There's a lot of great black sci-fi out there. Rather use 100 million to put one of those stories on the big screen than a hood movie.
If a hood movie had a high budget 50-100 million
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There's a lot of great black sci-fi out there. Rather use 100 million to put one of those stories on the big screen than a hood movie.
FromStLouis
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What specifically would you want to see adapted?
Off the top of my head, anything from Nnedi Okarafor or Octavia Butler.
FromStLouis
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Lol all of the good black sci fi I've read is from women. I've never read Samuel Delany, but I've heard he's pretty good.
And Who Fears Death by Okarafor is in development at HBO I think.
dora_da_destroyer
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The thread was about a hood movie having a high budget yet gets jacked by “not all black movies should be hood”...nothing in OP said a black movie nor that all black movies should be hood stories nor that all black people want to see hood flicks. You want a thread about 100M (black)movies of another genre, make it...
it’s absolutely fair to ask what a baby boy, boyz n the hood, city of god, etc type movie would look like/have with a crazy budget, stick to the topic
it’s absolutely fair to ask what a baby boy, boyz n the hood, city of god, etc type movie would look like/have with a crazy budget, stick to the topic
I wouldn't call it a hood movie, per say, but the first film that came to mind was "Straight Outta Compton", which had budget around 50M max.
I'd suppose a hood movie that shows a come-up and requires music licensing and location could do it. I don't think you could get a hood movie to cost 100M unless there was some element of fantasy in it.
I'd suppose a hood movie that shows a come-up and requires music licensing and location could do it. I don't think you could get a hood movie to cost 100M unless there was some element of fantasy in it.
what can i use the budget on?
because there really isn't any "new" stories you can tell
There's only a handfull of plots you can remix
So I can make "The Wire" the movie based on season 1 plot lines with Denzel ($20M) playing the Lester Freeman, Will Smith ($20M) playing Bunk, Marky Mark ($10M) paying McNulty and a host of today's major rappers to fill out the cast and get to $100M easy
That Superfly remake that came out a few years ago cost $16M with a bunch of no names
If I made that with the cast of Black Panther (Chad, MBJ, etc), I could get to $50M easy
because there really isn't any "new" stories you can tell
There's only a handfull of plots you can remix
So I can make "The Wire" the movie based on season 1 plot lines with Denzel ($20M) playing the Lester Freeman, Will Smith ($20M) playing Bunk, Marky Mark ($10M) paying McNulty and a host of today's major rappers to fill out the cast and get to $100M easy
That Superfly remake that came out a few years ago cost $16M with a bunch of no names
If I made that with the cast of Black Panther (Chad, MBJ, etc), I could get to $50M easy
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Peter Popoff
Baba Yega in black uptowns
Wouldn't be a hood movie but movie about the gods of Egypt and God of Israel with good multi dimensional black actors from all regions. Maybe even an assassins creed origins.
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FromStLouis
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I thought the OP was a pretty open-ended question, one that would allow for and include re-imaginings of hood films.
Didn't know we had to stick to a box, or certain films in particular. Damn.
Didn't know Baby Boy, a coming of age, film was a hood movie in the same sense as Paid In Full. Or The Wood to Juice.
Didn't know we had to stick to a box, or certain films in particular. Damn.
Didn't know Baby Boy, a coming of age, film was a hood movie in the same sense as Paid In Full. Or The Wood to Juice.
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Peter Popoff
Baba Yega in black uptowns
I don't even know gangsta movies that require a big budget unless you're hiring top actors.I thought the OP was a pretty open-ended question, one that would allow for and include re-imaginings of hood films.
Didn't know we had to stick to a box, or certain films in particular. Damn.
FromStLouis
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I think with 100M you should be able to do what you want, I think that's the point of the exercise, free your imagination.
But some folks seem to have a problem if your idea of a hood film, with a 100M budget, isn't their idea of a hood film.
The idea of Hood Sci-Fi isn't sticking to the topic I guess.
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R.E.N. Spells Ren
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Trying to authentically represent different time periods could definitely drive up the cost.