What would you like me to make next???

[RydCook]

just love the idea of Sweet Maria. i am very intuigued by all the others though, to be honest i'd happily see any of them made next. Hope you can make a decision Shane, and good luck.

[PatrickCoyle]

Shane, don't be lazy - do 'em all next.

[marksherbert]

Me and Miss Donk just found an interview with Shane on leftlion.co.uk in which he said this:

You've just signed up to your next three feature films. Can you tell us a little about each of them...

"The first is called Mary and is a dark film set in the care system. It's about all the abuse that goes on in the foster homes and young offenders centres. I'm going to be looking into things in an almost documentary style."

After reading that we reckon he should definitely pursue that one, the material looks spot on for what Shane is good at.

[mackem1]

I like the Bartley Gorman idea. I've heard that Shane has links to this idea before and I think it would be a real labour of love for him.

[Dave]

marksherbert said:

Me and Miss Donk just found an interview with Shane on leftlion.co.uk in which he said this:

I must blow my own trumpet here and point out that I have that link on the LINKS page under interviews. I recall using it when I first made the site! ;D

[Workshed]

OMG - I know i'm a bit late on this discussion - BUT - THE OFFENCE ROCKS..! I watched it with my mum when i was about six and it scared the bejeezuz oot of me. Anything with The Bannen stops me in my tracks. The man was a natural. Connery, as we all know, was on a roll at that stage of his career with movie like Zardoz and, my personal fave, The Man Who Would Be King.

You can get a smashing copy of The Offence from Emule. I did. I don't think Sidney Lumet will miss the £5.

Here's an idea. How would you like to make my script, 'Godless'. Failing that, make 'Jesus' first, then 'Sweet Maria'. You'll probably come up with something better in the meantime. I hate it when things are pitched at me like 'Citizen Kane meets Dune'. Bugs the fuck out of me in fact. I want 'THE FILM IS CALLED 'X' AND HERE'S THE FUCKIN' PLOT AND YOU BETTER LISTEN BECAUSE THIS IS THE BEST FUCKIN' OSCILLATIONS YOUR EARS ARE EVER GOING TO DECODE ETC ETC'. Anything else is just fishing. Never make a film unless you believe in the germ. Contrarily, you can work on any idea/treatment and get it to something approaching a shooting script and, if you allow for improvisation, you never know what might happen.

[wiggy]

i'd love to see king of the gypsies but if i were you i would ask me to send you a script i'm in the middle of all about the northern rave scene in 1990....... worth a shot lol
but all in all anything with paddy c in it would be awfully swell.

www.myspace.com/woodwigfilms

[DeLarge]

How about a proper Robin Hood film, sounds a bit obvious I know. But a proper fuck off violent true one would be good and Robin Hood's not American with a mullet either.

Failing that how about a war film?

I'm struggling maybe.

All the options sound good and I must confess I've never seen the Offence. Good then?

[Hyde]

I'm not gonna vote just yet, The King of Gypsies would make a great movie, love the book, but it would be a pretty expensive film to make etc.

The idea of Paddy in this new one sounds great. Hmmm.

Theres somewhere on the main site that gives better info isnt there, I'll paste it here if thats cool.

Edit: Stuck between "Mary" and "Sweet Maria"

someone mentioned a war film haha why not? didnt Alan Clarke do one? "Contact"?

You could just get some amry unforms and weapons, go to some hills and make a film about the falklands war or something haha.

but theres a lot of good film ideas on that list, it would be easier to do them. I'll go with Mary.

edit:SHANE READ THE BOOK COMPULSION AND MAKE A FILM OF IT!!!!

Its about a group of kids terrorising an old fokes home and the old people getting revenge.

haha just an idea.

[funkcity]

It`s got to be King of the Gypsies, i`m dying to see that film get made! If it`s half as good as the book... I`d love to see Bartley meet Ali on the big screen `i`m the lord o` the lanes`, and in Doncaster getting his leg nearly sawn off would be another great film moment. I don`t know who could play Bartley, I think Paddy could pull it off verbally, he can do the voice as he proved in Romeo Brass, and he`s a good enough actor to act BIG. Ideally though someone with the size of Pat Roach would be perfect, although you`d never have got a film made with Pat Roach as the star.

[Hyde]

Yeah look at how De Niro got himself in shape to play Jake LaMatta, Paddy could do that.

I just dont think now is the time to make this film. Shane already talked about this in another thread and about how expensive it would be to make. idk maybe you can now Shane?

[Phil]

Sweet Maria sounds great and is top o' my list.

[Workshed]

I would like to see you make a film of Stan Barstow's 'Joby' or 'Spit Nolan' (and let me write the script). I tried to get it into production when i was at Salford Uni 15 years ago but my directing/literary skills were not what they are now.

[funkcity]

Shane, Willy Russell was talking about a remake of his eighties series One Summer: uk.imdb.com/title/tt0252156/ about two Scouse lads running away to Wales for the summer.

It`d be great given the Meadows touch!


Another film i`ve always wanted to see made is of the short story, Late Night on Watling Street by Bill Naughton (i think he wrote Get Carter). It`s set in a transport caf on the A5 in the 1960`s. It`s got some good dialogue, a bit of action, and it`d be cheap to make.

[funkcity]

Here`s a link to a picture of the book to wet your appetite, it`s out of print but you can pick up a copy cheap on amazon

www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jimthing/kitchen.htm