Blue Skies in Camelot (Continued): An Alternate 80s and Beyond
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Well, for starters there would certainly be less sexual content, especially if it’s made into films/a tv show. Network nipple was about as risque as it could get until like the 2000s
Edit: Hadn’t realized that you did not mean made in the 80s ttl - woops!
Hmm interesting. Never did understand why they went with Aegon for his name. Of course there is a lot of things I don't understand or like about the last season
Apologies for not getting back to him sooner! Yes, Martin is working in Hollywood as a screenwriter and in tv at this point. He will soon take a break from that however to focus on his novels.
The book series that Games of Thrones is based on - A Song of Ice and Fire - will absolutely be a thing in this timeline. It will also likely be adapted at some point. Beyond that, I agree with the other commenters who say that it probably won't come around until at least the 2000s, probably 2010s.
Apologies there. 😢 I always hate to kill off a celebrity. You'll inevitably break the hearts of their fans. I've tried to be fair about spreading the deaths/sparing some people around (I'm still not over Bob Dylan being killed way back in 66. His work in the 70s includes some of my favorite songs by any artist).
Dalton would be a great pick as Bond. Don't worry, I hear you loud and clear. The next 007 film might take a few years ITTL, given that Glover is departing and they need to go back to the drawing board.
I have not covered Nicaragua yet. But I planned on having Somoza meet a similar end to OTL in 1979.
Just playing, something's always got to give.
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Also, while they're at the drawing board, they need to figure out a niche, even in the action blockbuster genre, which is about to BLOW UP. They were always mimicing existing trends and slapping on Bond to it IOTL. Examples include:
Live and Let Die - James Bond in Blaxploitation
The Man With the Golden Gun - James Bond in Enter the Dragon
Octopussy - James Bond in Raiders of the Lost Ark
License to Kill - James Bond in a Drugbuster movie
And these are the ones off the top of my head.
TL, DR: James Bond needs to be something original, a trailblazer like it was in the '60s, both in our timeline and this timeline.
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a bit of a long shot, but in a 1970s Roger Moore equivalent reboot of Bond, perhaps MM takes over from Jack Lord as CIA liaison Felicia Leiter?
Don't worry about it, I understand you're busy with grad school. But great to hear that soon he'll work on his novels.
Great to hear that Game of Thrones will definitely be a thing. Let's just hope that the show ends better than it did IOTL. It'll also be interesting to see how the butterflies affect Martin himself and the A Song of Ice and Fire books if at all.
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Or get this: Marilyn Monroe as M (replacing the Judy Dench version from in our timeline).
Since IOTL it was a tv series, I wonder if ITTL it could be adapted as a potential film franchise instead (as apparently, IOTL, GoT was originally planned to be a film adaptation of the books, but the author disapproved of the idea so they turned it into a tv show instead). I could see it being just like the Harry Potter films, where they release a new movie every year or so for a possible decade and each one is an adaptation of the book/OTL season.
Xman1287
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Don’t forget to put out the futuristic swat riot gear wearing GhostSmashers Starring Dan Aykroyd as Ray Stantz John Belushi as Peter Venkman Jeff Goldblum as Egon Spengler Eddie Murphy as Winston Zeddemore John Candy as Louis Tulley Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett Sandra Bernhard as Janine Melnitz and Paul Reubens as Ivo Shandor/ Gozer the Gozerian aka the GhostSmashers interdimensional Employer there final battle in a hellish reality and their Vehicle that all Black 1975 Cadillac ambulance with purple and white strobe lights for the theme song have Hughes and Thrall NRBQ Lindsay Buckingham Huey Lewis Ray Parker Jr Kenny Loggins in a quartet style group for the theme song also if you feel they could make a impact Add both John Lithgow Christopher Lloyd and Christopher Walken Harold Ramis Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson Yaphet Kotto Richard Pryor and Jim Belushi yes John Belushi’s brother Michael Keaton Chevy Chase Michael Richards Robin Williams and Tom Hanks as the other GhostSmasher teams and for a couple laughs have Rick Moranis and Annie Potts as The Married couple who encounter Slimer who will be known as OnionHead.
@President_Lincoln, just curious, any plans for Robert Hanssen? I feel like things will get interesting for when he gets into the picture.
I don't think so. There's too much detail for Game of Thrones in order for it to be a movie. Even a series of movie would not do it justice.
Also with the Harry Potter Books. It was easy to adapt them into film since none of the books go past 70 chapters whereas I think one of the A song of Ice and Fire books number almost 90 chapters
One complaint I've seen is that the Dorthraki are portrayed in a very stereotypical light; they're basically just raping pillaging savages. Some have tried to argue that "oh they're just based on mongols/turks/certain native tribes" but even those cultures were far more than just raping savages and did have actual culture, so that just falls really flat. Same with the other Essos civilizations.
The Noblebright thread for a Song of Ice and Fire had the user kilerog come up with a more detailed history of the Dorthraki to the point that while they're still hardcore, they're not just mindless savages.
Martin ended up recycling a lot of tropes that are frankly problematic as hell; not necessarily from malice but because he grew up with them and didn't really see how others might view it as problematic.
I was actually thinking that a contribution I could make is that an up and coming author makes a fantasy book series based on non european myth (maybe Persian myth, Japanese myth, or even Native American lore). The writer has to go through a lot of shit to get it published but it really takes off in the public conscious.
That is an interesting idea. Have you got an idea of what the fantasy story would entail specifically? Also I must admit I am not at all well knowledgeable of Persian and Japanese myth I have a little knowledge of Native American so it would be interesting to read about a fantasy story that draws upon those three elements.
Xman1287
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Don’t forget to put out the futuristic swat riot gear wearing GhostSmashers Starring Dan Aykroyd as Ray Stantz John Belushi as Peter Venkman Jeff Goldblum as Egon Spengler Eddie Murphy as Winston Zeddemore John Candy as Louis Tulley Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett Sandra Bernhard as Janine Melnitz and Paul Reubens as Ivo Shandor/ Gozer the Gozerian aka the GhostSmashers interdimensional Employer there final battle in a hellish reality and their Vehicle that all Black 1975 Cadillac ambulance with purple and white strobe lights for the theme song have Hughes and Thrall NRBQ Lindsay Buckingham Huey Lewis Ray Parker Jr Kenny Loggins in a quartet style group for the theme song also if you feel they could make a impact Add both John Lithgow Christopher Lloyd and Christopher Walken Harold Ramis Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson Yaphet Kotto Richard Pryor and Jim Belushi yes John Belushi’s brother Michael Keaton Chevy Chase Michael Richards Robin Williams Tom Hanks and if he is still alive and not dead from his suicide Freddie Prinze as the other GhostSmasher teams and for a couple laughs have Rick Moranis and Annie Potts as The Married couple who encounter Slimer who will be known as OnionHead.
Also add this song is from the dragnet movie that starred Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks implent Dance or Die as well as that song was a repurposed Ghostbusters reject theme song and it is catchy
Also add this song is from the dragnet movie that starred Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks implent Dance or Die as well as that song was a repurposed Ghostbusters reject theme song and it is catchy
Mr. @President_Lincoln, in case you forgot about my suggestions here, I'll post it again for all of us geniuses here to know if they'll be the same as IOTL or different ITTL. I couldn't resist my enthusiasm if they weren't mentioned for this timeline of yours, so apologies in advance.
I'm thinking of drawing some inspiration from the Shahnameh, an Iranian myth, as well as Zoroastrianism. It expands into a vast universe of its own as well.
