You are given a budget of $500 Million. What movie are you making?

A sequel for Master and Commander with the exact same cast and crew.

Dredd - parts 2 & 3 give me a mixture of America, The dark Judges and The Apocalypse War in both parts. Get Urban back, Garland to write and direct, Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury to do the score for this one

I'll fund Mad Max The Wasteland. I won't make any other creative decisions.

I throw it all at Del Toro and ask him kindly to make At the Mountains of Madness

Batman Beyond

Muppets Around The World In Eighty Days Directed by Brian Henson Starring Andrew Garfield as Phileas Fogg, Kermit the Frog (not Fogg) as Passepartout, Miss Piggy as Inspector Fix, Gonzo the Great as Jules and Rizzo the Rat as Verne. Guest appearances by Steve Martin, Ed Sheeran, Amy Poehler, Seth Rogan, Margot Robbie, Weird Al Yankovic, Dolly Parton, Mckenna Grace, Patrick Warburton, David Tennant and more!

I start my own low budget horror studio. First 10 million is on finding the best producers and execs. Spend $200 million on 10 x $20 million movies, build a bunch of franchises and directors careers that will return on my investment first. Find the new Jordan Peele etc. Then when we’re at our height, conquering the world, we drop the big one… And spend ALL the remaining money on an endless string of Pope’s Exorcist sequels where Russell Crowe’s accent gets progressively more and more ridiculous, so by Pope’s Exorcist XIII: Amorth in Space, he’s practically just screaming nonsensical gibberish.

Neill Blomkamp Sequel to district-9

A documentary on ways to spend $495m. I'm the writer, director, male lead, shit the female lead too. 

*RoboCop vs Terminator vs Predator vs Alien.* This is as far as I got.

Back Door S**** 9.

A star wars movie that takes place in the old republic, thousands of years before the empire, and with any luck, a sequel too

The Dark Tower

A remake of Gus Van Sant’s Psycho.

Written, Directed, and Starring me. A one minute short called "Look How F****** Rich I Am Now".

Third Hellboy movie with Ron Perlman and District 9 sequel

Master and Commander 2: More Masterer, More Commanderer 

That Tintin sequel with Steven Spielberg / Peter Jackson

I'd like to be able to make creative decisions about the next Bond film. Cast members, vibe, director etc.

**Jurassic Park as a survival horror film.** I get **John Krasinski to direct** with some B-list actors/actresses, giving them a chance to shine. I want the **real stars to be the dinosaurs**. I'd want to bring in **Legacy Effects Studio (formerly Stan Winston Studio**) to build **animatronics** to work alongside light CGI (where needed). I want the dinos to have weight to them. I feel like this combination could create a tension filled Dinosaur horror survival film. Think about the energy of **"A Quiet Place" but with dinosaurs instead of aliens and less "quiet" more primal, guttural roars.** No actor is safe and maybe none of them get out. The dinosaurs ARE the star. If not a direct Jurassic Park reboot following the novel (we're getting the Nedry scene in all it's gory details) but less adventure/sci-fi PG-13 and more R rated horror/survival then it could move to Site B (where JP2 and JP3 take place) and follow the events of what happened there. Maybe a crew of fresh faces arrive for their first day not knowing it's been shutdown. Maybe it's crew that are lagging behind. Could be travelers discovering the island for the first time shortly after the shutdown. That is my dream.

Finish the Halo movie that eventually became District 9

A proper Halo or Mass Effect.

Warhammer

Adaptation: Wheel of of Time series Director: Denis Villeneuve Everything else he decides.

An Alexandre Dumas Muppets adaptation called “The Count of Muppet Cristo”

Rendezvous with Rama. Robert Zemeckis or Paul Verhoeven or both Ed harris as the captain  David Morse William Fichtner In the lights on scene, conquest of paradise by vangelis blares thru the speakers, with the camera zooming in on Harris' face, with the interior of Rama getting revealed as the reflection on his helmet visor. 🤌

Laugh at me if you want, but I'd want to do a real time gone by sequel to The Last Starfighter. Not overly certain of the plot, but I know I'd want Alex Rogan to have had at least two offspring, one for the Star League and one who turned traitor and went to fight for the Ko-Dan empire. Outside of a movie, more towards a series, I'm desperate to see a well made rendition of both Jim Butcher's Dresden Files and Laurrell K Hamilton's Anita Blake series. Afterthought; the original Dragonlance trilogy.

An adaptation of blood meridian by Cormac McCarthy with a typical coen bros cast. That farm kid from the Pitt as the kid? Maybe Brendan Fraser for the judge?

I’m re-doing season 6-8 of GoT.

Sequel to “Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves”… with all the original team. Job done. Edit to add: Or an Akira live action movie. 3-6 movies based on the original manga (use the 6 volume re-release)… shot panel to panel. Unknown Japanese actors. Based in Japan. Villeneuve to direct. Bring that shit to life. Borrow some tech from Rodriguez to really sell it (he did an epic job with Sin City)… and Andy Circus for the mutant/psychic kids. Shoot it all in one session so there’s not cast ageing. Release 1 movie per year. Use the gains from the first movie to fund the CGI for the later ones. Ensure exceptional dubbing is available for western audiences. Job done.

Edge of Tomorrow sequel. Must have Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, somehow.

Homeland, The Legend of Drizzt No Lore dumps. We show, we don't tell. We are going in hot with assassinations and an attempted hostile take over of one dark elf house by another in the underground city of Menzoberranzan. I would hire professionals to do the casting, I might need a bunch of talented but relatively unknown young black actors to play dark elves and the lead must agree to do a trilogy and I wouldn't know where to start. Writing is similar, I'd be leaning hard on the novel but it still needs to be adapted into a movie so I'd just hire whomever is good at that. Director: Peter Jackson (Lord of the rings trilogy) There would probably be an unfortunate amount of green screen required but at least everyone can read the book and understand the creative vision we are going for. Probably have to make a quick budget animated story board type thing so we all understand the angles and stuff before we start. This is the same world, forgotten realms, as Baldur's Gate 3. I think there's an audience for this.

Give me A Rogue Squadron movie damn it! Put Dennis Lawson in a de-aging machine and cast a whole bunch of up and coming talent.

Hyperion

I’m taking the Native American vampire hunters from Sinners and making a movie following them

I would properly make the entire C.S. Lewis series The Chronicles of Narnia

I know it’s not the question, but I’d much rather make ten $50m films instead. I miss that segment of "indie" films that actually have a bit of money. It’s all either massive studio films or low budget films these days.

A proper adaptation to the Artemis Fowl series would be cool

Jodorowski's Dune

Denis Villeneuve does The Magician by Raymond E Feist.

Gotta be sci-fi, kinda torn between ***Gateway*** (1977) and ***Footfall*** (1985) ... but ... I'd really like ***Collier's Man Will Conquer Space Soon!*** (1952) as the basis of the visual design, tech details and narrative about building the rockets, space station and three-ship mission to the Moon. Actually, I'd prefer the project to be a 10-episode streaming series instead of a movie. Also, since I don't need to make a profit - put it on ***TUBI*** with no commercials. Also it goes into public domain as soon as the last episode airs. I'll take a $10 million producer salary and blow the rest on the project. No established celebs. Time to make/break a cast of nobodys.

Halo CE adaptation Alex Garland writer Denis Villeneuve as director Karl Urban lead or an Unknown, or maybe Henry Cavill male lead Jen Taylor as female lead Edris Elba as supporting lead Sgt Johnson Michelle Rodriguez as either a marine or echo 419 supporting

I’m giving it to Guillermo Del Toro to finally make At The Mountains of Madness with Tom Cruise.

A documentary about how my lifestyle, mental health and overall attitude changes over 50 years by having 500 million in my bank account.

Aeschylus's Oresteia as a trilogy of films. Director: Get Peter Weir out of retirement. Agamemnon: Russell Crowe Clytemnestra: Cate Blanchett Cassandra: Rose Byrne

Johnny Quest. The movie is the backdoor pilot for the eventual TV show.

Hear me out. Director: Tom Holland Male Lead: Tom Holland Female Lead: Ton Holland Supporting cast: Tom Holland Premise: Tom Holland watches Tom Holland eat breakfast as Tom Holland watches from the hallway. The studio pays me 450 million to produce. I'm not keeping the money. I'm spending it. On me. I produced a 500 million dollar movie so yeah I'm pretty good.

A five hundred mil budget...and *I'm* in charge? Oh, dear God, we're so screwed....

I make a documentary about life choices on my phone and pocket $500 million

The Raid 3.

It's gonna be a hell of a p****

The expanse movie finale or Red Rising

As much of the Dark Tower as I can afford. Mike Flanagan directing. Timothy Olyphant as Roland. Walton Goggins as The Man in Black. Ewan McGregor as Father Callahan. Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri as Eddie and Odetta/Detta/Susannah. Andy Serkis as Oy. Zero clue who plays Jake. Whatever. Get it done.

Christopher Nolan's The Silmarillion.

I've always wanted an R-Rated Alladin - I think Jafar would be an excellent twisted f of a villain if you let him loose. Count Of Monte Cristo---- like one that really comprehensively covers the whole story. And for those wondering how either of those could use up $500M.... well if an ad Campaign in front of Mt Rushmore can run $200M, I can figure out how to use 500M for one of my ideas.

Give it to Twohy and Diesel to make an epic Riddick underverse/space opera movie

I’ve always wondered why Rick Rescorla never got a movie. There’s a documentary about him but his story is almost beyond belief. [His Wiki, for those who don’t know about him.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla) It sounds like an obvious choice but it could be right in Christopher Nolan’s ballpark. A British paratrooper who decides to join the Americans in Vietnam (I’m glossing over his exploits there), becoming an American citizen. With Nolan’s fascination with playing with chronology you have the day of 9/11 where all of Rescorla’s experience came to a head and he saved thousands of lives, i can imagine the switching between different events. Not sure about casting as it would need different aged actors to play Rescorla in different era’s.

Support Gen Urobuchi in fully completing Thunderbolt Fantasy. The show ended way too abruptly.

I’d have to find someone who knew what the hell they were doing and hire them to make most of the decisions, I’d stay in a creative director role, but it’d be a fantasy series based on the 3 books making the Riftwar Saga by Raymond Feist (Magician, Silverthorn, A Darkness At Sethanon). It’s swords and sorcery type stuff, and we just don’t get much of that.

I would fund a speed racer sequel. With all the technology we have now it would be a banger.

FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood movie that acts as an epilouge of sorts following Ed/Winry's children.

Chronicle 2

F*** it, I’m decanonizing the sequel trilogy and having another go at it with a cohesive vision - maybe let Favreau and Filoni steer it completely 

I’d redo John carpenters “Vampires”. The movie and the book only had half of the first chapter in common. Movie was ok but really did the book dirty. The book was Vampires by John Steakly.

Siege/Conquest of Tenochtitlan/Aztecs

A trilogy based on the Crimson Skies videogames.

Live action team America.  Not sure on the leads but I'd have Jesse plemons play Matt Damon

A Topiary.

I’m making an original, slow-burn sci‑fi horror epic: Denis Villeneuve directing a “Arrival meets Annihilation meets 2001”‑style story about a colossal alien structure found near Neptune that starts warping reality across the solar system, written by Alex Garland, with Oscar Isaac as the obsessed mission commander, Florence Pugh as the scientist decoding the structure’s “language,” plus LaKeith Stanfield, John David Washington, Tessa Thompson, and Jessie Buckley in the crew/Earth roles, shot with massive practical sets, miniatures for space, minimal CGI, and a Hildur Guðnadóttir score doing the ominous cosmic dread.

I will make a movie with Christopher Nolan and Tom Cruise. A combo I feel is a must have but it hasn't happened yet. When a daring director meets a daring performer it would be absolutely insane

I'd do Uncharted right, with Joe Keery as Nathan Drake. Or I'd do National Treasure 3.

I fund a live action adaptation of Kingdom Come, my favorite comic story ever written. It’s an alternate universe story written by Mark Waid, the guy who just rewrote the DC canon. Heavy emphasis on practical effects with some animated sequences made to match the art style of the comic for the intro and outro expositional narration. The story is a drama. I have the Nolan brothers write with Mark Waid to consult. I give Waid veto power on story decisions. Chris Nolan to direct. Male lead: I bring back Henry Cavill. This story requires an aged Superman, which he literally is and I felt like the problems with the Snyderverse Superman were writer problems, not actor problems. Female lead: Elizabeth Debicki as Wonder Woman. Put some muscle on her, dye her hair black, and you will not doubt she’s Diana of Themyscira. Plus she has the Nolan chemistry from being in Tenet. Male Supports: Sam Elliott as Norman McCay, Kevin Michael Richardson as the voice of the Spectre, Charles Dance as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Bill Skarsgard as Magog.. honestly there’s way more but I’m not gonna sit here and cast like 20 more roles lol. Female Supports: Uma Thurman as Jade, Famke Janssen as Donna Troy… Sydney Sweeney as Power Girl 🤷🏻‍♂️

I feel like a $500M budget isn’t enough and a single movie wouldn’t be long enough to cover the story but I would do the first book in “Riyria Revelations” which is theft of swords by Michael J. Sullivan who would have to be involved with the writing and directing, not sure who the best fantasy director would be but there are a few good choices. Hadrian Blackwater would have to be played by either Henry Cavil or similar, not sure about Royce but a younger dark haired actor, drawing a few blanks currently. There’s too many amazing characters to list but it would make for an epic multi movie franchise or tv series with a scope as large as LOTR or GOT, sadly the tv series rarely translate from books very well and often get butchered in the process.

The Master and Margarita’s

A movie along the same lines as M.A.S.H. But set in GWOT camp bastion.

I'll get Ghibli out of retirement and get him to adapt The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub

I'm making a film called Avatar 4, with gold, diamonds, platinum, and iridium in every shot, just to waste money. Release date: December 20, 2029.

And then Deadpool walks in

I'll make a film via my smartphone and keep the rest of the money.

I’m doing a remake of Brewsters Millions where the main character gives the money to the director of a documentary about his life

Finally getting that Buckaroo Banzai sequel!

Tokyo Drift 2

Finish a series of unfortunate events with Jim Carey