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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.

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.

Hollywood truly is out of ideas and just outsourcing.

A mummie movie from the perspective of the mummy, who is a highly educated scholar. The archelogists and military chase him and think he's a monster, while he has to figure out how the modern age works and why he was resurrected. Also he has severe PTSD and flashbacks from being killed in an intrigue at the Pharao's palace.

Edit: So I've been thinking about it and I think he should eventually figure out that the people who killed him wanted to test the ressurection spell and if it worked, thought they could make an invincible mummie army and control all of ancient egypt. They thought the ressurection would be instantaneous after being mummified, not ~4000 years later.

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.

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.

Adam Sanders wakes up with magical farts that cure cancer.

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.

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!

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.

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"

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.

Star Trek: Quark's Venture on Risa

Nice try movie executive!

Fast and Furious n +1

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.

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.

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.

A modern 3D rendered Team Fortress 2 movie