That Almost Happened!

[Milkman Dan]

CIA Special Agent DR. LEX LUTHOR.

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[Gunnyboy]

Should have mentioned George A. Romero was going to make Resident Evil, and keep it in the mansion

 

[Agayek]

I'm actually quite disappointed the changes to Spider-man and X-men didn't go through. Those would have made the movies at least a bit better.

The other two though were just terrible. They're completely ridiculous, and I am quite glad I never had to see it.

 

[SageRuffin]

I think the one for X3 could've worked: have Mystique, disguised as a random shlub, play a quick game of chess with Magneto. The game ends, or Mystique is called away, and she leaves. The camera focuses on the disguised Mystique's face, and she twists her eyes back to that creepy yellow similar to how the X-Men realized that she had replaced Senator Kelly. The movie ends.

Sounds like something, yes?

 

[camazotz]

Am I the only one who thinks that every one of these except the last one would have made these movies better?

I think even the last one would have worked, just as a different (new) character....Superman is too iconic; they could have made an entirely new hero by simply changing all the names to protect the guilty...

I also think that Terminator script would have been seriously cool....! Would have been what the series needed, some genuinely strange but "in canon" twists that shook things up, moved it forward instead of still pandering to the previous films.

 

[ReinofFire]

I liked the Spiderman one and the Terminator one.

I probably would have liked Spiderman a lot more if this seen was in it because, unlike some people, I like it when things are explained. Double points for having a funny one like this one.

Terminator would have been the most awesome movie I would have ever seen if it included a plot twist like that. It gets rid of the idea that rebels are always the good guys and has us face the fact that maybe Skynet wasn't so bad at all.(but they still are bad for killing people).

 

[Callate]

The alternate Terminator plotline sounds extremely contrived and silly. While "Rise of the Machines"'s ending may have thrown certain elements from the previous movies out on their ear, the plot they were discussing for T:S would have put so many things "up in the air" that were taken as canon by the previous movies that there would have been no taking the thing seriously in any way any longer.

Still, it might have been more interesting to watch (in the same way that a traffic accident is "interesting to watch") than what we were given, where I spent the last third of the film seriously wondering why Skynet hadn't wiped the floor with these idiots long ago.

 

[Redd the Sock]

Spider-Man's would have worked. X-Men's wasn't overly important. Superman's made me die a little inside.

I guess I'm one of the few that can't get behind the Terminator one. I know just about every filmaker dreams of pulling off another "I am your father" moment, but it still has to be done right, and this kind of reeks of a bad cliche. At the very least, given Hollywood's general writing level in "blockbuster" films, I see this not being a surprise and sudden moral quandrey, but rather a mildly unsettling twist that devolves into a one dimensional scenario preaching the writer's "right answer" the the idea of chaotic freedom vs structured order.

 

[RTR]

Moviebob makes history fun

 

[Rubashov]

...Y'know, every single one of those hypothetical movies (except the Superman one...ugh) would have been better than the movies that ended up being made. Oh well.

 

[internetzealot1]

I kinda wish those Terminator plots hadn't been leaked. Not because I think they'd be good, but because I'd want to see how the world handled such a stupid fucking twist on such a relevent series. I mean, the whole colony-of-humans-protected-by-Skynet might have worked, but some dude cutting off John Connor's skin and pretending to be him? WTF? Not only is it dumb as hell, but it makes all the three previous movements completely irrelevent.

 

[internetzealot1]

That whole part about Skynet secretly keeping the human race alive actually makes sense. He saw the world as it was and said No. So he kills off most of the population in order to guide the carefully selected survivors down a path where there would be no hostility, racial hatreds or wars. Skynet is the hero and humans are just dicks.

No, Skynet is a computer following incomplete logic, and no is ever a dick for trying to not die.

 

[NeoShinGundam]

Wow, I am SO glad that Abrams' Superman movie never got made. If it had, I probably would have torched the theater after watching it.

As for Terminator, I think that the unused script was better. As such, I will cleanse all memories of Salvation from my mind and believe that the other version is how it REALLY happened.

 

[Enkidu88]

I think that a "Skynet is the good guy" twist for terminator would have been awesome, it's just that the ideas they wanted to implement were stupid.

A lot of these sounded like, and probably were, first drafts. In stuff I write the first draft is always a bit crazy, its only later you start to prune out the crazy and make a more coherent story. I'd be interested in how some of these stories would have turned out in a fifth or sixth draft with a whole team of writers. Might still have turned into crap, but I can see potential in some of the ideas.

 

[katsumoto03]

You missed Twilight:

"Even if you haven't seen the Twilight flicks or read the series, you probably still know that the plot revolves around the love story between Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. But before Summit bought the rights to the books, the original script swapped the brooding romance for non-stop action. At the time, studios didn't think Bella's endless lovesickness would interest anyone. Instead, the studio wanted to turn Bella into a vampire in the first movie and kill off her father.

"We went shopping to every studio around, but everyone passed. Finally Summit said 'let's do it.' It was a total blessing.

"Before long, Twilight became an international bestseller and Summit realized they had a blockbuster on their hands. A new script was written to appeal to the rabid fan base.

"I mean, one of their drafts literally had a Korean FBI agent who was hunting and tracking vampires across the coast. There was SWAT in the trees and literally it was like, 'Red leader, read leader one,' and the vampires were picking them out of the woods.

"Just imagine if the original script had gone into production! The world might never have seen Taylor Lautner's abs, and Robert Pattinson would just be that guy who played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter."

I mean, SERIOUSLY.
KOREAN FBI AGENTS TRACKING VAMPIRES?
WTF.

See, I would've probably gone to see that movie.

 

[Ask]

In 2002, long before Lost when Abrams was best known as the creator of Alias and Felicity, he turned in a revamp script titled Superman: Flyby that got Warner Bros. super excited. In this script, Abrams proposed nothing less than a complete reworking of the entire Superman mythology. New origin. New backstory. New powers. New relationships. How new? Well, Krypton doesn't explode, for starters.

Instead, Krypton is engulfed in a Civil War between King Jor-El and his evil brother. The evil brother seizes power, but fails to stop Jor-El from shooting his infant son (you-know-who) to safety in a spaceship. Apparently, it's important for the bad guys to kill Baby Superman because he's (get ready to roll your eyes) "The Chosen One" of an Ancient Kryptonian Prophecy; so they dispatch thousands of their own spaceships to track him down.

In this new continuity, the Kents have been covertly pre-selected by Jor-El to foster parent Superman a la Mary and Joseph, but instead of being innately heroic, the new Clark Kent grows up an introverted emo kid afraid of his own powers - which now mostly include being super-strong. He needs to be wearing the Superman suit, which is now a Venom-like living-costume with a mind of its own, to fly.
Lex Luthor is a CIA agent in charge of UFO hunting, who's walking around pissed at his superiors about a Dark Secret. When the evil Kryptonian army invades Earth to take down The Chosen One, Luthor teams up with them to kill Superman. No, really. Superman dies!

... and goes to Heaven, where he gets a pep talk from his dead father about The Prophecy that helps him come back to life, rise from the grave and lead humanity in a rebellion against the Kryptonian invaders. Oh, and in a final setup-for-the-sequel stinger: After all the Kryptonians are defeated, Lex Luthor shows up to challenge Superman to a fight (it'll make sense in a moment) and reveal that Dark Secret of his ... he's from Krypton, too!

That sounds like a shitty piece of fanfiction.

EDIT: Though I like the "teenager afraid of his/her own powers" thing. Dunno why, but I do.

Twilight IS a shitty piece of fanfiction, even worse then the alternate Superman idea, but they still made that film! There's my WTF moment pertaining to films! (Lol, agents on the beach)

Seriously though, I hated the Superman idea while some of the others live in the 'sounds okay' category.

One movie I really WISH went a different way, was Repomen. (I know, I was stupid for seeing it, but I just needed something to do on a Friday with a bunch of friends and that got voted in.) I mean, I loved the whole claustrophobic hallway fight scene. Its the crappy writing mechanic that came after that, that made me want to email the director and ask for my 7.50 and 2 hours of my life back.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

No, Skynet is a computer following incomplete logic, and no is ever a dick for trying to not die.

As for not dying, my comment was in reference to why Skynet attacked in the first place. What incomplete logic do you mean?

 

[Vampire cat]

I think we should make a movie-script here on the escapist. In a thread...

Am I the only one who thinks that every one of these except the last one would have made these movies better?

Your NEVER the only one my dear, not on the internet =3.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

Am I the only one who thinks that every one of these except the last one would have made these movies better?

I concur!

 

[Vortigar]

Am I the only one who thinks that every one of these except the last one would have made these movies better?

Nope, you're not. (Enjoying the load of PM's? )

Especially the Terminator one. I was dead sure Connor'd get saved by Marcus and hoped for something more interesting. But no, boring obvious, oblivious bull%^#@ appeared on screen. Yay... Movie had a few interesting things going on, but I'll never feel the need to watch it again. (Same goes for Scryed, if anyone here's seen that anime btw)