$2,000,000,000 Budget Blockbuster

[JackLawrence]

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[snicket]

thats a whole lot of money.....hahaa

But yea that would be pretty epic.

[BRanger62]

It hasn't been done before so good luck,

The first step is getting the money....

Hahaha!!

[sirslapshot19]

Um, no?

[jawahunter]

Well, considering the most money ever made at the box office world wide for a single movie is less than 2 billion dollars, this idea is what many would call an "unwise" investment. Movies are still a business, and if Speed Racer taught us anything it's that budget does not equal audience.

[WesScog]

As the international market for films increases, and the global economy continues to grow, I think more and more people will have access to films.

There is still so much of Africa to open up to Cinemas, so much of the Middle East, there are literally billions of people that can afford to see a film, but simply don't have any cinemas in their nation.

Once all 8 billion people on Earth can potentially see a film, you're going to see potential profits of 4-10+ billion for a single film.

I mean the cost of War and Peace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_%281968_film%29) was somewhere between 500 and 700 MILLION dollars. More than half a billion dollars, more than twice the cost of the most expensive film in the modern era, Pirates of the Caribbean 3.

So I think we could possible see a billion dollar film within the next 20 years. But it would most likely be a sequel to a film series that's already proven itself, like another Pirates, or Matrix, or Spiderman, or Star Wars, or Harry Potter, maybe not one of those films, but definitely a film of that magnitude.

[JackLawrence]

I wouldn't be doing it for a profit, thats why I'd have to mainly fund it myself. It would be simply to show what can be done, and to make something to be remembered for. I doubt I'll get the money, but a man can dream. A man can dream...

[WesScog]

If you were a billionaire, you could produce 3, 300 million pictures, and still have 100 million left over even if none of them make a profit.

I would go with that route instead.

[Brainstrained]

It would be simply to show what can be done, and to make something to be remembered for.

Anybody could make a movie with all that stuff for a billion bucks. People would only remember you for being that guy that blew his money on a huge flop. If you were to make that same movie for a hundred bucks, you would be remembered as a genius and the chances of making your money back are obviously better.


If I had a billion bucks I would implant cameras into monkeys and give them guns and also infect them with the rage virus from 28 days later but they would be good monkeys and only kill bad guys and I would edit it together into a movie like cops except instead of cops I would call it Monkey Swat Team.

Also I would pay the monkeys to carry me everywhere so I would no longer have to do any physical labour and if I wanted I would get my monkeys to kamikaze at my enemies.

But that's just me.

[MitchellStafiej]

Put the money to better use and help someone.

[Ladri.]

Put the money to better use and help someone.

Movies help EVERYONE! :D

[Citrus]

you could spend all that money on a quality film and lie about the budget. Like if you actually spend all that money on one movie then tell everyone you made it on a $10,000 budget lol.

[punkandska66]

Anybody could make a movie with all that stuff for a billion bucks. People would only remember you for being that guy that blew his money on a huge flop. If you were to make that same movie for a hundred bucks, you would be remembered as a genius and the chances of making your money back are obviously better.


If I had a billion bucks I would implant cameras into monkeys and give them guns and also infect them with the rage virus from 28 days later but they would be good monkeys and only kill bad guys and I would edit it together into a movie like cops except instead of cops I would call it Monkey Swat Team.

Also I would pay the monkeys to carry me everywhere so I would no longer have to do any physical labour and if I wanted I would get my monkeys to kamikaze at my enemies.

But that's just me.


lol.

[Citrus]

Movies help EVERYONE! :D
what if you blind and deaf? or dead?

[Ladri.]

what if you blind and deaf? or dead?

Well... eh... um... I'll get back to you on that one...

Wait, how does being dead work? Do you mean deaf?

[Citrus]

Well... eh... um... I'll get back to you on that one...

Wait, how does being dead work? Do you mean deaf?
NO FOO! DEAD! I already said deaf!

[Ladri.]

NO FOO! DEAD! I already said deaf!

lol They are like jesus and can bring people back from the dead. Just have a dead person watch The Godfather and its awesomeness will raise them from the dead.

[Citrus]

lol They are like jesus and can bring people back from the dead. Just have a dead person watch The Godfather and its awesomeness will raise them from the dead.
...ok...but what about the deaf and blind?

[Ladri.]

...ok...but what about the deaf and blind?

I'm still working on that one.

[BoonMcNougat]

Now I got a story about Thurman Murman riding a raptor into war, with a floating talking acorn guiding him through the laser fire and pirates.

I want a billion dollar budget.

[WesScog]

...ok...but what about the deaf and blind?

Deaf people can still watch movies with Subtitles.

Blind people can still listen to them.

[JackLawrence]

OVERNIGHT I CAME UP WITH THE PLOT EVER TO BE MADE, EVER

Just thinking about the 'no-limits' way of filmmaking, I have actually come up with THE best plot ever devised by man. This is no exageration. I'm stuck now because without 2 billion dollars the only pheasible way to do it is an animation or entirely on green screens. Would anybody sit through 3 and a half hours of animation? I should probably do it someday. It can be my ultimate project. If I have alot of time on my hands I will write the 200 page script.

The plot ends with the main character FIGHTING SATAN ON BOARD A SPACESHIP, and I forgot to mention the SPACESHIP IS CAUGHT IN AN ASTROID FIELD OF DEAD DINOSAURS.

Seriously, at some point I will write out this plot. It rocks.

[Fisherking]

I can't even imagine how elaborate a film would have to be to crack a billion dollars. You'd have to be a really profligate spender to burn that much money.

[JackLawrence]

2,000,000,000 dollars can be spent easily.

Here's a very rough round up of all the things I had in mind. The more money the more of it I could have and the better the effects could be.

Actors:
Ewen McGregor
Vin Diesel
Keira Knightley
Ed Harris
Eva Green
Ben Kingsley
Harrison Ford
200,000 Extras

Sets:
A giant circular enclosed city
A run down town inhabited by historical figures
A sinking aircraft carrier
A derelict shopping mall
The ruins of London
The Channel Tunnel
A massive interior of a space ship
The rooftops of Chicago (covered in dinosaurs)
An ancient pyramid

Locations:
England
France
Spain
Sahara Desert
Various Open Expanses
Rocky Mountains
Africa
East Russia
China
America

Special Effects:
A hovercraft v. helicopter chase
Sea monsters attacking a sinking aircraft carrier
Various dinosaurs
Various massive fights
An army of robots from another planet
An army of traineds dinosaurs
Explosions. REAL BIG ASS EXPLOSIONS
Satan in space ship fighting
A dam breaking and a tidal wave rushing through an army of millions of soldiers

Do I really have to go on? The point is if I had that money that is what I'd spend it on. For better or for worse.

[Fisherking]

You're not nineteen, are you?

[JackLawrence]

Why 19?

I'm 16. And very intelligent. I know such a film would be impossible to produce, I'm just saying if it was done it would be very good.

[Fisherking]

You claim you're nineteen in your profile. As to your intelligence -- well, I'll let your posting history speak for itself.

[greyroompictures]

Never mind a 2,000,000,000 dollar budget...

I'd settle for a 200 dollar budget!

...but I guess I am king of the 'subzero budget' movie industry (I made a crown from a cereal box and everything!!!)


Actors:
Myself
My kid
My missus
200,000 passers by

Sets:
A giant circle drawn with chalk
A run down town (locally available)
A sinking aircraft carrier toy
A derelict dustbin
The ruins of the seaside
An old toothpaste tube
The massive interior of a shed
Etc

Locations:
My bedroom
My kitchen
My front room
Wherever I go on holiday this year

Special Effects:
String

[JackLawrence]

You claim you're nineteen in your profile. As to your intelligence -- well, I'll let your posting history speak for itself.

Well I don't see why you have to look at my profile to insult me, but if you need to know its the wrong age and location because using a site like this is not very 'cool' where I live and if it was
found out by people at school it would be bad for my image.

Secondly, I really don't think its up to some random person who doesn't know me at all to judge how clever I am. Grades aren't something I like to boast about but to prove you wrong I have 9 A-Grade GCSEs and 1 B-Grade GCSE (which was French). I don't know what the equivalent in America is but over here that is VERY good. I am also currently starting 5-A-Levels (the normal is 3), one of which is for Film Studies.

I think it is ridiculous to insult somebody you don't even know because they don't agree with your opinion, and very very low. I'm sorry I didn't post an 'intelligent' movie post in the Chit-Chat section, next time I will make sure my idea is up to your strict standards.

[HunnyBunchFilms]

Hell, I wrote a novel that I would apapt. I'm talking VINDIESEL RIDING A T-REX into a battle against an army of robots, A TANK CHASING A TRAIN THROUGH A DINOSAUR STAMPEDE, a half sunk aircraft carrier FILLED WITH SEA MONSTERS, and EWEN MCGREGOR IN A HOVERCRAFT BEING PURSUED BY ED HARRIS IN A HELICOPTER. Also, there's the small matter of AN ARMY OF ROBOTS, DINOSAURS, PEOPLE AND VIKINGS running into a battle against TWO MILLION SOLDIERS on a salt flat WHILST A TORNADO RIPS A SWATH OF DESTRUCTION DOWN THE MIDDLE.

Would this work? Why hasn't it been done before?


Eww, there are so much more possibilities you can do with that much money. Wasting it on some big budget amalgamation of ideas is a bad investment.

[_ray_biddle_]

Why hasn't this been done?

I saw something on the news about a billionaire, and if I was rich I would just sink all that money into one 4-hour bad-ass action epic spectacular. If I ever get $1,000,000,000, then I swear here and now I will find somebody to match it and make the most spectacular movie ever made.

Hell, I wrote a novel that I would apapt. I'm talking VINDIESEL RIDING A T-REX into a battle against an army of robots, A TANK CHASING A TRAIN THROUGH A DINOSAUR STAMPEDE, a half sunk aircraft carrier FILLED WITH SEA MONSTERS, and EWEN MCGREGOR IN A HOVERCRAFT BEING PURSUED BY ED HARRIS IN A HELICOPTER. Also, there's the small matter of AN ARMY OF ROBOTS, DINOSAURS, PEOPLE AND VIKINGS running into a battle against TWO MILLION SOLDIERS on a salt flat WHILST A TORNADO RIPS A SWATH OF DESTRUCTION DOWN THE MIDDLE.

Would this work? Why hasn't it been done before?

God dammit I WILL make this movie.

Wow! A billion dollars. When you get this money I'd work for you for the price of food, a place to stay and the airfare.

[_ray_biddle_]

Well I don't see why you have to look at my profile to insult me, but if you need to know its the wrong age and location because using a site like this is not very 'cool' where I live and if it was
found out by people at school it would be bad for my image.

Secondly, I really don't think its up to some random person who doesn't know me at all to judge how clever I am. Grades aren't something I like to boast about but to prove you wrong I have 9 A-Grade GCSEs and 1 B-Grade GCSE (which was French). I don't know what the equivalent in America is but over here that is VERY good. I am also currently starting 5-A-Levels (the normal is 3), one of which is for Film Studies.

I think it is ridiculous to insult somebody you don't even know because they don't agree with your opinion, and very very low. I'm sorry I didn't post an 'intelligent' movie post in the Chit-Chat section, next time I will make sure my idea is up to your strict standards.

There's a group of here that can help you get rid of those who will cause you trouble you know.


Remember I'm willing to eat them.

[KASR]

OVERNIGHT I CAME UP WITH THE PLOT EVER TO BE MADE, EVER

Just thinking about the 'no-limits' way of filmmaking, I have actually come up with THE best plot ever devised by man. This is no exageration. I'm stuck now because without 2 billion dollars the only pheasible way to do it is an animation or entirely on green screens. Would anybody sit through 3 and a half hours of animation? I should probably do it someday. It can be my ultimate project. If I have alot of time on my hands I will write the 200 page script.

The plot ends with the main character FIGHTING SATAN ON BOARD A SPACESHIP, and I forgot to mention the SPACESHIP IS CAUGHT IN AN ASTROID FIELD OF DEAD DINOSAURS.

Seriously, at some point I will write out this plot. It rocks.

So you managed to rip off Doom, Jurassic Park, Alien, and the astoroid scene from Empire Strikes Back? I guess I'm not seeing how this is the best plot ever.

[Betrayedunicorn]

Epic idea...I love it.

[New Spark Films]

OVERNIGHT I CAME UP WITH THE PLOT EVER TO BE MADE, EVER

Just thinking about the 'no-limits' way of filmmaking, I have actually come up with THE best plot ever devised by man. This is no exageration. I'm stuck now because without 2 billion dollars the only pheasible way to do it is an animation or entirely on green screens. Would anybody sit through 3 and a half hours of animation? I should probably do it someday. It can be my ultimate project. If I have alot of time on my hands I will write the 200 page script.

The plot ends with the main character FIGHTING SATAN ON BOARD A SPACESHIP, and I forgot to mention the SPACESHIP IS CAUGHT IN AN ASTROID FIELD OF DEAD DINOSAURS.

Seriously, at some point I will write out this plot. It rocks.

Bah. I could make that movie for like $100. Just watch, I'll do it.

[JackLawrence]

I forgot to mention I would be an eccentric billionaire.

Other crazy schemes involve buying Manchester United and replacing all the players with realy old men for comedy value.

[KASR]

I forgot to mention I would be an eccentric billionaire.




So we can rule this movie out entirely, then?

[Citrus]

Deaf people can still watch movies with Subtitles.

Blind people can still listen to them.
I mean like Helen Keller. Can't see AND can't hear.

[New Spark Films]

I mean like Helen Keller. Can't see AND can't hear.

Just had a GENIUS idea: brail movies.

How that would work, I have no clue, but it's genius, no?

[WesScog]

I mean like Helen Keller. Can't see AND can't hear.

The core story and meaning of a film can still be communicated to them.

[Citrus]

Just had a GENIUS idea: brail movies.

How that would work, I have no clue, but it's genius, no?
maybe if you make embossed images for each frame or make it like a comic. Then have all the dialouge and any other text as brail. It would take forever to get through a movie though. lol

or if they just lost their sight and hearing after being experience to a lot of things then they could just read a script in brail!

[bridboyross]

Did you know there is a breil playboy magazine; twisted or genius, or both, you decide?

[Fisherking]

Secondly, I really don't think its up to some random person who doesn't know me at all to judge how clever I am. Grades aren't something I like to boast about but to prove you wrong I have 9 A-Grade GCSEs and 1 B-Grade GCSE (which was French). I don't know what the equivalent in America is but over here that is VERY good. I am also currently starting 5-A-Levels (the normal is 3), one of which is for Film Studies.

I have a pHD in black-magic mathematics from the University of Smartarse, my girlfriend is a glamour model and my left nipple produces beer (the right iced-tea). I can hold my breath for ten minutes and I can eat glass and pass it painlessly.

Needless to say, extending 'academic' credentials fails to impress me. This is the internet, my friend, and our only metric for your intelligence is your posts -- thus far, all we have is a horrid idea about Vin [not going to look him up on google to spell his surname correctly] fighting on dinosaur back, which fails both as humour and as a serious suggestion.

The post was less an aspersion and more a barbed reminder that assenting to your brilliance/attractive girlfriend/fighting prowess/etc. on the internet is a profound waste of time. Even assuming you are brilliant, have a gorgeous girlfriend and could wrestle a polar bear into submission using just your thumbs, who cares? We're from the internet -- we only know you by an unattractive rectangle of gray text and any films you care to show us, which may or may not be comportable with your status as an intellectual superman.

[bridboyross]

I have a pHD in black-magic mathematics from the University of Smartarse, my girlfriend is a glamour model and my left nipple produces beer (the right iced-tea). I can hold my breath for ten minutes and I can eat glass and pass it painlessly.

Needless to say, extending 'academic' credentials fails to impress me. This is the internet, my friend, and our only metric for your intelligence is your posts -- thus far, all we have is a horrid idea about Vin [not going to look him up on google to spell his surname correctly] fighting on dinosaur back, which fails both as humour and as a serious suggestion.

The post was less an aspersion and more a barbed reminder that assenting to your brilliance/attractive girlfriend/fighting prowess/etc. on the internet is a profound waste of time. Even assuming you are brilliant, have a gorgeous girlfriend and could wrestle a polar bear into submission using just your thumbs, who cares? We're from the internet -- we only know you by an unattractive rectangle of gray text and any films you care to show us, which may or may not be comportable with your status as an intellectual superman.
well, burn.

[Citrus]

Did you know there is a breil playboy magazine; twisted or genius, or both, you decide?
BOTH!

[luv4paintball]

I have a pHD in black-magic mathematics from the University of Smartarse, my girlfriend is a glamour model and my left nipple produces beer (the right iced-tea). I can hold my breath for ten minutes and I can eat glass and pass it painlessly.
wow, me too, only my right nipple produces orange soda.

and yes the internet isn't a place where one can say they are something and always mean it, why even as i type i've already lied (i know, no way right?) needless to say (because you already said it)we only know how smart others posts are.

[rrh]

Always check The Numbers:

The highest grossing films (http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/international/records.php) Top of that list is Titanic, which grossed 1.8 billion. If you make a 2 billion dollar movie, you make beating Titanic a necessity to turn a profit.

Then compare to other budgets. (http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/records/budgets.php) The most profitable based on return on investment? The Blair Witch project.

[bridboyross]

Always check The Numbers:

The highest grossing films (http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/international/records.php) Top of that list is Titanic, which grossed 1.8 billion. If you make a 2 billion dollar movie, you make beating Titanic a necessity to turn a profit.

Then compare to other budgets. (http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/records/budgets.php) The most profitable based on return on investment? The Blair Witch project.
or deep throat :D fun and educational

[JackLawrence]

I have a pHD in black-magic mathematics from the University of Smartarse, my girlfriend is a glamour model and my left nipple produces beer (the right iced-tea). I can hold my breath for ten minutes and I can eat glass and pass it painlessly.

Needless to say, extending 'academic' credentials fails to impress me. This is the internet, my friend, and our only metric for your intelligence is your posts -- thus far, all we have is a horrid idea about Vin [not going to look him up on google to spell his surname correctly] fighting on dinosaur back, which fails both as humour and as a serious suggestion.

The post was less an aspersion and more a barbed reminder that assenting to your brilliance/attractive girlfriend/fighting prowess/etc. on the internet is a profound waste of time. Even assuming you are brilliant, have a gorgeous girlfriend and could wrestle a polar bear into submission using just your thumbs, who cares? We're from the internet -- we only know you by an unattractive rectangle of gray text and any films you care to show us, which may or may not be comportable with your status as an intellectual superman.

Ooh, nice post, that must of cost you some time to come up with.

I really don't see what your arguement is. This is the Chit-Chat section, and all posts don't have to be intelligent. Why would you judge me and insult me based on a fantasy idea based on a hypothetical situation?

As for basing my personality and my intelligence on a series of quickly written internet posts, that is the most ignorant and stupid thing you could do here. I'm sorry I don't put lots of time and effort into individual posts, but this is only a forum and I have plenty of better things to do.

You seem to be an asshole to alot of people here Fisherking, I don't know anything about you so I'm just going to put it down with disatisfaction with your own life, but it could be anything. Unlike you I will not judge you by your rambling internet postings, but at least any rambled posts I write don't insult people I've never met.

Good day to your sir.

[Fisherking]

Groan...

Read the post again. You've obviously misunderstood it.

The reason your age was so pertinent was to approximately gauge your maturity level and consider my response. I was just like you at sixteen. Fortunately, I matured. Goodbye hautiness and sciolism; hello bitterness and acerbity.

[knightly]

Hell, I wrote a novel that I would apapt. I'm talking VINDIESEL RIDING A T-REX into a battle against an army of robots, A TANK CHASING A TRAIN THROUGH A DINOSAUR STAMPEDE, a half sunk aircraft carrier FILLED WITH SEA MONSTERS, and EWEN MCGREGOR IN A HOVERCRAFT BEING PURSUED BY ED HARRIS IN A HELICOPTER. Also, there's the small matter of AN ARMY OF ROBOTS, DINOSAURS, PEOPLE AND VIKINGS running into a battle against TWO MILLION SOLDIERS on a salt flat WHILST A TORNADO RIPS A SWATH OF DESTRUCTION DOWN THE MIDDLE.

And not a single Digital Effect, not even wire removal!

[mopman]

you know a metal gear solid movie would be sweet for this size a budget, hell they could build a functioning metal gear rex!!! and get three of the worlds greatest actors to play snake and digitally put their best features onto him!!!!!!!!!!

[Ladri.]

you know a metal gear solid movie would be sweet for this size a budget, hell they could build a functioning metal gear rex!!! and get three of the worlds greatest actors to play snake and digitally put their best features onto him!!!!!!!!!!


Pssh, with a billion dollars to spend, some scientist could create a real live Snake from an embryo! Oh my god, that is the greatest idea I have ever had. A real life Solid Snake (maybe Big Boss, I liked him a lot too) to play with.

[mopman]

too bad for ethics and what not, I personally think cloning would be cool. And a real life Solid snake (copying the genetics that make david hayters vocal cords so awesome of course) would be CRAZY!!!!!!!

[Ladri.]

too bad for ethics and what not, I personally think cloning would be cool. And a real life Solid snake (copying the genetics that make david hayters vocal cords so awesome of course) would be CRAZY!!!!!!!

Yeah, just clone David Hayter, then modify his appearance! Bam! It can be done!

[mopman]

you know if one piece of art deserves a 2,000,000,000 dollar movie adaptation it is most surely Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I finished reading it a few months back and besides the fact it is THE LONGEST ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOVEL IN THE HISTORY OF MAN! (the bible isn't a novel) it is so deep, full of dynamic characters and thought provoking themes it also hits on the simplest of themes. It would be no doubt the longest single movie ever (no scenes would be cut) and if made correctly could be the greatest film ever made. Man this needs to be made

[rrh]

Wow, would it be as good as The Fountainhead?

[blender81]

Look if I had $2bil I would personnal see to it that everyone who watched Star Wars Ep. I, The Phantom Menace would get their money back. Ohhh take that Jake Lloyd!