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Triple HHH · 02-13-2002, 06:05 AM

So I know there are a lot of us here who haved toyed with the idea of being a full-blown director at one point or another. So what kind of movies would you start making (assume you have deep pockets and the studios are backing you with full on support):

Any particular genres you want to be known for? Do you want to be the rebel of Hollywood (Lynch, Scorsese), or the big-budget mainstream guy (Cameron, Lucas), or maybe the "chameleon director" like Spielberg who is able to move from commercial entertainments to serious masterpieces. Maybe a recluse who only pumps out a few films every so often (Kubrick, Malick)? Or do you just want to be Joel Schumacher because he's so darn "cool"?

:barf:

Although I personally like all types of films, I could see myself trying to mimic the pattern of Spielberg's career. I admire how he has made popular films, accepted by audiences and critics. To make a popularly-received film that makes mucho bucks is a great feeling. Because no one really wants to make a movie that no one goes to see. $$$ is love.

, to oversimplify it.

But I think a person should make the movie memorable and make it significant. The way I see it if you're going to spend a year of your life working on a film , better make it as good as possible. So you won't see me making action films that are completely empty-headed and forgotten like Driven or Rollerball. Great "action" films are like Terminator 2 and Die Hard, and even the Indy movies.

Poppa Giorgio · 02-13-2002, 12:06 PM

As an aspiring director I don't know if I wanna give out my ideas and then another aspiring director will steal them.

Ahh well...

I would like to make a film of a huge epic scale filmed with experimental camera, editing and narrative techniques.

No one has really done that. Every epic has a certain style or plays it safe in the camera and editing department. Theres only two epics I can think of that used a somewhat experiment/new techinques and that was "Lawrence of Arabia". The other is Scorsese's new film "Gangs of New York" is of a epic scale and looking at his film making trends in his last couple of movies, the experimental (and exciting) camera and editing has gotten wilder so I am assuming, from a documentary and trailer this one will be no exception.

The Riddler · 02-13-2002, 01:54 PM

If I was into filming I'd start with some really out of sight HORROR flicks and show off smoe zany camera movements! The sky's the limit from there! Most PRIMO director's started out with making a horror movie (or two)!

smurdleman2000 · 02-13-2002, 05:25 PM

epic hardcore science fiction baby, yeah! Don't have enough (ie, maybe 5) of it, and since I'm pretty good at writing sci-fi, and am an aspiring filmmaker, it is a match made in Heaven.

Oh yeah, and 2010: The Year We Make Contact kicked ass (and was Peter Hyams only good movie, IMHO), it being a hard sci-fi movie with a large budget and good actors. I will always love 2001, mind you, but for different reasons.

souledge4 · 02-13-2002, 11:29 PM

SNUFF!!

No just kidding, maybe some epic historical thing. Like Braveheart and Lawrence of Arabia.

Rouge 2 · 02-14-2002, 12:10 AM

After making a straight comedy, I'd like to do some relationship movies about stuff like dealing with getting older; then a movie about life during a particular time like a coming of age movie;

Then i'd sell out and do sci-fi/fantasy for another 30 years.

Marty McFly · 02-14-2002, 04:02 AM

I'd love to do another Police Academy sequel and the 11th Friday the 13th.

Seriously, I'm one for Arnold type action flicks & screwball comedies (Farrelly Bros. style).

George McFly · 02-14-2002, 04:18 AM

I'd do a docu-drama called "It's never coming"about the BTTF trilogy DVD

seriously I'd do a comedy spoof of porn films it would be called
"Sexy Movie"

Rouge 2 · 02-14-2002, 07:56 AM

we could make a fortune off of crummy 80's toons we saw years ago by writing scripts based on them. I could knock off a GI Joe and Heman script in a week or two.

Poppa Giorgio · 02-14-2002, 12:40 PM

Alright, I know you're gonna ask so I might as well save you the trouble...

Yes, I will direct this g.i. joe script you're writing. Hell I'll executive produce too.

But the real question is, who will be the director of photography???

smurdleman2000 · 02-14-2002, 03:14 PM

I'll be the DP for the movie, man. Hell, I'll do the editing too. Now, the question remains, who will do the score?????

SolidSnakeASS · 02-14-2002, 05:15 PM

I think I'd try to do one of each genre, but I'd mainly do comedy dramas. And maybe a action/adventure trilogy.

John Ryder · 02-14-2002, 07:24 PM

im partial to the suspense/thriller genre when screenwriting.

Triple HHH · 02-14-2002, 09:15 PM

If directing doesn't work out, then I want to be a porno director. Movies that don't require plot outside of the typical "Pizza delivery Man" or "TV repair man" plots. I bet those guys are rolling in dough, among other things.

Uh, I was just joking about the porn director thing.

Funny thing is I've always wanted to make a Western. Unfortunately, some would say the genre is pretty much dead, if not damn close to it. The last interesting ones in the past few years have been Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, Unforgiven, and Dances With Wolves (if you want to call that a Western). Then there was American Outlaws which doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath.

Westerns are one of my favorite genres, with films like The Searchers, Red River, True Grit, Winchester '71, The Man Who Shot Libery Valence, Shane. There's something mythological and grand about those films, which I think accounts for their timeless appeal. No wonder Star Wars is called the "Western in outer space." It does have the same mythological pull as westerns.

It would also be great to also do the "Epic to end all epics." It sweeps the Oscars and knocks Titanic out of the #1 spot. And it's so magnificent and groundbreaking people immediately about forget all previous films. "Gone with the Who?" Hell yeah.

Rouge 2 · 02-14-2002, 09:36 PM

The Wild Bunch is also a great western. Maybe you can take westerns and give them sci-fi updates.

George McFly · 02-15-2002, 12:04 AM

I'm shocked that noone's offered to direct the 96th film in the YEA saga--"YEEHAW"

Poppa Giorgio · 02-15-2002, 03:23 AM

Actually, I have been in negotiations for some time now to direct "YEEHAW" It's taken so long I've taken another offer to direct this new G.I. Joe/He-Man hybrid script penned by Rouge 2. It's a really good a script, Joe has much more depth now then in the toons...

But as for "YEEHAW" I have opted to produce instead and edit it. Not sure whos writing the script for that?

Rouge 2 · 02-15-2002, 07:28 AM

My six year old neice could write a better Joe story than that new comic from image. Big Disgrace!

***chlngr1970*** · 02-15-2002, 10:15 PM

I would start with a film based on the book On a Pail Horse, by Pierce Anthony. Excelent fantasy novel about Death going on strike. If I did any good with that, I would try my hand at a book called Goodbye Micky Mouse, about WWII fighter pilots. I dunno how that would work, but I remember that it was a great book, and I have a love for WWII aircraft.

Not realy sure if I would try my hand at anything origional or not...

j

Phreak · 02-17-2002, 05:22 AM

Personally, I'd love to do a bunch of different types of movies. A little Sci Fi, a little Drama, a little Action, a little Western. Hell, I might even do a comedy. Still, I'd like to do them all a bit different then people have ever seen them before. I'm pretty sure I'd go for the darker end of the spectrum both visually and content wise. Films that are very story driven, but still have some visual flare. I'd like to direct some of the movies that make people work to understand them, but also movies that are still understandable and that have a point. No dumbing it down for audiences. If you can't figure out the ending without a couple freeze frames and white lettering at the bottom telling you exactly what happened, then fuck off and watch something else. Those are the types of movies I'd make.

I'd definitely want to do at least one war movie, and at least one western.

Newagegunn · 03-04-2002, 05:18 PM

I'd direct porn :p

No seriously, I'd try to make something interesting and disturbing like David Lynch. Perhaps another Twin Peaks movie.

Oscar Antonio M · 07-17-2002, 11:31 PM

I will make:
1: 201th Esquadron: The Story of the Aztec Eagles
2:Cloth and Soil
3:To the Southeast

**aintnosin** · 07-17-2002, 11:45 PM

I don't know if it's a genre, but I'd like to direct the kind of film where Ashley Judd gets nekkid.

Jerm · 07-18-2002, 01:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by aintnosin
I don't know if it's a genre, but I'd like to direct the kind of film where Ashley Judd gets nekkid.

Isn't that any type of film?

dvds'r'us · 07-18-2002, 01:20 AM

I would love to make a Ghost World type film.

Or an Empire Records type film.

DancinDave · 07-18-2002, 01:28 AM

I'd try to do Dirk Gently / Holistic Detective Agency - type movies

***chlngr1970*** · 07-18-2002, 01:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DancinDave
I'd try to do Dirk Gently / Holistic Detective Agency - type movies

I'd have to say...I think I enjoyed Long Dark Teatime of the Soul as much as the Hitchhikers series. I realy miss Douglas Adams

j

DancinDave · 07-18-2002, 01:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by chlngr1970
I realy miss Douglas Adams

Now there's a frood who knew where his towel was.

theta · 07-18-2002, 04:18 AM

Well, as a director who is actually getting a movie released on disc this year (it's a slasher flick! In full frame! And MONO!), I just want to make GOOD movies. All sorts of movies. I've noticed the very best directors don't get pegged to a particular genre; when John Carpenter started making just action horror flicks, that's when his career went in the toilet. Woody Allen and Robert Altman have been doing the same shtick for years, and with each movie it gets a little staler. I'm sure you can come up with your own examples, but basically, I want to vary things up. I'm actually making my next feature (thank God for digital video) this year, and then I'm making a comedy.

airjosh · 07-18-2002, 05:04 AM

I have so many stories/screenplays and they are all very different. I would probably do a new genre in between sci-fi epics.

I would love to do a modern but accurate remake of Rashomon

I also think that Terry Brooks' A Knight of the Word would be a great exercise in novel adaptation. The book (second in a series) felt very cinematic to me.

And if somebody doesn't do a movie from Snow Crash soon I am going to beg, borrow, and steal an entire studio if I have to.

02-13-2002, 06:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
Triple HHH Actor Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Governor of California	If YOU were a director, what type of films will you make??? So I know there are a lot of us here who haved toyed with the idea of being a full-blown director at one point or another. So what kind of movies would you start making (assume you have deep pockets and the studios are backing you with full on support): Any particular genres you want to be known for? Do you want to be the rebel of Hollywood (Lynch, Scorsese), or the big-budget mainstream guy (Cameron, Lucas), or maybe the "chameleon director" like Spielberg who is able to move from commercial entertainments to serious masterpieces. Maybe a recluse who only pumps out a few films every so often (Kubrick, Malick)? Or do you just want to be Joel Schumacher because he's so darn "cool"? :barf: Although I personally like all types of films, I could see myself trying to mimic the pattern of Spielberg's career. I admire how he has made popular films, accepted by audiences and critics. To make a popularly-received film that makes mucho bucks is a great feeling. Because no one really wants to make a movie that no one goes to see. $$$ is love. , to oversimplify it. But I think a person should make the movie memorable and make it significant. The way I see it if you're going to spend a year of your life working on a film , better make it as good as possible. So you won't see me making action films that are completely empty-headed and forgotten like Driven or Rollerball. Great "action" films are like Terminator 2 and Die Hard, and even the Indy movies. __________________ With fronds like these, who needs anemones? Last edited by Triple HHH : 02-13-2002 at 06:08 AM.

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Poppa Giorgio Actor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: New York, NY, US of A	As an aspiring director I don't know if I wanna give out my ideas and then another aspiring director will steal them. Ahh well... I would like to make a film of a huge epic scale filmed with experimental camera, editing and narrative techniques. No one has really done that. Every epic has a certain style or plays it safe in the camera and editing department. Theres only two epics I can think of that used a somewhat experiment/new techinques and that was "Lawrence of Arabia". The other is Scorsese's new film "Gangs of New York" is of a epic scale and looking at his film making trends in his last couple of movies, the experimental (and exciting) camera and editing has gotten wilder so I am assuming, from a documentary and trailer this one will be no exception. __________________ "Free the Whales"

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The Riddler Actor Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Where Most "Fogies" Are Discounted & Votes Often Miscounted!	If I was into filming I'd start with some really out of sight HORROR flicks and show off smoe zany camera movements! The sky's the limit from there! Most PRIMO director's started out with making a horror movie (or two)! __________________ "What's Green, Sits in a bathtub & Whistles?"

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smurdleman2000 Actor Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Allendale, MI	epic hardcore science fiction baby, yeah! Don't have enough (ie, maybe 5) of it, and since I'm pretty good at writing sci-fi, and am an aspiring filmmaker, it is a match made in Heaven. Oh yeah, and 2010: The Year We Make Contact kicked ass (and was Peter Hyams only good movie, IMHO), it being a hard sci-fi movie with a large budget and good actors. I will always love 2001, mind you, but for different reasons. __________________ I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like tears... in rain. Time to die.

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souledge4 Actor Join Date: Nov 2001	SNUFF!! No just kidding, maybe some epic historical thing. Like Braveheart and Lawrence of Arabia.

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Rouge 2 Actor Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: staten Island, NY, U.S.	After making a straight comedy, I'd like to do some relationship movies about stuff like dealing with getting older; then a movie about life during a particular time like a coming of age movie; Then i'd sell out and do sci-fi/fantasy for another 30 years.

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George McFly Kinda likes the Razorbacks Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: watching HD	I'd do a docu-drama called "It's never coming"about the BTTF trilogy DVD seriously I'd do a comedy spoof of porn films it would be called "Sexy Movie" __________________ DVDs gallery

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Rouge 2 Actor Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: staten Island, NY, U.S.	we could make a fortune off of crummy 80's toons we saw years ago by writing scripts based on them. I could knock off a GI Joe and Heman script in a week or two.

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Poppa Giorgio Actor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: New York, NY, US of A	Alright, I know you're gonna ask so I might as well save you the trouble... Yes, I will direct this g.i. joe script you're writing. Hell I'll executive produce too. But the real question is, who will be the director of photography??? __________________ "Free the Whales"

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smurdleman2000 Actor Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Allendale, MI	I'll be the DP for the movie, man. Hell, I'll do the editing too. Now, the question remains, who will do the score????? __________________ I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like tears... in rain. Time to die.

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SolidSnakeASS Actor Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Winterpeg, Manitobaugh, Canada	I think I'd try to do one of each genre, but I'd mainly do comedy dramas. And maybe a action/adventure trilogy.

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John Ryder Banned Join Date: Oct 2001	im partial to the suspense/thriller genre when screenwriting.

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Triple HHH Actor Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Governor of California	If directing doesn't work out, then I want to be a porno director. Movies that don't require plot outside of the typical "Pizza delivery Man" or "TV repair man" plots. I bet those guys are rolling in dough, among other things. Uh, I was just joking about the porn director thing. Funny thing is I've always wanted to make a Western. Unfortunately, some would say the genre is pretty much dead, if not damn close to it. The last interesting ones in the past few years have been Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, Unforgiven, and Dances With Wolves (if you want to call that a Western). Then there was American Outlaws which doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. Westerns are one of my favorite genres, with films like The Searchers, Red River, True Grit, Winchester '71, The Man Who Shot Libery Valence, Shane. There's something mythological and grand about those films, which I think accounts for their timeless appeal. No wonder Star Wars is called the "Western in outer space." It does have the same mythological pull as westerns. It would also be great to also do the "Epic to end all epics." It sweeps the Oscars and knocks Titanic out of the #1 spot. And it's so magnificent and groundbreaking people immediately about forget all previous films. "Gone with the Who?" Hell yeah. __________________ With fronds like these, who needs anemones?

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Rouge 2 Actor Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: staten Island, NY, U.S.	The Wild Bunch is also a great western. Maybe you can take westerns and give them sci-fi updates.

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George McFly Kinda likes the Razorbacks Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: watching HD	I'm shocked that noone's offered to direct the 96th film in the YEA saga--"YEEHAW" __________________ DVDs gallery

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Poppa Giorgio Actor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: New York, NY, US of A	Actually, I have been in negotiations for some time now to direct "YEEHAW" It's taken so long I've taken another offer to direct this new G.I. Joe/He-Man hybrid script penned by Rouge 2. It's a really good a script, Joe has much more depth now then in the toons... But as for "YEEHAW" I have opted to produce instead and edit it. Not sure whos writing the script for that? __________________ "Free the Whales"

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Rouge 2 Actor Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: staten Island, NY, U.S.	My six year old neice could write a better Joe story than that new comic from image. Big Disgrace!

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Phreak Actor Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Canton of Vaud	Personally, I'd love to do a bunch of different types of movies. A little Sci Fi, a little Drama, a little Action, a little Western. Hell, I might even do a comedy. Still, I'd like to do them all a bit different then people have ever seen them before. I'm pretty sure I'd go for the darker end of the spectrum both visually and content wise. Films that are very story driven, but still have some visual flare. I'd like to direct some of the movies that make people work to understand them, but also movies that are still understandable and that have a point. No dumbing it down for audiences. If you can't figure out the ending without a couple freeze frames and white lettering at the bottom telling you exactly what happened, then fuck off and watch something else. Those are the types of movies I'd make. I'd definitely want to do at least one war movie, and at least one western. __________________ dvds \| xbl

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theta Cheap Cerebral Paralysis Join Date: May 2002 Location: In aintnosin's basement	Hmmm... Well, as a director who is actually getting a movie released on disc this year (it's a slasher flick! In full frame! And MONO!), I just want to make GOOD movies. All sorts of movies. I've noticed the very best directors don't get pegged to a particular genre; when John Carpenter started making just action horror flicks, that's when his career went in the toilet. Woody Allen and Robert Altman have been doing the same shtick for years, and with each movie it gets a little staler. I'm sure you can come up with your own examples, but basically, I want to vary things up. I'm actually making my next feature (thank God for digital video) this year, and then I'm making a comedy. __________________ "I need bling, I tell you, BLING!!!" --Palmerlime Theta's discs, 300 mark crossed, 400 here we come!