Stories by @thedispearing

The Rock (2025)

A remake of Michael Bay's The Rock, 29 years later.

The Heir (2021-2028)

A biographical television series about the life of Ted Kennedy, in the style of The Crown. Season 1 (2021): Before 1963 Season 2 (2022): 1963-1969 Season 3 (2024): 1970-1980 Season 4 (2025): 1980-1992 Season 5 (2027): 1993-2001 Season 6 (2028): 2001-2009

Almost Famous (2025)

A remake of Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous, set in 1998 and focusing on a young journalist named William Miller following an upcoming rap rock band called Meltdown.

The Wolf Brigade

A western remake of Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade in 2024.

The Mrs. Clause

On Christmas Eve, Megan and Kiera are awakened that night by a noise on the roof. While investigating, Megan startles Mrs. Claus, who falls off the roof and dies. Her body vanishes, leaving behind a red suit and business card stating that if anything were to happen to her, someone should put on the suit and the reindeer will know what to do. Megan and Kiera find Santa’s sleigh and reindeer on the roof. At Kiera's request, Megan reluctantly dons the suit and spends the rest of the night delivering gifts before the reindeer take them to the North Pole. They discover that Megan is subject to a legal technicality known as "the Mrs. Clause," and has accepted all of the late Santa's duties and responsibilities. The head elf, Annette, gives Megan 11 months to get her affairs in order before reporting back to the North Pole on Thanksgiving. Overwhelmed, Megan changes into pajamas provided to her and falls asleep. Over the next year, Megan undergoes a drastic change; she gains a massive amount of weight and develops an increased fondness for sweets, particularly milk and cookies. Her hair rapidly turns white in spite of attempts to dye it. During a pitch meeting, Megan is angered at a proposal to make a teen soap opera about Mrs. Claus. Megan also begins to recount 'naughty' and 'nice' children by name when she sees them.

Splashes (1999)

An American remake of a Paul Verhoeven classic Spetters.

The Last American Virgin (2002)

A remake of the 1982 comedy.

Great Lakes Avengers

Basically, the Avengers but completely useless. The Hollywood Studio producing this film forgot that part however, and gave a massively oversized budget.

What About Bob? (2015)

Bob Wiley, a mentally unstable patient, follows his egotistical psychotherapist, Dr. Leo Marvin, on vacation. When Bob befriends the members of Leo's family, the patient's problems push the doctor over the edge.

The Manchurian Candidate (2024)

A political conspiracy centering on a brainwashed veteran.

Hall Pass (2024)

Bad husbands get a week off marriage.

The Matrix (2012)

The world is a simulation. To a young person living in the shadow of the Great Recession, that kind of horror resonates. Of course, some things would have to be be changed. After all, what was relevant in 1999 isn't necessarily salient in 2012! The Wachowskis, with all due respect to their fantastic Matrix films, one through four, were Generation X to the core, and with a new millennial vision, the series would be more relevant to a social media-adept youth. For one, in high contrast to the hollow optimism promised under 1990s capitalism, the early 2010s saw despair in the wake of America's once-thought-to-be secure financial institutions collapse, leaving a broken youth in its aftermath. Instead, the focus is completely shifted; for one, it's a romance now. Absurd, I know, but consider this: Neo, a lost-and-confused young college graduate, meets Trinity, who seems to know all about the wild dangerous truth of reality and accepts that things WON'T get better. Still, Neo's youthful desire to change things for the better attracts and impresses her, in this epic of two young lovers trying to liberate humanity from the Matrix.

Joker (2003)

What if the Joker got a solo movie... that was a crime epic directed by Martin Scorsese?

Gattaca (2011)

A dystopia in which our future society is driven by eugenics where children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. The film centers on Vincent Freeman, who was conceived outside the eugenics program and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to realize his dream of going into space.

The Spectacular Spider-Man (2010)

A superhero television series developed by Victor Cook and Greg Weisman and produced by HBO Entertainment, based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. In terms of overall tone and style, the series is based primarily on the Stan Lee, Steve Ditko and John Romita Sr. era of The Amazing Spider-Man, with a similar balance of action, drama and comedy as well as a high school setting. However, it also tends to blend material from all eras of the comic's run up to that point in addition to other sources such as the Ultimate Spider-Man comics by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley, as well as Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy.

The Ultimate "Lost Youths" Movie (2002)

They're not much of a thing now, but back in the '80s, '90s, and early '00s, these bad boys were everywhere. I mean, if you were a middle-aged white boomer pissed about your kids listening to hip-hop, then this was a godsend to you! You know all the classic tropes: bright kid turned junkie, innocent girl turned partying druggie, promising young athlete turned crack fiend. Also, just to be clear, this isn't an endorsement of this sub-genre in any way. A lot of these movies were racist and sexist garbage that were built on conservative, bigoted tropes by middle-aged white guys. Anyways, let's just jump right into it.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (2003)

The story of a high school slacker, Ferris, who skips school with his best friend Cameron and his girlfriend Sloane for a day in Chicago, regularly breaking the fourth wall to explain his techniques and inner thoughts.

18 Again!

A contemporary remake of the 1988 comedy starring George Burns, in which an 81-year-old switches bodies with his 18-year-old grandson.

The Ultimate Nerd Comedy (2010)

The kind of movie that r/movie users post a thread about how underrated it is every other month.

Armageddon (2018)

What if Michael Bay's Armageddon was remade, twenty years later?