Monkey Island movie
I just registered here. I love the Monkey Island games(not all of them though). No, this topic is not an announcement of a Monkey Island movie in production. That is not happening. I just have some ideas for how I think someone should make one if anyone ever does. The first Monkey Island game was pretty good. The second one was the greatest computer game I've ever played(off the top of my head I can remember having finished 12 computer games, all of which were made by Lucasarts). The best thing I like about about "LeChuck's Revenge: Monkey Island"(the real title of Monkey Island 2 in its opening credits, at least. There was no "2" in the title of the game accept for in its closing credits) is its humor. The 3rd game, "The Curse of Monkey Island", was ok but not as good as either of the first 2. I guess my favourite part of 3rd one was the fake ending/fake death in one of the crypts on Blood Island. "Escape From Monkey Island" was pretty bad in my opinion. I find the 4th game insulting. It seems to make fun of handicaps and mostly ignores what happened in its predeccessors. Without spoiling the game for whoever hasn't played it there were 2 ways to end the first game and it ignores one of them. It also ignores the 3rd game in that according to that one, Big Whoop was on Monkey Island and when Guybrush is on Monkey Island in the 4th game Big Whoop is gone from the exact same place it was in the 3rd game. I think the games should have stopped with the second one. If they make another one I think it should ignore the 3rd and 4th games and maybe begin immediatly after the end of "LeChuck's Revenge: Monkey Island". I also think Ron Gilbert should be involved in its production, particularly in writing the script for it(I would LOVE to see him make another Monkey Island game or movie). He may be the only person to have worked on the first one who is still interested in making a sequel. It would be interesting to see a production like this begin as a movie/sequel instead of making a movie out of the first 2 games to begin with. I think some good choices for the cast and crew would be the following: Peter Jackson as director(if it were a movie I mean) or even Ron Gilbert himself. Elijah Wood(Wood said that the Monkey Island games were his favorite games in Entertainment Weekly so maybe he'd be interested) or Topher Grace as Guybrush Threepwood(If Guybrush ever finds a cure for the spell he seems to have had cast on him at the end of the second game). Gary Oldman is the first person to come into my mind for who would make a good LeChuck. I think Julianne Moore or Rachel Weiz would fit the part of Governor Elaine Marley. Tony Shaulhoub might work as Largo LaGrande, if he were to return. Perhaps the best choice I can think of for Herman Toothrot(He couldn't possibly be Grandfather Marley. For that to work, you would have to ignore the Captain's Log aboard the Sea Monkey ship Guybrush reads in the 1st game and the book "Big Whoop: Unclaimed Bonanza or Myth?" that Guybrush reads in the 2nd game. A comparison of those two books brings ample proof that Herman Toothrot is not H.T. Marley) would be John Cleese. If Carla the Swordmaster would be there I'd like to see Beyonce Knowles play her, but I don't see what the Sword Master would do if she returned. The only good small actor I can think of(again, off the top of my head) to play Wally the Cartographer if he returned would be Warwick Davis. I'd imagine there would need to be many special effects in a Monkey Island movie, and I think whoever did the special effects for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy(I think that was WETA workshop) could make a Monkey Island movie work(not on their own, but with a good cast and crew too. I'd kind of like to hear Michael Land compose the music again.
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