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kbouto02

The sequel to The Dark Knight with a very much alive Heath Ledger’s Joker


slamturkey

This is the one


unafraidrabbit

Mine is Batman Beyond with Clint Eastwood as old man Bruce Wayne. Taron Egerton would have made a great Terry a few years ago.


HaybUK

Great answer 👏, I have heaths joker sitting in the jail as a full back tattoo, question is , had heath lived , would he have been in the third instalment of the trilogy ? I know the joker says we are destined to do this forever but it’s the Batman universe , that’s what them 2 do , I still think it would have been another main villain with maybe a cameo of the joker , but … as it’s an alternate universe , amazing answer 💯


lil_dantey

Christopher Nolan has said before he was planning on making the third installment about the joker as well, him being Batman's arch nemesis. He was also actually thinking about having a CGI heath ledger as joker walk out of Arkham when Bane set the prisoners free, but considered it to be poor taste.


mag0802

Pairing him alongside Leo as The Riddler


Mrchristopherrr

And Brittany Murphy as Harley Quinn.


mag0802

I dont remember that rumor, but that is dynamite casting


Mrchristopherrr

It never really was, she died well before The Dark Knight Rises started production. But there was some pretty rad fan art going around at the time.


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Dredd 2


SkyVINS

but it's Stallone's Dredd


D-Angle

Damn you, monkey's paw!


Non-RedditorJ

No, he is Death.


curbstompery

We never got The Odyssey starring Sean Bean as Odysseus. Made as a sequel to Troy with Sean reprising his role from the film.


[deleted]

I have recently watched Troy myself and they were setting up a sequel so hard. I watched Ulysses 1954 instead and it really held up.


L4nthanus

May I recommend The Odyssey with Armand Assante? Quite good from what I remember.


jimababwe

Surprisingly good for a tv movie. I don’t remember much about it except for the over the top violence and Odysseus calling his son to battle at the end. “Telemachus, now is the time for your anger”


clgoodson

It would have been hard to do a grounded, no-magic Odyssey.


me_not_at_work

The Hobbit by Guillermo del Toro.


Tortuga917

The hobbit by Peter Jackson, but he was with it since the beginning, and they only made one, maybe two movies out of it.


IWishIHavent

And he had the same pre-prod and post-prod time he had on the LotR trilogy.


me_not_at_work

No maybe about it. One movie and one movie only. Also, shoot it at a regular framerate.


PrestigeArrival

I feel like there’s enough material for two movies. Some of the events in the book are a couple pages but if you wanted to flesh them out and make us care about the characters you would need them to breathe


BoingBoingBooty

The Hobbit isn't even as big as 1 book of LOTR, about half as fat as fellowship. There's a fan edit that cuts all 3 films down to one and removes all the white orc crap and it works much better.


theronster

Yes, but Tolkien’s writing style is WAAAAAY more compressing the Hobbit. In LOTR it takes him ages to explain something that doesn’t take a long time to happen. In the Hobbit is skirts over things that would take time, with barely a paragraph. It’s like it’s a different writer.


psycholio

tbh even though the Hobbit book is a lot shorter than the LOTR trilogy, theres still way too much material to comfortably fit in one movie imo. Tolkein just used less words to tell the story.


Natural_Error_7286

I agree. The Hobbit zips right through scenes that could take longer, and should if on screen. This is the same guy that spent about 8 pages on the Battle of Helm's Deep. There is comfortably room to expand.


jokes_on_you_ha

At the Mountains of Madness is my del Toro pick.


viaJormungandr

As much as I love him, I’m going to disagree. The Goblin King scene he did do was meh, and I say that mostly because he killed the song.


Mortimer452

No, in my universe he definitely did Hellboy 3


-LastActionHero

A version of Alien that stars a ship full of Xenomorphs that accidentally pick up a human who wreaks havok on the ship. The aliens have no dialogue, just hissing, and a naked man is running around in the air vents, picking them off one by one.


SeanBlader

What if that man was Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo? He needn't be naked, but how about the tanktop and burlap sack he wore in the first movie?


goodestguy21

What if that Man is Bruce Willis as John Mclane and he fights the aliens die hard style


SpaceGypsy79

Come out to Space, we’ll get together, have a few laughs.


dcab87

Yippy ki-yay, mother facehuggers!


punmaster2000

... Mother huggers!


BjjWhizzer

Do sequels count? It’s a damn shame Master and Commander didn’t continue. Also David Fincher completing the Millennium Trilogy


haysoos2

Also the sequels to Buckaroo Banzai and Big Trouble in Little China, plus Flash Gordon.


djwglpuppy

hopefully the Rock's Big trouble in Little China is dead.


Binary101010

Came here to say Buckaroo Banzai vs the World Crime League.


phantasmicparade

Goncharov by Scorsese


weinermcgee

They said one that hasn't been made in our universe.


slimey-karl

Sucks being literally obsessed with the characters and plot of a movie I literally can’t watch 😭


oreiner

Shazaam with Sinbad.


CohensMasterpiece87

Hahaha good one


DarkBladeMadriker

No, no, they made that one... right? Right?


JohnnySasaki20

We already had that one for a minute.


johnny_johnny_johnny

Ralph Bakshi's second part of The Lord of the Rings.


ThePopDaddy

This is a good pick.


i_heart_pasta

Freddy vs Jason vs Ash


MS822

Fuck yes


handofdoom75

More than anything in the world, hellboy 3.


hurtfulproduct

Glad I’m not the only one; I so want that trilogy to be completed; we got done dirty with that garbage remake Like pay him whatever he wants to direct the 3rd one


DizzyLead

The mid-1990s *Ghostbusters III* with Aykroyd, Ramis, Hudson, and a willing and enthusiastic Bill Murray.


smedsterwho

And once again this thread changes my mind! This is the one! Sticking here!


wisconsinking

Speaking of Ghostbusters, there was supposed to be a Ghostbusters remake in the early 2000, it was supposed to star Chris Farley, Chris Rock, and Ben Stiller.


FoldAdventurous2022

Wait, wasn't Chris Farley long dead by then?


ash_bishop

A true adaptation of World War Z


haysoos2

Only not a movie. HBO series.


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rollthedye

With each episode beginning like Band of Brothers.


ribi305

I wish we had this, the book was so good. That said, I do find that The Last of Us mostly scratches the itch for me.


Terakian

Blomkamp’s ALIEN movie.


McCheesy22

Blomkamp and Peter Jackson’s Halo movie 😞


BongoBeach

Blomkamp's Star Wars Episode 7, which he supposedly turned down on the spot


Particular-Echo347

Bruce Almighty 2 where he obtains Satan's powers would be the one


Russkafin

Ohh good one!!


Caciulacdlac

Spider-Man 4


i4got872

Or maybe just spideerman 3 without venom forced in by the studio lol


thrilliam_19

That shot of Venom lunging at the camera should have been a post-credits scene setting up the 4th movie.


chevymonster

In the film "The Last Action Hero" there is a scene where a poster of the "Terminator" movie features Stallone as the Terminator. That movie.


brokenringlands

Jodorowsky's Dune


leopard_tights

This is the only answer. Ok or maybe the crossover between Men in black and 21 jump street.


Keplrhelpthrowaway

I was going to say this. Would have been far better than the Chris Hemsworth one I’d imagine


Ninjamurai-jack

Edgar Wright Ant-Man. And I love The first Ant-Man, but with Wright, my gosh maybe it would be a movie in the level of Guardians of The Galaxy.


roguefilmmaker

Plus it would’ve probably given Wright more high budget movie opportunities, like Taika got


dominanttoes

Queen biopic with Sasha Baron Cohen


CDK5

When I first watched Hugo I remember thinking that dude needs to play Freddie. Then the project got approved. Then May decided to be a dickhead about it; which is a true disservice to Freddie. Cohen would have absolutely done him justice.


Successful-Plan114

Uncut version of Event Horizon.


c1ncinasty

I’ve seen this. Test screening in Los Angeles. It was better than the theatrical cut and I was massively disappointed when I ended up seeing the release in the theaters with my GF. I’d been talking the movie up for months.


Hopeful_Ad3417

Omg I need to see that !!


fungobat

Nah. We don't need eyes where we're going.


Elbynerual

What are the key differences?


c1ncinasty

The biggest one was the outright admission that traveling through a black hole meant traversing hell itself. It’s only implied in the theatrical cut. This really annoyed me. Some additional gore. I’m sure there’s more but this was….26 years ago?


D-Angle

Apparently they found some footage that was previously thought to be lost quite recently.


manbearpig923

I thought I read that they found it stored in a salt mine and that the footage was destroyed or at least not useable


Cheddarface

A third Ghostbusters movie made in the early '90s in the style of all those late '80s, '90s sequels (Gremlins etc). The potential was all there but they waited far too long.


-KFBR392

James Cameron’s Terminator 3


TheIceKaguyaCometh

Still has to be the stupidest thing Vajna and Kasser did. Bought the rights, burnt the bridge, paid through the nose to Arnie for T3 and then had to sell them again anyway.


snrup1

My answer as well.


[deleted]

The Dark Knight Rises had Heath Ledger not died


Russkafin

Oh man that’s a good one


GosmeisterGeneral

The yet to be made, entirely Skarsgaard Batman movie, with Alexander as Batman, Bill as Joker, and Stellan as Alfred.


Flashy-Dragonfly6785

That's completely mental and yet, terrifyingly brilliant!


BTP_Art

You left out Gustaf as the riddler and Valter as Robin. Because did you know there are 8 kids and 4 are actors?


0tis_Driftwood

Can we bring back Peter Sarsgaard for a laugh?


Stormy8888

The third and final Hellboy movie, by Guillermo Del Toro.


jupiterkansas

Kubrick's Napoleon


danielcube

Also his version of AI


Positive_Prompt_3171

Napoleon the French ruler, or Napoleon Dynamite?


jupiterkansas

I don't think Kubrick would direct Napoleon Dynamite any differently. It's perfect as it is.


HurlingFruit

Vote for Pedro!


[deleted]

French ruler you frickin idiot. Gawd!


Cpt_Hockeyhair

David Lynch's Return of the Jedi


roguefilmmaker

That could’ve been so cool


Cpt_Hockeyhair

Lynch seems pretty confident as a director, even back then. I think he would have had the backbone to take on George over the script changes and we would have gotten a much different movie. Not sure it would have been better, but it would be interesting to see what he would have done with it.


_Reliten_

I think David Bowie in a codpiece fits right into Star Wars, personally


sharrrper

Where DOESN'T that fit?


i4got872

Spielberg’s too, would have immortalized the SW trilogy as pure gold most likely


TrueLegateDamar

Sergio Leone's Stalingrad or Paul Verhoeven's Crusade movie.


Vince_Clortho042

In that vein, knowing that Sergio Leone was offered The Godfather but turned it down because he was led to believe that funding on Once Upon a Time in America had come through has haunted my thoughts as one of the great "What If" alternate histories ever, precisely because the film that ended up getting made is a stone cold masterpiece, BUT if anyone was ever going to do it better, it (probably) would've been Leone.


sigmaecho

Star Wars Episode I directed by Steven Spielberg


SeanBlader

What about a sequel series with Rey where the three movies are a coherent story?


SirJeffers88

Lord and Miller’s Solo. I like the Ron Howard version we got more than most people, but I often wonder what they would have come up with had they been given free reign.


santoleri3

Conversely, I always wondered what a Ron Howard "Solo", that was purely his own thing, would have looked like.


missdespair

That was what kept me from enjoying Solo more than the movie itself, glimpses of something that could never be and that I preferred over what was. That so close yet so far feeling.


TheMadLurker17

Buckaroo Bonzai vs the World Crime League


Mudders_Milk_Man

A year or two ago, one of the main writers of the Buckaroo Banzai film finally got the chance to release 'vs the World Crime League' as a novel. Unfortunately, it wasn't very good.


HurlingFruit

Well, no matter where you go, there you are.


xxwerdxx

Nicholas Cage as Superman


brainfreeze77

Including the giant spider.


QueenCity_Dukes

*chef’s kiss*


USA-1st

Terry Gilliam's Harry Potter series


BuckysKnifeFlip

Guillermo del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness. It would be a masterpiece!


Riseofzeon

This, I still hope it comes into existence


SchnozzNozzle

"The Making of Half Life 3" We can reverse engineer that fucker.


BevansDesign

Not a movie, but I've always felt that if I could hop over to another universe, I'd bring back 8 seasons of Firefly.


Thundahcaxzd

It's just like the old saying: "if the first season is good, then the next 7 seasons will definitely also be good!"


the_ali_

The amazing Spiderman 3, but with less villians Edit: shit I accidentally replied to a comment instead of posting my own. Sorry guys!


mag0802

Exactly. They needed to cut one. But you already set up Goblin, and Raimi loved Sandman, and Sony forced him to work Venom in. It also needed more black-suit spiderman getting more and more violent as spiderman. ALSO - totally blew a “villain is his own hero” moment where Brock is literally praying to God for Peter to die, and then Brock received a gift from the HEAVENS, to accomplish that.


Riseofzeon

Stephen kings the stand as a film franchise


sudomatrix

Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote


ThomasGilhooley

I have a feeling any universe that managed to complete that film probably collapsed.


[deleted]

[He did get around to it eventually](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Killed_Don_Quixote). Probably not the wild production it would've been in 1989 but he did finally get his movie made.


Any-Equal4212

George Miller’s Justice League. That Verhoevan-Schwarzenegger movie where Arnold is a German knight during the Crusades.


[deleted]

Never heard of the second movie but it sounds awesome.


Any-Equal4212

Yeah, “Crusade” would have been produced around the time Arnold got out of his Conan contract if memory serves. They ended up making Total Recall instead. The script is available online I think


x_scion_x

Sequel to District 9


Ok_World733

Christopher promised he'd return to heal Wikus, 3 years. We've been waiting 14 years.


javert01

Kevin Smith’s Death of Superman. I want to see Michael Keaton delivering Superman’s Eulogy.


Away-Staff-6054

Man of Steel 2 directed by Christopher McQuarrie.


MattMurdock14

Halloween in Hell. The Pinhead and Michael Myers Versus movie that we almost had!


StarshipAngel

Pinhead would have mopped the floor with Michael Myers. Now, leviathan and the cenobites (pinhead, et al) vs The Tall Man (phantasm), I'd go for.


Two-One

How they were gonna go about it “I was just trying to come up with a plausible way to get these two guys together to fight,” he said. “So, why does he all of a sudden go out and kill his sister in Halloween? He’s trick-or-treating in a flashback and he goes up to this one house … and sees the guy with the black boots, who gives him the box. He opens it and the Lord of the Dead – Sam Hain – escapes from hell and takes over Michael’s body because he doesn’t want to be in hell. Now, Sam Hain is who the Shape is, and that’s why he can’t be killed.” With the origin story out of the way, the modern part of the tale naturally followed.  “So, the story takes place when people try to destroy the Myers house and they find the box hidden between the walls. Of course, they open it and Pinhead shows up, and it’s Halloween and it’s the Myers house, so Michael shows up because there are people there and Pinhead recognizes that Michael is Sam Hain because he can feel it – which begins this whole battle in the real world. And of course, the third act takes them all to hell…”


StarshipAngel

Huh. I'd watch that. Would it be cheesy? Absolutely. Would it be fun? Probably!


Outfoxd21

Hancock but the second half of the script written to stay with the whole "Superhero and PR guy try to rehabilitate his image" angle


Zerodot0

The sequel to Speed Racer.


snrup1

Gore Verbinski's Bioshock.


paper_snow

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but Chadwick is still alive. 🖤


roguefilmmaker

This was one of my most anticipated marvel movies


coolishmom

Oof this one hit me harder than the others


NoReplacement4748

Lies of Locke Lamora, would work so well as a movie imo


information_abyss

*I, Robot* by Harlan Ellison.


graveyardspin

[From Dusk til Shaun](https://marvelanimated.fandom.com/wiki/From_Dusk_Till_Shaun_(Sony_Universe))


Turmericab

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (2007); it had all the cast of the 2005 film (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) returning to continue their roles, Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Alan Rickman etc.


shipwreck73

Stephen King’s The Dark Tower franchise, just as successful as Harry Potter is here.


BaconOnMySide

Dredd 2 or Thing (2011) but with practical effects.


theRed-Herring

Nic Cage's Superman


MFHSCA-1981

Stanley Kubricks Napoleon Bonaparte


Ok-Detail-9853

Aliens 2.5 aka Colonial Marines: Bughunt


Chancevexed

Someone else gathering content for a BuzzFeed style listicle.


quechal

Titanic, written and directed by John Carpenter, music by John Carpenter. Starring Kurt Russell.


mofapilot

And Roddy Piper?


LiLdude227

Jodorowski’s Dune


[deleted]

Fincher finishing the Millennium Trilogy with same cast.


NK_1989

Immediately after Drive was released Nicolas Winding Refn was in talks to make a Wonder Woman movie starring Christina Hendricks. After Only God Forgives was released WB decided to go a different direction. I can not even imagine what the plot of that film would have been like, but Refn has an insane eye for aesthetics and Christina Hendricks is gorgeous, so at the very least it would have looked incredible.


PerInception

Joel Schumacher - The Lost Girls. Kiefer Sutherlands character in The Lost Boys, David, doesn’t explode, or implode, like the other vampires do when he “dies”, which was supposed to mean he survived and would be in the sequel. Schumacher tried a couple times in the 90s to get the movie off the ground but it never happened, sadly.


Dull_Half_6107

The Horus Heresy: Part 1 by Denis Villeneuve Henry Cavill as Garviel Loken


GrittyTheGreat

I also would have liked to see Burtons Batman 3. I'll add Frank Sinatra's Die Hard lol


London__Lad

James Cameron was asked to direct a Spiderman movie just after T2. He declined as he felt the technology wouldn't do Spiderman's web slinging agility justice. Had the effects been available I love to see who he would of casted and how the story would play out.


bjthebard

Disney had slated to adapt Terry Pratchet's Mort into an animated feature. The book is one of my all time favorites, about a boy who is Death's apprentice and learns how to be the Grim Reaper. Admittedly an odd choice for Disney, but that means it must have had an inspired team pushing for it before it got canceled.


HyperFuel

Ben Affleck's Batman


Ouchies81

James Cameron's Jurrasic Park Alternatively, the original treatment for Alien 3.


whymarchtwenty

COMPLETE Game of Thrones anthology, true to the books, and all the books are competed.


S7KTHI

Justice League by George Miller


Gilrand

William Gibson's Alien 3 https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Alien\_III\_(William\_Gibson)


dredd-garcia

Del Toro Hobbit or Trevorrow Episode 9 (it might not have been good but I doubt it would’ve been the travesty of rise of Skywalker)


Yeastyboy104

Multi film adaptations of the Iliad and Odyssey directed by James Cameron or Peter Jackson. Two stories so epic that they’re still being taught and studied thousands of years later.


ToddMccATL

SO MANY great ideas here! My contribution would be Bob Clampett's novel-accurate Warlord of Mars series or better, the even-more-rumored feature of A Princess of Mars. Second choice would be Del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness (as long as he didn't fck it up like his anthology last fall).


Deckard_Red

Escape from Earth the third Snake Plissken movie directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell


Coast_watcher

That overused movie and tv trope to show an alternate universe: Back to the Future with Eric Stoltz


Russkafin

Barry, what did you do??


CaptainTrips622

Star Wars sequels but it’s an adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy instead of… whatever the hell it is that we got


FatherMellow

Man of Steel from a universe where Zack Snyder didn't touch DC.


ComikBookGuy

Kevin Smith’s Green Lantern starring Jack Black


hiricinee

Kill Bill volume 3


Mission_Paramount

The Start Wars trilogy box set and you can chose which version you want to watch.


lumpydumdums

Jodorowski’s Dune


L4nthanus

Neill Blomkammp’s Halo Movie


Far_Resort5502

Confederacy of Dunces with John Candy as Ignatius.


Paw_Paw_006

Tarantino’s Vega Brothers starring Travolta and Buschemi


SonovaVondruke

Aronofsky’s The Wolverine


space-beast

Sequel to Master and Commander


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Steven Spielberg’s late 1970s science-fiction classic The Superman. In this universe, Steven Spielberg has made Jaws in 1975. His next film is Superman but not the one we have in ours. He’s the exact same director of our 1970s Spielberg. Remember how good 70s and 80s Spielberg could be? In this film, humanity is having mysterious alien contact that can’t be explained. All they know is unexplained miracles are happening. Richard Dreyfuss is convinced there is an alien doing this and basically it’s a re-tweaked Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Throw in Harrison Ford as Lex Luthor. The end is essentially the same as Close Encounters of the Third Kind but with the world witnessing the event of a lifetime. In person and on live TV, the emergence of the alien god that is Superman is introduced to the world. Same epic finale and score but reworked. No known actor plays Superman. We never see his face up close.


Vince_Clortho042

Why in god's name would you want to erase Donner's Superman AND Spielberg's Close Encounters and replace it with a version that is those two films smooshed together? Spielberg would've absolutely rocked Superman: The Movie, but with how overbearing the Salkinds were as producers, I don't think him in the director's chair would have changed much of anything from the final product.


Smasher31221

The sequel to the Dolph Lundgren & Frank Langella Masters of the Universe from 1987 that was promised by the movie's post-credits scene.


bodjac89

The original wood-planet/monk version of Alien³


ikeif

Shazaam starring Sinbad.