Stories by @charlesthefifth

Repo! The Genetic Opera

By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan. Clients who default on payments are hunted down by Repo Men: skilled assassins contracted by GeneCo to repossess organs, usually killing the clients in the process.

Phantom of the Paradise (2020)

What if the 1974 cult musical was made 46 years later?

The Suicide Shop (English Dub)

It centres on an undepressed child born into a proprietorial family that runs a shop that sells suicide adjuncts in a dilapidated, near future city.

The Dead Zone

After waking up from over-a-decade-long coma, Johnny Smith finds out that he can predict the future.

Redwall (My Choice)

As the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey bask in the glorious Summer of the Late Rose, all is quiet and peaceful. But things are not as they seem. Cluny the Scourge—the evil one-eyed rat warlord, is hell-bent on destroying the tranquility as he prepares to fight a bloody battle for the ownership of Redwall. This dazzling story in the Redwall series is packed with all the wit, wisdom, humor, and blood-curdling adventure of the other books in the collection, but has the added bonus of taking the reader right back to the heart and soul of Redwall Abbey and the characters who live there.

Sunshine (1977)

What if the movie Sunshine was made thirty years earlier?

Heathers: The Musical (Animated)

What if Heathers: The Musical was an animated movie?

Knives Out (1979)

What if Knives Out was made forty years earlier?

Into the Woods (Animated)

The musical is tied together by a story involving a childless baker and his wife and their quest to begin a family (the original beginning of The Grimm Brothers' "Rapunzel"), their interaction with a witch who has placed a curse on them, and their interaction with other storybook characters during their journey.

Phantom of the Opera (Animated)

Based on the French novel of the same name by Gaston Leroux, its central plot revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, disfigured musical genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opera House.

The Bone Wars

The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush, was a period of intense and ruthlessly competitive fossil hunting and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope (of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) and Othniel Charles Marsh (of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale). Each of the two paleontologists used underhanded methods to try to outdo the other in the field, resorting to bribery, theft, and the destruction of bones. Each scientist also sought to ruin his rival's reputation and cut off his funding, using attacks in scientific publications.

Calvin and Hobbes

A boy and his tiger.

Paul Williams Biopic

A movie about the life of singer-songwriter Paul Williams. This biopic is meant to take place during the 1970s! Do not cast actors who are much older than the roles they are meant to be playing!

Hotel Transylvania (1992)

The film tells a story of Count Dracula, the owner of a hotel called Hotel Transylvania where the world's monsters can take a rest from human civilization. Dracula invites some of the most famous monsters to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter Mavis.

Superman Rises

Clark Kent’s boss, Perry White, sends him to Phoenix, Arizona, to report on a sighting of an unidentified flying object. When Clark gets there, he finds that it’s more than just a sighting—A farmer has collected a strange machine made of unknown materials. When Clark gets too close to it, the object causes him pain, suggesting that it’s Kryptonian in origin. When he gets back to Metropolis, Lois Lane is mad at him, because Clark often has to break dates with her to save the world. (Lois is unaware at this point that he’s Superman). (Jonathan Kent and Jor-El don't appear in this story)

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (1990s)

Dr. Horrible tries to get into the Evil League of Evil by defeating superhero Captain Hammer.

The City of Lost Children (American Remake)

Krank, a highly intelligent but malicious being created by a vanished scientist, is unable to dream, which causes him to age prematurely. At his lair on an abandoned oil-rig (which he shares with the scientist's other creations: six childish clones, a dwarf named Martha, and a brain in a vat named Irvin), he uses a dream-extracting machine to steal dreams from children. The children are kidnapped for him from a nearby port city by a cyborg cult called the Cyclops, who in exchange he supplies with mechanical eyes and ears. Among the kidnapped is Denree, the adopted little brother of carnival strongman One.

The Addams Family (Modern Cartoon)

A modern animated television series about the Addams Family.

The Great Mouse Detective

The title is self-explanatory.

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2009)

What if The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance was made 10 years earlier?