Stories by @nathanbates

Young Frankenstein (2014)

Respected medical lecturer Dr. Frederick Frankenstein learns that he has inherited his infamous grandfather's estate in Transylvania. Arriving at the castle, Dr. Frankenstein soon begins to recreate his grandfather's experiments with the help of servants Igor, Inga and the fearsome Frau Blücher.

Generic Christopher Nolan Science Fiction Action Thriller

Just as they've met the love of their life and begins transitioning into a normal life, a master thief is lured back by an old acquaintance with a high risk/high reward assignment - using experimental and volatile time travel technology, the thief and their team (made up entirely of people who have never met one another) will sabotage a shadowy corporation’s sudden rise to power (by sudden, we mean some 3 years prior) by stealing delicate information concerning, you guessed it: time travel. Hot on their trail, however, are two hostile factions: the corporation’s own temporal security and a mysterious task force that doesn’t seem entirely committed to aiding or hindering the thief and his team (you can probably guess the twist there.) And what will happen when the thief begins asking questions of his new employers?

Serpico (2013)

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Christopher Nolan’s DUNE

Clearly I’m just here to kill the time.

Dune: Part Two Characters

Fan cast some characters that will/might appear in Dune: Part II.

At Eternity’s Gate

Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

Angel Heart (2022)

Harry Angel, a New York City private investigator, is hired to solve the disappearance of a man known as Johnny Favorite. His investigation takes him to New Orleans, where he becomes embroiled in a series of brutal murders.

Spoilt for War

Generic Bond reboot cast. Agent 007 and his MI6 cohorts are pitted against an egomaniacal American multibillionaire funding a “crusade on criminality” with his vast wealth, inevitably leading to the suffering of countless innocents.

The Shining / Doctor Sleep Duology

In the spirit of the Halloween season, fan-cast a modern day adaptation of The Shining and recast Doctor Sleep.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Two minor characters from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. They encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

A straight down the middle adaptation of Hamlet. Cast actors of any age, gender or race/ethnicity just so long as they are alive and working at the time of suggesting.

Marvel 1602

The eight-part series takes place in a timeline where Marvel superheroes exist in the Elizabethan era; faced with the destruction of their world by a mysterious force, the heroes must fight to save their universe.

Gangs of New York (2022)

In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.

Napoleon (1972)

What if Stanley Kubrick’s fabled biopic had come to pass?

Josh and Benny Safdie’s The Super Mario Bros. Film™

Impulsive bandwagonning.

I Spilled My Beans on Your Milkshake

Teleported from the 1890’s to the modern day by a mysterious entity, Daniel Plainview and Thomas Wake finds themselves as fish out of the water, begrudgingly agreeing to stick together given their shared temporal displacement experience and seeking to rekindle their respective passions for prospecting and seafaring.

The Game

Nicholas Van Orton is a successful banker who keeps mostly to himself. When his estranged brother Conrad returns on his birthday with an odd gift -- participation in a personalized, real-life game -- Nicholas reluctantly accepts. Initially harmless, the game grows increasingly personal, and Orton begins to fear for his life as he eludes agents from the mysterious game's organizers.

Hail, Caesar! (1994)

In the early 1950s, Eddie Mannix is busy at work trying to solve all the problems of the actors and filmmakers at Capitol Pictures. His latest assignments involve a disgruntled director, a singing cowboy, a beautiful swimmer and a handsome dancer. As if all this wasn't enough, Mannix faces his biggest challenge when Baird Whitlock gets kidnapped while in costume for the swords-and-sandals epic "Hail, Caesar!" If the studio doesn't pay $100,000, it's the end of the line for the movie star.

HBO Max’s Justice League Dark

The actors and actresses I hope will be cast in the (presumably) forthcoming DC comics streamed adaptation.

Kill Bill: Volumes 1 & 2 (1973 - 1974)

Kill Bill. You’ve seen the movies. Now, what if they had been made in the early 70’s?