Stories by @jacobking1
41 stories

The Thing in Classic Hollywood (50s)
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

Wes Anderson's Danny Champion of the World
A widowed veteran William Smith and his son, Danny, live an idyllic life together. But their property happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer named Victor Hazell wants to buy. When he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors onto them, they decide to get even with him and his pheasant-shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.

The Grand Budapest Hotel in Classic Hollywood (1950s)
A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.

Alien in Classic Hollywood (1950s)
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission. Poster by Orlando Arocena
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Harry Potter Series in Classic Hollywood (1950s) [British Actors]
An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world. Poster - House of MinaLima

Oppenheimer in Classic Hollywood (1960s)
The story of American scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

True Detective in Classic Hollywood
A suspensive ritual performed in the middle of nowhere prompts two detectives to investigate and while they do they unearth dark secrets about both the killer and them.

Actresses who could play Ellen Ripley
Casting.

Inglourious Basterds in Classic Hollywood (1950s)
Same plot as the original.

Dark Knight Trilogy (1950s)
(Poster by Neil Davies)

Spiderverse Live Action
What it says on the tin....

Game of Thrones as Classic Hollywood
If Game of Thrones were a series of fantasy epic movies set in the 1950s and 60s

James Bond in the Golden Age of Hollywood (1950s)
A 1950s Rendition of the classic spy thriller.

Dune in Classic Hollywood (1960s)
Although Dune the book was realeased in the 60s, what if a movie adaption came very soon after?

Star Wars as Classic Hollywood (1950s)
This will be imagining the original Star Wars trilogy if it were made during the 1960s instead of the late 70s and early 80s.

Warhammer 40k: The Horus Heresy (Amazon)
Now with Warhammer partnered with Amazon Studios, this would be a long-running, big budget TV Series with Henry Cavill as Executive producer. This would, without a doubt, be the biggest of all their live-action projects.

Blade Runner in Classic Hollywood
A movie with an identical plot to the original but made during the Golden Age of Hollywood. This can be 40s, 50s or 60s.

The Batman in Classic Hollywood (1950s)
What if the movie 'The Batman' was made in the 50s, with the same plot as the 2022 movie.

The Second Punic War in Classic Hollywood (1960s)
A historical epic set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, detailing one of the greatest, most dramatic wars in the ancient world; Carthage vs. the Roman Republic. (Cover is from the board game Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage)

The Trojan War in Classic Hollywood (1950s)
A hypothetical adaptation of the Trojan war with a huge budget and on the scale of Lawrence of Arabia, Ben Hur or Spartacus.