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Schitzo HIGH IMPACT SEXUAL VIOLENCE from Akumajou Dracula Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: LA Woman, you're my woman
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#1: Aug 3rd 2011 at 1:11:58 PM

The superhero trend's been going on strong since early 2000's, The Twilight Effect's been hit and miss, but still rampant. Source material unfriendly remakes of dead franchises seem to be the norm now. And now: Board Games.

What do you think is next?

I think we'll be seeing game shows get the Big Fucking Movie treatment next.

edited 3rd Aug '11 1:16:08 PM by Schitzo

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#2: Aug 3rd 2011 at 1:14:20 PM

MORE HAND-DRAWINGS, ——DAMIT!

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#3: Aug 3rd 2011 at 1:32:52 PM

B movie-esque horror plots turned into modern and big budget movies. We've got Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, and Jack The Giant Killer all on the way. More Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, Aliens, and Demons.

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#4: Aug 3rd 2011 at 2:17:43 PM

What Saturn said. Plus more crossovers and more nostalgia trips. In other words, more “AWESUUUUM!” less substance.

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#5: Aug 3rd 2011 at 4:26:47 PM

Aliens are gonna surpass vampires very soon.

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#6: Aug 3rd 2011 at 4:55:02 PM

I foresee many nostalgia trips. More movies set in the 70s 80s and 90s.

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#7: Aug 3rd 2011 at 5:01:16 PM

Fairy tale adaptations, lots of 'em. You can blame Alice In Wonderland for that.

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#8: Aug 3rd 2011 at 5:18:41 PM

Bears in ill-fitting hats.

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#9: Aug 4th 2011 at 3:18:51 PM

I think it depends on whether the movies based on board games actually make money. If they do, the sky's the limit in terms of merchandising tie-ins, and American summer movies are going to be very, very irritating for the next few years. If they don't, the merchandisers will try to ride the coattails of Transformers instead.

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#11: Aug 4th 2011 at 5:32:03 PM

Aliens are gonna surpass vampires very soon.
I can see this. Though, aliens have had more portrayals, and of a higher averages quality rate, than vampires throughout cinematic history.

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#12: Aug 4th 2011 at 5:43:49 PM

I can see this. Though, aliens have had more portrayals, and of a higher averages quality rate, than vampires throughout cinematic history.
Exactly. They're as marketable as vampires without the shadow of a crappy book to worry about (yet) and writers are less afraid to try something cerebral with them. More immediate opportunities for variety and whatnot.

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#13: Aug 4th 2011 at 6:14:10 PM

Mega combo. There's the best combination of vampire and alien concepts we're likely to get.

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#14: Aug 4th 2011 at 7:39:13 PM

I'm hoping more Eldritch Abomination type films, in the vein of Lovecraft's works.

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#15: Aug 4th 2011 at 9:21:20 PM

Furries. Hollywood made pirates and vampires big so you know they'll put something just as outlandish in the mainstream.

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#17: Aug 4th 2011 at 9:51:03 PM

The Na'vi don't have fur.

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#18: Aug 4th 2011 at 9:57:01 PM

[up]But they are cat people[lol]

I could see aliens being the next trend. There've been a few recently like Paul and Attack The Block (and I think that's what I Am Number Four was supposed to be about?)

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#19: Aug 4th 2011 at 10:53:11 PM

Well the first question is, what's the pool of character types to choose from?

Supernatural horrors (vampires, werewolves, also zombies starting in the '70s) have repeatedly been huge. So have cowboys. Sword and Sandal heroes were huge once. The Wizard trend of the noughties has just wrapped up. Superheroes are huge.

No one seems willing to ride Pirates Of The Caribbean's coattails. Another Western heroic archetype that hasn't been a fad: knights.

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#20: Aug 5th 2011 at 3:28:03 AM

we'll probably have more blatant Coming of Age stories in general
or 3d explosions

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#21: Aug 5th 2011 at 6:05:31 AM

Well if the new battleship movie is a success we will start seeing adaption of our favourite board games James Cameron is ready working on a monopoly movie

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#22: Aug 5th 2011 at 6:34:36 AM

If Conan and John Carter are both hits, we'll probably see a swords & sandals resurgence.

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#23: Aug 5th 2011 at 8:59:21 AM

That's true about cowboys. I kinda hope straight up westerns re-emerge. However, those character types seem to be more in an archetype way in a setting that just needs cowboys, instead of their own western setting.

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#24: Aug 5th 2011 at 10:18:38 AM

Looking at what films are currently planned or filming, there's a whole lotta dwarves on the way.

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#25: Aug 5th 2011 at 12:46:49 PM

The idea of board games being adapted into films makes me cringe. Who's idea was that? Why make a Monopoly movie, wasn't that the point of Wall Street? Will Snakes and Ladders be some kind of Saw rip-off? What about Chess? Actually, I think Seinfeld predicted that one. I think it was called Checkmate, and it wasn't "only a game"...

It's difficult to say what trends will appear in the future. More remakes?


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