Star Wars: Episodes 7-9
It has recently come to my attention that George Lucas never intended a third trilogy.
This distresses and depresses me.
I was kinda lookin forward to a mature Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill)
while Han Solo (Harrison Ford) n Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) are parents to the next generation of Jedi
- even an animated Yoda can offer sage wisdom from the other side.
How bout this: the Emperor may be gone, but he set up a school for the Sith, who must now be stopped.
Starman
Arguably one of John Carpenter's best films - n still plays well today, though made in 84.
The title character (Jeff Daniels) can possibly come back from beyond
to visit love interest (Karen Allen) and their human-alien hybrid kid, who would be about 20 by now.
The good guy scientist (Charles Martin Smith) can still be in SETI
which is no longer a government agency (yes, in real life), being entirely privately funded
- also, something can be in there about SETI@home, alien abductions, Area 51 .......
Ferris Bueller's Week Off
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, along with
The Breakfast Club,
(both from 1986) are two of my favorite flicks of the 80s.
Packed fulla future stars, everyone in
Ferris Beuhler's Week Off will be well paid
- fer sure - but that's OK, it'll rake in the dough n be an instant classic, if it's done right.
A Brat Pack reunion: Slam in the cameos, or minor roles
ever expanding on a parallel universe with Breakfast Club, (both taking place in suburban Chicago)
- everyone who graduated in the 80s will be talkin about this at the 25th reunion.
Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez, brothers in real life, may replicate that fraternal situation on screen
- the former character having married Ferris' sister (Jennifer Grey),
and the latter having hooked up with Alison, the Basket Case (Ally Sheedy).
Wouldn't it be ironic to have "The Criminal" Bender (Judd Nelson)
be the new Saturday detention babysitter?
Claire (Molly Ringwald) can be a cheerleading coach or art teacher, or both;
and she's getting a hard time from Principal Richard "Dick" Vernon (Paul Gleason), who cameos.
Ferris' kid may be serving detention, but escapes to go on the international adventure.
Brian Ralph Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall) can be Ferris' boss,
who keeps running into computerized recordings and thinks Ferris is at work the whole time
- but leave it open what he does for a living, except that it's a fairly decent but ultimately boring job;
to expand on the question in the original, "what do you think Ferris will do for a living?"
and then have him somehow be a fry-cook at Venus for a couple minutes, as a cover.
Ferris' buddy Cameron (Alan Ruck) will hafta go with him, on a jaunt around the world,
but this time, for a twist, maybe Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is the one who needs to lighten up a bit?
Ferris' hot girlfriend Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara), is now his wife, and they got a couple troublemaker kids now.
Principal Ed Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), his secretary Grace (Edie McClurg), the Maitre'd (Jonathan Schmock)
and the Garage Attendants (Richard Edson, Larry Flash Jenkins) are also musts.
West Wing
OK, so this is a TV show, n it isn't done yet - but President Bartlett (Martin Sheen)
once said to Sam Seyborne (Rob Lowe) "you're gonna run for president one day,"
leaving it open for that character to fill the Oval Office
when the term runs out in the middle of the 2006-07 season.
For some reason, when I heard Rob Lowe ("Rah Blow")
was leaving the series for his own show,
I thought it was gonna be the same character,
which left the lineup to be a Congressman from California.
This is what this character could have been doing all this time.
Besides, I like the show - even if the creator, Aaron Sorkin, has left
- n I hate to see it go off the air at the end of 7 years,
even if everybody's gotten that much older already ;o)
