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RPM:A remake of Thunder Road?

No.

Focus on the culture of the times. Depict the interactions with other moonshiners,  The proprietary runs, the cat and mouse games with the cops, both with the stills and the cars. 

Then have young John Lee Pettimore return from Nam with a new game.  IDK, maybe that's a sequel...LOLz.

Of course there would be a badass musical score to the flick.

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26 minutes ago, slorch said:

 

RPM:A remake of Thunder Road?

No.

Focus on the culture of the times. Depict the interactions with other moonshiners,  The proprietary runs, the cat and mouse games with the cops, both with the stills and the cars. 

Then have young John Lee Pettimore return from Nam with a new game.  IDK, maybe that's a sequel...LOLz.

Of course there would be a badass musical score to the flick.

Gator 3: Copperhead Road

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4 hours ago, slorch said:

 

RPM:A remake of Thunder Road?

No.

Focus on the culture of the times. Depict the interactions with other moonshiners,  The proprietary runs, the cat and mouse games with the cops, both with the stills and the cars. 

Then have young John Lee Pettimore return from Nam with a new game.  IDK, maybe that's a sequel...LOLz.

Of course there would be a badass musical score to the flick.

did you see “lawless” with tom hardy

  • 4 years later...
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I'm watching Casino yet again. 

The locals say Rosenthal was insufferable asshole. A lot of them resent De Niro's depiction. 

On the other hand, the locals loved Spilotro. A gentleman gangster. 

Great film, but the book is better. For running time purposes they left a lot of meat on the bone. Barely touched on the skim. I guess De Niro and Sharon Stone yelling at each other for 2 hours was more interesting to Scorsese. 

I'm sure his family suing the shit of everybody is determent, but a Tony The Ant series would be awesome.

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The book is fantastic and is far better than the movie, which is still a favorite. Frank actually managed four casinos controlled by the Outfit.

If done today the book would make a fantastic miniseries on HBO.

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1 hour ago, Texzilla58 said:

If done a couple years ago the book would make a fantastic miniseries on HBO.

fify HBO is Discovery now.

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5 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:

The book is fantastic and is far better than the movie, which is still a favorite. Frank actually managed four casinos controlled by the Outfit.

If done today the book would make a fantastic miniseries on HBO.

1) Philly mob movie or series I don’t care if it’s Scarfo or the Merlino-Stanfa War just make it happen. 


2) Third Colombo War. Base it on that rat Scarpa, just get it done.

3) There’s a lot of good Chicago Outfit stories. The 80’s was a pretty interesting period. Operation GambAt would be a great series. 

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I’d like a fictionalized series based on Rising Tide, which is about the great flood of 1927 and how it changed America. I’m a history buff and missed this until I found that book. Read it if you haven’t.

The Mexia oil boom has lots of stories to tell

Freddie Steinmark

Darrell Royal

Aliens attack College Station

The Outfit control of Hot Springs has a lot of stories

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3 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said:

I’d like a fictionalized series based on Rising Tide, which is about the great flood of 1927 and how it changed America. I’m a history buff and missed this until I found that book. Read it if you haven’t.

The Mexia oil boom has lots of stories to tell

Freddie Steinmark

Darrell Royal

Aliens attack College Station

The Outfit control of Hot Springs has a lot of stories

They made a Freddie movie, and it was pretty good given the budget.

Yeah I’d be all in on an Owney Madden - Hot Springs movie or show. I liked Boardwalk Empire, but in a different world, Owney in Hot Springs is a more entertaining show. 

  • 1 year later...
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On 12/15/2018 at 8:52 AM, bluto said:

Scorsese already has Devil and the White City underway. 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/23/dicaprio-scorsese-serial-killer-film-devil-in-the-white-city-back-on-track

article from january.  doesn't mean much yet, other than it's not entirely dead...

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Long-delayed DiCaprio/Scorsese serial killer film Devil in the White City back on track

This article is more than 1 month old

The actor and director have wanted to film the true story of murders at the 1893 World’s Fair for more than a decade, and reports suggest it is back in pre-production

The long-gestating period serial killer film The Devil in the White City, which for almost a decade has been a mooted collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese, is reportedly on the way to production, it has been reported.

According to Deadline, the project is now set up with Hollywood studio 20th Century, which since 2019 has been a subsidiary of Disney after its purchase of Rupert Murdoch’s film and TV studio 20th Century Fox.

Adapted from Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, it is about notorious murderer HH Holmes, who is alleged to have tortured and killed dozens of victims, mostly in his “Murder Castle” in Chicago in the 1890s in the run-up to the 1893 World’s Fair. (Holmes was tried and executed in 1896 for a single killing, of his accomplice Benjamin Pitezel.)

DiCaprio acquired the rights to Larson’s book in 2010, and Scorsese’s involvement was revealed in 2015, shortly after the pair had a substantial box office hit with the stocks trader comedy The Wolf of Wall Street. Although a script by Billy Ray had been completed, the film never materialised and in 2022 the project was converted to a TV series for US streaming platform Hulu, with Keanu Reeves in the lead role and Todd Field directing. It stalled again a year later after Reeves and Field left the project.

A finished film is not likely to appear soon. Deadline reports that no script is attached to the current version of the project, while Scorsese has at least two major feature projects on hand – an adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s novel A Life of Jesus and a biopic of singer Frank Sinatra – as well as Shipwrecks of Sicily, a documentary about marine archaeology. DiCaprio will next be seen in Paul Thomas Anderson’s as yet untitled new film, due out in August.

 

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On 6/10/2023 at 4:22 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

They made a Freddie movie, and it was pretty good given the budget.

Yeah I’d be all in on an Owney Madden - Hot Springs movie or show. I liked Boardwalk Empire, but in a different world, Owney in Hot Springs is a more entertaining show. 

 

Cool story bro: I was on the TCU campus one day 10 or so years ago, and there was something going on at the stadium. It was free to go in, so I did, and they were filming that movie. I got to sit in the stands, so maybe  I'm an extra in the stands somewhere. I had to sign a release before they would let me in. 

It was cool to watch how they filmed the football scenes. But it was also hot as hell, so I didn't stay long. 

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Not sure i want to see an HH Holmes movie. American Horror Story embedded this storyline in their Hotel season with Lady Gaga. Its fucked up.

Stand alone with just a symbolic representation of the Windy City and the Worlds Fair probably wont do the story justice.

I dont think Scorsese or Leo can pull it off anymore. Would be easier to do a limited series, but a cinematic epic would be nice. Just dont want a serial killer movie.
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I'm surprised no one has made a film based on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. I know like 10 different people have started working on an adaptation, but nothing has ever materialized. But if there's one McCarthy novel that seems perfect for the big screen, it's this fucking powerhouse of a book.

I think part of that is that it's really challenging to translate McCarthy's prose to the screen. The only great film made from one of his books is "No Country for Old Men". I guess "The Road" was pretty good too. I thought that "All the Pretty Horses" was successful, but I looked it up and it only made $18 million on a $60+ million budget. So that was a flop. 

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18 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Cool story bro: I was on the TCU campus one day 10 or so years ago, and there was something going on at the stadium. It was free to go in, so I did, and they were filming that movie. I got to sit in the stands, so maybe  I'm an extra in the stands somewhere. I had to sign a release before they would let me in. 

It was cool to watch how they filmed the football scenes. But it was also hot as hell, so I didn't stay long. 

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