The title. If you had full Hollywood sex pest money and power what movies would you have made?
I've had a concept for a movie just called Action. It would open on a street corner, a car would come Tokyo drifting around the corner with another car chasing it. The entire movie is only chases, fights, explosions and stunts. There are two bad guys and two good guys and they refer to each other literally as the bad guys and the good guys. The bad guys got away with the briefcase that contains the codes, it is never specified what the codes are for. All dialogue is immediate exposition "they're getting away!" or snappy one liners. It would be all practical effects and cost more to make than most wars
A scathing satire of superhero movies that ends up killing the genre.
Don Quixote was such a biting satire of chivalric romances that no more of them were published in Spain for centuries. Blazing Saddles was such a biting satire of whitewashed "wholesome" TV Westerns that they too lost all their popularity. Someone needs to do this to the capeshit genre.
How to do that is the hard part. I can't think of any angle to take that hasn't been tried and failed before. Fuck Watchmen (the comic) should have been that for the superhero genre before movies were really even a part of it and look what that did to the comic industry.
I think something similar to Don Quixote could work.
A lazy landlord lives alone with his 200+ Funko Pops. He spends all day watching Marvel movies and harassing his tenants. One day, he slips on ice and hits his head really hard. When he wakes up, he is convinced that everything in the movies is real and decides to become a real-life superhero. Hilarity ensues.
There have been a couple of movies to that effect I believe. Kick Ass and Super?
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Oh shit, that's actually a really good idea.
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That's a funny idea, partly because the dialogue in Marvel movies is supposed to be funny in that the characters are treating big, epic events as though they're mundane. So we'd come full-circle to people doing mundane things talking about them as though they're mundane.
"Hey need help carrying that box?" Camera pans and zooms in to character's face. There is a single beat of silence. Music starts silent, but begins to swell "I can do this all day." "Oh, okay then."
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Genius.
Big Soviet Realist vibes
The Austin Powers franchise is apparently one big reason the Daniel Craig Bond movies are (comparatively) grounded.
The first Austin Powers is easily the best Bond movie.
The first Austin Powers is to Bond movies what Walk Hard is to music biopics.
Imagine if Watchmen were adapted by a director who actually understood the material. I just can't think of a worse person to pick up that movie than fucking Zack Snyder, but here we are. It's actually impressive how, despite the movie being adapted "correctly" page-by-page (aside from the ending), it fucked up the execution that badly.
At least The Boys has become somewhat mainstream. Maybe we will eventually get that one silver bullet movie one day.