Good Idea

Here's a good idea I just came up with. You know how movies these days are completely unoriginal? I mean, I wouldn't know, I don't go to the theaters any more because it's expensive and I always know too many people from high school who work there. But I hear people complaining about this all the time; remakes are mostly what people hate, but I guess also the fact that if a movie turns even the smallest profit, and sometimes even if doesn't, "they" make a sequel of it.

I have an idea that could solve all of this. You know how, with music, they have supergroups? Some such known groups are "Audioslave" and "Velvet Revolver". Usually these supergroups are formed because all the rock stars aren't in bands any more, but their solo careers aren't very successful because the music market is so "group"-oriented these days; you never hear about anyone being popular unless they're in a band, like Radiohead. So anyway, all these rock star all form a supergroup and somehow it all just comes together, you know? and truly beautiful music is made.

That's why we need a SUPERMOVIE. Like a supergroup, but replace group (aka band... A musical group. Same thing as superband or supermusicalgroup) with movie. What is my proposed format of a supermovie? The first thing you would assume when I say "supermovie" is that it's getting a bunch of super-famous writers or directors or actors together to make one movie. That's not what my idea is. That's not what my idea is at all. That's been done. Remember "The Shaggy Dog" and "Toy Story"? Great movies, of course, but they came out years ago, and the idea of getting a bunch of good writers and actors and directors together is old and stale; totally out of style.

Instead, picture this:

Hans Solo, Butch Cassidy, Homer Simpson, The Blues Brothers, Indiana Jones, King Kong, and Macbeth, in....

"THE A-GROUP."

The title is something I came up with, it means that all of these characters are A-list characters (in the same way actors are "A-list".... Get it?) and they are all in a group (aka team). They could be fighting against another elite group (or team) of villains that would include Fu Manchu, the Puffy Man from Ghostbusters, Dr. Evil, Darth Vader, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, and Pumpkinman (from Spider-Man).

Now that's not a group you want to mess with! But that's why the A-Gang is fighting them, instead of you. Luckily, you will get to watch one of the most exciting superhero showdowns in recent memory. I'm thinking that Roland Emmerich would be a perfect fit as the director for this movie. I'm going to get started on writing a script soon. Here's a quick synopsis of my plot:

Hans Solo and Indiana Jones are a couple of down-and-out military men of some kind, slinking their way from one space cantina to the next and looking for treasure and fighting Nazis along the way--but always sticking together, getting in bar-room brawls, and cracking jokes; all in a totally family-friendly way, of course. But one day they come across a theater in which a gigantic monkey known as King Kong is being held and showed to the public and the guy who caught him is making a million dollars. This man is Pumpkinman (from Spider-Man; he's the guy with a pumpkin for a head and he throws exploding pumpkins at Spider-Man. He's not in the movies (I Don't think)) Hans Solo and Indiana Jones help the gentle giant loose, and Pumpkinman vows revenge. He rounds up his old crew (the villains listed above) to get his revenge. But then he also robs a bank with the help of the crew and then Hans Solo and Indiana Jones find out he is after them and so they decide to gather up their own crew. From the ancient moors of the United Kingdom they get Macbeth; from the slums of Chicago, they find Jake and his brother, the Blues Brothers; from Springfield, USA, they round up Homer Simpson, a lazy but trusted ally; and from the Old West, they find Butch Cassidy, who returned there after narrowly escaping a fight with the South American military. Together, these nine heroes of American culture represent: THE A-GROUP. Together they will beat the evil forces led by Pumpkinman--until he is betrayed by Fu Manchu, who constructs a gigantic robot that, with the inner power of the other villains, can destroy the world! Will the A-Team be able to defeat them? Find out on December 23, 2012!

All this is subject to change, of course, but I'm pretty happy with what I have so far so I doubt I'll change any of that.

Probably the hardest part is going to be getting all of the actors who played these characters, and getting them to agree to cooperate. And obviously some of them will think they're too old to still play the part, like Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones. But I think that if offered millions of dollars, they could easily be persuaded, I'm sure. And actually there hasn't been an actor yet who's played Pumpkinman or Macbeth, and with the Puffy Man you would just use models, so that part would be easy (and cheap) to deal with.

So, what do you think?