There's so much good stuff here, I don't know where to begin. jeffreycmcmahon: For Terrence Malick's "Moby Dick," I went with Eliot Goldenthal for the score because I knew he'd do something daring and gorgeous (like his score for "Heat," which is what I had in mind when I picked him.) But I like the idea of Alexander Desplat; he'd bring a thunderclap awesomeness to the assignment.
Imagine a whale hunt scored with that music that plays during the opening Central Park scene of "Birth." Also, re:"Moby Dick," I like kj's suggestion of The Rock as Queequeg, and I considered casting him in that role at first -- dunno what made me hesitate. Maybe Rudy Youngblood's just fresher in my mind?
Dan Jardine: Bela Tarr directing "Infinite Jest" is totally out-of-left-field, but I'd like to see that. He'd probably dry out the book and make it less precious, but just as funny. Go ahead and let it be six or seven hours.
Wagstaff: I've actually daydreamed about Michael Mann's "Iliad," as well as -- coincidentally -- a Mann version of the battle of Thermopylae. (Despite being a Mann man, for some reason I didn't know he'd been considering directing "Gates of Fire." I wish he'd go ahead with it.
Cinematography by Dante Spinotti -- shot on 35mm film, though -- and score by Elliot Goldenthal. Odienator: Terrence Malick's "Walden" -- wow, talk about an unfilmable book. But I'd like to see that.
I'd also like to see your take on "Lord of the Flies." At first I thought van Sant should just direct as well as write, but on second thought, your instincts are correct here -- Larry Clark's a sick fuck with a real dangerous streak, and "Lord of the Flies" needs that -- a sense of, "Surely he's not going to go there..
.Oh, shit, he went there!" I also like your idea for a version of "White Butterfly" -- though it makes me kind of sad to consider it.
Remember, when "Devil in a Blue Dress" came out, Carl Franklin and Denzel Washington pictured it as the first film in a franchise with the same cast and director. But then it fizzled at the box office; I'm not entirely sure why, since I saw it twice in the theater and both times the audience was over the moon for it. Steven Boone: Malick's "Huckleberry Finn.
" Just saying those four words puts a smile on my face. Jeffrey Wright as Jim is a masterstroke. And if Ennio Morricone's still in fighting shape, the score is his.
Come to think of it, that river sequence in "Days of Heaven" scored to acoustic guitar and Linda Manz' narration had a very Huck feel, didn't it? Ryland: I don't think the Harry Potter franchise is ready for Werner Herzog, which is all the more reason why I'd love to see him take a shot at it. Also, I am already visualizing a Herzog documentary about the private life of Mel Gibson.
If anybody could speak Mel's language, it's the director of "Fizcarraldo" and "Aguirre." There's so much good stuff here, I don't know where to begin.
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