On the 7th day of Halloween, Burbanked asks “What if…?”
By Burbanked on Oct 25, 2006 in Movies | 1,112 views |
What if Gene Hackman had played Hannibal Lecter?
What if New Line Studios had never made A Nightmare On Elm Street?
What if, upon hearing from Palpatine that he himself murdered Padme, the newly-behelmeted Darth Vader simply paused…and then, in the rich, evil baritone of the Vader we know he’ll become, simply said “So be it.”
What if a zombie couldn’t even be killed with a headshot?
What if Batman tangled with the Alien? (find a larger version of this bizarre and unsettling picture here)
What if Michael Stipe of R.E.M. had played John Doe in Seven?
What if no one ever thought to put butter on movie popcorn?
What if the first Stephen King story to be adapted for the movies had been The Body (which of course became Stand By Me) instead of Carrie?
What if Hitchcock never thought to do cameos in his movies?
What if the costumers for the original Halloween, instead of modifying a William Shatner mask for Michael Myers to wear, had chosen Sulu? Or Chekov?
What if Elliott had had a dad?
What if you could have the Amityville Horror windows in your house?
What if Night of the Living Dead was made as a studio film today - would preview audiences demand that Ben make it out of the movie alive?
What if Jill Clayburgh had decided to play Ripley?
My blog-love affair with cartoonist Doug Savage’s terrific daily Savage Chickens (
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because clearly Cage has decided to become action/thriller cinema’s first Polish great-grandma. (
Well, that’s too bad. Back a year or so ago when I heard that they’d be making a movie out of Judi and Ron Barrett’s terrific kids’ book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, I hoped maybe it’d be made live-action. Handled well, the idea of seeing an actual town where it rained hotdogs and baked beans in an open-roof restaurant, as well as the bit where sanitation trucks clean up all the leftover rain/snow/food and feed it to the pets would be, I thought, a bundle of CG-imbued cinema fun. 
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