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Released 2012 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story A not very original screenplay, since John Carpenter took Luc Besson to court due to the similarities between this work and the “Escape” duo. He won $450,000 Writer/s Script Stephen St Leger, James Mather, Luc Besson Writer/s Story Original idea by Luc Besson Director James Mather, Stephen … Continue reading
Released 2010 Rating (UK) PG Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s Script Matt Lopez, Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard Writer/s Story Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal, Matt Lopez Director Jon Turteltaub Starring Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molino, Teresa Palmer, Monica Bellucci, Alice Krige Elevator Pitch A couple of ancient sorcerers in modern Manhattan battle it … Continue reading
Released 2004 Rating (UK) 12A Source of story A French film of the same name by Luc Besson Writer/s Script Robert Ben Grant, Thomas Lennon, Jim Kouf Director Tim Story Starring Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Jennifer Esposito, Gisele Bundchen, Ann-Margret Elevator Pitch A blundering detective accidentally teams up with a kick-ass taxi driver in pursuit … Continue reading
Released 2009 Rating (UK) 18 Source of story A graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore, illustrated by Dave Gibbons Writer/s Script David Hayter, Alex Tse Director Zack Snyder Starring Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino Elevator Pitch In an alternative 1980s USA, … Continue reading
Released 2013 Rating (UK) 18 Source of story A South Korean film similarly named and apparently a manga comic. Writer/s Script Mark Protosevich Writer/s Story Garon Tsuchiya, Nobuaki Minegisha (the manga comic) Director Spike Lee Starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, Samuel L Jackson, Michael Imperioli Elevator Pitch An alcoholic marketing executive is imprisoned … Continue reading
Released 2012 Rating (UK) PG Source of story A novel “The Mysterious Island” by Jules Verne Writer/s Script Brian Gunn, Mark Gunn Writer/s Story Richard Outten, Brina Gunn, Mark Gunn Director Brad Peyton Starring Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine, Josh Hutcherson, Luis Guzman, Vanessa Hudgens, Kristin Davis Elevator Pitch A young man and his step-father embark … Continue reading
Released 2014 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s Script Andre Fabrizio, Jeremy Passmore Director Brian A Miller Starring Jason Patric, Jessica Lowndes, Bruce Willis, Jung Ji-Hoon, John Cusack, 50 Cent Elevator Pitch Whe a retired assassin’s daughter is kidnapped he is forced to revisit New Orleans, his old area of operations, … Continue reading
Released 2001 Rating (UK) 12 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s Script Billy Crystal, Peter Tolan Director Joe Roth Starring Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, Seth Green Elevator Pitch Two actors who are married to each other and who star together, but are … Continue reading
Released 2003 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story The first film, and although not acknowledged a number of early SF stories. Writer/s Script The Wachowskis Writer/s Story The Wachowskis Director The Wachowskis Starring Monica Bellucci, Lawrence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jada Plinkett-Smith, Keanu Reeves, Hugo Weaving Elevator Pitch In the far future machines are using humans … Continue reading
Released 2015 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s Script Adam Marcus, Debra Sullivan Director Stephen S Campanelli Starring Olga Kurylenko, James Purfoy, Morgan Freeman, Jenna Saras, Lee-Anne Summers Elevator Pitch A high tech safe deposit box robbery of a trove of diamonds also includes an incriminating flash drive, forcing the robbers, … Continue reading
Released 1988 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s Script John Cleese Writer/s Story John Cleese, Charles Crichton Director Charles Crichton Starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Maria Aitken, Patricia Hayes, Geoffrey Palmer Elevator Pitch A group of criminals lead by a devious American woman, Wanda, carry out … Continue reading
Released 2008 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story “Inspired by” previous Death Race movies. Writer/s Script Paul W.S.Anderson Writer/s Story Paul W.S.Anderson, Robert Thom, Charles B Griffith, Ib Melchior (all except the first from the 1975 film) Director Paul W.S.Anderson Starring Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Ian McShane, Tyrese Gibson, Natalie Martinez Elevator Pitch A former … Continue reading
Released 2013 Rating (UK) PG Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s Script Joel Hopkins, Tess Morris Director Joel Hopkins Starring Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie, Tuppence Middleton Elevator Pitch A divorced couple whose financial security has been destroyed by a hedge fund owner, decide to get together to recover their losses, … Continue reading
Released 2000 Rating (UK) 12 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s Script Marc Lawrence, Katie Ford, Caryn Lucas Director Donald Petrie Starring Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Candice Bergen, William Shatner, Heather Burns, Benjamin Bratt Elevator Pitch When a beauty contest is threatened by an anonymous killer, a bad tempered and agresssive female FBI agent … Continue reading
Released 1994 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s Script Claude Zidi, Simon Michael, Didier Kaminka, James Cameron Director James Cameron Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere, Eliza Dushku, Charlton Heston, Art Malik Elevator Pitch A secret agent who is on the track of a terrorist … Continue reading
Released 2003 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story The first film Writer/s Script Michael Brandt, Derek Haas Writer/s Story Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Gary Scott Thompson Director John Singleton Starring Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Eva Mendes, Cole Hauser, Elevator Pitch Two street racers are forced by the US Customs and the FBI to infiltrate the … Continue reading
Released 2000 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story The TV series and possibly the first film Writer/s Script Robert Towne Writer/s Story Ronald D Moore, Brannon Braga Director John Woo Starring Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames, Richard Roxburgh, Joln Polson, Brendan Gleeson Elevator Pitch Ethan’s team is hired to recover a deadly … Continue reading
Released 2004 Rating (UK) 12A Source of story Real events Writer/s Script John Logan Director Martin Scorsese Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchette, Kate Beckinsale, John C Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Ian Holm, Danny Huston, Gwen Stefani, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe Elevator Pitch Howard Hughes was obsessed by film making, aircraft and women. All feature … Continue reading
Released 2015 Rating (UK) 18 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s Script Quentin Tarantino Director Quentin Tarantino Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Channing Tatum Elevator Pitch Years after the Civil War a bounty hunter with a female prisoner, and a couple of … Continue reading
Released 2012 Rating (UK) 12A Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s Script Jeff Nicholls Director Jeff Nicholls Starring Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard, Joe Don Baker Elevator Pitch Two boys with a small boat at their disposal, find a cabin cruiser stranded in the branches of a … Continue reading
Released 2017 Rating (UK) 18 Source of story Irvine Welsh novels Trainspotting and Porno. Writer/s Script John Hodge Director Danny Boyle Starring Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Shirley Henderson, Anjela Nedyalkova, James Cosmo Elevator Pitch Renton is back in Edinburgh, after 20 years away and he arrives just in time to … Continue reading
Released 1995 Rating (UK) 12 Source of story The Batman comics and the earlier films Writer/s Script Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler, Akiva Goldsman Writer/s Story Lee batchler, Janet Scott Batchler, Bob Kane (Characters) Director Joel Schumacher Starring Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O’Donnell, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, Drew Barrymore … Continue reading
Released 1996 Rating (UK) PG Source of story The TV series scripted by Bruce Geller. Writer/s Script David Koepp, Robert Towne Writer/s Story David Koepp, Steven Zaillian Director Brian De Palma Starring Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Beart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Kristen Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave Elevator Pitch Ethan Hunt is the … Continue reading
Released 2012 Rating (UK) 12 Source of story DC Comics and directly the previous Batman films Writer/s Script Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan Writer/s Story Christopher Nolan, David S Goyer, Bob Kane (characters) Director Christopher Nolan Starring Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Hathaway, Marion Cotillard, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine Elevator Pitch Years … Continue reading
Released 2013 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story Real events in the 1990s and a series of magazine articles by Pete Collins Writer/s Script Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely Director Michael Bay Starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Tony Shalhoub, Ed Harris, Rob Corddry, Rebel Wilson, Ken Jeong Elevator Pitch A bunch of mentally challenged … Continue reading
Released 2014 Rating (UK) 12A Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s Script Jack Paglen Director Wally Pfister Starring Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, Kate Mara, Cole Hauser, Morgan Freeman Elevator Pitch In an alternative present a number of organisations are working on artificial intelligence, and a terrorist cell is working against … Continue reading
Released 2016 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s Script Dan Kay, William Wisher Jr Writer/s Story Dan Kay Director John Moore Starring Pierce Brosnan, Anna Friel, Stefanie Scott, James Frecheville, Michael Nyqvist Elevator Pitch When a creepy IT guy gets to fix the systems in a modern computer operated house owned … Continue reading
Released 1990 Rating (UK) 18 Source of story The first film Writer/s Script Frank Miller, Walon Green, Writer/s Story Frank Miller + Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner (Characters) Director Irvin Kershner Starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan, Dan O’Herlihy Elevator Pitch The villains, now manufacturing an addictive drug, are proving to be more … Continue reading
Released 2007 Rating UK PG Source of story A novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman Writer/s Script Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn (Also Director) Starring Ian McKellen, Kate Magowan, Melanie Hill, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Henry Cavill, Nathaniel Parker, Peter O’Tool, Mark Strong, Jason Flemyng, Mark Heap, Struan Rodger, Rupert Everett, David Walliams, Julian … Continue reading
Released 2011 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s script Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen Director Olivier Megaton Starring Zoe Saldana, Jordi Molla, Lennie James, Michael Vartan, Cliff Curtis Elevator Pitch A girl in Bogota sees her parents killed in a gang war, and after managing to get to America, with the … Continue reading
Released 2005 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story The real life experience of one of the producers (based on, inspired by? Who knows). Writer/s script Tassie Cameron Director Nisha Ganatra Starring Heather Graham, David Sutcliffe, Taye Diggs, Sandra Oh Elevator Pitch When the editor of a Wedding Bells magazine is taken ill, he hands over … Continue reading
Released 2003 Rating (UK) PG Source of story A Disneyland fairground ride Writer/s script David Berenbaum Director Rob Minkoff Starring Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp, Nathaniel Parker, Marsha Thomason, Jennifer Tilly, Aree Davis, Marc John Jefferies Elevator Pitch A work obsessed realtor and his wife and kids are on the way to a holiday weekend when … Continue reading
Released 1987 Rating (UK) 18 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s script Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner Director Paul Verhoeven Starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Dan OHerlihy Elevator Pitch In a crime ridden future Detroit policing is taken over by a financially motivated corporation, but their initial attempt to provide robot policing proves … Continue reading
Released 2015 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s script Steven Knight Writer/s story Michael Kalesniko Director John Wells Starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl, Omar Sy, Emma Thompson, Uma Thurman, Alicia Vikander, Lily James Elevator Pitch A chef returning from disaster due to alcohol and drugs, takes over a restaurant … Continue reading
Released 2007 Rating (UK) 18 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s script Scott Wiper, Rob Hedden Writer/s story Rob Hedden, Andy Hedden, Scott Wiper Director Scott Wiper Starring Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Robert Mammone, Tory Mussett and a load of wrestlers Elevator Pitch An unscruplous media billionaire sets up an internet event where a … Continue reading
Released 2009 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story A novel of the same name by C.D.Payne Writer/s script Gustin Nash Director Miguel Arteta Starring Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Zach Galifianakis, Steve Buscemi, Fred Willard, Ray Liotta, Rooney Mara, M.Emmet Walsh Elevator Pitch A sixteen year old youth falls in love with a girl be meets … Continue reading
Released 2016 Rating (UK) 12A Source of story A play “Fences” by August Wilson Writer/s script August Wilson (and one other who is not credited, but who completed the screenplay after the author had died) Director Denzel Washington Starring Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson Elevator Pitch A rubbish … Continue reading
Released 2012 Rating (UK) 12A Source of story The Bourne outings and the character in books by Robert Ludlum Writer/s script Tony Gilroy, Dan Gilroy Writer/s story Tony Gilroy Director Tony Gilroy Starring Jeremy Renner, Scott Glen, Stacy Keach, Edward Norton, Rachel Weisz, Albert Finney, Joan Allen Elevator Pitch Jason Bourne is still out there, … Continue reading
Released 2012 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story The previous Alice outings, and originally a video game Writer/s script Paul W.S. Anderson Director Paul W.S. Anderson Starring Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez, Bingbing Li, Oded Fehr, Colin Salmon Elevator Pitch Alice, or maybe a version of her, is released from an Umbrella Corporation cell … Continue reading
Released 2011 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An origingal screenplay Writer/s script Chad Law, Evan Law Director William Kaufman Starring Cuba Gooding Jr, Cole Hauser, Jonathan LaPaglia, Ginny Weirick Elevator Pitch A man is passed over for promotion, which he was relying on to allow him to pay a major gambling debt and getting … Continue reading
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