ATL Movies Challenge

[bytor]

Take a popular OTL movie that would have still existed in an ATL but have been changed somehow. Give us the title and new synopsis see if we can guess what the PoD was and why it changed the movie.

[Krall]

Could you give an example to start us off?

[bytor]

Luke, under the tutelage of exiled prince Obi-Wan Kenobi, fights to bring back the remnants of Empire and restore the rightful ruler of the galaxy that has been taken over by power-hungry, uncouth rebel commoners.

[steve59]

Apr 20, 2017 19:02:05 GMT bytor said:

Luke, under the tutelage of exiled prince Obi-Wan Kenobi, fights to bring back the remnants of Empire and restore the rightful ruler of the galaxy that has been taken over by power-hungry, uncouth rebel commoners.

  Which might make "The Empire Strikes Back" the last film in the franchise.   Possibly the 1st is a version of the Scarlet Pimpernel in Space.

[Krall]

Apr 20, 2017 19:02:05 GMT bytor said:

Luke, under the tutelage of exiled prince Obi-Wan Kenobi, fights to bring back the remnants of Empire and restore the rightful ruler of the galaxy that has been taken over by power-hungry, uncouth rebel commoners.

Interesting. I'm guessing this comes from a world where Britain wins the revolutionary war, so the narrative of the film is more in their favour?

[MinnesotaNationalist]

In the Fault in Our Stars, based on the best-selling book, cancer patient Hazel Grace Lancaster and cancer-survivor Augustus Waters head to beautiful Antwerp to visit Hazel's favorite author, Peter van Houten.

[steve59]

Apr 21, 2017 16:39:02 GMT Krall said:

Apr 20, 2017 19:02:05 GMT bytor said:

Luke, under the tutelage of exiled prince Obi-Wan Kenobi, fights to bring back the remnants of Empire and restore the rightful ruler of the galaxy that has been taken over by power-hungry, uncouth rebel commoners.

Interesting. I'm guessing this comes from a world where Britain wins the revolutionary war, so the narrative of the film is more in their favour?

  That might be a possibility although the butterflies from such an event are likely to be so huge that the social situation in both Britain and whatever status the colonies are in by the time films are developed that they could have just about any political position by that time.  You could even have a British republic by then.  It is a obvious possibility to get the film set up but you could say have the film made in an Imperial Russia after the defeat of the revolution or a Japan or China which stays an autocratic empire.

[punkrockbowler805]

Stanley Kubrick films Napoleon with Jack Nicholson as Bonaparte instead of The Shining as almost happened in OTL. The script is out there. It didn't go because a Rod Steiger movie about Waterloo bombed. Butterfly that and you got yourself with Jack the Corsican Ogre axing his way through Europe.

Alejandro Jodorowsky does his version of Dune. Soundtrack by Pink Floyd, Orson Welles as Baron Harkonnen, Salvador Dali as Shaddam Corrino, Mick Jagger as Feyd Rautha, design by HR Giger and ten hours long.