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True events you'd base a movie on

Started by Santa's Boyfriend, October 25, 2010, 07:59:35 PM

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Santa's Boyfriend

I was thinking about this this morning.  The only reason I can possibly conceive of that there isn't a Susan Boyle movie in production is that she doesn't want one made.  I would be surprised if people aren't banging on her door continually to try and get her to sign her life story away. 

The Chilean miners story is surely coming, I'm not sure they own their own stories now it's been covered on the news etc, especially considering there's 33 of them.

What would you make a movie about?

Junglist

I got my tea out the oven today, and the kitchen towel I was using to get the hot tray out slightly touched the food. It was a tad dirty, so had to chuck the chips it touched out.

The tension in that situation, will he throw the chips out or not? Wait, we can see the towel, its close to the foo....holy shit its touched his chips, Christ Almighty! etc would make an Oscar winner, no doubt, especially if we film it in entirely French dialogue and reference my recent cripplingly emotional break up or the like, filmed in black and white with the kettle gently boiling in the background, it reaching a crescendo as I gallantly pluck those chips from the tray and chuck them pathetically aside, blowing on my fingers in the aftermath, a look of pain and triumph resting on my obese face.

I really should be a scriptwriter.

kidsick5000

There's a very good documentary about it called Hearts Of Darkness, but the making of Apocalypse Now could be a great film. It could be played straight or be a black comedy. Dark anyway.

Actually, a true life subject that truly deserves a proper movie, not that pile of contrived shit The Boat That Rocked , is the story of pirate radio.
Great characters and an almost unsung but vital part of pop culture. It deserves some proper worldwide love.
TBTR is a perfect case of one film shafted everyone elses chances for 5 years. I despise that film.

Danny Boyle will definitely make a shit film about the Chilean miners in about 2012.

I'd be very surprised if Peter Morgan didn't do a film about the coalition.

Subtle Mocking

Quote from: kidsick5000 on October 25, 2010, 08:45:58 PM
Actually, a true life subject that truly deserves a proper movie, not that pile of contrived shit The Boat That Rocked , is the story of pirate radio.
Great characters and an almost unsung but vital part of pop culture. It deserves some proper worldwide love.
TBTR is a perfect case of one film shafted everyone elses chances for 5 years. I despise that film.

Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes fucking yes. Oh, and another, yes. This has to be the most disappointing (and frankly angering) film I've seen for a long time. It's something I've always been fascinated by, but that film was a fucking mess. I honestly can't think of anything that was right with it, there was about 7 storylines going at once (many of which didn't go anywhere), it was far too long, the characters were as dull as an afternoon in Grimsby, full of shitty 60s clichés, and even with possibly the best opening to have a fucking cracker of a soundtrack to unleash on the masses, they put a Duffy song on it.

Although I'm not sure if it eliminated any chance of a good pirate radio film, it's still a hugely famous part of pop culture history and it's a film that could be done miles better than Curtis ever did.

I'm surprised no one ever did a Jill Dando film.
You could get some Hollywood bint to stick on a British accent and Leonardo Decaprio to ugly it up and get all method.as Barry George.

Oscars all round!

Santa's Boyfriend

They probably haven't made a movie about it because Barry George didn't fucking do it.

And if it was the Serbian Mafia[nb]Presumably she gave Belgrade a bad report on the Holiday Show[/nb] as some have suggested, I doubt anyone else wants to get bumped off.

gmoney

Has there ever been a film about the Jonestown Massacre? Get screen-writing boffins!

Surely the fact that George didn't do it is all the more reason to make it. Murder of a blonde celeb AND a wrongly-accused aspirers guy? Box office gold.

Michael Sheen to play Nick Ross.

Dead kate moss

Quote from: gmoney on October 25, 2010, 09:48:46 PM
Has there ever been a film about the Jonestown Massacre? Get screen-writing boffins!

Yes, a TV movie maybe, but it had Powers Boothe in it and I saw it on holiday in Great Yarmouth in the late 70s/early 80s.

Santa's Boyfriend

I just watched United 93, and it occured to me when the credits roll that two other great movies could be made out of that one.

1) A porn movie.  (You know, we're all going to die so let's get crazy kind of thing)

2) A movie about the whole event of 9/11, in which everything the conspiracy theorists have said about 9/11 was completely true. 

Phil_A

#11
After studying Christopher Marlowe recently, I'm amazed no-one's ever made a film of his life. There must be a ton of material to mine based on his legendary reputation as a spy, atheist, magic practioner, etc.

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As with other writers of the period, little is known about Marlowe. What little evidence there is can be found in legal records and other official documents. This has not stopped writers of both fiction and non-fiction from speculating about his activities and character. Marlowe has often been described as a spy, a brawler, a heretic and a homosexual, as well as a "magician", "duellist", "tobacco-user", "counterfeiter" and "rakehell".

Then there's the whole mysterious nature of his death, possible connections between his killer and the secret service, etc.

I mean fucking hell, this film would practically write itself.

Edit: Blimey, what are the chances of that?  http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=28891

Artemis

I'd like to see a Grindhouse back-to-back movie experience based on Adrian Chiles and then Christine Bleakley's move from BBC1 to ITV. The two stories could intertwine in that clever way that some things do. The suspense - will they? Won't they? And then the climx. Yes they fucking did.

In between there could be trailers about Anne Diamond's wrongly fitted gastric bypass band malforming, growing into monstrous proportions, exploding out of her and descending on New York. Then there could be a trailer for Gerry McWhyHer? featuring the tagline 'Show Me The Maddy'.

kidsick5000

Quote from: Phil_A on October 26, 2010, 05:20:46 PM
After studying Christopher Marlowe recently, I'm amazed no-one's ever made a film of his life.

Was going to say there is one, but I realise what I was thinking of 'Tamburlaine Must Die' was only turned into a play.
Very film poster-like book cover.

bloogoon

Quote from: gmoney on October 25, 2010, 09:48:46 PM
Has there ever been a film about the Jonestown Massacre? Get screen-writing boffins!

They all die in the end!

Santa's Boyfriend

It's inevitable that there will be a movie about Barack Obama's rise to the Whitehouse.  It'd probably be a very good movie, and most people think he'd be played by Denzel Washington.  But I think he should be played by Casper Van Dien:



Can't you see it?


mikeyg27

Given the success of The Social Network I'd think Hollywood could find interest in making a film out of Masters of Doom, a rather surprisingly riveting book about how John Romero and John Carmack formed id Software before falling out. In fact, Wikipedia claims that a film version was in production, but that was 5 years ago.