Greatest Movies Never Made REDUX

[TheMann]

Just as on the title, guys. Let's see what you guys have in your imaginations....

To start us off:

TL: The TheMann Universe (The Land of Milk and Honey / Go North, Young Man)

Dark Dreamers

Type: Suspense Thriller with Crime and Erotic overtones
Studio: Lionsgate Entertainment
Nation: Canada
Year: 2016
Director: Atom Egoyan
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Lawrence, Priyanka Chopra, Chris Pratt, Aubrey 'Drake' Graham, Robyn 'Rihanna' Fenty, David Paetkau, Brock Lesnar, John Scott, Ebba 'Tove Lo' Nilsson, Cle Bennett, Stephanie Van Rijn, Andi Muise

Plot: Set in modern Toronto, Dark Dreamers is a highly erotically-charged suspense thriller, centered on Cameron Mitrani (Hemsworth), a multimillionaire Cambrai Avenue financial advisor who is also one of the greatest patrons of Toronto's underground societies, where the rules of love, lust, sexuality and control become very blurry indeed, him joined by his rival Michael Reckord (Drake) and Reckord's beautiful, wild wife Alessia (Rihanna).

When one of Mitrani's lovers, Kelly Shandon (Muise) turns up dead, Toronto police detectives Sarah Brassard (Lawrence) and Avani Sahota (Chopra) get called upon to find who murdered her, and this in turns leads Kelly's distraught, emotionally-damaged elder brother Robert (Pratt) to seek out what happened to her, along with Cameron himself wanting to know what happened. Sarah and Avani initially focus their looking on Cameron, while Cameron focuses on Michael and Alessia and Robert chases down his sister's involvement in the world. After discovering of the societies, Robert confronts Michael and Alessia while Sarah and Avani confront Cameron, the former finding out about Cameron this way and the latter seeing Sarah and Avani discover all about Cameron's world, which Sarah soon finds herself sucked into.

Both Cameron and Michael and Alessia soon find out about the killer that is only known as 'Deus Ex Machinima' and soon learn he has a connection to Kelly's death. As this happens, Robert meets Avani, who tells him of the looking into Cameron, leading to a confrontation between Cameron and Robert where the former angrily denies ever wanting to harm Kelly. As this happens, One of Alessia's most-liked girls, Heather (Van Rijn), has a run-in with the killer. She gets away, but this puts Michael and Alessia on his tail. Cameron finds himself being attracted to Sarah, and introduces the detectives to the societies, while at the same time discovering through his personal problem-solver Steven McLaren (Scott) about Michael and Alessia's chasing of the man known only as the Deus Ex Machinima. Michael responds to this by proposing through one of his friends, musician James Navayne (Bennett), that Cameron and Michael settle their differences before they blow up against one another.

Seeking to defend her girls, Alessia enlists the help of her ex-Army wing woman Natasha (Tove Lo) and attempts to help Michelle discover the man who had attempted to hurt them, only for him to find them first and kidnap Alessia and Heather in an attempt to keep them quiet. Sarah and Avani find out about this from Natasha, resulting in them (and Cameron, Steven and Michael) going out to save Alessia and Heather. They are successful at this, but the killer goes underground, forcing all into a cat-and-mouse game to attempt to find him.

Sarah gives in to temptation and visits Cameron, where he admits to feelings for her, leading Sarah to comment that she shouldn't be involved with him while the investigation was still on. Cameron answers this by stating that he introduced her and Avani to the societies because he thinks both of them could find a second life for themselves among the societies. Sarah leaves in disgust at Cameron's advances, but soon has to ask herself how much he was wrong about. Robert meets with Natasha and Steven in an attempt to understand what drives Cameron and Michael, only to have Natasha make it clear that what Cameron and Michael do is little more than being lovers of a different sort. Avani thinks Sarah is insane for attempting to visit Cameron, as while she knows Cameron didn't murder Kelly, she is not sure of his intentions. Regardless, she agrees to help her navigate the world they have entered. Cameron gets a hold of Robert through Steven, and asks him what he can do to help Robert's hurt soul. Robert's indignant result about being bribed by Cameron is responded by him saying "I didn't assume you wanted money, Mr. Shandon. I assumed you wanted something to fill the hole in the soul." Cameron leaves an open invitation for Robert to let him know what he wants, whatever it happens to be. The men go away both hoping the other can see the positives in them.

A midsummer party sees Sarah and Avani show up at Cameron's home, where is only too happy to allow them in, with the detectives discovering that Michael and Cameron have settled their differences, and they speak about everything they have learned. Cameron and Sarah go off on their own, where Cameron reiterates that he wants Sarah to be with him, while Avani asks Steven and Natasha to introduce her to exactly what the societies do for the people that are part of them. Sarah challenges Cameron to introduce her to the way he makes love to his lovers, while Avani asks Steven to show her the same thing, both detectives discovering what the dominants of the societies bring to the table for the people they love.

The Deus Ex Machinima turns up again when another woman turns up dead in a ritzy neighborhood, putting Sarah, Avani, Cameron, Michael and Alessia on his trail once again, as well as pulling Robert into it. A chance meeting at a train station leads to Robert chasing the Deus Ex Machinima, while also contacting Cameron and the detectives to help him chase him down. All respond immediately, but not before Robert and the killer meet in person, and it turns into a vicious fight where Robert and Machinima both end up badly hurting themselves before the detectives arrive. Machinima's grabbing of his own gun sees him shot by Avani, but he lives long enough to speak about him being here on account of another wealthy man, Graham Tarrier, who claims to have been screwed by Cameron. Information at the Machinima's loft adds evidence to this, leading to the officers to begin investigating this Tannehill, eventually discovering that it is a pseudonym of businessman Scott Tannehill (Paetkau), a life-long friend and former business partner of Cameron's, who also had had dealings with Michael and Alessia.

This done, Sarah and Avani go to arrest Scott for conspiring to commit murder, only to discover that Cameron had discovered the same thing. Sarah allows Cameron to confront Scott, with Cameron asking how Scott could toss away decades of friendship and bring harm to the societies. Scott answers that by saying that Kelly had been his girl before bringing her to the societies, and that Cameron had both taken the woman he had loved as well as screwing him out of money. Cameron apologies for taking Kelly from him, swearing that he had never known of Scott and Kelly, and that if he had known he would have never been involved with Kelly. Aware of the problems that could arise, Avani arrests Scott and takes him while a devastated Cameron asks himself how he could have never known about Scott and Kelly and whether the societies had condemned him to make such a mistake. Sarah visits him at home sensing his pain, and assures him that he'd never be in that situation again because he had a new lover.

Avani meets up with Steven again after arresting Scott, stating that she wanted to get to know Steven more and asking whether he thought she was cut out for the world that Steven lived in, to which Steven comments "The choice of whether you want to be part of that world is yours, and yours alone." Avani has a crisis of conscience over it, to which Steven kisses Avani goodbye and says "whatever you choose, you know how to find me." He barely gets out of the building before being chased down by Avani, who tells him she wants to know whether Steven and her was real. Steven answers that by stating "You came looking for me. That's real enough for us to start to find out what is real."

The end of the movie comes some time later, at another of Cameron's vast parties, finding Michael and Alessia enjoying the evening with Heather, Natasha hanging out with Robert, Avani taking a swim in one of the home's swimming pools only to see Steven arrive and then for Cameron to sit down next to Michael to talk a little business, only for Sarah to promptly arrive and drop herself into Cameron's lap, with Michael, Alessia, Heather, Robert and Natasha noticing and approving of as Sarah and Cameron lose themselves in each other.

Reception: Based Blake Scott's Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name, Dark Dreamers was made in an attempt to combine the eroticism of the book with the criminal undertones and the ideas of people of many different backgrounds and desires finding themselves finding what they desire in somebody else. Stylish almost to a fault, beautifully directed and extraordinarily well-acted (garnering Oscar nominations for Hemsworth, Lawrence and Chopra) along with possessed of a first-class soundtrack (composed by James Horner and with music written for it by Tove Lo, Drake and Rihanna as well as Calvin Harris, Ellie Goulding, Alessia Cara and Lorde), the movie had success written all over it even before it debuted, and successful it was, making better than $500 million at global box offices in the spring and early summer of 2016 and scooping nine Academy Award nominations.

 

[Sorairo]

I'll try and take a few from real history with a dash of my own inventions:

Kaleidoscope (1969)
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Referred to by one film critic as "Hitchcock's final masterpiece", the British Director created what may be his best film, but certainly the most controversial, something he took great pleasure in. After the critical praise of Pscyho bled into the disappointment of Marnie, Hitchcock saw with envy the rise of films back in Europe with stunningly lewd displays of sex and murder, which would lead to the crumbling of the old Hays Code system. With the new Hollywood shocking film goers with Bonnie and Clyde, Hitchcock felt the time was right to go farther than he had ever gone before.

The story would have revolved around a young, handsome bodybuilder (inspired by Neville Heath) who lures young women to their deaths, a version of the character known as 'Merry Widow Murderer' in Shadow of a Doubt. The New York police set a trap for him, with a policewoman posing as a potential victim. The script was based around three crescendos dictated by Hitchcock: the first was a murder by a waterfall; the second murder would take place on a mothballed warship; and the finale, which would take place at an oil refinery with brightly coloured drums. It would be called 'Kaleidoscope'. Universal was mortified by the idea initially, but Hitchcock's assurances of being able to pay for the project, with a cast of virtual unknowns (and would remain unknown, owing to their near universal boycott after the film came out) mollified their concerns enough to let him go with his reputation as the big decider.

Hitchcock's film was notorious not only for its liberal use of sex and violence that mortified even hardcore film-goers, but its stunningly open discussion of homosexuality in its protagonist, albeit in a way that would raise the ire of Homosexual Rights groups across the country for such a negative depiction. What would interest film-makers though, particularly those from the 80s and 90s, was Hitchcock's innovative use of the First Person camera perspective, and natural lighting, which gave it an entirely unique feel from all his previous work. It would be an incredible influence on horror film-makers for years and would later be considered revolutionary.

Unfortunately for Hitchcock, the backlash was far more intense than praise at the time. Critics the world over condemned it as despicable. Even Roger Ebert said, " Some people may wish to go easy on this film because Alfred Hitchcock made it; I won't. In fact, that any film-maker with such incredible gifts could waste them on something like Kaleidoscope brings my far more sadness than some cheap B-film-maker somewhere in the shabby studios of downtown L.A." Universal washed their hands of the project, and sent Hitchcock away. Hitchcock would remain bitter about the experience to his last days, making several more relatively unexciting films in Britain before dying about a decade later. While the critics spat on it, the public ate it up, with Kaleidoscope being in the top 10 grossing films of the year. That didn't stop the backlash from breaking out into the public, with Californian Governor Ronald Reagan demanding Hollywood reinstitute the Hays Code to stop anymore films like Kaleidoscope being made. While it didn't happen, it did temporarily terrify Hollywood enough to cut back on the more lurid pictures that were being made at the time. It is often cited as the reason that 'Hello Dolly!' won the Best Picture Oscar that year, and Kubrick's reluctant addition of the redemptive final chapter of 'Clockwork Orange' to assuage concerns about its promotion of immoral behaviour.

 

[eltf177]

Still going with Ralph Bakshi's WIZARDS II...

 

[keep]

I'll just leave this one here.

 

[TheMann]

Blue Planet

TL: The TheMann Universe (The Land of Milk and Honey / Go North, Young Man)
Type: Science-Fiction Fantasy
Studio: Northern Lights Studios / Lionsgate Entertainment
Nation: Canada
Year: 2014
Director: Sarah Polley
Writers: Marina Neimat, Sarah Polley, Allison Reilis, Margaret Atwood
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Marion Cotillard, Zoe Kravitz, Seth Rogen, Sergio Di Zio, Mark Taylor, Anna Kendrick, Josh Hutcherson, Vanessa Paradis, Alisen Down, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Alex Carter, Adam Butcher

Synopsis: One of the long list of fantasy-themed science-fiction movies in the 2000s and 2010s (the appearances of new chapters of Star Wars and Star Trek, the revival of the Tron, Total Recall and Ghost In The Shell movies and Avatar, Ex Machina, Cloud Atlas, Jupiter Ascending and Passengers proved this very clearly), Blue Planet, the masterwork of Canadian director Sarah Polley, proved to be a sign of what was coming, as the movie's premise - a spaceship crashing on a previously-unknown planet, forcing its passengers to survive a world that is capable of supporting life but is hostile to its new arrivals, while relations between the members of the mission go in all kinds of different directions.

 

[eltf177]

PLANET OF THE APES - A 1998 script by Sam Hamm. With CGI now where it's at this would be quite doable. And it's a good script to boot. You can find it at http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/POTA_Remake.txt

My other personal vote would be for THE PUSHCART WAR, a book by Jean Merrell. Written in 1964, it was supposedly written in 1986 about events that took place ten years earlier in 1976 (it's my understanding that these dates keep getting pushed forward in newer editions to keep the events in the reader's future). Again, with CGI this is now quite doable and should be done! The wikipedia article can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pushcart_War

 

[Corjomc]

Based on the popular TV Series, The Gongjag of Wiheom Province brought the fun-filled adventures of the Gongjag Boys to the Big Screen in South Korea.

Once again Ho and Joon rev up the General Lee and jump the DMZ and the Hi-Jinks ensue! Will the Commissars and Kim Jong-un catch them this time?

Yee Ha! The South will Rise Again!

 

[volantredx]

Is it ok to copy a post of mine from a different thread?

Batman Rises (2007)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Producer: Robert Rodriquez, Frank Miller
Writer: Frank Miller (credit) Screenplay by David Hayter

Staring:
Ron Perlman as Batman/Bruce Wayne
Nicholas Cage as The Joker
Ellen Page as Carrie Kelly
Christopher Lee as Alfred Pennyworth
Morgan Freeman as Commissioner Gordon
Sam Worthington as the Mutant Leader
Carrie-Anne Moss as Ellen Yindel

Shortly after the release of Superman:Returns (1) WB decided to move forward on adapting its other major DC hero, Batman. From nearly the onset Director Robert Rodriguez was attached to the film which was intended to be a darker more grounded take on the hero. Rodriquez also lobbied hard to have the film be an adaption of Frank Miller's work with the character, given their history after working together on Sin City. Originally plans were to adapt the Year One story to tie in with the new young Superman film. However plans were later changed to take on the more recognizable story The Dark Knight Returns. David Hayter was also attached to the project in order to adapt the screenplay after his success in bringing a more realistic X-Men to screen.

Efforts were made to separate this project from the previous adaptations by having Batman be portrayed as an older man, retired from his life of crime fighting only to be drawn back in, thus many of the characters were deliberately depicted as much older than the traditional view. Ron Perlman was cast as the lead hero, both due to the actor's physical size matching Miller's interpretation and to make Batman seem gruffer and more cynical(2). Christopher Lee fresh off his role as Saurman in the widely successful Lord of the Rings was given the role as Alfred Pennyworth. Lastly Morgan Freeman was chosen to portray Batman's traditional ally in the Police Force as Commissioner Gordon, a choice that sparked off a minor controversy as Gordon is Caucasian in the comics. In order to play Batman's arch foe, The Joker, Nicholas Cage was picked due to the actor's impressive audition and helped to give the Joker a manic energy that had shades of Jack Nicholson's take on the character in the 1989 film (4).

Several new characters were also being depicted for the first time on the big screen. Carrie Kelly, the new Robin, was shopped around to many young actresses before going to Juno star Ellen Page. The Mutant Leader whose actions drive Batman out of his retirement was given to young Sam Worthington on the condition he gain 20 pounds of muscle in order to better fit the massive character (5). Carrie-Anne Moss of Matrix fame was later cast as the no nonsense assistant commissioner Ellen Yindel.

The film's plot was largely an direct adaption of the Graphic Novel, with several changes made to save on time or in order to allow for possible sequels. The story opens on Bruce Wayne, older and retired dealing with an increasing distaste for the state of Gotham after he stopped acting as its protector. A new gang has taken power in the city, ruled by the charismatic leader. After seeing a news broadcast about a botched Mutant kidnapping that lead to the deaths of a young boy, combined with the late movie being Mask of Zorro (6), Batman returns to his suit and takes to the night (7). Batman's actions attract the attention of the Mutant Leader who has his gang take over the airways in order to issue an open challenge to Batman. Batman is able to easily defeat the Mutants but is nearly overcome by the Mutant Leader, and must be saved by Carrie Kelly. After returning to the cave Batman realizes his error in trying to fight the Mutant Leader one on one. Meanwhile Commissioner Gordon is being challenged by his inability to handle the Mutant Leader, and faces pressure to step down due to his closeness to Batman.

Knowing that he'd never truly break the Mutants if the Leader can claim to have beaten Batman, Bruce tricks the gang into having a meet-up where he manages to break out the Leader and using his superior training Batman is able to publicly cripple him. This however is the final straw for the Commissioner who is made to step down in favor of Yindel, who promises to take Batman in no matter what (8). The news that Batman is back in Gotham also reaches Arkham Asylum, and the Joker, who'd been unresponsive once he realized Batman had retired. With renewed energy Joker is able to trick his doctors into believing he is sane, and even talks them into letting him on a talk show. Once on the show Joker reveals his true nature and attacks the audience, using a special gas he had former henchmen hide in the vents (9). Batman hurries to the scene but misses the Joker, and has to fight his way free of the SWAT team that had just arrived, unfortunately he is wounded in the process. Tracking the Joker down to an amusement park he finds the Joker handing out poisoned cotton candy with several of his henchmen. While he chases the Joker, Carrie is left to fight Joker's gang (10). Finally finding the Joker in the Tunnel of Love the two engage in what could be their final battle. At first the Joker seems to be gaining the upper-hand, but Batman reveals that he's been holding back all this time out of fear of killing someone. A fear he no longer has with the Joker. Knocking him to the ground he begins to savagely beat his foe, until the police arrive driving him off. The Joker is found alive, but in bad shape (11) (12).

Batman now an outlaw returns to his cave with Carrie to contemplate the future. The scene cuts to several days later where Batman is brooding on a rooftop over looking the alley where his parents were killed when a shadow falls over his face. Batman says "[he] knew you'd come" when a voice response that "they need to talk." and the camera pans to show Brandon Routh as Superman (13 )

Notes:
(1) this timeline is based on the idea that Superman Returns is a much larger success which WB intends to take advantage of.
(2) Perlman will joke that they didn't want anyone pretty this time.
(4) Cage will also take great delight in acting this way when the cameras stop rolling causing several crew to publicly voice concerns over the actor's mental wellness.
(5) He'd end up over shooting by about 10 pounds.
(6) inter spaced were flashbacks to a nearly soundless retelling of Batman's parents' deaths. Rodriguez would later state on the commentary that he didn't really think people needed to be told all this due to the character's popularity in the public eye, stating it'd be like "showing Superman was from space all the time. People should know this already"
(7) The following montage of Batman fighting criminals as well as Ellen Page's first appearance would draw great praise mainly due to the tight editing and the sense of weight to Batman's actions.
(8) Unknown to her much of the pressure comes from fears about Batman turning his attention to the corruption in the city's government.
(9) The Dollmaker from the comic is largely replaced by generic henchmen to save time and to keep the story more grounded.
(10) Page was really excited about the fight scene as she hadn't done an action scene before. The fighting style focused more on the use of weight and leverage over the more common acrobatic style many female action stars use.
(11) Plans were to originally have the Joker die like in the comic, but WB changed them to allow the Joker to be used for other projects. It also kept the movie from getting an R rating.
(12) Cage was originally meant to have lines, but the make up for his swollen face and missing teeth limited his ablity to talk. Instead he resorted to laughing, which was considered one of the more chilling moments.
(13 ) yes WB and DC get a slight jump on the shared universe before Marvel but only barely as Iron Man 1 would come out and hint at the Avengers films later the next year. DC would still have the first official team up movie with World's Finest in 2009, as well as the first female lead superhero movie with Wonder Woman in 2011. The full Justice League film however wouldn't hit until the summer after the Avengers team up.

 

[Wallet]

Spider-Man 4: Director is Sam Raimi. After the success of Spider-Man 3, Sony is willing to pay even more for more films. Tobey Magire is the top paid super hero actor.

The movie has Peter Parker graduate college. It's bitter sweet with Dr. Connors becomes the Lizard because of a joint project with him and Parker. The movie has Connors willing to give his life to save Parker's image of the failed experiment.

The movie ends with Peter and Mary-Jane getting married. The scene is iconic for having numerous Hollywood cameos in the audience watching the wedding breaking a record from Paul McCarthy to Oprah. Stan Lee is the preacher. The movie spans Spider-Man 5 and 6. Sony has a deal with marvel for a older more mature Spider-Man to be in the Avengers played by Magire

 

[Some Bloke]

Just as on the title, guys. Let's see what you guys have in your imaginations....

To start us off:

You had me sold with "Rihanna" and "Erotic".

 

[Some Guy From Mars]

This is also posted from a different thread:

A Few Good Men II (2003)

Jack Nicholson and Kiefer Sutherland return to reprise their roles as Nathan R. Jessup and Jonathan Kendrick, respectively. The sequel picks up where the original leaves off, with Captain Jack Ross (Kevin Bacon) suggesting he is going to arrest Kendrick, which he does.

In order to avoid jail time, Jessup takes a please deal in which he is reduced in rank and forced into retirement. Things do not turn out as well for Kendrick, whom receives a dishonorable discharge from the Marines. Jessup has turned into a bitter old man who spends the majority of his military pension on drink. Kendrick, meanwhile, cannot find any better employment than managing a fast food restaurant and is otherwise a disenchanted and anti-social loner.

The story gets going when the two have a chance meeting at a biker bar in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks. Hard words end up exchanged, and the two almost come to blows, but cooler heads prevail when Jessup states in that sardonic drawl of his, “Jonathan, why don’t we sit down and talk over our differences because we might have more in common than we think”.

As it turns out, both greatly miss the structure and discipline of military life and regret their respective discharges, particularly as it pertains to the order to subject Pfc. William T. Santiago to the infamous ‘code red’. The two end up discussing the post 9/11 world with the idea of ‘making amends’ for their respective decisions that led to the loss of life of an innocent marine. The two eventually reach the conclusion that the best way to achieve this is to use their mutual military experience and background to join a paramilitary outfit as mercenaries to fight insurgents in Afghanistan.

It is an ironic twist of fate, however, that when they arrive in Afghanistan to find that their immediate superiors are none other than former Lance Cpl. Harold Dawson and former Pfc. Louden Downey! The two, now high-ranking officers in the paramilitary outfit, at first balk at the idea of commanding Jessup and Kendrick, but (once more) cooler heads prevail when both sides realize they have more to gain from working together and ultimately develop a sense of mutual grudging respect.

Downey is no longer a naïve and impressionable young man, but rather a cagey and battle hardened veteran with the scars to show for it. The more eloquent Dawson has turned into a master strategist at hunting down and finding the insurgents- and also has more than a little bit of a chip on his shoulder in attempting to make the military regret its decision to dishonorably discharge him.

The four form a crack unit in the fight against the Taliban, with the movie reaching its apex during an attack that goes awry. False intelligence leads the former marines into an ambush, with Dawson and Downey losing their lives in the assault. Jessup and Kendrick suffer serous wounds, but in the end toss hand grenades into a barrack that is supposed to house high-ranking Taliban officials but (again, due to false intelligence) turns out to be a school full of children instead.

When Jessup and Kendrick return to the States to recover from their injuries, the two end-up charged with war crimes. Enter Tom Cruise, who returns to reprise his role as Daniel Kaffee, but he is no longer a lieutenant in the Navy but rather one of the nations most highly regarded defense attorneys. In another ironic twist of fate, Jessup and Kendrick hire Kaffee to represent them in the government’s charges against them for war crimes.

Life might have gone well over the years for Kaffee, but not so A Few Good Men cohorts JoAnne Galloway (Demi Moore) and Sam Weinberg (Kevin Pollak). Galloway, unable to duplicate her legal success in the civilian world, has turned into a drug addicted toothless wonder who is now living in skid row eking out a living to help support here ailing mother. Weinberg, having not fared much better, descended into depression following the demise of his marriage and is now working as a circus juggler at a nearby flea market.

Kaffee, determined to get the same ‘legal dream team’ back together, recruits Galloway and Weinberg off the scrap heap following several emotional laden ‘win one for the Gipper’ type speeches to the two. Galloway successfully enters rehab, while Weinberg resumes his legal career. Jack Ross, in the meantime, has become one of the governments top prosecuting attorney’s, and, in another twist of fate, ends up assigned the Jessup and Kendrick war crimes case.

The trial goes pretty much as one would expect. Galloway, despite having no teeth, has one of her ‘strenuously object’ courtroom meltdowns, Wienberg attempts to be the peace keeper in the face of such chaos and Kaffee, true to form, gets drunk when all seems lost but, upon grabbing his trusted baseball bat, has a moment of inspired brilliance that puts the team over the top. Kaffee manages to wrangle a confession from a key witness - a former Taliban official brought in at the last minute - that everything has been a ‘cover up’: the officers that were supposed to be in the barrack were replaced at the last minute by children in order to shed a negative light on the attackers. The jury then finds Jessup and Kendrick innocent of all charges!

 

[Laqueesha]

Just saw "Train to Busan". I hear they're doing a U.S. remake of it, so...

Train to Boston

Steve Wayland (Jamie Foxx), a divorced fund manager, is a workaholic and absentee father to his young teenage daughter, Sue Anne (Amandla Stenberg). Sue Anne is bitter at Steve for missing her glee club performance the previous week. For her birthday the next day, she wishes for Steve to take her to New England to see their estranged mother. They board the Acela Express at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station headed for Boston, Massachusetts. Others on the same train are tough working-class husband Sammy Hernandez (Michael Peña) and his pregnant wife Stephanie Cortez (Natalie Martinez), a collegiate lacrosse team from Virginia Commonwealth University, rich and selfish British tech CEO Yohann Sutherland, elderly sisters Irene Gonzalez and Joan Gonzalez, and a homeless USMC veteran who is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

As the train departs, a convulsing young woman boards the train with a bite wound on her leg. The woman soon becomes a zombie and attacks a train attendant, who then also turns into a zombie. The infection quickly spreads throughout the train. VCU lacrosse player Wade Greene, a cheerleader named Jessica Harper who has a crush on him, and several passengers manage to escape to another car. News broadcasts report zombie outbreaks throughout the northeast corridor. The train stops at New York City's Penn Station, but the surviving passengers find that Manhattan has been overrun, and they hastily retreat back to the train, splitting up into different train cars in the chaos. The conductor restarts the train to head to Boston, where rumors are a successful military quarantine zone has reportedly been established.

Steve, Sammy, and Wade fight their way to where Sue Anne, Irene, and Stephanie are hiding, and together they struggle through the zombie horde to the front train car, where the other passengers are sheltered. However, at the instigation of Yohann, the passengers block the survivors from entering, fearing that they are infected. Sammy and Irene sacrifice themselves to give the others time to force open the door and enter the car. Yohann demands that the newcomers isolate themselves in the vestibule, and the gullible others eagerly follow his lead. When Joan deliberately opens the door to the zombies to be with her zombified sister Irene, the zombies kill the rest of the passengers, leaving Steve, Sue Anne and Stephanie safe, as they are in the vestibule. Yohann and the train attendant escape the onslaught by hiding in a nearby lavatory.

A blocked track at the New London, Connecticut train station forces the survivors to stop and search for another train. In the process, Steve, Stephanie, Sue Anne, and the homeless veteran are separated from Wade and Jessica. Yohann escapes after pushing the train attendant into the horde to be eaten by the zombies, then does the same with Jessica. Heartbroken, Wade stays with Jessica and is soon bitten by her after she reanimates. The train conductor starts a locomotive on another track, but is also killed by zombies while trying to save Yohann. The homeless veteran sacrifices himself to let Sue Anne and Stephanie escape with Steve into the train the conductor had activated. They encounter Yohann in the engine room, on the verge of turning into a zombie. Steve fights him off, but is himself bitten. He puts Sue Anne and Stephanie inside the engine room and shares his last words with his daughter before moving outside. As he zombifies, he thinks of the first time he held his daughter in his arms, and throws himself off the locomotive with a smile.

Sue Anne and Stephanie get off just past Westwood, Massachusetts and begin walking through a train tunnel. On the other side of the tunnel are U.S. Army soldiers stationed to defend the perimeter against zombies. Unable to see the new arrivals clearly, the soldiers at the checkpoint are ordered to shoot them. However, the soldiers then hear singing, which makes them realize the newcomers are human: it is Sue Anne, tearfully singing the song that she had wanted to perform for her father at the glee club performance.

Yee Ha! The South will Rise Again!

Top kek.

Coincidentally, "01" is how you spell "Lee" in Korean.

 

[Corjomc]

 

[galveston bay]

PLANET OF THE APES - A 1998 script by Sam Hamm. With CGI now where it's at this would be quite doable. And it's a good script to boot. You can find it at http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/POTA_Remake.txt

My other personal vote would be for THE PUSHCART WAR, a book by Jean Merrell. Written in 1964, it was supposedly written in 1986 about events that took place ten years earlier in 1976 (it's my understanding that these dates keep getting pushed forward in newer editions to keep the events in the reader's future). Again, with CGI this is now quite doable and should be done! The wikipedia article can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pushcart_War

"The Pushcart War" was one of my favorites when I was a young teen... a shame we have never actually seen that one as a film

 

[Some Bloke]

The Prize (1951)

Starring Kenneth Moore, Errol Flynn, Peter Cushing.

One of the early Anniversary Epics, The Prize dramatises the battle of Cape Matapan. Flynn's performance as the Australian officer commanding the titular Prize (the soon to be HMAS Pola, a name which the Royal Australian Navy still uses) represented a second wind for his career.

 

[Some Bloke]

Blue Ribbons (2014)

Starring Naomie Harris, Jessica Lucas, Sydney T Poitier, Robyn Rihanna Fenty, Idris Elba, Gary Carr, Brian George, Nicola Walker.

A remake of the 1964 Anniversary Epic following the medical units attached to the Caribbean Brigade which fought with the Canadian First Army from Normandy onwards.

The title comes from the George Crosses the unit received during operations in the Falaise pocket, the Scheldt campaign and the battles on the Siegfried line. Analysis of the records show that this unit received more civilian gallantry awards in a shorter time than any other commonwealth unit.

Like the original, the remake was praised for its unflinching portrayal of the racism the unit faced during its deployment. The remake was also grittier and more visceral in general with its portrayal of battlefield injuries.

Further praise came was given for the claustrophobic atmosphere of many of the field scenes. Fenty insisted on being credited under her full name for her acting and singing for this film.

 

[Corjomc]

(Note: something I erote way back in '09 but seemed to fit this subject)

WILL THEY EVER MAKE THE TRILOGY?

Franz Ferdinand's masterpiece the GREAT WAR has met with much fanfare. When Director Gavrilio Principe began shooting in 1914 no one had any idea it would be such a big hit. Certainly no one knew a league of nations would be formed to better monitor the rise in violence in movies brought about by this groundbreaking film.

It took 20 years for Austrian film maker Adolf Hitler and his production company to take over the Berlin Studios and begin production of the much anticipated sequel. WORLD WAR II, stunned the critics and out did its predecessor in both worldwide appeal, Box office Gross and on screen Violence.

The violence in the movie caused the League of Nation to go through very major changes in how they police modern cinema. Now known as the United nations they have been successful so far in stopping what many had seen as a Trilogy.

Not that some studios have not tried. USA Studios and USSR films have combined on more than one occasion to get the long awaited WORLD WAR III produced. A script has been bandied about the Sardi's circuit for years now. But with the UN keeping a tight grip on Violence in today's cinema and more importantly, so many studio heads seeing the price of the film as being too high the project has languished for decades.

Kennedy and Khrushchev almost had it in the can in 1963. They had all the things they needed lined up but once again cost estimates and cold feet at the upper levels of management prevented them from starting shooting. Its rumored that Kennedy's death in Dallas was not what it seemed and may have been orchestrated by Studio insiders. Khrushchev also was removed as studio head when a vote of no confidence toppled him.

In 1983 these two same companies tried once again under the respective management of Reagan and Andropov. Production never got off the ground when a clerk at USSR films named Stan Petrov, revealed the expenses being made to the USSR board. Soon after USSR films, after the failure of their epic AFGHANISTAN, filed for bankruptcy.

So it looks as if there may not be a 3rd chapter in the WORLD WAR Trilogy. Independent film makers like Bin Laden have tried to use early successes to begin the project and would give it a religious theme. Others have a similar idea and would have the Rapture as the movies backdrop.

Both hoping a Wrath of God approach would draw in a larger audience and thus cover the projected expenses the third movie would entail. While the studios like a religious themed movie for its effects and money saved through the use of CG it does not think it can carry the blockbuster season.

Currently USA Studios are remaking AFGHANISTAN and filming IRAQ as well but none the movies since WORLD WAR II have quite lived up to the hype. Until multiple major international studios can work together and just ignore the edicts of the UN and not worry about the price WORLD WAR III Won't be made. But we still have the script.

 

[tigercat]

Batman - four Indian officers from different regiments are appointed each year to serve as "King's (or Queen's) Indian Orderly Officers" in attendance on the monarch in London. Spanning the 1900's to 1939 this epic examines their struggles to find a place as successive generations struggle to make a place for themselves in an empire where if the sun hasn't quite set its fast approaching late afternoon

 

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Blood Beach--The story of the American disaster at Omaha Beach during D-Day and the subsequent decision to abandon Omaha for Utah Beach. (OOC: This is based off Bloody Normandy by Tim Kilvert Jones, where the Germans deploy their Panzer divisions differently; they win at Omaha as a result, but still lose the overall battle on D-Day)

 

[TheMann]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

TL
The TheMann Universe (The Land of Milk and Honey / Go North, Young Man)
Type
Science-Fiction Fantasy / Drama
Studio
Lionsgate Entertainment / Eidos Studios / Challenger Studios
Nation
United States / Canada
Year
2017
Director
Alfonso Cuarón
Writers
Michael Russfield, Alfonso Cuarón (adapted from the original story by Mary DeMarle, François Lapikas and Jean-François Dugas)
Cast
Theo James as Adam Jensen
Bryan Cranston as Dr. David Sarif
Zoe Saldana as Monica Faulkner-Vanegas
Chris Pratt as Captain Kevin Vaughan
Sean Connery as Colonel William Faulkner
Taylor Swift as Dr. Megan Breen
Norman Reedus as Dr. Frank Pritchard
Freida Pinto as Lieutenant Faridah Malik
Leona Lewis as Eliza Cassan
Gal Gadot as Netanya Keitner
Deepika Padukone as Dr. Ayesha Kataria
Riyo Mori as Zhao Yun Ru
Katheryn Winnick as Evelyn Carmichael
Dayo Okeniyi as Arie Van Bruggen
Georges St-Pierre as Jaron Namir
Ian McShane as William Taggart
Courtney B. Vance as Dr. Isaiah Sandoval
Sam Neill as Sir Hugh Darrow
Henry Rollins as Pieter Burke
Nelly Furtado as Vanessa Segura

Synopsis
One of the new class of science fiction movies of the 2010s, Deus Ex: Human Revolution started with the story (and many of the characters) of the acclaimed 2012 video game and expanded on it, developing the movie into a deep epic which in which its main characters begin the film chasing the cause of an attack by armed vigilantes on the headquarters and laboratories of bionic augmentations pioneer Sarif Industries, but in the process both unearth and dismantle a vast conspiracy to give a shadowy group known only as 'The Guardians' the ability to use the rapidly-expanding science of transhumanism and bionic augmentations. The characters' relationships within the movie change dramatically from start to finish, though not always for the better.

Response
Made with the help of a budget estimated at $210 million, directed by Academy Award winning director Alfonso Cuarón, special effects done by Reality Challengers Visual Arts and an A-list packed cast, the movie released to more than a little anticipation and fanfare and it had little difficulty making back even its huge production and marketing budget. But what made it more notable was first-class acting performances (Bryan Cranston's portrayal of Dr. David Sarif he would later claim was one of the finest performances of his career, and James, Cranston, Connery and Gadot all received Academy Award nominations) and the story, which despite being quite long was seen as being worth every moment of the time spent, with people believing Cuarón's comment that he could not have taken "Even a moment" out of the movie without compromising it. Audiences and Critics alike loved it, and it became of the signature movies that came out of Hollywood in the 2010s.