Hail Marry vs Zombies. Before she gave birth to Jesus, she fought against zombie hordes. That's when she met Joseph and Angels and finally she saved universe with bringing Jesus to life. It even makes sense.

Me and some friends wrote an outline for a zombie movie years ago from the viewpoint of the zombies. They see themselves as cultured and "normal" while the living are viewed as savages who waste their lives working, keeping up with the Jones' and addicted to stupid stuff like reality TV. It would have been done in the style of The Office/What We Do In the Shadows, with a film crew following around a small group of Zombies who explain their lives. The zombies would have a very close-knit socialist/utopia type lifestyle while us stupid living lived in a right-wing 'murica hellscape.

My other idea around the same time actually made it into a TV series years after I wrote out an outline, too. I wanted to do an Office Space/Waiting style show but set in the big box retail world. About 10 years later, Superstore came out.

I think originality is overrated. Hear me out.

Example 1: Star Wars should plagiarize more. Original Star Wars is Hidden Fortress in space, plus a bit of WW2 dogfighting and some car culture flavor. Late period Star Wars has been taking original Star Wars, blending it up, and pouring it back out again. Not enough plagiarism. Top Gun, but make it Star Wars and call it Rogue Squadron. Three Musketeers, but make it Star Wars and call it Three Jedi. Take your pick of old detective noir stories, set it on Coruscant, and call it the The Dantooine Falcon. Stop ripping off Star Wars in Star Wars, and go back to ripping off other properties, and it's a license to print money.

Example 2: Stop trying to make movie franchises progress forward in time; continuity and originality are overrated. James Bond has been making virtually the same movie for over sixty years, and people still love it! Bond goes to exotic locale meets and beds some number of beautiful women, engages in a bit of extreme sports, foils the plan of some flamboyant villain. The actors are regularly changed without comment. The movie is always set "right now." Bond has (almost) always been 007 for "a while." Continuity virtually never spans more than a couple of movies until it gets reset to zero again. And it's still going strong as a franchise! Pirates of the Caribbean could have used this pattern and just kept making crazy pirate adventure movies forever, but they got wrapped around the axle trying to keep a continuous plot going forward. Should have gone the James Bond route.

Stop trying to make original movies that advance an overarching plot across a franchise. Make movies that have already been made and that don't take the franchise anywhere. You can't go wrong.

Instead of making remakes of everything forever, they should use the Miyazaki way for writing scenarios. You take random words and make a story, like:

It's a raccoon that lives in a shed, he meets a magical butterfly, and they both fight against the evil dictator who happens to be a horse that enslaved magical cardboard boxes.

Boom, $millions!

Adam Sanders wakes up with magical farts that cure cancer.

I am determined to remake The Final Countdown. Except in my version, the battle the whole movie builds up to actually fucking happens in the movie, and 45 F18s and F35s absolutely fuck up 353 Japanese fighters in an epic battle. Then the American aircraft carrier captain chooses not to go back through the wormhole, and stays in 1941, and uses modern technology and knowledge to improve the world. Also the song “The Final Countdown” is in the movie.

I'm writing an autobiography, although I have writers block atm, I havent been able to recall much more than yesterday. I know tho, when I do remember my life, it will have been fantastic, well worth a million bucks for the rights.

Nice try movie executive!

Starcraft series based on the games and official books around it. It's such a big universe with a lot of stories. Just don't pull a Marvel and oversaturate the market with your stuff.

But for something original, see what China is doing with their 5 minute episodes on their TikTok alternative Douyin.

Star Trek: Quark's Venture on Risa

Nice try, J. J. Abrams! I'm not going to give you my brilliant ideas for free so you can turn them into yet another shitty movie.

Fast and Furious n +1

A modern 3D rendered Team Fortress 2 movie

The D-Day landings Normandy, but from the point of view of a reluctant conscripted teenage German boy having to cope with the ever increasing fear and dread as the sheer number of ships and planes on the horizon increases.

time travel comedy about killing Hitler.

but he quickly finds out that no matter what. Hitler gets replaced with someone much more competent resulting in the world being conquered by Nazis.

so he has to go back and protect Hitler from other time travellers, and it ends up Hitler is a complete idiot who can barely keep himself alive so our hero has to save Hitler from Hitler himself.

Hollywood truly is out of ideas and just outsourcing.

There is a book called "The Eight". It's kind of like the davinci code but the book tells 2 paralel stories until they meet. It goes around the world also.

It wouldn't be cheap to do it properly but it's a really good story.

Maybe it would be better as a tv show instead of a movie.

when I was drunk I wrote this synopsis for a pixar type of film where the main characters were cells in a person's body. except it wasn't kid friendly and it was like cosmic horror except in the microcosmos. lol it sounds stupid now but while writing up the synopsis I was like "yeaahhh this is great"

Nice try… Netflix.

A documentary film called "We Gave PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org $6,942,069, Here's What He Did With It". And then it's just three hours of me talking about linear algebra while constantly ordering pizza and soda 😆

I mean that would definitely make me at least a million dollars.

Dinosaur Apocalypse.

Take the premise of a zombie apocalypse but it's hoard after hoard of dinosaurs spilling out of hollow earth (no Nazis just dinosaurs). No explanation just more dinosaurs. There are more dinosaurs than humans have bullets.

The plot is shown in vignette style by people across the world.

Two words:

Sexy iguanas.

Person online asks about movie idea. They really like the idea a writer has about a kid that thinks there is a person trapped in their phone.

The person ends up meeting with the writer to flesh it out. As the two work through the story the writer is constantly getting text messages and going into another room where the person can hear whispering. Sounds like two people whispering.

They ask the writer if anybody else was home to which the writer replies “yes, my uncle”. He’s sick though so he has to stay in the other room.

Eventually the person asks to use the restroom and they’re directed down a hall past the room where they had been hearing another person whispering. They can see the writer feverishly texting so they take the opportunity to peek into the room.

It’s dark, there’s a bed on one side of the room and a skinny dark object in the opposite side of the room that the person can barely make out. Maybe somebody is in there.

They go to the bathroom and when they’re heading back towards the hall they no longer see the writer at the table they had been sitting at, but they can hear fingers feverishly tapping a phone somewhere else in the house.

Of course, they again take this opportunity to investigate the bedroom. They stick their head in and creak the door open just a bit more to see what’s inside. It’s very dark so they lean in a little more. They start to hear pounding somewhere in the house. Maybe the writer is fixing something? That’ll give them more time.

They reach for their phone to get some light and just as they do they hear a buzz somewhere in the room and a rustle in the bed. They immediately back up out of the room and quietly head back to meet the writer.

They call to them since they cannot be found. The writer shouts, “I’m up here!” The person looks up and sees the ceiling had been replaced by a giant sheet of glass and on the opposite side of the glass was the writer, now a giant.

The person stands frozen and slack-jawed staring up at the writer who begins pounding away at the ceiling with their thumbs. It’s so loud now.

The pounding stops and they hear a distant buzz from down the hall. Desperate, they call to whomever is in the room. “Hello?” They hear nothing but then their phone vibrates in their pocket.

They take it out, unlock it, hold it up to their face and see a new text from an unknown number. They open the text which reads, “it’s your turn now. come to the bedroom down the hall.”

“What the fuck?! What is going on?” the person says. “Make it stop! Take me to the hospital” they say, convinced they’d been drugged. The giant writer stares at the person with a calm, subtle smile like a child watching a frog in a terrarium.

They feel another vibration. “when you get here it’ll all make sense.” Unsure of what to do next they dial 9-1-1 and hold the phone to their ear only to hear silence. After multiple attempts they decide to go into the bedroom.

Slowly walking and always watching the giant writer they make their way towards the bedroom. Now the room is lit brightly and they can see a person laying in bed with their back turned to the door and the dark object on the other side of the room was an old camera on a tripod with a red light flashing.

“Who are you?? What do you want?? A million questions fly out of the person’s mouth. The pounding on the glass roof begins again drowning out anything the person is saying. The person rushes to the other side of the bed to meet the figure they had been spying on. What they see is kid about 8 years old with no hair on their head or eyebrows, and their eyes are closed. The pounding stops and they hear a buzz and see a light glow from under a blanket resting on top of the child’s body.

“What is happening?!” the person pleaded. The child finally speaks, “We’re making a movie. Isn’t that what you wanted?”

“N-no. I just wanted to know some stories people had. I didn’t plan on making a movie. Is that what this is all about?”

Suddenly, buzzing. From all around the room. And the house. What sounds like thousands of phones buzzing all about them. The pounding commences once again. The noise is deafening. The person clenches their ears desperate for relief. “AHHH STOOOOP!”

Just then, silence. The kind of silence where you can hear your own heart beating. The person opens their eyes and they’re in their house sitting at the computer with half of a post on AskLemmy written asking about movie ideas.

They take a deep breath relieved that it had only been a dream. They delete the post and fold their laptop screen to meet the keyboard. They bend their neck back, eyes closed raising their face to the sky taking a moment to calm themselves. Then, a loud thump. Jolting awake their open eyes meet those of the writer staring down at them through a glass ceiling.

The person falls backwards in their chair and as they’re falling they can see a red dot flashing behind them. They scramble to their feet and begin sobbing. Harder than they’ve ever cried before. So hard it begins puddling beneath them. They feel the room tilting in different directions. Tears flowing like faucets. Pounding begins again. The person can feel their tears climbing to their ankles. Gusts of wind begin shooting through the room.

Suddenly blackness. Nothing is. Nothing will be and nothing ever was. “What a waste,” it thought.

I'll go first.

Background

Back in Sunday school, some decades ago; I read a story of Joshua that during a battle, he stopped the sun at high noon to finish the battle.

Plot

All of a sudden, the earth stops rotating on its own axis for reasons that are out of me mind (they ain't paying me enough goddammit)One side is left baking on the sun, while the other is in total darkness.

• The inertia of stuff as earth comes to a stop
• Ocean tsunami on coastal areas
• The climate changes following after that
• How society struggles, changes, and adapts to this f*ckd up situation. From both sides.
• Yes, there are sides now. Good luck, NATO, UN

Muppet Princess Bride