westerns that were Peckinpah's stock in trade. It tells the story of a terminally ill NYPD beat cop who jumps at the opportunity to extend his lifespan by having his consciousness transferred into the databanks of an experimental android. When his old partner nearly dies in a suspicious house fire, he takes it on himself to get to the truth of the matter....and the process discovers a quagmire of corruption at the heart of the very company that built his new form.
There are few explicit acts of physical violence in this movie. In fact, the first on-screen death doesn't even take place until the movie is more than 45 minutes into its 2 hour and 21 minute run time. The acts of violence that do happen, though, leave an indelible impression on the viewer's mind. This is especially true of the movie's climax, when an enraged Murphy/Robocop hunts down and eliminates everyone who was involved in the conspiracy to kill Anne Lewis; the most spectacular death is that of chief villain Clarence Boddicker, who in a neat and macabre case of poetic justice is sent to his grave by one of his own firebombs. Although it would be nearly four years before Peckinpah tried his hand at the sci-fi genre again, Robocop proved he could handle it just as well as he did with the Western.
Anyhow....
Robocop(1974)
Starring:
Steve McQueen as Officer Alex Murphy/Robocop
Joanna Pettet as Officer Anne Lewis
Martin Balsam as Sgt. Reed
Jack Palance as Dick Jones
Richard Chamberlain as Bob Morton
Barnard Hughes as the OCP Chairman
Charles Bronson as Clarence Boddicker
Fred Williamson as Leon Nash
Rob Reiner as Emil Antonowsky
Roscoe Lee Browne as Dr. McNamara
Special Guest Stars:
Faye Dunaway as Jess Perkins
George Takei as Casey Wong
Roddy McDowall as the voice of ED-209
Directed By:
Sam Peckinpah
Ironically, despite Peckinpah's long-standing reputation for blood and gore, this was actually one of the least violent films he ever made. Set in what was then considered the distant future-- the year 2010 --this science fiction drama also marked a rare departure from the Westerns that were Peckinpah's stock in trade. It tells the story of a terminally ill NYPD beat cop who jumps at the opportunity to extend his lifespan by having his consciousness transferred into the databanks of an experimental android. When his old partner nearly dies in a suspicious house fire, he takes it on himself to get to the truth of the matter....and the process discovers a quagmire of corruption at the heart of the very company that built his new form.
There are few explicit acts of physical violence in this movie. In fact, the first on-screen death doesn't even take place until the movie is more than 45 minutes into its 2 hour and 21 minute run time. The acts of violence that do happen, though, leave an indelible impression on the viewer's mind. This is especially true of the movie's climax, when an enraged Murphy/Robocop hunts down and eliminates everyone who was involved in the conspiracy to kill Anne Lewis; the most spectacular death is that of chief villain Clarence Boddicker, who in a neat and macabre case of poetic justice is sent to his grave by one of his own firebombs. Although it would be nearly four years before Peckinpah tried his hand at the sci-fi genre again, Robocop proved he could handle it just as well as he did with the Western.
I think I figured a good one out... has anyone seen Predestination yet? or read --All You Zombies-- by Robert Heinlein. While I enjoyed the film very much, it really convoluted the story with the whole bomber plot. I was thinking that a Stanley Kubrick or Ridley Scott version would be awesome. Then I was like well Christopher Nolan would be perfect for it. So, would you all prefer a Kubrick or Scott adaptation in the 80's or a Nolan adaptation after Inception skipping Dark Knight Rises in 2012?
Driftless
Donor
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 1957
A tongue in cheek action adventure.
After their efforts as train robbers make the US west to hot for them to stay, our heroes head south of the border and then they get caught up in helping a poor village's fight against a corrupt land baron.
- Directed by Howard Hawks
- Butch Cassidy - Burt Lancaster
- Sundance Kid - Steve McQueen
- Etta Place - Kim Novak
A tongue in cheek action adventure.
After their efforts as train robbers make the US west to hot for them to stay, our heroes head south of the border and then they get caught up in helping a poor village's fight against a corrupt land baron.
Last edited:
Driftless
Donor
(There have been many versions of the Sherlock Holmes stories - my premade version points towards the wonderful 1980's Jeremy Brett TV series)
A Sign of Four - 1960
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
A straight-forward telling of the Sign of Four, O'Toole became a breakout star as a young brooding, intense version of Holmes. Finney also gained high marks for his twist on Watson - an intelligent, dashing, slightly bemused partner in crime solving.
Hound of the Baskervilles - 1962
The movies were created and contracted as a pair, and the success of the "Sign of Four" led to great expectations for the "Hound". While a critical success, it was a bit of an underperformer commercially.
A Sign of Four - 1960
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
- Sherlock Holmes - Peter O'Toole
- Dr John Watson - Albert Finney
- Mary Morstan - Julie Christie
- Jonathan Small - Ralph Richardson
- Inspector Athelney Jones - William Hartnell
A straight-forward telling of the Sign of Four, O'Toole became a breakout star as a young brooding, intense version of Holmes. Finney also gained high marks for his twist on Watson - an intelligent, dashing, slightly bemused partner in crime solving.
Hound of the Baskervilles - 1962
- Directed by J. Lee Thompson
- Sherlock Holmes - Peter O'Toole
- Dr John Watson - Albert Finney
- Henry Baskerville - Jeremy Brett
- Stapleton - Richard Attenborough
- Beryl Stapleton - Sarah Miles
- Inspector Lestrade - Lionel Jeffries
The movies were created and contracted as a pair, and the success of the "Sign of Four" led to great expectations for the "Hound". While a critical success, it was a bit of an underperformer commercially.
Last edited:
Driftless
Donor
Ghostbusters - 1960
A troop of con men, played by & Hope, Jeffries, Lorre, uncover a perfect get rich scheme: ridding the Waldorf Astoria of a "ghost" (which they created as part of the con). They move into the hotel and are living in luxury until a real ghost appears. Mayhem ensues.
Appearing in cameo roles in the frantic finale: Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger & Jay Silverheels as Tonto
- Dr Pete Venkman - Bob Hope
- Dr Ray Stanz - Lionel Jeffries
- Dr Egon Spengler - Peter Lorre
- Dana Barrett - Kim Novak
- Janine Melnitz - Peggy Cass
- Louis Tully - Don Knotts
- Walter Peck - John Dehner
A troop of con men, played by & Hope, Jeffries, Lorre, uncover a perfect get rich scheme: ridding the Waldorf Astoria of a "ghost" (which they created as part of the con). They move into the hotel and are living in luxury until a real ghost appears. Mayhem ensues.
Appearing in cameo roles in the frantic finale: Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger & Jay Silverheels as Tonto
Last edited:
A 80's version by Ridley Scott would be nice. Although if you really wish to force it, a version of "All You Zombies" as an Twilight Zone/Outer Limits episode would be the challenge.
Gaius Julius Magnus
Gone Fishin'
This is my first and it's not entirely different just changing around some of the casting choices.
Once Upon A Time in the West (1969)
Directed by: Sergio Leone
Harmonica: Clint Eastwood
Frank: John Wayne
Cheyenne: Eli Wallach
Once Upon A Time in the West (1969)
Directed by: Sergio Leone
Harmonica: Clint Eastwood
Frank: John Wayne
Cheyenne: Eli Wallach
Driftless
Donor
Bullitt - 1928 (Silent comedy)
Hapless Officer Frank Bullitt (Keaton) SFPD, pines for the daughter (Day) of his Police Captain Bennett (Beery). He is continually thwarted in his attempts to romance Cathy by crooked councilman Chalmers (Churchill). Of course, true love wins out in the end; but not before intrepid Officer Bullitt nearly destroys San Francisco in one of the all time great comedy car chases. He pursues the fleeing councilman Chalmers (who has taken Cathy as hostage). Officer Bullitt drives his souped up Model T Speedster chasing the nefarious Chalmers in his Duesenberg. Included is the iconic "two-wheel" run down the twists and turns of Lombard street. It is considered a classic set-peice of stunt work and film technique.
- Officer Frank Bullitt - Buster Keaton
- Cathy Bennett - Marceline Day
- Walter Chalmers - Berton Churchill
- Captain Bennett - Wallace Beery
- Directed by - Buster Keaton
Hapless Officer Frank Bullitt (Keaton) SFPD, pines for the daughter (Day) of his Police Captain Bennett (Beery). He is continually thwarted in his attempts to romance Cathy by crooked councilman Chalmers (Churchill). Of course, true love wins out in the end; but not before intrepid Officer Bullitt nearly destroys San Francisco in one of the all time great comedy car chases. He pursues the fleeing councilman Chalmers (who has taken Cathy as hostage). Officer Bullitt drives his souped up Model T Speedster chasing the nefarious Chalmers in his Duesenberg. Included is the iconic "two-wheel" run down the twists and turns of Lombard street. It is considered a classic set-peice of stunt work and film technique.
Last edited:
The Terminator (1953)
In the early 90s, a robot is developed to replace living soldiers in the US and protect the country from the Soviets. Unfortunately, some of the programming was bad, and so instead of going through its paces, the robot goes rogue, killing many of the soldiers present, and heads off on what turns out to be a mission to kill the General Secretary of the Central Committee (of the Soviet Union), even though it would trigger a nuclear war. After repeated attempts to stop the robot fail, The government finally pulls the stops and sends in a ranger team, led by veteran Kyle Reese, and advised by Sarah Conner, one of the few surviving project scientists. Even then they fail to stop it, but are able to get word out to the USS Trenton, a carrier operating near the robot's planned flight-path that manages to shoot the aircraft down.
In the early 90s, a robot is developed to replace living soldiers in the US and protect the country from the Soviets. Unfortunately, some of the programming was bad, and so instead of going through its paces, the robot goes rogue, killing many of the soldiers present, and heads off on what turns out to be a mission to kill the General Secretary of the Central Committee (of the Soviet Union), even though it would trigger a nuclear war. After repeated attempts to stop the robot fail, The government finally pulls the stops and sends in a ranger team, led by veteran Kyle Reese, and advised by Sarah Conner, one of the few surviving project scientists. Even then they fail to stop it, but are able to get word out to the USS Trenton, a carrier operating near the robot's planned flight-path that manages to shoot the aircraft down.
I plan to heavily update this post tomorrow, but for now, tell me what you think.
(All of these films produced by Orion Pictures, as a subsidiary of Warner Brothers)
Heavy Rain (1978)
Dustin Hoffman as Ethan Mars
Ricky Schroder as Shaun Mars
Paul Sorvino as Scott Shelby
Joyce DeWitt as Madison Paige
Ray Liotta as FBI Special Agent Norman Jayden
Richard Keil as Police Sgt. Carter Blake
Lorne Greene as the Police Captain
Looper (1980)
Either John Travolta as Young Joe with Charles Bronson as Old Joe, Kurt Russell as Young Joe with Kirk Douglas as Old Joe, or Bruce Willis as Young Joe and Walter Matthau as Old Joe.
William Zabka as Gatman Willie
Gary Busey as Uncle Bill
Ricky Schroeder as The Young Rainmaker
Lindsay Wagner as The Rainmaker’s Mother
Stock Footage for Old Joe’s Wife.
The Matrix (1982)
Michael Dudikoff as Thomas Anderson/Neo
Sarah Douglas as Trinity
Jim Kelly as Morpheus
David Greenlee as Mouse
Joe Pesci as Cypher
Chuck Norris as Agent Smith
Whoopi Goldberg as The Oracle
Mass Effect (1983)
Either Bruce Boxleitner or Vigo Mortensen as Male Shepard, or Geena Davis or Jo Anderson as Female Shepard
Steve Buschemi as Lieutenant Jeff “Joker” Moreau
Erik Estrada as Lieutenant Kaiden Alenko
Demi Moore as Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams
Ally Sheedy as Liara T’Soni
James Earl Jones (after six months in the gym) as Captain David Anderson
Pat Hingle as Ambassador Donnel Udina
Diana Mildaur as Dr. Karin Chakwas
Bruce Willis as the voice of Garrus Vakarian
Natassja Kinski as Tali’Zorah
Don La Fontaine as the voice of Urdnot Wrex
Carol Burnett as Counselor Tevos
Armin Shimmerman as Counselor Valern
Keith Carridine as the voice of Counselor Sparatus
Jim Carrey or Chris Elliot as Conrad Verner
Marina Sirtis as Matriarch Benezia
Orson Wells as the Voice of Sovereign
Charlton Heston as Admiral Hackett
Closing Credits Theme: M4, Part II by Faunts (Possibly covered by Depeche Mode or Flock of Seagulls)
(Made for TV/Direct-to-Video Movie: Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky)
Gilbert Godfried as Balak (Voice fed through a flanger pedal)
Mass Effect 2 (1985):
Martin Sheen as The Illusive Man
Jeanne Hedley as Miranda Lawson (Being Australian is part of her character)
Sigourney Weaver as Aria T’Loak
Virginia Cole as Yeoman Kelly Chambers
Colm Meany as Mess Sgt. Rupert Gardner
Rowdy Roddy Piper as Kenneth Donnelly (Last name possibly changed to MacDonald)
Justine Bateman as Kate Daniels
Mark Hamil (in a creature suit) as Mordin Solis
Keith David (!) or Samuel L. Jackson as Jacob Taylor
David Warner as Zaeed Masaani
Denise Crosby as “Jack”
Peter Cullen as the voice of (Urdnot) Grunt
Tamilyn Tomita as Goto Kasumi
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry as Matriarch Aethyta
Kelly LeBrock or Rebecca DeMornay as EDI
John Cusak as Kal’Reegar
Dustin Hoffman as Thane Krios
Helen Mirren as Samara
Michael Dorn as the voice of Gatathog Uvenk
Peter Falk or Jerry Orbach as C-Sec Captain Owen Bailey
Brent Spiner as the Voice of Legion
Julie Andrews as Shala’Raan
Mira Ratavanovič as Daro’Xen
John Cleese as Zal’Koris
Ian McKellan as Han’Gerral
Klaus Kinski as Rael’Zorah
Raymond Burr as the Voice of Harbinger
Closing Credits Theme: We Belong by Pat Benatar, followed by We Are Young by Fun* (Possibly Covered by Queen)
(Made for TV/Direct-to-Video Movie: Mass Effect: Lair of the Shadow Broker)
Lindsay Wagner as Tela Vasir
Telly Sevalas or Albert Finney as the Voice of The Shadow Broker
(Made for TV/Direct-to-Video Movie: Mass Effect: Project Overlord)
Carey Elwes as Gavin Archer
Rowan Atkinson as David Archer
(HBO Preview Special: Mass Effect: The Arrival)
Jessica Tandy as Dr. Amanda Kinson
Mass Effect 3 (1987)
Richard Grieco or Jimmy Smits as Lieutenant Jaime Vega
The other of that duo as Lieutenant Steve Cortez
Lisa Bonét as Specialist Samantha Traynor
Christy Brinkley as Diana Alliers
Christopher Plummer as the voice of Primarch Adrian Victus
Didjimon Hounshu as Javik
Amanda Bierce as the voice of Dalatrass Linron
Rosanne Barr as the voice of “Eve” AKA Urdnot Bakara
Chow Yun-Fat as Kai Leng
Bryan Brown as Henry Lawson (Must be played by someone who can convincingly be Miranda’s father-in a few decades)
Closing Theme: Reignite by Malukah, followed by This is War by Thirty Seconds to Mars or Some Nights by Fun* (Possibly covered by 10,000 Maniacs and Queen, respectively)
(Made for TV/Direct-to-Video Movie: Mass Effect: Omega)
Jo Anderson (if she wasn’t Shepard) or Rebecca De Mornay as Nyreen Kandros
(HBO Debut Special: Mass Effect: Shore Leave (based on the Citadel DLC)
Holly Robinson as “Maya Brooks”
Dragon Age: The Fifth Blight (1988)
Kelly LeBrock as Lady Cousland
Carey Elwes as Sir Alistair
Christine McGlade as Morrigan
Molly Ringwald as Leliana AKA “Sister Nightingale”
Emilio Estavez as Zevaran
Barbara Billingsley as Wynne
Lisa Welchel as Queen Anora
Alan Rickman or Jeremy Irons as Duke Loghain
Jimmy Davidson as Oghren
Lisa Ruddy (in a rubber suit) as Shale
Judi Densch as Flemeth
Closing Credits: Through the Fire and the Flames by Dragonforce
How to Train Your Dragon: (Franchise Starting 1989)
Rob Stone as Hiccup Stoickson of the Strommings
Andrea Elson as Astrid Hoffersdottir
Brian Blessed as Jarl Stoick the Vast
Emilio Estavez as Toughnut Thorsteinson
Nancy McKeon as Roughnut Thorsteinsdottir
Thomas F. Wilson as Stotlout Bjornson
Anthony Michael Hall as Fishlegs Olafson
Jessica Tandy as the Giþie (Lines delivered while eating popcorn to preserve the incomprehensibility)
Lynda Carter as Valka (Hiccup’s Mother) (In the Sequel)
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Alvin the Abominable
Questions? Comments? Flames?
(All of these films produced by Orion Pictures, as a subsidiary of Warner Brothers)
Heavy Rain (1978)
Dustin Hoffman as Ethan Mars
Ricky Schroder as Shaun Mars
Paul Sorvino as Scott Shelby
Joyce DeWitt as Madison Paige
Ray Liotta as FBI Special Agent Norman Jayden
Richard Keil as Police Sgt. Carter Blake
Lorne Greene as the Police Captain
Looper (1980)
Either John Travolta as Young Joe with Charles Bronson as Old Joe, Kurt Russell as Young Joe with Kirk Douglas as Old Joe, or Bruce Willis as Young Joe and Walter Matthau as Old Joe.
William Zabka as Gatman Willie
Gary Busey as Uncle Bill
Ricky Schroeder as The Young Rainmaker
Lindsay Wagner as The Rainmaker’s Mother
Stock Footage for Old Joe’s Wife.
The Matrix (1982)
Michael Dudikoff as Thomas Anderson/Neo
Sarah Douglas as Trinity
Jim Kelly as Morpheus
David Greenlee as Mouse
Joe Pesci as Cypher
Chuck Norris as Agent Smith
Whoopi Goldberg as The Oracle
Mass Effect (1983)
Either Bruce Boxleitner or Vigo Mortensen as Male Shepard, or Geena Davis or Jo Anderson as Female Shepard
Steve Buschemi as Lieutenant Jeff “Joker” Moreau
Erik Estrada as Lieutenant Kaiden Alenko
Demi Moore as Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams
Ally Sheedy as Liara T’Soni
James Earl Jones (after six months in the gym) as Captain David Anderson
Pat Hingle as Ambassador Donnel Udina
Diana Mildaur as Dr. Karin Chakwas
Bruce Willis as the voice of Garrus Vakarian
Natassja Kinski as Tali’Zorah
Don La Fontaine as the voice of Urdnot Wrex
Carol Burnett as Counselor Tevos
Armin Shimmerman as Counselor Valern
Keith Carridine as the voice of Counselor Sparatus
Jim Carrey or Chris Elliot as Conrad Verner
Marina Sirtis as Matriarch Benezia
Orson Wells as the Voice of Sovereign
Charlton Heston as Admiral Hackett
Closing Credits Theme: M4, Part II by Faunts (Possibly covered by Depeche Mode or Flock of Seagulls)
(Made for TV/Direct-to-Video Movie: Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky)
Gilbert Godfried as Balak (Voice fed through a flanger pedal)
Mass Effect 2 (1985):
Martin Sheen as The Illusive Man
Jeanne Hedley as Miranda Lawson (Being Australian is part of her character)
Sigourney Weaver as Aria T’Loak
Virginia Cole as Yeoman Kelly Chambers
Colm Meany as Mess Sgt. Rupert Gardner
Rowdy Roddy Piper as Kenneth Donnelly (Last name possibly changed to MacDonald)
Justine Bateman as Kate Daniels
Mark Hamil (in a creature suit) as Mordin Solis
Keith David (!) or Samuel L. Jackson as Jacob Taylor
David Warner as Zaeed Masaani
Denise Crosby as “Jack”
Peter Cullen as the voice of (Urdnot) Grunt
Tamilyn Tomita as Goto Kasumi
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry as Matriarch Aethyta
Kelly LeBrock or Rebecca DeMornay as EDI
John Cusak as Kal’Reegar
Dustin Hoffman as Thane Krios
Helen Mirren as Samara
Michael Dorn as the voice of Gatathog Uvenk
Peter Falk or Jerry Orbach as C-Sec Captain Owen Bailey
Brent Spiner as the Voice of Legion
Julie Andrews as Shala’Raan
Mira Ratavanovič as Daro’Xen
John Cleese as Zal’Koris
Ian McKellan as Han’Gerral
Klaus Kinski as Rael’Zorah
Raymond Burr as the Voice of Harbinger
Closing Credits Theme: We Belong by Pat Benatar, followed by We Are Young by Fun* (Possibly Covered by Queen)
(Made for TV/Direct-to-Video Movie: Mass Effect: Lair of the Shadow Broker)
Lindsay Wagner as Tela Vasir
Telly Sevalas or Albert Finney as the Voice of The Shadow Broker
(Made for TV/Direct-to-Video Movie: Mass Effect: Project Overlord)
Carey Elwes as Gavin Archer
Rowan Atkinson as David Archer
(HBO Preview Special: Mass Effect: The Arrival)
Jessica Tandy as Dr. Amanda Kinson
Mass Effect 3 (1987)
Richard Grieco or Jimmy Smits as Lieutenant Jaime Vega
The other of that duo as Lieutenant Steve Cortez
Lisa Bonét as Specialist Samantha Traynor
Christy Brinkley as Diana Alliers
Christopher Plummer as the voice of Primarch Adrian Victus
Didjimon Hounshu as Javik
Amanda Bierce as the voice of Dalatrass Linron
Rosanne Barr as the voice of “Eve” AKA Urdnot Bakara
Chow Yun-Fat as Kai Leng
Bryan Brown as Henry Lawson (Must be played by someone who can convincingly be Miranda’s father-in a few decades)
Closing Theme: Reignite by Malukah, followed by This is War by Thirty Seconds to Mars or Some Nights by Fun* (Possibly covered by 10,000 Maniacs and Queen, respectively)
(Made for TV/Direct-to-Video Movie: Mass Effect: Omega)
Jo Anderson (if she wasn’t Shepard) or Rebecca De Mornay as Nyreen Kandros
(HBO Debut Special: Mass Effect: Shore Leave (based on the Citadel DLC)
Holly Robinson as “Maya Brooks”
Dragon Age: The Fifth Blight (1988)
Kelly LeBrock as Lady Cousland
Carey Elwes as Sir Alistair
Christine McGlade as Morrigan
Molly Ringwald as Leliana AKA “Sister Nightingale”
Emilio Estavez as Zevaran
Barbara Billingsley as Wynne
Lisa Welchel as Queen Anora
Alan Rickman or Jeremy Irons as Duke Loghain
Jimmy Davidson as Oghren
Lisa Ruddy (in a rubber suit) as Shale
Judi Densch as Flemeth
Closing Credits: Through the Fire and the Flames by Dragonforce
How to Train Your Dragon: (Franchise Starting 1989)
Rob Stone as Hiccup Stoickson of the Strommings
Andrea Elson as Astrid Hoffersdottir
Brian Blessed as Jarl Stoick the Vast
Emilio Estavez as Toughnut Thorsteinson
Nancy McKeon as Roughnut Thorsteinsdottir
Thomas F. Wilson as Stotlout Bjornson
Anthony Michael Hall as Fishlegs Olafson
Jessica Tandy as the Giþie (Lines delivered while eating popcorn to preserve the incomprehensibility)
Lynda Carter as Valka (Hiccup’s Mother) (In the Sequel)
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Alvin the Abominable
Questions? Comments? Flames?
Last edited:
Nice Kalvan.. I say Michael and Kirk Douglas as Young and Old Joe respectively. It's never made since to me why this has never been attempted. And who are the directors?
Last edited: