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Duration 1h 30m Rating (UK) 12 Source of story A book by George Durham (as told to Clyde Wantland) “Taming the Nueces Strip” based on his own experiences. (1962). Writer/s Script Scott Busby, Martin Copeland Writer/s Story This work seems to have gone through a number of iterations before actually being made. There are disgruntled … Continue reading
Duration 2h 5m Rating (UK) PG Source of story The original Tron from 1982 Writer/s Script Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz Writer/s Story Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, Brian klugman, Lee Sternthal plus Steven Lisberger and Bonny MacBird (characters) Director Joseph Kosinski Starring Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner, Michael Sheen, Cillian Murphy Elevator Pitch … Continue reading
Duration 2h 30m Rating (UK) 12A Source of story A Hasbro toy and the first film of the franchise Writer/s Script Ehren Kruger, Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman Director Michael Bey Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Kevin Dunn, Julia White, Peter Cullen, Hugo Weaving, Michael York Elevator Pitch Back in … Continue reading
Released 2015 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story A tenuous relationship with the Transporter franchise Writer/s Script Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Luc Besson Writer/s Story Characters: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen Director Camille Delamarre Starring Ed Strein, Ray Stevenson, Loan Chabanol, Gabriella Wright, Tatiana Pajkovic Elevator Pitch Frank Martin (the second) continues to transport stuff … Continue reading
Released 2014 Rating (UK) 15 (R in America) Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s Script Tom Gormican Director Tom Gormican Starring Zac Efron, Michael B Jordan, Miles Teller, Imogen Poots, Mackenzie Davis, Elevator Pitch Three young men, two of them book cover designers and one a doctor, get together just to have fun and … 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 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 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 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 2008 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s script Justin Theroux, Ben Stiller, Etan Cohen Writer/s story Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux Director Ben Stiller Starring Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr, Jack Black, Brandon T Jackson, Steve Coogan, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Cruise Elevator Pitch When filming of an … Continue reading
Released 2013 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screen play Writer/s script Joe Ahern, John Hodge Writer/s story Joe Ahern (Who made a TV film of it in 2001) Director Danny Boyle Starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassell, Danny Sapani, Matt Cross Elevator Pitch A young fine art auctioneer with gambling debts … Continue reading
Released 1990 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s script S.S.Wilson, Brent Maddock Writer/s story S.S.Wilson, Brent Maddock, Ron Underwood Director Ron Underwood Starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Michael Gross, Finn Carter, Reba McEntire, Tony Genaro Elevator Pitch The inhabitants of the tiny desert town of Perfection are beseiged by a number … Continue reading
Released 2008 Rating 12A in UK Director Jeffrey Nachmanoff Writer/s Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Steve Martin Starring Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Said Taghmaoui, Neil McDonough, Archie Panjabi, Jeff Daniels Source of story An original screenplay from an idea by Steve Martin Elevator Pitch In the violent world of the jihadists a former special forces engineer in deep … Continue reading
Released 2011 Rating 12A in UK Director Michael Bay Writer/s Ehren Kruger Starring Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson, Patrick Dempsey, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Kevin Dunn, Alan Tudyk, Peter Cullen, Hugo Weaving, Leonard Nimoy Source of story Unbelievably a diecast toy, previous films and a book called “Transformers: Ghosts of … Continue reading
Released 2009 Rating 12A in UK Director Robert Schwentke Writer/s Bruce Joel Rubin Starring Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston, Stephen Tobolowsky Source of story Book of the same name by Audrey Niffenegger Elevator Pitch A young man and woman meet in a library apparently for the first time, but she knows him because in … Continue reading
Released 2010 Rating 12A Director John Luessenhop Writer/s Peter Allen, Gabriel Casseus, Avery Duff Starring Matt Dillon, Idris Elba, Paul Walker Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A bunch of super smart thieves undertake a heist prompted by the return of one of their number from jail, who is in some way involved … Continue reading
Released 2014 Rating 12A In UK Director James March Writer/s Anthony McCarten Starring Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, David Thewlis, Source of story Book by Jane Hawking Elevator Pitch Stephen Hawking is a young brilliant theoretical scientist whose life is predicted to be short when he is diagnosed with motor-neurone disease. But he has married a … Continue reading
Released 2001 Rating 15 in UK Director Gregory Poirier Writer/s Gregory Poirier Starring Jerry O’Connell, Shannon Elizabeth, Jake Busey Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A group of young men make an investment each contributing a sum of money, to be collected by the last one left single. When, years later there are … Continue reading
Released 1999 Rating 15 in UK Director Clint Eastwood Writer/s Larry Gross, Paul Brickman, Stephen Schiff Starring Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, James Woods, Bernard Hill Source of story A novel by Andrew Klavan Elevator Pitch A veteran reporter who is screwing his immediate boss’s wife, is given the job of covering an execution which is … Continue reading
Released 2003 Rating 12A in UK Director Jonathan Mostow Writer/s John Brancato, Michael Ferris Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken Source of story Earlier Terminators, James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd credited with having invented the characters. Elevator Pitch John Connor has survived into young adulthood by living “off the grid” but … Continue reading
Released 2010 Rating 12A in UK Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Writer/s Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Christopher McQuarrie, Julian Fellows Starring Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A woman who is under surveilance, selects a man at random on a train to be a decoy, … Continue reading
Released 2015 Rating 15 in UK Director Jay Roach Writer/s John McNamara Starring Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Elle Fanning Source of story Real events and book by Bruce Cook Elevator Pitch Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and nine others are called before Congress to answer allegations that they are members of the communist party. They … Continue reading
Released 1983 Rating 15 in UK Director John Landis Writer/s Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod Starring Dan Akroyd, Eddie Murphy, Don Ameche, Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliott, Ralph Bellamy, Frank Oz, James Belushi Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch At the whim of a couple of financiers a homeless man and a young businessman … Continue reading
Released 2009 Rating PG Director McG Writer/s John Brancato, Michael Ferris Starring Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodwood, Helena Bonham Carter, Anton Yelchin, Bryce Dallas Howard Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch The war between humans and the machines goes on, but then a mystery man appears in the desolate destructed landscape, appearing … Continue reading
Released 2009 Rating 15 in UK Director Tony Scott Writer/s Brian Helgeland Starring Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James Gandolfini, John Turturro, Source of story Originally a novel by John Godey then a film in 1974 Elevator Pitch A group of criminals take control of a single metro car containing a number of passengers and issue … Continue reading
Released 2011 Rating 12A in UK Director Terence Malick Writer/s Terence Malick Starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A journey in fantasy of a family in Texas in the 1950s Content Lots of obscure scenes, apparently with little connection one to another, including at one … Continue reading
Released 2008 Rating 15 Director Oliver Megaton Writer/s Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen Starring Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova Source of story Original Screenplay Elevator Pitch Frank Martin finds himself with the job of delivering a package to the Black Sea, as well as a young woman who is apparently suffering from drugs or alcohol excess, … Continue reading
Released 1999 Rating U in UK Director John Lasseter, Ash Brannon Writer/s Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin, Chris Webb Starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer. Source of story John Lasseter, Pete Docter for the original Toy Story Elevator Pitch Woody is stolen by a toy collector resulting in him meeting with … Continue reading
Released 2005 Rating 15 in UK Director Louis Leterrieer Writer/s Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen Starring Jason Statham, Kate Nauta, Amber Valletta Source of story Now the Transporter franchise Elevator Pitch An underworld “driver” has a contract to transport a child to and from school when he becomes embroiled in a diabolical plot to infect … Continue reading
Released 1984 Rating 15 in UK Director James Cameron Writer/s James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch In the future humans, led by John Connor, are battling with the machines which have taken over the planet, so in order to eliminate him, … Continue reading
Released 2002 Rating 15 in UK Director Louis Leterrier, Cory Yuen Writer/s Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen Starring Jason Statham, Qi Shu, Francois Berleand Source of story Original Screenplay Elevator Pitch A highy trained ex-soldier transports anything for a fee, but when he opens the bag in the boot of his car (trunk to you … Continue reading
Released 1995 Rating PG in UK Director John Lasseter Writer/s John Lasseter, Pete Docter Starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen Source of story Original screenplay Elevator Pitch All toys actually come to life when humans are not present and Andy’s toys, including his favourite Woody, a cowboy, are no exceptions. When a new toy Buzz Lightyear, … Continue reading
Released 2002 Rating 12A in UK Director Jonathan Demme Writer/s Peter Stone, J.Demme Starring Mark Wahlberg, Thandie Newton, Tim Robbins, Stephen Dillane Source of story Apparently a remake of “Charade” Elevator Pitch A young woman in Paris finds out that she is a widow and a number of people are chasing her, thinking she has … Continue reading
Released 2007 Rating 12A in UK Director Michael Bay Writer/s Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, John Voigt, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturo Source of story Unbelievably – a die cast toy Elevator Pitch Two conflicting races of mechanical people capable of taking on the outlines of vehicles and aircraft fight … Continue reading
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