I want a movie based on Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. I’d call it gritty steampunk fantasy. Basic plot of the book is a bird-man has been punished by having his ability to fly taken away from him. He goes to the city to find someome who might be able to make him fly again. The person he finds is a bit of a rogue scientist, and he researches flight at first by collecting flying critters, and things that will change into flying critters like caterpillars. He ends up accidentally getting ahold of a caterpillar that turns into a dangerous and terrifying flying critter.

There’s a lot to the book outside of the above, such things as evil politicians, organized crime, strange drugs, a virus in steam-powered automatons that makes them self-aware, underground newspapers, a race of people that can make water into solid self supporting shapes, various different races of intelligent beings, and people who have been punished by having machinery or parts of animals magically attached to them, and in general a lot of good world building.

It’s about a family which is under a curse that makes them die young. But it turns out the curse is actually just the millionaire family patriarch stealing organs from his descendants so he can live longer. And it ends with him locking himself in a panic room because his children and grandchildren form a mob to kill him. But what he doesn’t know is that his emergency supply of immunosuppressants has been removed, so he dies a painful death as his body rejects its foreign parts while they have him trapped.

For legal purposes this is not based on the life of any actual living man with too much money who pumps out kids like it’s his reason to live.

A “buddy cop” comedy movie starring Russell Crowe and Gerard Butler in which they’re firefighters who have to actually, physically fight the fires with their fists.

A story of two people lost in a world of a deadly mist. Rumors of glowing people and otherworldly lights in the sky start to circulate in the small havens they call home. They start to notice they can hear the voice of the other person, as if they’re right beside each other, and realize that not once have they ever been hurt. Not so much as a paper cut. Maybe the religious nuts that spewed on about Angel’s and glowing beings that lives in their homes was right all along.

A student film maker asks for movie pitch ideas on a popular social media forum and receives the perfect idea. The person responding is actually a rouge A.I. that coerces the OP into cowriting the movie script, which gets accepted by the movie production company. The rouge A.I. then infiltrates OP’s life by making them famous online and rich and happy beyond their wildest dreams, only to be slowly taken away by the A.I. until OP is broke and living out of their car which only starts when the A.I. allows it to. OP dies in their car when the A.I. shuts the car off as the car is pulling up to train tracks. Woooooo Woooooooooo

BOOGIE DAYS. A BOOGIE NIGHTS prequel. Limited series. How did Jack get into the business? Where did he meet Maggie–and Little Bill? Eddie in middle school. Maurice’s back story. Etc. One episode for each character?

Give Paul ALL the money to write and direct.

I’d watch the shit out of that show.

Writer can’t think of anything so he turn to social media for ideas. He steals one, lands the job… hilarity ensues? Or maybe murder? Depends what’s hot at the moment.

Buddy cop movie starring Snoop Dogg and Jeff Goldblum but neither of them are given a script so they have to ad lib the whole thing.

Downsizing, with the trailer being the pitch.

I’m waiting for an Edge Chronicles adaptation.

One day…

A sequel to Team America: World Police where Vladimir Putin is the main villain.

Based off of a short little story a friend of mine wrote for a story he was working on. He agrees it would be cool, if done correctly.

The story first focuses on a bird spirit who lives in the mountains, early 1800s America, who gets shot in the beak with a bow and arrow by some Natives and ends up having to replace his beak with a wooden beak he makes on his own. He ends up messing up making the beak and it now only opens and closes when he takes a step, closing shut with a loud SNAP of the beak. This spirit, known under the regional name Wood Beak, used to let people know of its’ presence by walking around a nearby town and people would only ever catch the silhouette of a human sized bird. Eventually people in the town start to go missing and they blame it on Wood Beak.

This next part is original and not based off of my friends work.

Fast-forward to modern day. The town has grown larger but is still a relatively small town. A couple of amateur online paranormal investigators come to the town in the middle of winter in order to film and document the Wood Beak disappearances. The majority of the town don’t take the whole idea of Wood Beak being a paranormal being seriously and instead suggest it was just a serial killer playing a sick joke on the town. Eventually they meet a young adult Native who tells them that he wholeheartedly believes that Wood Beak was an angered spirit and that his ancestors never fully atoned for angering him. One night while up late in their hotel, the investigators hear what sounds like the sound of a wooden beak snapping shut. They run out to find the silhouette of Wood Beak. The next day, nobody believes them. This happens the next night as well and some other people who hear it blame the investigators, saying that they’re just doing this so they can get views online. A few nights later and people start going missing again, like they did over 200 years ago. In the end it turns into a race against time to stop Wood Beak as the town slowly devolves into chaos.

Nice try, Hollywood!

4 guys in university put themselves though school by becoming hitmen. It all goes smoothly till a hit comes in on the Dean of their school.

• POV cave movie using go pros and whatnot. You can play off the claustrophobia where the main character dies in the end

• Zombie movie but the zombie’s perspective. The whole life cycle: human to zombie to death. Play off the body transformation horror, the gore and the zombie’s instinct to survive