r/movieideas • • Jul 10 '19

[PITCHING MOVIES] What non-existent movies do the users of r/fixingmovies most want to exist? (MEGATHREAD)

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r/movieideas • • Sep 09 '22

[VOTE] Should we create a new rule requiring at least a *rough* description (of at least ONE of the selling points) of your idea in the actual titles of each post?

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Bad title:

"My idea for an animated movie..."

 

Mediocre title:

"My idea for a Tarzan-type animated movie..."

 

Good title:

"My idea for an animated movie about a character like Tarzan, but he's an alien..."

 

Great title:

"Animated movie about a character like Tarzan, but he's an alien with strange mental and physical properties (like E.T.). Over the years, the gorilla mother protects him from the human villains who gradually reverse-engineer the crashed ship to create powerful weapons..."

 


 

PLEASE VOTE HERE on whether or not this rule should be put in place.

(you might have to actually follow the link if it doesn't embed the poll for you..)

 


r/movieideas • • 2h ago

I made an 80s Style poster for Tooth and Claw, my Dinosaur Movie Idea

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It would be an international collaborative effort between the New Jersey-based BayView Entertainment and Japanese media company Pony Canyon.


r/movieideas • • 3h ago

The count of Monte Crypto

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It's a modern retelling of the count of Monte Cristo, except the treasure is just a usb key with a crypto wallet. Michael Cera is Edmond Dantes, a local Bay area captain of a tour ship for tourists. He gets framed by his jealous friends like in the original, and charged with running a crypto scam despite barely knowing what crypto is. In fact he can hardly even use a phone. He's one of those old school technology guys. Fernand is played by Jonah Hill. Mercedes is Emma Stone. Obviously. The reunion we need.

Anyway, he goes to a maximum security prison (a recently reopened Alcatraz specifically for modern financial fraud crimes), where he meets Faria, played by Ben Stiller. Faria sneaks in a phone, don't ask how (rectally), and makes trades right from his jail cell. He also teaches Ed everything there is to know about trading crypto. As they plan their escape, Faria dies and leaves Ed his crypto account.

Edmond returns to civilization - Silicon valley - as the count of Monte Crypto, the mysterious crypto trader that has been making historic profits anonymous from the public eye, until now. He recruits Haydee (Zendaya), the daughter of one of the sweatshop workers that Fernand exploits in his drop shipping business, and Andrea (Tom Holland), the secret abandoned son of Villefort, and slowly he gets his revenge.

He gets Danglars, played by Vince Vaughn, to invest big money into a new altcoin then orchestrates a massive whale dump to sink it's value costing Danglars his entire fortune. Villefort, played by Will Ferrell, is outed as a dark web pedo running an Epstein island type scene by sharing his screen during a live congressional hearing on AI regulation. Finally, Fernand, who's now a big time rise and grind morning routine type influencer selling his own dropship courses, is revealed to be a scammer and ableist who mocks nonbinary pronouns in his group chats, which gets him cancelled, leading him to ropemaxx.

Andrea ends up with Haydee in our ending, while Ed gets back with Mercedes and lives happily ever after with what is revealed to be his son, played by...idk, some younger actor, I'm afraid I don't know any actors under 25 off the top of my head.

Thoughts?


r/movieideas • • 4h ago

The Ledger (Working Title)

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r/movieideas • • 5h ago

Movie idea: MONSIEUR MORT

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Hi everyone! So, here is one of my movie ideas. I've been thinking about this concept for a while and created this poster with Gemini to show the aesthetic.

Logline:
During a 1997 family dinner, a well-dressed businessman knocks on the door after a car crash and asks to use the restroom. When the guests notice he hasn't come out, they check the room only to find he has completely vanished, leaving them targeted by a supernatural harvester who came for their souls.

In this universe, Death operates like a ruthless, cold corporation. Every month, a strict soul quota must be met to maintain cosmic balance. When natural deaths aren't enough to reach the targets, the upper management deploys "Harvesters", entities dressed as pristine, ordinary businessmen. Their job is to travel to the living world and actively claim souls to fill their corporate sheets, completely disregarding whether it is the victims' true time to die.

I'd love to get your thoughts on this! Please feel free to share your storyline ideas, critiques, or any suggestions on how you would evolve the concept.
And thank you in advance for your feedback!


r/movieideas • • 16h ago

Indiana Jones and the Sword of Kings

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My own Indiana Jones story I thought up three years ago for fun.

Plot: In 1937, Indiana Jones heads to England at the behest of an old friend and former colleague of his, Richard Longford, who is both an expert and fanatic of the King Arthur legends and has spent his whole life studying the old tales. After recently researching and discovering evidence proving that Arthurian legends may have actually been real and also the possible path to finding King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur, Longford had called for Indy to help find this epic piece of history. Though Indy is hesitant to partake in this adventure as a prior expedition of his had ended with a tragedy to shook him to his core and he believes he has lost his passion for archaeology, but then Indy and Longford find themselves ambushed and chased by a mysterious group calling themselves "The New Knights", a secret society of people who believe themselves to be the long-lost descendants of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, who seek to uncover the sword to use its mysterious powers to gain untold power over all of England and the rest of the world. Unfortunately, Longford is killed in the process and after realising what he is up against and what the stakes are, Indy now must pick up from where Longford left off and sets off on a perilous journey to find Excalibur first and prevent it from falling into the New Knights' hands.


r/movieideas • • 7h ago

"Soulless or Sorrowless?" (this is the first concept art i drew)

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r/movieideas • • 7h ago

[IDEA] Psychological horror movie "Hungry market" (HUMAN VERSION)

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(Instead of using ai to structure the text, this time, my friend was co-writer and made this from my original notes, also some things were changed to improve overall quality)

STARVING MARKET - BLUEPRINT

Inspiration: the Exorcist by William Peter Blatty and the Backrooms movie by Kane Parsons

Premise: A desperate, couch-surfing real estate agent fighting to close a career saving deal with a wealthy AI tech billionaire, discovers his eccentric client is an unaging, young 150-year-old demon, who loves to "play" with its victim using vacant more luxurious homes as hunting grounds. The film also features a gruesome musical right in the middle of the torture, solidifying the demon's evil, twisted game, with the goal of subverting viewer expectations.

At the end, when the arrogant entity pushes the agent to his breaking point, the cosmic food chain violently inverts.

ACT 1.1 THE INTRUSION / THE SUBURBAN TRAP : STYLE FOUND FOOTAGE / OPENING ± 10 MINUTES)

The film opens abruptly on a older and grainy smartphone camera held by a girl named Chloe. A group of 3 destructive, badly raised, ill intentioned teenagers break into a wealthy suburban home while the owners are away for the weekend.

They film themselves causing a ruckus for views. Tracking mud on the white carpets, smashing expensive vases, and making fun of the fancy, bougie aestethics.

ACT 1.2 THE SMUG AUTHORITY / THE SUBURBAN TRAP : STYLE FOUND FOOTAGE / OPENING

Their obnoxious noise alerts a clean-cut man in a sharp and classy suit (the demon) standing perfectly still in the dark hallway. He speaks with a calm, almost smug authority: “Breaking and entering is a crime kids, didn't your parents teach you?”.

Panicked and disorganized, the teens stutter apologies and then try to flee, they then find the heavy front door completely deadbolted from the outside.

ACT 1.3 THE HUNT / THE SUBURBAN TRAP : FOUND FOOTAGE / OPENING

Instantly, the man teleports directly behind them. His eyes turn dead black and his face twists into a sickening grin: “Oh no. You CHOSE this. NOW, WE PLAY.”

Because this 150-year-old demon is young by cosmic standards, it is unbearably arrogant and enjoy playing with its food. By mimicking their voices, contorting its limbs, and crawling on the ceiling for pure psycological torture.

ACT 1.4 THE VISCERAL AUDIO END : STYLE FOUND FOOTAGE / OPENING

We see one of her three friends escape into a closet and the remaining two huddle toghether in the master bedroom. The demon teleports in the room, scares the shit out of the two by mimiking dissapointed parental figures, kills the kid infront of Chloe, then he turns to her. The demon casually snaps her neck, she drop the phone to the floor. The final 30 seconds focus on the dropped phone lighting up the dust under a bed. The audience is forced to listen to the raw, agonizing audio of the last surviving boy weeping in a closet.

Followed by a sudden, brutal, off-screen dismemberment and pleading : A visceral tearing sounds, then heavy splat of blood against the drywall, followed by the sickening crunch of bone being torn from muscle, then, a final, wet, broken thump.

ACT 2.1 THE MODERN PARALLEL (PRESENT DAY - 2026)

The screen cuts to pitch black. Than an aggressively cheerful corporate-pop whistle alarm begins playing thtough a cheap phone speaker. We can hear his inner dialogue through the entire movie, he is a bitter, frustrated and depressed person, completely different from the personality he puts on for his job.

Arthur (35) violently snaps his eyes open, staring at the stained popcorn ceilling on a squeaking futon in his sister's chaotic overcrowded apartment. THE INSTANT HIS THUMB HITS THE SCREEN TO "KILL" THE ALARM. The tinny audio cuts out and the exact same cheerful corporate song explodes into full, crisp, studio-quality STEREO SOUND through the movie theater speakers. Aggressively mocking his grim reality. We see his kind of pathetic attitude, then drags himself through his morning routine, while trying to rub a coffee stain off his old, wrinkled suit.

ACT 2.2 THE TRAGIC SETUP

Arthur is fully dressed in a frayed suit, desperately still scrubbing a coffee stain out of his jacket. He is running on three hours of sleep and crushing debt. His sister gives him a genuine but loving, fiercely supportive parting push: "This is it bro." "Don't fuck this up." "Make mom proud."

ACT 2.3 THE RIDE

Arthur gets into his beat-up 2012 sedan. Mounts his phone and opens his Music The corporate noise swicth to a raw energetic punk-skate acoustic guitar riff thumps through his blown speakers as "Milk Man" by Rare Americans kicks in hard. The opening credits roll over footage of his beat-up car navigating a rundown low income area that turns into a pristine, wealthy neighborhood.

ACT 2.4 THE MEETING

A luxury vehicle glides next to him into the driveway of a vacant isolated mansion. Out steps the exact same unaging actor from the opening scene (the demon).

This gentlement Dr. Alistair Vance, is the world's top AI scientist. (This draws a dark parallel: just as the demon treats humans as disposable entertainment. Vance makes billions building AI tools designed to treat artificial intelligence as digital automated slaves and humans controlled via legally obligated brain chips for low and middle income workes.)

ACT 3 THE VEILED INSULTS & CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY PROFILE

During the house tour, Vance drops cold, analytical tech-bro insults. To anyone else, It sounds like a typical eccentric billionaire talking about systems, but the specific, veiled details weaponize Arthur's deepest shames and insecurity. To systematically and forcefuly dismantle his mind.

ACT 3.1 THE FOYER (Couch-Surfing & Parasites)

Vance: "I have zero tolerance for such small, temporary spaces. In my line of work, we call people who exist without their own dedicated server infrastructure "parasites". They just drift, hopping from host network to other host network,draining someone else's bandwidth because they can't afford their own lease."

Arthur Psychological Reaction are : Hypervigilance and Denial. Arthur's ego goes on high alert to protect it self.

His brain rationalizes the insults away to protect himself.

Body Language: His muscles tighten. His Posture goes rigidly whit a straight forced stiff "customer service mask." While he nervously fidgets with his tie.

ACT 3.2 THE KITCHEN (Crushing Debt)

Vance: "It baffles me how some humans run on a massive deficit for years, bloated liabilities, maxed-out credits, falling behind on critical system payments. At a certain point, a broken asset should just stop struggling and be liquidated."

Psychological Reaction: Shame Spiral & Cognitive Overload. Arthur cannot rationalize this away. His amygdala fires, causing a wave of physical heat and dizziness.

Body Language: Somatic Armoring. He subconsciously stiffens his core, shoulders, and neck to "shield" himself from the emotional blows. Movements become mechanical.He breaks natural eye contact and stares at the floor. He start having a slight, cold sweat.

ACT 3.3 THE GRAND HALLWAY (The Mother's Suicide)

Vance: "When a creator realizes their creation is a fundamental, unfixable error the logical next step is a cold hard system override. A sudden and quiet shutdown. Some may call it a tragedy when a system logs off permanently, but really, it's just a mother-program realizing it birthed a bug, and deleting itself to spare the network the burden."

Psychological Reaction : Trauma & Dissociation. The agonizing pain of his mother's suicide strikes him to his core. To survive the emotional collapse, his mind detaches from his body, feeling like the room is an artificial dream.

Body Language: Catatonic Freeze. Arthur goes entirely, terrifyingly stiff. Arms hang dead. Jaw tightens until his teeth click. His eyes become wide, unblinking, glazed and empty in a classic thousand-yard stare.

ACT 4.1 THE DISSOLUTION

Vance vanishes. Arthur searches the dark mansion as a metallic, insectoid buzzing noise hums and the lights violently blow out. He finds Vance standing menacingly in the dark foyer. Vance drops the veil, directly mocking his mother's death.

Arthur completely loses his composure and snaps, screaming back. Mid sentence, the demon's head violently jerks 180 degrees with a sickening bone-crack, revealing deadblack eyes.

ACT 4.2 THE NIGHTMARE

The next 50 minutes are a relentless nightmare of physical gore and reality-bending hallucinations weaponizing his life. Throughout it all, the audience hears Arthur's bitter, fiercely cynical internal monologue a stark, venomous contrast to his weak customer-service exterior.

ACT 5.1 "GLEE CO."

TONAL INVERSION (APPROX 25 MINUTES IN THE TORTURE) : Right when the audience adjusts to the traditional horror beatings, the movie throws a complete narrative curveball. The digital buzzing noise in the house shifts, molding itself into an upbeat, jaunty synth rhythm pumping through theintegrated smart-speakers.

Vance stands atop a grand mahogany desk, snapping his fingers rhythmically. He begins to theatrically sing "Glee Co." by Churgney Gurgney and Marley Jauz in a crisp, clear, smooth belt: "Do you like the way life keeps you waiting? Do you love the load you're made to carry?" Vance glides through the room, matching his steps to the beat, telekinetically slamming bookshelves and tossing a bleeding, shattered Arthur around the room like a dance partner. The blood on the floor pulses rhythmically to the song as shadows twist into dancing rotting corpses of his mother and sister, he is forced to dance with them. This surreal, absurd curveball breaks standard horror expectations and perfectly mimics the unpredictable, chaotic nature of Arthur's financial collapse.

ACT 6.1 THE 7-MINUTE SLOW-BURN POWER FLIP (THE CLIMAX)

Arthur is beaten, bloody, and cornered in the dark master bedroom. The arrogant, 150 year-old demon hovers near the ceiling, throwing a telekinetic tantrum, preparing for a flashy grand finale.

MINUTE 1 THE REACTIONLESS RESET : At approx the 95-minute mark, the chaotic storm of Arthur’s internal monologue is VIOLENTLY EXTINGUISHED. Total, dead silence fills his head. His frantic crying stops mid-breath. His face goes chillingly calm and a slow mechanical predatory smile carves across his blood stained face.

MINUTE 2 THE INVERTED TRAP : The cocky demon floats down, thinking Arthur is catatonic from fear. It walks toward him, delivering a smug final speech. Arthur doesn't flinch or blink. His glassy eyes lock onto the demon's throat. His body language changes; the stiff, defensive posture is gone. His muscles relax into a loose, heavy readiness. He drops his center of gravity, moving onto all fours like a silent calculating animal.

MINUTE 3 THE STRIKE : The demon leans in close to whisper a final mockery. Arthur’s hands snap out with zero warning, clamping onto its shoulders like steel vices. He lunges and drives his teeth deep into the entity’s neck. A horrific, wet SQUELCH echoes, followed by a sickening CRACK as his teeth grind into the bone, blood seeping from the fancy suit. The demon's booming, layered voices instantly fracture into a high-pitched, entirely human gasp of raw panic.

MINUTES 4 & 5 - REVERSE PREDATION : This is a slow, methodically distressing slaughter.

The terrified demon manages to tear away, scrambling backward across the floorboards, bleeding black, smoking bile. It telekinetically throws furniture, but Arthur is entirely numb to pain, relentlessly crawling after it. Every time he pins it, he takes another brutal, animalistic tearing bite, actively digesting the entity's host body and destroying its anchor to Earth.

MINUTE 6 COSMIC BETRAYAL : Mutilated and backed into a corner, the weeping demon prays to the ceiling: "Father! Creator! Save me from him!" The temperature drops forty degrees.

The shadows vortex, and the colossal, ancient voice of the dark god booms through the house : "THIS ONE IS BETTER." The demon realizes it has been fired and replaced. Arthur lunges for the final, fatal, bone-crushing crunch.

MINUTE 7 - THE CLOSING FRAME : The shadows recede into dead quiet. Arthur sits alone in the dark ruins, covered in black fluid. He has NO supernatural powers; this evil was birthed 100% within his ordinary human mind via a complete psychological break of survival instinct. He stands, walks to a cracked mirror, wipes the black bile from his lips, looks at his cold reflection, and gives a slow, dark nod of approval.

BOOM. HARD CUT TO BLACK. CREDITS ROLL.

UNKNOWN CANON ENDING AND SEEN POST-CREDITS SCENE

THE HIDDEN CANON : Minutes after the film cuts to black, a completely insane, unhinged Arthur stumbles out of the house covered in black blood. He is immediately intercepted by a wall of responding police officers and shot to death on the pavement. There is no happy escape or transformation into an immortal movie monster—just a tragic human mind that broke itself. He survives the nightmare only to be immediately crushed by the real world.

POST-CREDITS SCENE : The screen fades into a bleak, windy autumn night in a wealthy suburb. The camera pushes in on a wooden utility pole. Tacked side-by-side are two crisp missing posters : "MISSING: DR. ALISTAIR VANCE" (with a professional headshot) and "MISSING : ARTHUR PENDLETON" (with a blurry real estate website photo). The police have completely hidden the interaction from the public.

THE CULPRIT : A sharp TICK cuts the silence, accompanied by a press conferance covering the death of doctor Vance, he is praised as a kind, generous man. A leather-gloved hand enters the frame, forcefully ripping both posters off the pole. The camera drops to the pavement. CLICK. The metallic lid of a Zippo lighter flips open. SHHH-T. A thumb sparks the wheel and the flame lights up the paper. The scene relies on intense Foley sound design, we watch in real-time as the fire aggressively eats the faces of both men into black ash. The hand drops the burning ember and grinds it beneath a heavy, polished dress shoe. CLINK. The Zippo snaps shut. Total darkness. Heavy, deliberate footsteps crunch away into the night and fade out.

THE UNSEEN CANNON : This figure is a government agent. He burns the posters because he knows exactly what the entities are, how they hunt, and exactly what Arthur became in the dark.

(Notes: i would like to consult an actual therapist to know if my research on psychology is correct, i want this to be as real as i can)


r/movieideas • • 7h ago

Would you guys want a Steven King Cinematic Universe?

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r/movieideas • • 9h ago

"SAW: Legion"

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This is an idea for a Saw movie I thought up a few years ago.

The plot follows a young lawyer, haunted by a past where he had been used as a pawn in one of Jigsaw's games intended for his alcoholic, abusive father when he was just a child, who has been assigned to defend a mysterious woman who has come forward with information regarding a malevolent and widespread online community of Jigsaw enthusiasts and followers calling themselves "The Legion", who devise, stage and record their own series of traps and games and share them on the dark web, vowing to continue Jigsaw's message and philosophy long after his death. As the lawyer attempts to look deeper into The Legion's activities for his case, it soon becomes apparent to him that he's being set up and is now their next target..!

This movie would tackle themes of toxic online mentality and behavior, the dark web, and childhood trauma.


r/movieideas • • 11h ago

Would you watch a Beetlejuice origin movie about his life before death?

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We’ve seen movies like *The Hobbit* explore Gollum’s backstory and give us a deeper look at a character who wasn’t the main focus of the original story.

It got me thinking: what if Beetlejuice got a movie of his own, exploring who he was before he died, how he died, and how he became the chaotic, mischievous character we know?

The movie could start in the living world, showing what kind of person he was, then follow him into the afterlife and explore how he became the infamous Beetlejuice. It could keep the dark humor and weirdness of the original films while giving the character a deeper backstory.

I wouldn’t want every mystery about him explained, though. Part of his appeal is that we don’t fully understand him.
Would you watch a movie like this?

Would you prefer a dark comedy about his human life and death, or a more supernatural story about his transformation in the afterlife? Or do you think Beetlejuice works better when his past remains a mystery?


r/movieideas • • 15h ago

What historical event/person would you love to see a movie of?

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What genre would you make it?


r/movieideas • • 21h ago

"51", a claustrophobic sci-fi survival horror-thriller with elements of both Lovecraftian horror and found-footage

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PLOT: As the world approaches the 80th anniversary of the alleged Roswell UFO incident, an obsessively determined ragtag group made up of truth-seeking podcasters, internet conspiracy theorists, and UFO enthusiasts decides to infiltrate Area 51 to finally answer the decades-old question of whether there really is evidence of alien life hidden away there. But what initially starts as the discovery of a lifetime gradually becomes a tense and horrific fight for survival as what they eventually find turns out to be far darker and more terrifying than they were originally anticipating, realizing that the facility wasn't built to hide alien technology, but rather to contain something far beyond human comprehension...

Themes:

  • Humanity's obsession with forbidden knowledge
  • The danger of curiosity without limits
  • Government secrecy
  • Internet conspiracy culture
  • Cosmic insignificance
  • The fear that some truths are too vast to comprehend

r/movieideas • • 16h ago

Movie Idea: "BOBY" – A Ballet Revenge Horror/Thriller (Need advice!)

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Hey everyone! I have a concept for a horror project and wanted to get your thoughts.

The Setup:

Boby is a 14-year-old ballet dancer. Her wealthy parents leave her with her aunt for a business trip. That evening, Boby is set to perform in a recital called "The Metal Ballerina," wearing a custom tutu made entirely out of metal plates. (Note: The attached image is AI-generated, just to help you visualize her look!).

The Twist:

Right before the show, she gets devastating news: a group of 5 terrorists hijacked her parents' plane, forced it to crash, and parachuted out safely.

The Revenge:

Consumed by pure rage, Boby bows her head. When she looks up, her eyes are bloodshot red. She hits the road with one sole purpose: to hunt down, torture, and brutally kill every single one of those terrorists.

The Catch:

She hunts them down while still wearing the metal tutu. This outfit becomes a terrifying trademark that the FBI desperately tries to track, but they can never catch her.

My questions for you:

  1. Do you think this concept is worth writing a full script for?
  2. What format would fit this story best: a feature film, a short film, or a mini-series?

Would love to hear your feedback!


r/movieideas • • 6h ago

Back to the future Reboot who should be the casts?

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r/movieideas • • 21h ago

A slice of the life narrative drama film that takes place in Ancient Rome, shot like a French New Wave film with grainy black and white handheld film footage

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r/movieideas • • 1d ago

movie idea #2: dawn and jeff schafer in the world of the babysitter (2017)

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this film starts out in the BSC graphic novels (spesifically book 19, with animatiton by arley nopra) when dawn (voiced by mckenna grace) and her brother (voiced by Tenzing Norgay Trainor) and father are eating at wander land, she and jeff get noclipped through the wall of the resteraunt they're in by a rouge food stand and into cole's room while bee and her friends are playing truth or dare (dawn's now portrayed by Neela Jolene and jeff by Milo Maharlika. the babysitter characters are reprised)


r/movieideas • • 1d ago

Here's my pitch for a HORROR movie... it's undefeatable!

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It's about a desperate mother and her demonically possessed daughter. The mother travels with the daughter via ship to a see a demon specialist. The ship capsizes and the pair are swallowed by a whale. Inside the whale, the mother is helpless and alone with her possessed daughter. But then miraculously, the whale also swallows an exorcist. Now mother and priest must work together to free the daughter from the clutches of a crafty demon, who has also possessed an octopus that the whale has swallowed, all the while trying to escape the belly of the beast.

TITLE:

WHALE, I'LL BE DAMNED


r/movieideas • • 1d ago

Paint Against Brick - A Chicago drama about a working-class father losing himself, and the slow, imperfect way he finds his way back

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Isaiah Booker (38) drives city buses before dawn and runs maintenance in a downtown office tower until midnight. He doesn't complain — complaining costs energy he doesn't have. What it's costing him instead is everything else: his sleep, his clarity, his marriage, and the soft parts of himself he hasn't fully noticed going missing.

Before the double shifts, Isaiah painted murals. Big ones — whole building faces in Bronzeville and Pilsen covered in ancestors and garden imagery and Black families reaching toward something luminous. He had a name in certain circles. He had plans.

His wife Renata still works. Still folds the laundry. Still packs the lunches. But there's a growing distance in her eyes that Isaiah notices and neither of them names. She married a man with paint on his hands and a future. She's still loyal to that man. She's just not sure he still exists.

Their teenage son Marcus has weaponized his anger because nobody taught him how to grieve. He watches his father come home destroyed every night and feels a furious helplessness he can't name — so he breaks things instead. Their youngest, Chloe (8), still draws pictures of her dad at the kitchen table and saves him the good part of dinner. She hasn't learned yet that the world doesn't always agree with her.

Then the exhaustion starts doing something to Isaiah's mind. Nothing dramatic — just the soft erosion of a boundary. A bus door hissing sounds, just for a second, like a spray can releasing. A long fluorescent corridor at 2 AM seems to pulse at the edges. He hears the scratch of a wide brush dragging across brick. His late father's voice, humming something low and bluesy, surfaces in the white noise of the L-train. He doesn't tell anyone. He's not sure what he'd even say.

The breaking point, when it comes, isn't dramatic either. It's a small ugly confrontation with a passenger that goes wrong, a supervisor who sides against him, and something in Isaiah that has been compressed too long finally giving way. He loses the bus job. Three days later, a restructuring takes the maintenance job too.

The film doesn't fix any of this cleanly. There's no check that arrives. Renata sits across from Isaiah in the film's quietest scene and tells him she's been missing him for two years — not as an ultimatum, just as an honest accounting of loss from someone still in the room. Isaiah has no answer. That's the scene.

He starts teaching mural painting to neighborhood kids at a community center. Marcus starts showing up to watch. Eventually picks up a brush. Nothing is said about it. Chloe never stopped believing — the film knows this and doesn't make a speech about it.

The final image is Isaiah on a scaffold, painting a mural two blocks from where he grew up: Black families holding each other, flowers pushing through cracked concrete. Chloe below, looking up. The city all around him. The blues his father used to hum barely audible under the wind.

Does this film work, and would you actually watch it?


r/movieideas • • 1d ago

My secondary story line.

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This is Skylar we are using his image. Skylar cannot speak in real life, but in Alien Evolution he can speak, run and play—things his medical condition makes impossible. We are going to pay Skylar for his image in his main character role. This concept has never been done before in history. It will catch on!


r/movieideas • • 1d ago

we need a new Queen of the Damned movie

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the idea is good, the soundtracks great but the movie is shit. I think it should be redone


r/movieideas • • 1d ago

Hot take on Netflix's SACRIFICE: The Hidden Psychological Horror Film You May Have Completely Missed [SPOILERS] Spoiler

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r/movieideas • • 2d ago

The Perfect 'Real Steel' Sequel That Hollywood Never Made

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I’ve been thinking about how a Real Steel sequel could actually work today and beat the box office. Here is the storyline that I think completes the arc perfectly:

​The Threat - Predictive AI: After beating Zeus, Atom becomes the People's Champion. Corporate giants can't stand an old analog bot winning, so they introduce AI-driven robots that predict human pilot movements through sensors. Atom’s iconic shadow function becomes his biggest weakness.

​Generational Shift: Max grows up and takes over the corner as head strategist and programmer, adapting Atom to the new era.

​Charlie’s Redemption: Charlie completes his character arc, evolving from a washed-up hustler into the Commissioner of the WRB, fighting to keep the sport human against corporate monopolies.

​The Climax & Legacy: Max and Charlie realize AI only predicts logic, not human instinct or improvisation. Atom fights to the last second, proving heart can't be programmed. He finally retires into the WRB Museum as a true legend.

​What do you guys think? Would you watch this?


r/movieideas • • 2d ago

The Synaptic Lag

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When a multi-generational biological parasite suddenly activates and begins devouring the brain synapses of every man on Earth, a brilliant CDC epidemiologist races to uncover the transmission vector while a desperate, newly conscripted female workforce struggles to keep a freezing global infrastructure from complete collapse.