MOVIES THAT ALMOST HAPPENED

Last night's thread was fun, so let's have another.

Vincent Ngo's "Tonight He Comes" AKA The original "Hancock".

>John Hancock is a depressed, alcoholic superhuman who lives in New York City. Due to his powers, Hancock believes that it's his obligation to protect the innocent, even though he hates having the weight of the world in his shoulders, and attempts to dull the pain by indulging in drugs and prostitutes.

>After foiling a robbery, Hancock befriends bank teller Mary Longfellow, who is estranged from her husband Horus, a cowardly security guard. Hancock and Mary develop a mutual attraction and he becomes a surrogate father to Horus and Mary's son, Aaron. Horus is enraged by unable to stop them.

>Hancock confesses his feelings for Mary, but she ultimately decides not to betray Horus. An embittered Hancock kidnaps Mary and attempts to rape her, but is interrupted by the police and slaughters several of them in a fit of rage. Meanwhile, Horus grows tired of being exploited and fights back when his corrupt colleagues attempt to rob the store they work on, proving himself a man.

>Horus finds out that Mary has been kidnapped and locates her at an abandoned warehouse, where he confronts Hancock. Hancock beats Horus to an inch of his life before one of Hancock's punches causes the building to crumble, crushing Mary under some debris. Hancock rescues her, but she runs away from him and embraces Horus. Realizing Mary will never love him, Hancock flies away.

>Horus adopts a more dominant personality, improving his relationships with Mary and Horus, while Hancock continues protecting the world, further spiraling into loneliness and depression as he is now feared by the population.

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Ridley Scott's "Nottingham" AKA The original "Robin Hood" (2010).

>Richard the Lionheart's right-hand man is deployed to Nottingham after Richard's assassination and appointed Sheriff to stop Robin Hood, an outlaw who has been inciting the locals to rebel against the new taxes implemented by Prince John to cover the costs of the war, and has been named as the responsible for a string of murders on the area. The Sheriff uses rudimentary forensic techniques and deductive reasoning to investigate the robberies, engaging in a battle of wits with the ruthless Hood and his followers, the Merry Men, while also developing a relationship with Maid Marion, a frequent collaborator and occasional lover of Hood's. The Sheriff eventually uncovers evidence that Hood has been framed for the murders and is being used as a scapegoat and finds himself joining forces with his nemesis to expose the truth and save Nottingham.

J.F. Lawton's "$3,000" AKA The original "Pretty Woman".

>Cocaine-addicted street prostitute Vivian Ward is approached by workaholic businessman Edward Lewis and offered $3,000 to be his private escort for one week, on the condition that she stays sober during that period. Edward and Vivian grow closer as they spend time together and develop romantic feelings for each other, but Vivian relapses and overdoses on cocaine. Edward nurses her back to health, and Vivian dreams of a life with him, but the experience sours him on her and in one week's time he dumps her on the very same street he first found her, gives her to $3,000 and leaves forever.

JUST

wew

why did you post that

Thats probably the most stupid shit i read today...and i been here all fucking day.

Steven Spielberg's E.T.: NOCTURNAL FEARS (1982)

>E.T.'s distress signal is intercepted by carnivorous albino aliens who are at war with E.T. and his race. The creatures arrive on Earth and begin terrorizing the neighborhood. Elliot and his friends realize something is wrong and decide to investigate. They end up being captured by the invaders and held captive at their spaceship, where they are tortured for information on E.T.'s whereabouts. E.T. senses that Elliot is in danger due to their psychic link and returns to Earth, where he uses his powers to rescue the children and reprograms the aliens' spaceship to send them to a distant galaxy where there won't be any life for them to torment. E.T. then bids farewell to Elliot once again and returns home. Also, E.T.'s real name is revealed to be "Zrek".

More like Nocturnal Emissions.

Nat Mauldin's ROGER RABBIT & THE TOON PLATOON (1989)

>In 1941, 18-year-old Roger Rabbit leaves his adoptive human parents in the midwestern to travel to Los Angeles in search of his biological mother, alongside his human best friend Richie Davenport. Along the way, Roger falls in love with Jessica Krupnick, a former animated child star struggling to break into the business as an adult. Jessica is later kidnapped by her manager, Mr. Schaffer, an undercover Nazi spy, and taken to Berlin to be used as a propaganda tool. Roger and Richie then enlist in the Army and are assigned to the Toon Platoon, leading a group of misfit cartoons to the frontlines and ultimately rescuing Jessica and stopping Schaffer and his men. Upon returning to the United States, Roger and Richie are celebrated as heroes, and Roger and Jessica are married and enter the showbusiness. Roger then meets his biological mother and finds out that his real father is Bugs Bunny.

THE DEPARTED 2

>Sean Dignam (Mark Wahlberg) has resigned from the Boston Police Department and become a private investigator. He is located by an FBI agent who uses evidence of his role in Colin Sullivan's murder to blackmail Dignam into going undercover in the inner circle of a corrupt politician (Robert De Niro) with ties to organized crime. Dignam soon realizes the corruption has spread to the FBI as well and that he's being set up as a scapegoat and must figure out a way to survive long enough to expose the truth.

That actually sounds good.

EI8TH

>David Mills (Brad Pitt) is driven insane by the death of his wife and escapes from prison, comitting a string of murders. His old partner William Sommerset (Morgan Freeman) is called to stop him. Due to psychic powers that he has suppressed since childhood, Sommerset has developed a telepathic link to Mills and races against time to stop him and prevent him from being consumed by his rage once again.

Shut up!!

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Would've been kino

It's true.

Fincher and Pitt hated the idea but Freeman actually signed up for it and they tried to make it happen without Mills.

It started out as a standalone script called "Solace", that the studio retrofit into a "Se7en" sequel, and later went back to a standalone and was produced in 2015 with Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell.

Deep 2011, aka, Aquaman 2018

>James Wan originally envisioned a deep sea horror film, very psychological based on the fear of absolute darkness and the unknown
>Would have featured minimal CGI and filmed almost entirely underwater with minimal dialogue, instead actors would emote solely through their eyes and facial expressions
>Very unlikely to be finished now given his involvement in Aquaman

All of that sounds good.
>his real father is Bugs Bunny
And went to shit with the ending.

Drive but underwater. Dive.

Spider-Man 4OUR

>After the events of 9/11, New York constructs two new pairs of tower, known as the Fantastic Four. Peter Parker, returning from Europe after completing research, is on a plane. The plane soon becomes hijacked by terrorists. Racial profanities and hijinks occur. How does Raimi get away with it this time?

this sounds way better than the actual film

dammit Sam...

Eric Roth's GUMP & CO. (2001)

>After the Bubba Gump Shrimping Corporation goes bankrupt, Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) attempts to find a new job to support his son, Little Forrest, and transverses notable events of the 1980's and 1990's, including becoming a dance instructor for Princess Diana and being in the white Bronco during O.J. Simpson's televised car chase, in which Forrest would accidentally get rid of the incriminating bloody handglove.

Hanks and Robert Zemeckis were actually interested in the sequel, but the first draft was turned over one day before the September 11th attacks, and the third act revolved around the Oklahoma city bombings, so everyone involved pretty much decided "Yeah... Better not".

OP Sucks Dick

in the near future OP sucks dick

That actually sounds ok.

I still think the first half of Hancock was amazing.
Fucking went downhill instantly once it's found out that whats her name has powers

>but she ultimately decides not to betray Horus

That's just retarded, she already did

Just emotionally. Physically is a step too far.

9INE

>Retired detective William Sommerset has to be called back into duty after a seemingly unkillable foe that goes by the name Puma has left a string of dead bodies mutilated on his door step. Sommerset must fight tooth and nail to defeat a murderer that he's already killed 8 times. The old dog Detective finally is able to put down Puma, only to discover that it's John Doe's siamese twin.

Includes many cat references

>Dark thriller/drama with Pitt in and out of depression/having visions of the John Doe kills
>Freeman trying to stop him but also doesn't want to kill his partner
>Ends with Pitt realizing John Doe's work as the masterpiece it was before killing himself.

Reposting the best ones from yesterday's thread.

Nick Cave's GLADIATOR 2 (2002)

>Maximus awakens in Purgatory after his death in the Coliseum and is approached by the Old Gods to kill Haphaestus, who has turned to Christianity, in exchange for being reunited with his wife and son in Elysium. Maximus locates Haphaestus only to learn that his wife has sacrificed herself so their son Marius could be reborn. Maximus then pledges allegiance to Haphestus in exchange for being revived on Earth.

>Commodus' nephew, Lucius, is now the bloodthirsty captain of the Praetorian Guard and is violently repressing Christians, Marius among them, whom Lucius blames for Rome's decline. Maximus rallies the Christians, including his old friend Juba and Marius' mentor Cassius, in a vicious battle against Lucius and his forces, in which Maximus slays Lucius after he murders Juba, and later departs from Rome for Marius' protection.

>Maximus soon finds out he's become Haphaestus' immortal champion, cursed to fight until the end of the creation. Maximus then serves in numerous conflicts, including World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War, among others, before eventually becoming the U.S. Secretary of Defense during the Iraq War.

John Sayles' JURASSIC PARK 4 (2006)

>The dinosaurs have escaped from the ruins of Jurassic Park and spread through the world. Mercenary Nick Harris (David Boreanaz) is hired by John Hammond, whose company has been taken over by Grendel Industries, run by Baron Von Drax, to infiltrate Isla Nublar and retrieve the DNA samples stolen by Dennis Nedry, which Hammond intends to use to create a new batch of asexual dinosaurs that can slay the existing dinosaurs and rectify his mistakes.

>In the island, Nick is captured by mercenaries hired by Grendel Industries, who capture and transport him to a secret research center in the Swiss Alps, where Nick meets Dr. Adrian Joyce, a brilliant geneticist who has created five hybrids with traces of human DNA, dog DNA and dinosaur DNA. The hybrids have been commissioned by the United States government as black ops operatives, and, due to his extensive military background, Nick has been selected to train and lead them.

>The Hybrids are named Achilles, Hector, Perseus, Orestes and Spartacus, and can speak, wield guns and operate advanced suits of armor. Nick then leads them in battle against a Mexican drug cartel that has taken over an entire small town in Mexico and threatened to kill its inhabitants if a ransom is not paid.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Oliver Stone's RETURN TO THE APES (1993)

>In the near future, humanity is on the verge of extinction due to a deadly virus. Geneticist Will Robinson (Arnold Schwarzengger) discovers that the plague is a genetic time bomb created in the Stone Age. He then travels back in time with pregnant colleague Billie Rae Diamond to a period when Palaeolithic humans were at war for the future of the planet with highly evolved apes led by supreme commander Drak. Robinson and Billie Rae discover a young human girl, Aiv (pronounced Eve), to be the next step in evolution, and that it was the apes that created the virus to destroy the human race. They protect her from the virus, thus ensuring the survival of the human race 102,000 years later. Billie Rae gives birth to a baby boy named Adam, who falls in love with Aiv long after the deaths of Robinson and Billie Rae, and their descendants become the Homo Sapiens Sapiens.

>Geneticist Will Robinson (Arnold Schwarzengger)
dropped it here. why the fuck would you cast Arnie to play a scientist? that's almost as bad as Marky Mark playing a biology teacher in The Happening and an inventor in Transformers.

Ridley Scott's I AM LEGEND (1999)

>Architect Robert Neville (Arnold Schwarzenegger) becomes the last man on Earth after a virus wipes out most of the planet's population and turns the remnants into "Neocytes", monstrous creatures averse to sunlight. Neville then relocates to a fortified house in Los Angeles, and becomes an alcoholic.

>During a scavenging mission to gather supplies, Neville is nearly killed by the Neocytes, but manages to escape. One of the creatures is injured, and Neville takes pity on it and brings it back to his house, where it receivs a blood transfusion. It soon becomes clear that Neville's blood can revert the virus' effects, and the Neocyte reverts to its human self, a young woman, Emma, who bonds with Neville and eventually becomes his lover.

>Neville attempts to produce more blood samples, dreaming of curing the human race, but is ambushed by Neocytes led by Alpha, a vicious tribal leader with fragments of intelligence who doesn't want civilization to be restored. After Alpha burns down the house, destroys the blood samples and kills Emma, an embittered, vengeful Neville arms himself and launches a vicious campaign against Alpha and his pack, killing them all at the cost of his own life. As the Neocytes becomes the dominant species on the planet, Neville becomes a boogeyman figure among them, and the tale of his brutal vengeance spreads through other tribes until Neville becomes legend.

Pic related is concept art for the Neocytes.

>Architect Robert Neville (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHY

These two are too funny to not being made

This sounds way too good to being made

THE CITY THAT SAILED (2007)

>Elliot Cooper (Will Smith) is a Homeland Security agent living in New York City, whose dedication to his profession has ruined his marriage. His ex-wife, Anna Reyes, has since returned to her mother Elena's house in Madrid, taking Elliot's daughter Greta with her. Anna is now engaged to Javier Belasco, an arrogant football player. Longing for her family to be reunited, Greta wishes for it upon Elena's old snowglobe. Greta's wish unexpectedly comes true when the island of Manhattan magically detaches itself and begins sailing across the ocean towards Spain, projected to arrive at the exact moment Anna and Javier are to married. While trying the keep the escalating crisis under control, Elliot must also grapple with his lingering feelings for Anna, who is facing doubts of her own.

Less Than Zero - Faithful to the Book Edition
>Julian is a heroin addict
>Clay enables him and shames him for purely sadistic reasons
>Clay is playing mind games with him and turning him against Blair the whole movie while also making her confused and insecure

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Curious George: A Very Rapey Monkey (2009)

>Curious George becomes a serial rapist

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would have been cool as shit to be quite frank

Guillermo Del Toro's HELLBOY 3 (2010)


>Hellboy and Liz have children.
>One is demon-looking like Hellboy and one is human-looking like Liz
>John Myers shows up and reveals Rasputin has been revived by occultist billionaire Roderick Zinco. Kroenen is also back as a head in a jar attached to a robotic body.
>Rasputin and Zinco are after Hellboy's child to unleash the apocalypse. They sent an archangel that Rasputin captured in WWII to kill Hellboy.
>Everyone assumes the demon-looking son is the one Rasputin is after, but it is actually the human-looking one.
>The kid opens the gates of Hell.
>Hellboy is forced to put him down and sacrifices himself to close the gates.
>Hellboy kills Rasputin beforehand and Zinco is arrested by Myers.
>Door left open for Hellboy's demon-looking son to go on new adventures in the future.
>Abe and Kraus were going to return.
>Lobster Johnson would appear in a WWII flashback about how Rasputin captured the archangel.

Spy Kids 4D (3.985x10^6)
>Put on glasses to see into the 4th dimension
>time has happened, is happening, and will happen. You see it all.
>back in reality they force you to leave after 1 second because you've seen the whole movie already
Marketing genius

SGT. ROCK (1985-2002)

>In 1945, Lieutenant John Teaberry, an unexperienced young soldier, is assigned to the Easy Company under Sgt. Joe Rock's (Arnold Schwarzengger) command and slowly earns their trust despite initial animosity due to Teaberry being the nephew of an affluent senator and having never experienced combat. The Easy Company is eventually assigned to protect a small town from a Nazi fleet, during which all of its members sacrifice themselves, leaving Teaberry as the sole survivor. He then inherits Sgt. Rock's mission to deliver the dogtags of his fallen comrades to their families back in America.

>John Millius, Paul Verhoven, John McTiernan, Richard Donner, Francis Lawrence and Guy Ritchie, among others, were attached to direct the movie at some point.

I'd watch this.

Unfiltered kino, I weep for the lack of it.
I really liked the Golden Army for great imagery, but this draft sounds like Del Taco going full retard away from the source material.
I've been reading the Hellboy comics lately and desu a reboot is not a bad idea if it goes more for the investigating supernatural killings and lets the antichrist old gods stuff take a back seat.

>Loony Tunes violence in WWII
Sounds great but we all know (((they))) wouldn't let those two concepts merge

>Hancuck

that gave me feels just reading it

>Robert Neville played by Arnie
Did these people not read the fucking book? Arnie would be a terrible Neville.

I love these threads, it's there any place I can find more films that almost were (that aren't top ten lists from YouTube or some clickbait site)?

In his Hands (2017)

In his new identity as a Vegas tourist, Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi) is relatively happy. He has the luxury of anonymity as well as the anonymity of those he kills. It's a luxury life for a serial killer. In a town that's accustomed to hearing hooker screams from the rooms next door, he's been quite busy for the past fifteen years. The police are mystified, thinking there's a Garland Greene copycat running loose in the casinos of the city that never sleeps

But the LVPD isn't the only one chasing demons. Garland Greene has a demon of his own. Recently, he wakes up every night in his motel room in a cold sweat to the nightmarish sound of a little girl singing "He's Got the Whole World (in His Hands)". It's the voice of a girl he inexplicably allowed to live, 15 years ago.
He can't quiet the voice. He can't sleep. So he kills again and again to satisfy his voices. He soon realizes the only way to silence his demon is to hunt her down and do what he should have done fifteen years ago.

Debbie (Hayley Bennett) is no longer a little girl. She's grown to be a beautiful 21 year old author of cold case mystery books who is on a hunt of her own. Fifteen years ago, she survived a strange encounter with serial killer Garland Greene and needs to find closure to that chapter in her life and a closing chapter to her latest book.
Will Greene risk his freedom to find his lost prey? Will Debbie risk her life to find her lost killer? And who will come out on top when they finally meet face to face?

>Nick Cave's GLADIATOR 2
I would honestly enjoy this far more than the original Gladiator. At least this one wouldn't fast forward through the fight scenes to get back to the incest.

Maybe have Russel Crowe show up as Saber in a live action Fate spinoff?

He played a biologist in Twins.

>$3000 for a week of a high class escort

Damn, inflation has hit pretty hard

At least a kid wishes for something impressive in a movie for once.

This needs to happen

>The Sound of Life
Directed by Steven Spielberg

During World War II, Noah, a closeted homosexual Jewish musician, is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp for challenging the Nazi party, and dedicates himself to protecting a young prisoner, Sira, while also reconnecting with his childhood friend Hugo, now a Nazi soldier also struggling with his homosexuality. As the Holocaust looms, Noah decides to write a final piece to leave as his legacy.

>Leonardo DiCaprio as Noah.
>Alexander Skarsgard as Hugo.
>Lupita N'yongo as Sira.
>Daniel Day-Lewis as Hiram, Noah's abusive father.
>Meryl Streep as Ana, Noah's absent mother.
>Cate Blanchett as Monica, Noah's suffering sister.
>Eddie Redmayne as Herschel, Noah's awkward assistant.
>Chiwetel Ejiofor as Leroy, Sira's husband.
>Tilda Swinton as Adolf Hitler.

>where they are tortured
Kek. I just pictured an albino E.T. bitch slapping Elliot

A Super Mario movie

Mario and Luigi (John C. Reily and Will Ferrell) are a couple of low time plumbers with an iq of 48, Mario has a girlfriend, Peach (who is actually a hooker and a drunk played by Kathryn Hahn).

One day Mario and Luigi won 100 million from the lottery, so Peach, being the whore that she is, decided to tell her pimp, Bowser (Craig Robinson) and they hatch a plan to leech it off the two plumbers. by pretending that Peach is kidnapped by Bowser

Meanwhile Mario and Luigi's cousins, Wario (Danny Mcbride) and Waluigi (James franco) hears about their winnings and plan to take it all for themselves, Wario gets himself some mushrooms from his local dealer, 'Toad' (Adam Scott) and laces their spaghetti with the mushrooms, They all start to trip where all they could see in Mario Land where everything is cgi, Mario and Luigi panics and tries to save Peach from Bowser, stopping the whole Drug Cartel and Bowser's child slavery ring in the process

Seth Rogen plays a DEA agent

Directed by Adam Mckay

They let the pregnant woman go on the time travel mission?

no it doesn't samefag. it reads like the fanfic it is.

Paul Verhoeven's CRUSADE (1991)

>In 1895 A.D., thief Hagen (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is caught stealing from an abbey, but avoids execution by faking a miracle and is recruited by the corrupt Pope Urban II (Christopher Macdonald) as a propaganda tool in the Crusades against the barbaric muslims who have besieged Jerusalem. Hagen's commanding officer is his psychopathic, sadistic half-brother, Count Emmerich of Bascarat (Gary Sinise). After Hagen disfigures Emmerich's face in retaliation for Emmerich raping an innocent young woman, Emmerich arranges for Hagen to be sold into slavery to the Saracens.

>By a stroke of fate, Hagen's old friend, con man Ari (John Turturro), turns out to be a distant relative of Prince Ibn Khaldun, and arranges for Hagen to instead become a soldier for the Saracens. Journeying to Jerusalem, where he intends to escape, Hagen instead finds a peaceful realm where Christians, Jewish and Muslim co-exist in peace and realizes the Crusaders are the enemy. He also falls in love with Khaldun's sister Mira (Jennifer Connelly) and rallies the people of Jerusalem to stand against Emmerich and his army in a bloodthirsty battle.

This was Verhoeven's pet project and was being developed by Carolco Pictures, but was scrapped when "Showgirls" flopped and Carolco went bankrupt. Verhoeven was trying to be edgy as fuck as usual, so the script presents the Saracens as a the good guys and is filled with over the top violence like Hagen caving in Emmerich's face by bludgeoning his helmet or Hagen being stitched to a live donkey and having to tear himself free.

Also more rape than there are actually characters.

KINO

>Hagen being stitched to a live donkey and having to tear himself free
WHAT

Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS (2000)

>Serge Catalan is a wealthy and successful architect who is lauded by his groundbreaking designs but reviled for his excessive lifestyle. Upon learning that the ambitious Mayor of New York City, Frank Cicero, and his associate Gene Hamilton, an elderly billionaire, are developing "Cityworld", a cutting-edge mini-city at the heart of NYC, Serge approaches the government with a cheaper and sleeker alternative of his own design, "Megalopolis". This sparks a decades-spanning rivalry between Serge and Cicero, which is further compounded when Cicero's estranged daughter Julia develops a relationship with Serge.

This is Coppola's dream project, for which he claims to have done "Bram Stoker's Dracula", "Jack" and "The Rainmaker" for. This is a 200+ script for a 4h+ movies with over 100 characters, for which Coppola produced over 1,000 pieces of concept art and had already shot 30 hours of secondary photography for. It was scrapped due to the September 11th attacks too.

EVERYONE in Hollywood was at one point attached to it, which makes sense considering there's over 100 characters, but the core cast seemed to be Russell Crowe as Serge, Robert De Niro as Cicero, Warren Beatty as Hamilton and Parker Posey as Julia, with Nicolas Cage, Paul Newman, Kevin Spacey and Julianne Moore in supporting roles.

It's edgy as fuck.

Suddenly, the final version of the movie seems like a masterpiece compared to... this.

If you are also interested in another movie that almost happened, check out what they planned for Spider-Man 4.

nice. very nice

God damn I wish this had happened.

To my knowledge, Forrest Gump created the trope of putting one character into tons of iconic situations, and it would've been deeply ironic if this film was made and then did it completely wrong. If it all was done right and not hamfisted, would be sequelkino.

Didn't they have a scene for Hancock where he bangs a chick and then when he climaxes she explodes from the force of it?

He was going to throw her off and blow holes in the roof

>but this draft sounds like Del Taco going full retard away from the source material.

Hellboy minus his, Abes origin are nothing like the comics. It's an almost total re-imagining. It's not bad really It's just that Hellboy movie(s) was really nothing like the comic to begin with.

>Joel Schumacher's Batman Unchained
>A new villain, the Scarecrow (played by Nicolas Cage) and his Scare Gang are terrorizing the city, quit literally, with a fear toxin that makes you see your greatest fears.
>Batman (played by a new actor, possibly Brendan Fraser) and Robin (played by Chris O'Donnell) show up to foil his latest heist. Batgirl (played by Alicia Silverstone) is not at all mentioned in this film. A fight ensues, and Batman is hit by one of Scarecrow's fear toxin bombs. In a fear-induced hallucination, Batman finds himself in Crime Alley on the night where his parents die. As Batman, he stops Jack Napier (played by a new actor), but his parents and child him run away from the Batman. He chases them, and his dad starts throwing rocks at him, yelling that he is a monster. His dad goes for Jack's gun, and in trying to defend himself, Batman accidentally kills both his mom and dad with a batarang. Meanwhile, while Batman is hallucinating, Robin is left to deal with the Scarecrow. The fight is tough but Robin manages to overcome the Scarecrow and capture him.
>Batman is left deeply disturbed by his encounter with the Scarecrow. In the end, he decides to retire as Batman, passing the mantle on to Robin, who becomes Nightwing. Bruce decides to take a sabbatical at his family's summer home with Alfred (played by Michael Gough).

>Scarecrow is left at Arkham Asylum, where he meets Dr. Harleen Quinzel (played by Courtney Love). Quinzel tries to help Scarecrow get better and it's here where we learn he's Dr. Jonathan Crane, a scientist who was plagued by multiple phobias who tried to cure them. Using the cure he developed on himself, he was suddenly attacked by all his phobias appearing at once (because he made fear toxin instead of fear cure) and driven insane, becoming the Scarecrow. Meanwhile, the Scarecrow makes a homemade batch of fear toxin using stuff he finds in the asylum and uses in on Quinzel during a one-on-one session. Scarecrow discovers that Quinzel fears her father, who was the Joker, and is afraid of him returning for his "pumpkin." Scarecrow helps her conquer this fear by helping her embrace what a strong and powerful man her father was and she becomes Harley Quinn. With Harley Quinn on his side, Scarecrow has his scare crew sneak a huge batch of fear toxin, which he unleashes in the asylum. The inmates, normally sedate and pacified, become raving lunatics, which Harley Quinn lets free. Together, Harley and Scarecrow lead their crazy army on Gotham.
>Meanwhile, Bruce is still coming to grips with leaving Batman behind. He sees news reports of Nightwing keeping Gotham safe but still can't shake off what he saw in the hallucination. Alfred eventually confronts him and says, regardless of what he saw, Alfred is proud of Batman and knows Bruce's parents would feel the same. Seeing the news of Scarecrow's psycho army on the news and realizing that it's too much for Nightwing, Batman suits up and joins his friend.
>The two face off against the psychos wearing masks to protect them from the fear toxin. Nightwing, with the help of the Batcomputer, has developed a cure to the fear toxin, and the two start using it on the psychos, pacifying them.

>Eventually, Batman is confronted by Harley. Batman is caught off guard, quipping she looks familiar, and Harley takes the opportunity to slam Batman with her mallet, quipping "Yeah, you knew my dad." Batman's gas mask is broken as a result, and Scarecrow seizes the opportunity to gas Batman. Scarecrow remarks this is a "special blend" of the fear toxin and that even their new cure won't help him. Batman once again enters a fear hallucination.
>In his hallucination, Batman finds himself surrounded by shadowed people. One by one, the shadowed people step out and attack him, revealing themselves as Poison Ivy, Bane, Mr. Freeze, Two-Face, the Riddler, the Penguin, and Catwoman (played by new actors). Eventually, they subdue him and he's brought on trial before Judge Joker (played by a new actor). Judge Joker accuses Batman of doing more harm by creating them and Batman says he'd never exist if he lived in a world without evil criminals like them, and Gotham still stands because he defends it from the likes of them. Joker doesn't care and announces that he's guilty, but as Joker levies his gun at Batman, Batman says he will never stop defending Gotham and breaks free of his chains and the hallucination.

>Meanwhile, Nightwing has been struggling against the Scarecrow, Harley Quinn, and the psycho army. Just as he's about to be overwhelmed, Batman swoops in, dropping anti-fear toxin gas and pacifying the crowd. Harley Quinn charges at Nightwing with her mallet, but Nightwing flips out of the way, sending Harley plummeting to her death (Nightwing quips: "Say hi to your dad.") Batman is left to face off against the Scarecrow, who finds his toxin no longer works on Batman. Scarecrow uses so much toxin trying to scare Batman that he finds himself lost in a thick cloud of fear toxin. Scarecrow screams "Why aren't you afraid?!" and Batman responds "Because I am Fear" before unmasking Scarecrow, exposing him to his own fear toxin. The sheer volume of toxin is too much for the Scarecrow and he's left in a coma of constant fear that he can't escape. He's left in Arkham Asylum.
>The movie ends with Batman and Nightwing on patrol at night. Nightwing tells Batman that he plans to go back to his old home of Bludhaven, as he's heard there's crime emerging there. When he asks Batman what he plans to do, they're interrupted by the Batsignal blazing in the night sky. Batman says "I'll always be here for Gotham" and goes off to respond to the signal, leaving Nightwing behind.
>The End

>In 1895 A.D
>the crusades
what the fuck am I reading

I always thought that the finished movie was a compromise, but having read this, this plot is ridiculous.

No, Zelig started it.

The finished movie was the product of it being passed to a bunch of different people who had different ideas and who kept changing it. That's why it feels like two different movies that are both based on a third completely different idea.

This would have only further solidified my already- existing fear of E.T.

amazing

It got made, in a different form, though.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solace_(2015_film)

Underrated as fuck desu

>The working of the script and the premise of an engineered dinosaur was already in the early script and had been leaked via internet in 2005. The early script was hacked directly from Steven Spielberg’s email

This sounds fucking terrible

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
please stop. you are making a fool out of yourself.

I literally laughed for 5 minutes straight imagining this. Someone fund this shit.

>Ridley Scott
>Arnie

Fuck, what could have been...

Holy shit why did they not do this.

>Tilda Swinton as Adolf Hitler
U fucking wot

Sounds OK would work better if they got Keaton back and recasting all the villains seems confusing

Holy fuck, screencap this and tweet it at them.
This needs to happen.

just like the actual Hancock, this started out good until it devolved into some 14 year old's edgy fantasy.