Mario Goes Hollywood: A Collaborative Timeline

Like a more Platformer Xenogears without the giants robots? i see it that way
, plus would be nice using OTL-BK style of platforming too.
It will. Every level will have at least one puzzle and one minigame challenge that will require one of your playable characters to traverse it or gain a fofum.

And speaking of levels, there will be about 6 in total with about 60 missions in total.

Level 1: Faunus Cove. A combination of Treasure Cove Trove but the interior adds a jungle temple, similar to Tooie's Jiggy Wiggy Temple.
Level 2: Hailfire Peaks. Same as OTL but with Freezeeasy Peak's Ramp Mountain in the center.
Level 3: Ghoulish Bog. This one's a combo of both Bubblegoop Swamp and Mad Monster Mansion.
Level 4: Ancient Oasis. Gobi's Valley with the dinosaurs from Diddy Kong Racing's Fossil Canyon.
Level 5: Click Clock Wood. Same as OTL.
Level 6: The Land of Giants. Here you will overcome the trials the Giants formed to keep outsiders from reaching their land.
Level 7: Santo Grande. Your final boss gauntlet against Blackeye's crew.
 
It will. Every level will have at least one puzzle and one minigame challenge that will require one of your playable characters to traverse it or gain a fofum.

And speaking of levels, there will be about 6 in total with about 60 missions in total.

Level 1: Faunus Cove. A combination of Treasure Cove Trove but the interior adds a jungle temple, similar to Tooie's Jiggy Wiggy Temple.
Level 2: Hailfire Peaks. Same as OTL but with Freezeeasy Peak's Ramp Mountain in the center.
Level 3: Ghoulish Bog. This one's a combo of both Bubblegoop Swamp and Mad Monster Mansion.
Level 4: Ancient Oasis. Gobi's Valley with the dinosaurs from Diddy Kong Racing's Fossil Canyon.
Level 5: Click Clock Wood. Same as OTL.
Level 6: The Land of Giants. Here you will overcome the trials the Giants formed to keep outsiders from reaching their land.
Level 7: Santo Grande. Your final boss gauntlet against Blackeye's crew.
Nice, very nice levels and combination of OTL ones with new twist and new ones too, hella nice so far, the game have good shape
 
*bump* Well another spark of inspiration has come and went, here's the next part of Sonic X-Treme:

Level 7: Deserted Minecart Zone



Not too long after leaving the altar, our heroes find that the entrance has collapsed again. Tails manages to find another path by digging into an abandoned mine that Eggman was looking through back when he first reached the island both were connected to Marble Zone and Labyrinth Zone.





Level 8: Crystal Frost Zone





It doesn't take too long to get back to Angel Island, seeing as the tornado now has a ring detector. After landing in Icecap, our heroes track the ring altar to the base of Lava Reef. The first act will see Sonic and co climbing up the frosted glacier while being assaulted by penguinators, orbinauts who can recover their spikes. Act 2 is scrolling 2d level as a group of penguinators start an avalanche behind you. Finally, you reach the altar temple icegates. In order to finish the level, you must activate 4 switches throughout the temple. Upon reaching the inner sanctum, Sonic is attacked by a armored yeti. The yeti will do the following attacks: shoulder tackle you into a freezing vent, cause stalactites to fall from the ceiling with a series of smacks with his club, crack the floor by slamming the ground with its fists. If you take too long with this cycle, the floor breaks and you fall to your death. Finally he can parry your attacks when you attack him. In order to land a hit, you must get him to charge into the vent to temporarily freeze him and then strike with an attack. Once the boss is finished, Sonic takes the second ring and immediately senses the energy of the next ring: The Hidden Palace.





Level 9: Red Sands Zone





While the entrance to the Hidden Palace is obviously hidden within Lava Reef, the ring signature leads to Sandopolis. Sonic and co end up falling through some quicksand. Once through, they find another tomb similar to Sandopolis but filled with red sands. You'll have a tough time going through as tremors will limit your progress causing cave ins at certain points of the level. Act 1 starts and ends this way, but act 2 and 3 begin to take on characteristics of both Lava Reef and Hidden Palace, with toxomisters smoking being able to spew their gas so hot that it explodes in your face. Act 3 is another sandbox level where the palace gives you a trial: A trial of speed, A trial of flight, and a trial of range. Sonic must speed through a hallway as the ceiling begins to descend and stone pillars will pop into the walls and floor. Tails must reach the top of a pillar as arrows and flamethrowers shoot at him. Tiara must use her chakrams and lasso to pull her through a series of bottomless pits and other booby traps. For the boss, its an old friend: The Sandopolis Golem: now decked in full armor and wielding a halberd. But it will not be easy, as his halberd shoots blasts of sands that can hold you in place, wind gusts that can force you to the edge of the arena where the quicksand is an instant kill, and a swipe with the halberd to round out its attacks. The only way to force him into the quicksand is to hit its weak point on his knees and then strike its head. After putting down the golem, Sonic grabs the third ring and not too long after , they find a portal that takes them to the altar of the master emerald. Once there, they see something shocking, Knuckles fighting a series of robots in the altar who are unfamiliar to Sonic but familiar to you the player: The Chaotix.​

Thoughts
 
That is a shame, he trully took the role of Dr Robotnik and was nice, maybe later on, a good videogame movie could revitalize his career in the new millenium
It might be sooner than you think, while he might not be a scientist this time, he could still be a king.
 
Alright, popping back in with a few things for Contra. For Mandrake, Christopher Lee can be given the go ahead since while I would've loved Peter Cushing in the role as a nod to being the Hammer Frankenstein, he died at the same time as OTL, so we'll go with another Hammer veteran in the role.

As for Noiman Cascade, may as well bring in Wayne Knight to play a much more malicious Nedry-type character. I imagine Noiman does no direct fighting and just takes control of military vehicles remotely to try and ward off the heroes and when they break into his lair, we get all sorts of good Wayne Knight panicking.
 
We got the cast and a rough plot (Commando that changes midway through to an alien invasion plot, very Dusk till Dawn in that regard) now let's lock down a budget. How much will it cost to make this movie? Remember, we got Arnold, Stallone and Connery on the top billing. Below them would be Christopher Lee and Uma Thurman in terms of star power, then Wayne Knight and Vernon Wells and finally at the bottom of the list is Reb. Plus factoring in the effects (mostly practical with a practical-CGI blend for the aliens or all CG if Columbia-TriStar is feeling bold) the location shooting for the early jungle parts and all the other fun intangibles of movie financing. Remember, plans are for this to be a big one for the studio.
 
Contra
Contra

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Directed By: John McTiernan
Written By: Shane Black/Fred Dekker
Produced By: Orion Pictures
Distributed By: Columbia-TriStar
Based On: Contra by Konami

Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Bill Rizer
Sylvester Stallone as Lance Bean
Reb Brown as Ray Poward
Uma Thurman as Sheena Etranzi
Jesse "The Body" Ventura as Commander Doyle
Sean Connery as Colonel Bahamut
Vernon Wells as Deadeye Joe
Christopher Lee as Dr. Mandrake
Wayne Knight as Noiman Cascade

Release Date: November 21, 1997
Budget: $100 million
Box Office: $1,022,791,757​

Ladies and gentlemen, the #2 movie of the 1997 worldwide box office. Contra's story is built around the EMC (Elite Marine Commando) squad known only by their codename: Contra. The team is comprised mainly of the stoic Bill Rizer (Schwarzenegger), the hot-headed Lance Bean (Stallone), the energetic and manic Ray Poward (Brown) and their newest member, Sheena Etranzi (Thurman) as they are tasked with taking down a growing terrorist faction, Red Falcon. Contra is sent to Galuga Island, just off of New Zealand, where Red Falcon is stationed.

The first act is mostly built around showing the camaraderie between the old guard of Contra and Sheena's struggles as the new blood, in between shootouts between Contra and Red Falcon troopers, ending in a big shoot-out against a massive, heavily armored tank, forcing the use of specialized Probotector Armor to punch through it (hell yeah, we're bringing in the Probotectors. We're pulling all the stops here, boys.) They force out the controller of the tank, Noiman Cascade and begin interrogating him as to the plans of Red Falcon and who their leader is. Noiman, played by Wayne Knight, wails how he doesn't know anything, that he was just getting paid to make their weapons and that he never even met the leader. They eventually get a name out of him, Colonel Bahamut, before he is suddenly shot dead.

Contra goes further into the dense tropical jungle in search of Noiman's assassin, bringing us to the second act as it becomes very Predator, with the target having set up several traps that the team narrowly avoid and almost being able to go invisible and attack unseen. They soon manage to wreck the assassin's cloaking device, revealing it to be Deadeye Joe (Wells), an ex-member of Contra and former partner to Rizer. The two fight, drawing on past sots from Commando for fun before Bill finally kills Deadeye Joe by destroying his cybernetics with an EMP grenade and then filling with him with lead. "He was a deadeye... now he's dead." - Bill Rizer.

The final act sees Contra infiltrate the Red Falcon base in search of Colonel Bahamut. As the team makes their way through, they soon find that Red Falcon is not all as it seems and are soon attacked by aliens. This becomes the big twist as what seemed like a macho action movie with some sci-fi tech thrown in, goes full sci-fi with the introduction of aliens. The team are soon captured and brought to a wheelchair-bound Colonel Bahamut (Connery) who is aided by Dr. Mandrake (Lee) as he explains that Red Falcon was simply going to be weakening strike against the major countries of Earth, leaving them defenseless against the oncoming invasion. After having made contact with the aliens, the colonel struck a deal with them. For access to their technology and a few test subjects, he would aid the aliens.

It's here we get the last fight as Dr. Mandrake injects the Colonel with a vial of strangely-colored liquid and Bahamut mutates into a humanoid monster who attacks the four, throwing them around easily.

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The tide soon turns, though Ray sacrifices himself to allow the rest of the team to land the killing blow. During the fight with the mutant Bahamut, Dr. Mandrake managed to escape, taking with him several vials of alien DNA and weapons schematics. The final set piece of the movie is the escape from Galuga Island, where the three remaining Contra troopers have to rush to escape the base before the self-destruct sequence blows the whole thing sky high. They escape and report back to Commander Doyle (Ventura) to let him know that the Red Falcon base has been destroyed, Colonel Bahamut is dead, but that Dr. Mandrake has escaped and that Ray was KIA. Doyle tells the remaining members that they'll need time to gather intel on Mandrake's location but that the mission is far from over yet.

The movie was the fall/winter blockbuster to Zelda III's summer, devouring half of Alien: Resurrection's OTL box office and completely decimating The Postman (which now got below a million in the box office.) Along with that, there's that movie about this big boat. You know, the Titanic? How'd it do?

Well, it starred Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman, and it's still did pretty good, raking in $900 million at the box office, but that only got it the #3 spot worldwide for 1997, beat out by this and Zelda III. Five years after the first video game movie and the market was now dominated by them.

As for Contra, the movie was absolutely built on spectacle and star power. Just having Arnold and Sly sharing the silver screen together was enough to get people coming in droves. Add to that the action, helped by the R-rating allowing plenty of blood and swearing meant this was the movie for all the cool teens to see. The use of practical effects for many of the machines and the blend of practical and CG for the aliens was well regarded, though the plot itself was considered weak and some said that Connery's limited presence as Colonel Bahamut was a waste. However, it's still praised for being a great throwback to 80s testosterone-driven action films and a fun popcorn flick. Plus, Reb Brown got to get the biggest paycheck of his career and work alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. That's a win in my book.

Also, Scream 2 got set for October, and had a $25 million budget (an extra mil from OTL's numbers) and managed to make $261 million, taking from both American Werewolf in Paris (also utterly destroyed by competition) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (only made half its OTL take.)
 
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That would be wonderful maybe after Metroid he can direct his Spider-Man movie or if it's too late for that he can direct TTL's Terminator 3 and finish the series on a high note.
Well Kara, right now I have an idea for the movie along with what would be the 4th game (no fusion in this timeline, instead Metroid 4 will bring the Chozo mystery to the forefront).
 
That would be wonderful maybe after Metroid he can direct his Spider-Man movie or if it's too late for that he can direct TTL's Terminator 3 and finish the series on a high note.
Dunno, depend what fox and others wanted, OTL Cameron with Titanic megahit he spend all that money on avatar..here depends, he could work Terminator 3 if feels can do good enough them.

Well Kara, right now I have an idea for the movie along with what would be the 4th game (no fusion in this timeline, instead Metroid 4 will bring the Chozo mystery to the forefront).
As say when Metroid is the natural step, we need the tech to be LOTR level for it to work well
 
Dunno, depend what fox and others wanted, OTL Cameron with Titanic megahit he spend all that money on avatar..here depends, he could work Terminator 3 if feels can do good enough them.


As say when Metroid is the natural step, we need the tech to be LOTR level for it to work well
So 99 to have the level of cgi techniques needed for Ridley and immersing any of the models and actors (kraid and mother brain can be done with models), with a release date by 2003 at the latest?

Also, considering how on its opening weekend ittl, Titanic broke 900 million worldwide. Disney and Fox are probably going to be bidding for any of James next few projects except for Terminator 3.
 
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