Stories by @captainwhaddock

Casting Father Brown in Diffrent Dacades

There were a lot of Father Brown Adaptations before Mark Williams made the character a house hold name. But there were some people who could have been cast in the role who can no longer do it becuse of age or being dead. So who could have played the Priest in diffrent eras and dacades?

Casting Agatha Christie Characters

If they were to do any more adaptations of Agatha Christie's books, who should they cast in all the key roles. This is for all the main characters who apear in more and one book and not the minor ones who apear just ones in stand alone books.

Dorothy L. Sayers' Wimsey

Lord Peter Wimsey is a dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement and is the archetype of the British Gentleman Detective. He is often assisted in his investigations by his valet and former batman, Mervyn Bunter, Cheif Inspector Charles Parker; and Mystery Author and Love Interest: Harriet Vane, who later becomes his wife. (This is a TV show adaptation of all 12 novels and 21 short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, featuring the Gentelman Detective: Lord Peter Wismey. Every episode is 50 mineuts with the short stories being one epsiode and the novels being two.)

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

A small-time crook with big boss ambitions. While the Great Depression inflicts hardship across the nation, Chicago’s underworld festers with , scandal, violence and corruption. It’s the perfect storm for a schemer like Ui, his reputation as hot as hell. Feeding on fear, Ui and his ruthless cronies make back-alley deals to protect the workers. So far, so bad. But his helpless targets watch on as Ui's influence gains dangerous momentum and his venom threatens to seep through the markets, politics and the law to seize the city – and beyond. This is a man on a mission for power. Will anyone stop him? https://www.rsc.org.uk/the-resistible-rise-of-arturo-ui/

Journey to the Center of the Earth: 2D Animated Movie

This was inspired by Rick Wakeman's 1974 Album, based on the Jules Verne Novel from 1864, as well as the 2001 Disney movie "Atlantis: The Lost Empire".

Yes, Mr President (Yes Minister U.S.A) 1989

We've had American remakes of Red Dwarf, the I.T. Crowd and Peep Show, but not of one that probably deserves it. I looked at shows like Veep and House of Cards and realised that Yes Minister and it's sequel show Yes Prime Minister, would the only real choice for an American remake. Just replace Number 10 with the white house and you've got a show. So for this version, Jim Haket is now the President of the United States and Humphrey Appleby is the Director of the United States Secret Service along with Bernard Woolley. There is also the first Lady: Annie Hacker and Vice President Arnold Robinson. These wouldn't be their names for this series but I just used the original named for claraty and simplisaty.

Ken Russell's Jesus Christ Superstar

What if Ken Russell had directed the 1973 movie version of Jesus Christ Superstar in the same way he did Tommy and Liztamania two years later?

Dark Side of the Moon: The Pink Floyd Biopic

This is what I would do if I could write and produce a Biopic of one of my favourite bands, "Pink Floyd". This would not be a straightforward cradle-to-grave story like Bohemian Rhapsody or Walk Hard; it would be a more abstract take on the bands, like one of their music videos or a projection reel they would play during their shows on the circular screen. And it uses the band's most iconic album "Dark Side of the Moon" as a template for the story. Image used: https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Bright-Side-Of-The-Sun-Dark-Side-Of-the-Moon-re-imagined-Pink-Floyd-by-RPP6/156778258.LVTDI

What If "I" Did a Superman Reboot in 2004?

Jonathan and Martha Kent are simple, childless farmers from the town of Smallville. But one day, a strange vessel with what appears to be a giant S on it cracks near their farm. Inside, they find a newborn baby and, with no other option, adopt it and name it Clark. Over time, they realise he is no ordinary kid as he has unbelievable powers. He also has a little robot friend named K to keep him company. As he grows up, Jonathan tries to teach his adopted son how to control his powers, but Clark decides to use his powers to help people. When he saves dozens from several natural disasters, not only does it get him in trouble with his father, but it also attracts the Men in Black. Clark (now going by the moniker of Superman) breaks into Area 51 and find out that he is being hunted by a strange alien computer called Brainiac, who has his pod. Clark steals the pod back and finds a recording inside by his real father about how his home world was destroyed centuries ago by Brainiac. With this new sense of justice, Superman suits up and flies off to face Brainiac before he destroys the Earth. (This is my idea for how "I" would Reboot Superman if I were hired in the early 2000s for the Superman Flyby Project. This version is basically Superman's origin story, in the style of a Steven Spialburg movie like E.T., while also combining elements of the Flyby script with elements from Superman Lives.

A Better Pink Panther Reboot

The year is 1964, the Maharaja of Lugash is having a national state visit to Paris, in order to negotiate the country's independence from France. As a gift of friendship, the Maharaja gives the French Government Lugash’s most prized treasure, «The Pink Panther Diamond». But at the peace conference, the Pink Panther is stolen, and Commissioner Dreyfus is told by the Maharaja to put his best detective on the case. However, Sargeant Francois accidentally hires the police force's worst Detective, "Inspector Jacques Clouseau". To make sure Clouseau doesn’t mess things up, Dreyfus hires a Chinese martial arts expert called Cato Fong to train Clouseau for his mission. Dreyfus tells Clouseau to investigate former jewel thief "Sir Charles Lytton" but after investigating him, Clouseau believe that he can’t have stolen the Pink Panther and so works with his to find out who is the real culprit. Clouseau suspects that the culprit must be a member of the Lugash Royel Family and so investigates the Maharaja’s Daughter. However, she and Clouseau end up falling in love, which not only gets him in trouble with the Maharaja but also drives Dreyfus to try to kill Clouseau for his incompetence. (This is my idea for a Pink Panther Reboot that's better than the 2006 Steve Martine movie)

Smile: The Life of Brain Wilson

Brian Wilson is one of the most fascinating figures in music history, and it is no surprise that every film about the Beach Boys has inevitably focused more on him than any of the other members. Love and Mercy gave us a very good portrait of the man, but somehow, I don't feel that's enough. Brian Wilson did so much for music, and yet no one really knows about him. So much of his work is groundbreaking, even by today's standards. When you listen to it, it makes you feel like you're in the room with the Beach Boys as they're recording it. So I want to see a movie about Brian Wilson that's told through the music itself, showing what it looks like inside his head. This would be a much more surreal, psychedelic, dream-like version of his life, making you feel like you're living in the 60s with him. Just think something like Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises or Ken Russell's Mahler, but set in the '60s with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. I hope it wouldn't just do the cradle-to-grave format that was satires in Walk Hard, but I think it might work.

The Singing Detective (Remake)

Dennis Potter's 1986 Mini-Series The Singing Detective is an excellent concept ruined by axes and flowery dialogue. It has a great central premise about a writer who only feels alive in the world of his novels, and his failure to connect with others, and it has a fantastic way of telling his story through psychoanalysis. But the story itself is way too long, with overly long dialogue scenes and portentous writing that feels more like a parody of bad playwriting than an actual story. So, that's why I feel they should remake the serial with a more modern script that focuses on the characters more and on the life story of the Main Character. You could even add in elements from Potter's other plays, like Karaoke and Cold Lazarus. If they had this show now with better writing and storytelling and with a greater emphasis of Fraudian and Jungian psycology, then I think it would be even more of a hit than it was in late 80s when it first premired.

Edward II (1967)

After seeing Musical Hell's video on 1967s Camelot starring Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave, I genualy wanted King Arther to hook up wit Sir Lancelot. This was mainly because I had then bacame interested in Christopher Marlowe's 1564 play "Edward II". So I sintantly started to imagine Camelot as an adaptation of the play with Arther as Edward, Lancelot as Gavinston and Gwenavir as Isabella.

Christopher Marlowe's Edward II

The King is dead, long live the King. And his boyfriend. When Edward II insists on ruling with the man he loves by his side, the Palace refuses. The establishment conspires to restore the natural order, plunging the country into a civil war and threatening the very existence of the monarchy. Better a dead king than a gay king.

Michael Powell's The Tempest

In 1969, Director Michael Powell, best know for films like a Matter of Life or Death and the Red Shoues, desided to do an adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest in a dream like style. Powell created a Shooting script and got Ivor Beddoes to make several concept images, but couldn't get any studio to sine on, Michael Powell would make two more films after that, before his death in 1990.

Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon (1974)

After the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick wanted to make a movie of the French General and Emperor "Napoleon Bonaparte". He spent year researching Napoleon's life don't the most minute detail, creating a vast amount of documents and notes of fact and reference material. He pitched his idea MGM and planned to film in Yugoslavia, using the Romanian army as extras. However, after three years of development, MGM decided not to go any further with the project after another Napoleon movie Waterloo bombed at the box office. Kubrick then planned to make the film with Warner Brothers but after A Clockwork Orange, he never went any further with the project and the film would go unmade.

Brad Bird’s The Spirit (1984)

In 1980, Brad Bird made a short test animation of Will Eisner's The Spirit to pitch to studios to make a fully animated adaptation of The Spirit. However, due to a lack of interest and the decline of animated movies in the 80s, studios weren't willing to fund an expensive, more adult-oriented animated movie with no guarantee of recouping their investment. Brad Bird would later go on to make movies like The Iron Giant and The Incredibles, which cemented his place in animation history. But if the Spirit had been made, then it could have changed the animated movie landscape forever. This was before stuff like Batman: The Animated Series, so having an animated movie in the classic noir comic vibe would have made a huge impact on animation.

Ken Russell's Dracula

"Dracula" was a planned gothic-style horror movie based off the 1897 Bram Stoker novel of the same name, which would've been directed by British film director Ken Russell, a filmmaker best known for making movies that were more often than not flamboyant and controversial. Columbia Pictures most likely didn't want to compete with Universal Pictures, who announced their own version of Dracula, a film adaptation of the 1977 revival of the 1927 Broadway play by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston.

Ray Harryhausen's The War of the Worlds (1954)

This is my poster for the unmade Ray Harryhausen movie of H.G. Wells' the War of the Worlds. He'd planed to make this movie in the 1950s at Paramount Pictures, who owned the film rights to Wells' novel, but couldn't raise enughe money to finase the film. Harryhausen would go on to do special effect for the 1956 alien invasion movie Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and would later go on to adapt another H.G. Wells story, First Men in the Moon in 1964. But he never gave up on his dream of making War of the Worlds some day.

Famouse People Who Need Biopics

Last year, we got a biopic of Bob Marley, Shirley Chisholm, Amy Winehouse and now, we’re getting another biopic of Bob Dylan. And there are even more on the way, including ones about Bruce Springsteen, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Elon Musk, Fred Astaire and even a four-part movie about the Beatles. But there are some people who a dying for a biopic who still haven’t made it yet. So because there are only so meny people to make biopic of, this is more famous people who should be next on Hollywood’s checklist.