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
I would make a series strongly based on the Kaiserreich mod of HoI4. Basically, the lore of the mod is that Germany has won WWI and France and GB become anarcho-syndicalist. And the Russian revolution eventually fails because Lenin is assassinated. In the US, the New Deal never comes which causes John Reed to become president. Due to big capital forces, there is a lot of turmoil under his presidency and a coup is attempted. This causes that the US is split into four different governments. Basically the status quo and big capital supports the military junta run by Douglas MacArthur, the south splits and is run by a government with its leader being the populist Kingfish Huey Long. The east coast does its own thing and New England becomes a puppet state of Canada and the fled British monarchy. And of course the rust belt becomes the red belt and are called the Combined Syndicates of America (CSA) and is led by Jack Reed and other communist and socialist leaders like W. E. B. Du Bois, Big Bill, WIlliam Z Foster and maybe still alive and well Eugene Debs. Hell, you could even write in international leaders like Rosa Luxemburg, Stalin, Trotsky and Gramsci, and interesting scientists like Einstein. I feel like you could make it a great show and this alternative history would give a greater understanding of radical forces that existed in the US. The CSA would basically be the protagonist in the series. The show could give so many interesting dynamics between individuals and the different US government. Like one government could turn fascist or a weird and very unstable alliance with Huey Long for example could potentially be possible. Honestly, I highly recommend reading the Kaissereich lore, it is very interesting.
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I agree. I feel it can be really intelligent but accessible. Fun fact in the mod, Herman Goering is basically leader over the new African colonies Germany acquired and he wants to be the new Leopold. But nazism never happens. Also, Oswald Mosley plays a role in the British syndicalists and you are able to make him a leader and bastardize the society into a sort of fascist Orwellian state. I feel like in the series the American fascists would basically be like the KKK with a lot of similarities with the Nazis. Which would seem logical to me because Hitler was very inspired by the US' dark underbelly.
Oh, and you could have Smedley Butler (known for War is Racket and the Business Plot) being a CSA sympathizer and trying to defect members of the military from MacArthur to the CSA. Could give an interesting arch between the two.
I'd watch that.
That there is a pretige tv series not a movie, but I'd totally watch it
Haha yes. I would love to watch it. I feel like the possibilities are endlessly interesting. If Means TV would ever have a prestige tv series I would suggest them this.