Keeperofthespark wrote:-James Cameron's Spider-Man
-Robert Zemeckis' Transformers
-James Cameron and Ridley Scott's Alien 5
-Darren Aronosky's Batman: Year One( It wouldn't have exactly been Batman, but it would've been interesting)
-John Carpenter's The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
-Evil Dead 4( or will it be dead?!)
-Face/Off but with Arnie and Stallone and set in the future( as it was originally set in prior to John Woo's involvement that changed it all)
-Ridley Scott's I Am Legend with Arnie as Robert Neville
Anything with James Cameron at the helm gets bonus points, even "Titanic". Although, to be honest, "True Lies" exists as the greatest paradox in cinema - it's got Cameron directing, and stars Arnie, and still sucks. But, yeah, he's usually top-notch with casting for his films, so if he'd have been in charge of "Spiderman", it wouldn't suffer from the twin issues of Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst.
Robert Zemeckis was going to make a transformers film? This would have been interesting. Definately would have been better than letting Michael "I think explosions and steadicams compensate for substance" Bay near it.
I'd heard of Cameron's plans for an fifth film in the "Alien" series, but he stopped writing it when he heard of "Alien versus Predator". Didn't know Ridley Scott was going to be involved though. Would have been quite the team, I'll tell you that.
Darren Aronofsky is responsible for one of my favourite films of all time ever, "π". Letting him have a go at Batman would have made even me, an avowed anti-Batman-ite, sit up and pay attention.
John Carpenter films are usually hit-or-miss for me, though often more hit than miss. If he made "Creature from the Black Lagoon" as more of an action film, I'd definately have gone for it. But "Halloween" was all kinds of awful, so I'd avoid the hell out of a 'Halloween-in-the-jungle' style film.
Were there plans for a fourth "Evil Dead" film? From what I gather, any rumours about it were misdirected talk of the upcoming film "My Name Is Bruce"
The last two I quoted both fall under a similar heading. "Face/Off" was actually really good, but action films need action stars to really work, in my opinion, and Arnie and Stallone would have been perfect for this one. As for "I Am Legend", the recent Will Smith version was utter tripe, even with Mike Patton being involved. And I love me some Mike Patton. Something in my head keeps telling me that with Arnie involved instead of Will Smith, the film would have been more like "The Omega Man", which I absolutely
love.
I'm tempted to add "Grass Roots" to this list, it's a claymation film based on the old "Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" comics. It seems to have stalled to the point of dropping right off the face of the planet, and I sincerely hope it goes through.
Oh, and the two Warhammer 40,000 movies. "Bloodquest" and "Exterminatus". One just disappeared into thin air, one was shut down close to release by games Workshop for being unofficial (rather than them buying the rights to it and releasing it and making money off of it, you know?
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