Movie/Series Ideas

Every now and then I think up an idea for a movie I’d love to see. Something that just pops up in my head and I’m like, why hasn’t a movie like that been made before?

What’s some movie ideas you’ve never seen that you’d love watching if it were made? Feel free to comment on any one’s post if such a movie exists.

One of the ideas I’ve had for a while is an Armageddon or world exploration experiment/undertaking type idea where some research organization decides they need to explore the depths of the sea and the only way to do it is to suck up all the water in the ocean down to the floor bed and then deep explore the floor below. They’d build these out of this world looking dam-like structure to hold all the oceans water temporarily while they explore. One leak and it could spell catastrophe for the study happening below. Also, the ocean floor is extremely mysterious so there’s no telling what they might find. Lost boats, the ark, Atlantis, new life forms…who knows. It would be like space on earth exploration. They might even need to fly a rocket down to the parts as deep as the skies above.

So that’s one idea I’d love to see.

Another one is where people are forced to cycle through one race a month for a year. They retain their livelihoods and their family dynamic and everything pretty much remains the same except that their race suddenly gets switched. What would their experiences be for that year? How would they view different cultures after? How would it impact their friends, their relationships, their jobs? How would the group dynamics change?

It could also be where they enter experiment to cycle through the race and body of another person entirely. Like a virtual reality type situation. But one where they’re forced to take on the life of another.

Ideas…what are some of yours?

Comments

  • edited September 2023

    I would direct a live action version of Animal Farm that's actually loyal to the essence and mood of the book.

  • A horror movie where people don’t do anything stupid and still end up losing! I’m tired of people who are in the woods hiding from creatures and someone hears somethjng outside and has to go out and explore it.

  • I came up with a Bonnie & Clyde inspired trilogy many years ago.

  • Lol @Ironman294 that reminds me of that Geico commercial

  • Another one: there’s this girl. She’s walking around her life thinking the people that come into it are random and just a naturally occurring thing. Happenstance, but she starts to see a trend - these people are only there during certain life events. Coming and going like elements in a fluid, but required there almost as if with a purpose. Once she recognizes the trend, the fear and suspense begin when a person who bears a striking similarity to the person who predated a terrible life event enters her life. Similar circumstances leading up to their meet, similar restaurants, even the air smells the same. Almost like a deja-vu moment or the Universe issuing a second chance. Will she be able to preempt the event or will another life changing event inevitably cascade over her.

  • I’ve always been amazed with the ocean 🌊 same way I’m amazed with deep space, and considering only 5% of the ocean has been explored, (leaving out a whopping 95%) I would absolutely love to watch that movie and see the direction it takes 💯

    If you haven’t watched ‘The Butterly Effect”, plz do! I think you will really like it! : )

  • @Jova114

    a Bonnie & Clyde inspired trilogy

    Ooooh! Do tell. Would it be set in the present day?

  • @TxTom
    I wrote it in my teens so it was probably set in the 90s when the internet wasn't a huge thing.
    I took some elements from their actual story and twisted a few things.
    The first movie was them meeting and figuring out the crime life together.
    The second was dealing with Bonnie's abusive ex.
    And the third was dealing with Clyde's former crime partner, who kept giving them jobs to increase the bounty so he could cash in.
    Thank you maladaptive daydreaming lol

  • [Deleted User]1_teddybear (deleted user)

    @PrettyLuv your second idea has been done... sort of. There was a movie in the 70's called "watermelon man"

  • [Deleted User]1_teddybear (deleted user)

    I'd like to see a remake of Orwell's 1984 that updates the story with technologies that we have now but Orwell did not accurately anticipate. The surveillance and mind control aspects of the book might indicate that we are already in that world.

  • [Deleted User]1_teddybear (deleted user)

    @Ironman294 if a war movie can qualify as horror, there's a WW2 movie that depicts an innocent kid's transformation in the course of just a few days. It is so real that I think it is horror. The movie is called "Come and See"

  • @1_teddybear i’d want to see it done more in present day society and cycling through every race, not just one, and for it to happen to everyone or maybe a select few, but on a larger scale and not permanent, but with a set time frame so they can be restored back to their original race/culture as if it was all a dream. To see the results. The before and after.

  • I want to see a movie where two people are given the power to teach or destroy under the premise that they are tasked with protecting the last tree on the planet.

  • I want to see a movie where power-crazed, racist and prejudiced people turn into monsters when talking to people they’re being oppressive towards or when being power-crazed. A phenomenon that happens anywhere in social dynamic situations, whether at the office or during a traffic stop, or at a restaurant. They switch back to a normal looking humans when talking amongst themselves. The movie would have to be half animated and the monsters created would have to be really dramatic like them turning into a Godzilla while no one else notices except the person being oppressed of course. There could be one guy or one girl or a small selective group that can actually see the transformation while others are completely unaware. I’m not sure what the solution would be. A highlight on perspective

  • [Deleted User]1_teddybear (deleted user)

    @PrettyLuv you'd like to think that walking a mile in someone elses shoes would make them more sensitive to the plight of other people. I think it's more likely that they will become chameleons, doing what works for whatever culture they are in at the time.

  • [Deleted User]1_teddybear (deleted user)

    how about a mini-series about the first pioneers on Mars... seeing each habitation as if it is a reality show. And the money from this is partially how they fund the expidition.

  • @1_teddybear i’d watch that too.

    Maybe they’ll have multiple types of responses highlighted in the movie depicted as a means of coping or showing how some get through it. Undoubtedly whatever strategy employed it could be oriented to highlight the effects once returned back to normal.

  • A movie where teens go into a wormhole to a not too long ago time in the 1970s/80’s with their present day gadgets (iphone, Samsung, apple computer, Tesla car) and have to figure out a way to get back to present day before the people of the 1970’s capture them to learn the tech of the future. They have to quickly learn the tech of the past to bridge the gap and get back to the tech of today if they ever expect to get out.

  • [Deleted User]Hugginsworth (deleted user)

    Hey @PrettyLuv, if you haven't seen this, you definitely should check it out:

    https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/livestreams/welcome.html
    https://nautiluslive.org/live/quad

    Live video of submersible ocean and seabed exploration. The second link says it's supposed to diving later this evening.

  • @1_teddybear

    a remake of Orwell's 1984 that updates the story with technologies that we have now

    I like that.

    What would make that idea especially frightening to me, would be that society's rigid conformity is entirely the result of the population's voluntary compliance, not government enforced. But the state would be the beneficiary of it.

  • [Deleted User]Hugginsworth (deleted user)

    @PrettyLuv I like your race-cycling plot idea. That's something I think about as well. I wouldn't mind seeing a dramatized history of Reconstruction. My family and I really enjoyed Harriet, about one of the most amazing members of the Underground Railroad.

  • [Deleted User]SmittyMack (deleted user)

    This story is set in the future after science has discovered a way to isolate the best genes you and your partner have to offer for your offspring. They can even introduce genes neither of you possess, in order to produce the healthiest, strongest, most intelligent, and best looking offspring.
    Everybody who could jumped at the chance to give their children “their best shot at life” as the ad put it. Until those children became adolescents and started to exhibit very disturbing behaviors.
    Turns out that 95% of the children born with tailored genes are sociopaths. 20 years later this trend produces a stigma against good looking people so that even ad companies only hire average and less than average looking people for their commercials and print ads, completely changing the beauty standards. Society wants to distance themselves from an aesthetic that has been all too often associated with insanity and violent acts. And with good reason, as there is a serial killer on the loose and our lead is trying to figure out who is committing these gruesome murders.

  • [Deleted User]Hugginsworth (deleted user)

    @1_teddybear There's a series like that! It streams for free: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/mars Definitely worth seeing if you're into that stuff.

  • @Hugginsworth that live video feed of the ocean’s seabed and the 3D tools being used to view it is pretty cool stuff. Thanks

  • @SmittyMack that sounds like a good movie. Plot twist: some insidious scientist decided to purposefully modify the genes to make an average looking sociopath and the lead realizes it’s a needle in a haystack to find who it actually is without breaking into the database of the mad scientist involved.

    That would be a really long movie though. I think it would turn into a series

  • [Deleted User]Hugginsworth (deleted user)

    No problem! It's even cooler when they get an actual camera down there, I promise! LOL

  • Trailer- Man with deep dark voice speaketh:

    “There are people in this world who from the age of early childhood exhibit genius like qualities. However some of these children take on identities of people from the past. Knowing names, faces and what happened to them. Some are said to be living a past life. Some say it’s reincarnation, others say it’s an invisible friend. What of the children who aren’t recognized to exhibit such phenomena.

    Meet Ben, the mathematical genius from little known Kentucky. He would later enlist in the military in his youth and rise in rank to the highest station, attaining top-secret clearances to later target the top secret underground base of his comrades. He would admit on record how said base was the secret location designated to decide the fate of Hiroshima, his homeland - a decision that wiped his home and the homes of his entire village, his life included.

    You see Ben may have appeared as the typical blue collared hero of the present, but from his youth he identified as a Japanese child from WW2 witness to an event that would change his life and families life in the peaceful village of Hiroshima forever.

    This is his story.”

    I’d watch that.

    Inspired by this: https://youtu.be/mKNOBbzXJpY?si=8_E-NMaCpIEQVsfN

  • [Deleted User]MavReborn (deleted user)

    @PrettyLuv those are both really cool ideas! I would actually be really interested in the race one! The psychological part of that idea really intrigues me!!!

    It’s funny you started this thread because just yesterday an idea popped into my head!!! I would love to see a movie with elves (like Lord of the Rings, not like Santa’s elves :P) and dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals! That’s all I got, no story line! Just how would elves and dwarves and gnomes and such deal with massive dinosaurs and things! Although I just remembered they have dragons… so maybe it’s not as cool as I thought… :P Though it could still be interesting with the various types of dinosaurs!

  • Lol @MavReborn - that actually sounds kinda cute lol and scary at the same time. I’ve always had this idea that there were never such thing as dinosaurs. That dinosaurs were the relative size of our avg animals we see today, which would mean that humans were 2-3 times the size of the dinosaurs. I’d love to see a movie where you see these would-be dinosaurs and then you meet the real giants of the land that housed them. It topples rhetoric on evolution theory. To even fathom that modern humans are descendants of giants.

  • [Deleted User]SmittyMack (deleted user)

    @PrettyLuv yeah I was thinking that the killer would turn out to be a regular looking person. That’sa good idea to make it a series!

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