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In the spirit of the film and TV threads I thought I'd start one for cross-overs that never happened. * Father Brown - A Marple In Kembleford (2014) While visiting her old friend, Mrs McCarthy (Sorcha Cusack), Miss Jane Marple (Julia McKenzie), assists Father Brown (Mark Williams) in...

The logo that become synonymous with one of the largest multimedia franchises in the world. The brainchild of a pulp fan from Northern California. I am a hack fraud. I will admit when I see a concept that gains traction, I want to hop on board it as well. In this case I was inspired by...

Hey guys, this idea came to me after Micahel Bay won an Oscar for his movie last year, Notorious. You know, the Biggy Smalls biopic, I like how the director used his "impressionist filmmaking" style to make the movie feel like a music video almost, Bay's rapid cutting is a good fit for a hip hop...

"Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen." (Wikipedia) Steven Spielberg was interested in making a film about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park before it was even published. However...

Rewriting this.

So what if Black Panther won Best Picture at the 91st Academy Awards? Would this have a significant impact on the direction of the movie industry?

In 1999, two years after the disaster that was Batman and Robin, Warner Bros. and Joel Schumacher had decided to "go back to basics" for the Caped Crusader's next try on the big screen. Wanting to get something closer to Tim Burton's first two films in tone, Schumacher optioned to adapt Frank...

Alice (2022) is an upcoming film, wherein an escaped female slave, ends up in 1973, gets exposed to blaxploitation films, Black Power ideology, and decides to return to the antebellum South to exact her revenge: Basically, imagine Antebellum with actual time travel, and minus the M. Night...

So, your challenge here is to have DreamWorks Pictures be founded at a plausible date earlier than 1994.

Hey, all! I'm here to present to a new collaborative joint, that I promised to create last year. I didn't get around to it due to both occurrences in my personal life, and overall laziness. But hey, it's here now! This is sort of a spiritual successor to my Sherlock Holmes TL (you are welcome to...

General consensus is that, while the first Matrix film was good, the other two were... not so good. There's another movie in production, but as of right now, none of us can know if it'll be good. Your challenge is to improve the other two films of the trilogy.

Here are some upcoming films to flag for watching: Exodus (2021) Doors (2021)

With any PoD after 1900, have the TTL equivalent of Hollywood (that is, the center of the English language film industry) be located in the United Kingdom.

Hey all. This is a spin-off of Guajolote's excellent Doctor Who timeline "Phil won't leave his room". Part of the TL involves actor Roger Delgado receiving the role of the Third Doctor. As a result, his 1973 death is butterflied away, and he has a much longer lasting career. The point of this...

Today it was announced that Oscar-winning filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, the director of Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, has died of natural causes at the age of 91. Tomorrow would've been his 92nd birthday. Kubrick was one of the most acclaimed and controversial...

I'm a bit interested in small obscure genres or subgenres, whether films, games, music, or literature. The goal of is to make up one of these, kind of like my Whateverpunk thread. Gathering Metal: A genre combining metal with indigenous american instruments, typically drums, and highly...

Hello all! Rejoice, for this is my first timeline!!!!!! (Seriously though, please go easy on me. I'm still new to all of this.) I shall be posting a series of alternate Sherlock Holmes films and tv shows. A few will be based on productions that were going to happen, but ended up falling...

In a world where the US became a major power but never reached beyond the Rocky Mountains (and California is a Spanish speaking republic), where would the crowning jewel of their soft power and cultural industry be located? ... even better if it’s on the East Coast...

The Hays Code was a set of rules that enforced censorship on the American cinema in response to the increase of public complaints about the lewd content of movies and the scandalous behavior of Hollywood movie stars. The increasingly liberal content of Hollywood films, and the scandals...

IDEA: Two acclaimed authors whose work everyone copies but has failed on television and the movies is Edgar Rice Burroughs (Jon Carter of Mars) and H.P. Lovecraft. Starting in the 1920s/1930s till now, make the franchises of John Carter of Mars and Lovecraftian media as popular as Star Trek or...