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A movie about the "Ringvereine" organized criminals of 1920s Berlin ... Cabaret meets Gangs of New York...but good!

Crimewave 2!

The Wiz remade with 50 Cent and Trina!

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

Mel Brooks' life story, with the 79-year-old Brooks playing himself at every stage of his life: baby, teen, middle-age, etc. It'll be hit-larious!

Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 5 January 2004 00:28 (twenty years ago) link

Gene Wilder's life story, with acor/journaliste Chuck Tatum playing the rowdy twentysomething Wilder!

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago) link

The ILX musical, with no words or music!

Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 5 January 2004 08:10 (twenty years ago) link

The last 12 hours of ILX, in Aramaic!

Leee Smith (Leee), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

The Hunted starring amateur!st and Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Diner starring ILX.

50 Cent as the Scarecrow?! I sort of like it. Khia should be one of the Poppy girl prostitutes.

Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

Richard Pryor's life story, with the wheelchair-bound Pryor playing himself at every stage of his life: baby, teen, middle-age, on fire, etc. I see money.

Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago) link

Here's what I want:

Denis Leary:The Ref::Eddie Izzard:______________

Speaking of which, is there some international film law that Denis Leary is allowed to do ANYTHING in a film except be funny? I don't even mean that he's not funny...he's not given anything to be funny with! Izzard, I fear, seems to be falling on that path to a degree. Some minor snortling in Velvet Goldmine, but I pretty much have avoided most of his other stuff like the plague because it's too damn serious (relatively) for him and mostly just shlock.

Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link

The answer could be that they're both not very good actors (although EI is classic stand-up). Leary is okay as the overdoser in Jesus's Son, tho'.

Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

I want to remake First Blood. Black & white, handheld, dogma-stylee, ultra-violent. Somebody like Billy Crudup playing Rambo. Oh yes. Pretentious Neil Young - Dead Man/Sonic Youth-Demonlover type score.....

David Nolan (David N.), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 12:39 (twenty years ago) link

I would like to see The Ref remade minus "the heart" and set in LA. With Don Rickles in the Dennis Leary role (instead of a burglar he would be their psychotic building manager in a high tech futuristic apartment highrise) and Ben Affleck and J-Lo (playing themselves) as the couple. In the end Rickles would beat them both to death with an aluminum baseball bat in slo-mo to the strains of "don't come around here no more" while weeping tears of joy. Jeff Goldblum cameos as the robot doorman. John Landis directs.

PVC (peeveecee), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago) link

An adaptation of "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt that plays as dark comedy. The first-person narrator is revealed to be unreliable, and is actually a self-obsessed blowhard. We lose the incest, play Bunny for maximum laughs, make Henry more likeable, and voila! A morality play about the dangers of being a pseudo-intellectual twat.

Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 9 January 2004 03:36 (twenty years ago) link

PVC: I love the Rickles idea ! J-Lo, Affleck, great choice for the couple we'd most like to see beaten to death with a bat (fallback choices: Liza-David Gest, Nic Cage-Lisa Marie, Jane Fonda and whoever), but nix to such a downbeat score... Can't we go with "Bang on the Drum all day" by Todd Rundgren ? People will leave the theater in a peppy mood ! Otherwise I greenlight this idea, have your people talk to my people, 3.5 mill is the highest I could possibly go and I'd like to open in Venice just because the hookers there are so cute.

Dave Gilbert, Monday, 19 January 2004 02:40 (twenty years ago) link

Coke vs Pepsi: the movie. I mentioned this in another thread on ILE. It MUST be made.

latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 04:00 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...
I love your Secret History idea Kenan! do it!

spectra (spectra), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Another remake of King Kong, directed by Baz Luhrmann

evolution gods think latebloomer, lead singer of Babies Love Beer, is wrong (lat, Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:33 (seventeen years ago) link

amend Diner starring ILX to Diner starring DMX and you'd have me at "Hello, you weak bitches."

Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

That reminds me of the (brilliant IMHO) idea that Tracer Hand had on one of the ILE Umbrellas of Cherbourg threads about doing a hip hop remake, with Usher as the diamond dealer.

Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

An Escape from New York reboot wherein Plissken springs the president from the Gaza Strip.

Wes Brodicus, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 06:44 (six years ago) link

five years pass...

Judd Apatow-style comedy featuring a collection of bumbling Proud Boys who attempt to storm the Capitol on January 6. Things go awry and the group unwittingly attacks a DMV in Olympia, Washington. Starring Danny McBride as the leader, Will Ferrell as the shaman and Steve Carell as the Q-anon oracle. Romance/Comedy • 2h 13m

bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 18:59 (nine months ago) link

Combat vet with VERY UNIQUE SET OF SKILLS but now blinded in action discovers The Enemy is using a radio reading service as a numbers station, goes down rabbit hole to discover vast conspiracy etc, goes Zatoichi on 'em. Make it Cold War, pre-internet.

The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 19:14 (nine months ago) link

seven months pass...

Beekeeper should’ve been about AT&T

brimstead, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 02:06 (one month ago) link

two weeks pass...

i wish i pitched hundreds of beavers

nxd, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 20:21 (one month ago) link

A spiritual sequel to Falling Down called 'Bullet Point' in which the main character is driven to psychopathic gun-crazed violence by Microsoft Word auto-formatting.

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Thursday, 21 March 2024 17:32 (four weeks ago) link


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