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 X3
When I heard that Bryan Singer was leaving the X-Men franchise to direct Superman Returns I suppose I was happy for him. It’s every director’s dream to get hold of a project they hold dear to their hearts and for Singer – this was the one. Unfortunately I wasn’t so happy that Brett Ratner and his crew had gotten hold of X-Men 3 and ended up turning it into a complete and utter mess. After Singer’s more or less perfect work on the first two films – Ratner single-handedly destroyed something very dear to my heart. So I would grab this project by its scruff and shuffle it until it was a worthy ending to the X-Men series. I was hoping that Phoenix was be a new villain for number three but she was handled all wrong! She is my favourite superhero and one I would love to be if I had more than millions of pounds – and played well enough by Famke Janssen. Unfortunately, the way her character was written was terrible and I would have loved her re-birth to be in Singers capable hands. As well as this I would have dealt with the ever growing ego of two actors who could not be reigned in by an inexperienced director who is eager to please: namely Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman. They needed to be part of the team, not the leaders – and the two actual leaders (Cyclops and Professor X) were killed in a cowardly fashion – rather conveniently leaving both of them in charge. No to that! I like the idea of the cure but NOT the idea that Rogue (Anna Paquin) would take the cowards way out by taking it. In the comics she is a beautiful, buxom, southern beauty with the power to absorb others abilities, and FLY. A stupid little kid is not what I would have wanted for her. She deserved better and I would have loved to see that happen!

 Terminator 5
Ok then McG. Despite having a silly name and directing both Charlie’s angels, you proved to me that you are more than capable as the new director for the Terminator franchise. Terminator: Salvation was pretty damned good for the most part and now I want what was promised – two more! I want to know whether John finally defeats Skynet once and for all, and I want to see him put the idea into his father Kyle Reece’s head about going back in time to save his mother from Arnold Schwarzenegger – and sleep with her to conceive John himself. Oh the possibilities! Get on with it McG, I’m waiting!

 The Darkness
I’d love this to become a film as well as a comic book and a popular video game franchise. It’s gory, it’s violent and it’s funny – something we need more of these days I guess.
Jackie Estacado is in love and about to become 18. He is tightly tied in with a mob family and does their dirty work from time to time. Eventually ‘Uncle Paulie’ – the leader of the mob family decides that Jackie has become a liability and tries to kill him...a lot. What he doesn’t know however is that Jackie has something inside him that is aching to be released on Jackie’s 18th birthday – something that calls itself The Darkness. When the time presents itself – The Darkness takes control of Jackie’s body and manifests itself as two demonic serpents on either side of Jackie’s head. The Darkness has a voice inside Jackie and tell him to kill and consume souls to make himself stronger – and voiced by the brilliant Mike Patton who can do the most amazing things with his voice that sounds like it could hurt quite a bit. Anyway, Jackie has demonic powers that he uses on his enemies to take down uncle Paulie and save the town from his influence – but at a price. The Darkness wants out and it wants Jackie to give up his body in exchange for the life of his girlfriend...
I think this could be a great film, I really do. The one stipulation that I’d insist on is that  the character design of the Darkness would be a lot like the first game and not the second – oh and that Mike Patton (who voiced both games) would return to the big screen and show us what he can really do with his voice. Check it out on Youtube – type in ‘Darkness, Mike Patton, Gameplay’ or something like that. Wouldn’t know that he is the lead singer for rock band Faith No More huh? I’m going to see them on the 10th of July! YAY!!! I’m going to buy a Darkness shirt specifically for the occasion...

 Bioshock
A couple of years ago I heard that the director of Pirates of the Caribbean, Gore Verbinski, was attempting to get the ball rolling on this one but as far as I know – nothing is happening. According to the IMDB it’s ‘In Development’ which means it doesn’t have a director or crew attached but I wish it would hurry up already! The game itself is legendary and would be an eerie, yet beautiful setting for a film. I’m going with the first game here as inspiration for a film, but here is the plot:
It is the 1950’s and business mogul Andrew Ryan is fed up with influences of other authorities when it comes to him, his business and his life. He decides to use his money to build his own world – under the sea and he calls it Rapture. Rapture is free from government control and his society is finally able to live without dealing with ‘the man’ who controls them on the surface. Under the sea anyone can do whatever they want and this has evolved into experiments into the human condition and how people can be improved with gene splicing. The team of scientists have succeeded in creating super humans and for a while a utopia under the sea was achieved, with people living normal lives, working, raising families and....splicing themselves with superpower genes on a daily basis.
As we all know, things can go wrong with too much power and eventually everyone goes nuts with the genes inside them and on Christmas eve 1959 – everything comes to fruition and completely goes to hell. Rapture is a failed shell filled with the elite society and their downward spiral into madness as they continue to seek more power – and more splicing.
Fast forward to a plane crashing into the sea – and our playable protagonist is the only survivor. He finds a small island that has a docked mysterious mini-submarine that takes him into the depths and into Rapture – where he discovers the madness first hand. To survive he must splice and find a way to end the chaos all around him.
Cool huh? I think it would be a great film and I totally agree with a forum poster on the IMDB when they suggest Guillermo Del Toro as the director. He has an imagination beyond limits and an obvious pull to the steampunk design that Rapture would need.

So, here is what I would do if I had millions of pounds. Obviously I’d attempt to slip in a bit of charity work here and there, but this is a charity onto herself to provide an eager public with films they deserve. And by ‘they’ – I really mean me. Yes indeedy.


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