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I was wondering if it would be a good idea to have a forum for suggesting film concepts. Some popular ideas might actually be made into movies. The only qualifications for suggestions would be that they would have to be interesting to at least a segment of the population, and it would have to be something original or a great improvement on an old idea.

What do you think of these?:

Quantum Trip: A guy invents a high powered quantum computer (an actual new science/technology) that can tap into the universe (which itself may actually be a [sentient?] quantum computer) and can replay events from anywhere in the past. He goes back to see once and for all who Jesus was, and discovers nothing supernatural. It would, of course, be very controversial. Would that help or hurt the box office?

Eros and Psyche: A classic mythological tale, using graphic but quality X-rated erotic scenes, about the god Eros being commanded by a jealous goddess, Aphrodite (because humans are worshiping the mortal Psyche instead of her), to cause Psyche to fall in love with the ugliest man on Earth. But he falls in love with her himself. Cast an actual man and wife (like Eyes Wide Shut, though its eroticism was severely wanting) to undercut at least some of the inevitable prudish outrage. They'd have A-list actresses standing in line to do cameos pro-bono as the different goddesses attempting to influence Eros, either allied or in contention with Aphrodite.

The Money Bin: A Disney family friendly animated adventure, using its most underdeveloped property, Uncle $crooge McDuck. His wealth alone would be a draw as it was in the original comics and even in the low quality Ducktales. It would show, as it always did, that the rich can be driven and honorable at the same time. It could be a new fantastic-fable, or the development an old one, like where he and Donald are engaged in a selling-ice-to-Eskimos style contest to show he's still got it (City of Golden Roofs). The first line could be, "Who is Scrooge McDuck?"

Anne Royall: A Common Scold: She prowled the halls of Congress in the 1820s/30s, often getting scoops before her male counterparts, and she interviewed every President, at some point, from Adams to Polk. John Q. Adams liked her and called her "a virago errant in enchanted armor.” That was before some of her reporting favored Jackson over him when they were running for President. She'd become so hated that they tried her for the archaic female crime of being a common scold. She was convicted and they had even constructed a ducking stool for her punishment (which would likely have killed her), but the judge only fined her $10, which two other reporters paid, it being a freedom of the press issue for them.

She went from the trial straight to the Mississippi R. which she discovered was a hotbed of religious activity. The Blackcoats (her term for Presbyterians) were using Army and Indian Affairs facilities to distribute their religious tracts and intimidation. She may have been the first to use the phrase "Bible Belt" in reference to what she saw along the river. She stopped in St. Louis to tell what she'd found to an acquaintance, Gen William Clark of Lewis and Clark fame, but he refused to see her. She finally did corner him cowering in a back office, and realized it was pointless. The intelligence she obtained and forwarded on to Jackson was more ammunition for what he needed to fight the coup and/or secessionist alliance of the Blackcoats (aka Copperheads, Blueskins), headed by the evangelist Ezra Styles Ely, the National Bank which was reapportioning government funds inappropriately and finally removed by Jackson, and his VP John C. Calhoun who was ruined for his presidential aspirations after his leadership in the Nullification Crisis. The waning of the blackcoated Presbyterians left a vacuum that was filled soon enough by the white sheets of the Southern Baptists and their justification of slavery.

She is perhaps the greatest unsung hero in American History. She's buried in the Congressional Cemetery.

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I know there are ideas out there that are better than rehashing superheroes and upping the gore ante in horror.

Post your suggestions.