Stories by @danepeplinski

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Alice in Wonderland

A live action adaptation directed by Yorgos Lanthimos in a surreal maximalist weird world.

Robert Eggers’s A Christmas Carol

A darker and more horror style take on A Christmas Carol that Robert Eggers would be perfect to direct.

Tim Burton’s Into The Woods

A darker and bolder version of the musical that tells the whole story.

The Strange Thing About The Johnson’s (Feature Length)

Beau (2011) was originally a short film and Ari Aster turned it into a feature length film. The Strange Thing About The Johnson’s is a brutal short film that shows the horrifying reality of sexual abuse that occurs in some families. Plot: Sidney Johnson is a famous poet who lives at home with his wife and his son who sexually abuses him, gaslights him, and controls him. He writes a tell all book and he must get it sent out before his son finds out.

The Hat Lady of Hollywood

A story about the downfall of Hedda hopper during the 1940’s where she made so many enemies along with her major clashing with Luella Parsons.

The Warren Files

A television anthology series taking on the life of famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren and the cases they investigated. This would be a horror television series on either HBO Max, Hulu, Apple TV, Paramount Plus, or Peacock.

Greta Gerwig’s Narnia

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Virulent

Virulent is my next film I want to work on, which will be a short film this time. I also have a feature film idea which differs a lot from the short film plot. This is the cast I would pick for the feature film plot.

Corridors

Corridors was my first film and feature film I directed last year and it is now in post production. This is the cast I would pick if I was given a huge budget after giving the script.

The Phantom of the Opera

A remake of the 2004 film.

Expedition

A biopic about the Lewis, Clark, and Sacajawea expedition.

High School Film Club

Taking place in modern day in the days where we are coming out of the pandemic. A small group of students at a high school in suburban Seattle create a film student club for their high school for student filmmakers to connect and network.

Martin Scorsese Trump Biopic

A crime drama biopic styled like the departed or the Irishman. It would be about Donald Trumps years in the White House where he committed crime, lied about COVID causing many people to die, and tried to overturn the 2020 election. I would hope this has a 4 hour runtime too.

Clue (2022)

A modern day adaption of Clue. It would be aesthetic, trippy, dark, campy, and funny. This version would be intended for more mature audiences.

American Crime Story: Depp Vs Heard

A season taking on the trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. We cut back and forth to the trial and Johnny and Ambers relationship from when they first met to the ending of it where Amber slandered him and ruined his career. The beginning of their relationship will be a homage to ace and Ginger’s first part of their relationship in Casino. We’d also get a perspective of TMZ’s side a bit for when they got the video of Johnny Depp slamming cabinets out of his frustration and burnout and how they wanted to destroy his career since they are miserable jealous people.

Breakdown

A biopic about Britney Spears. It takes place during her breakdown and we also go back and forth to the events what led up to it. The story will focus a lot on Britney’s toxic family and her toxic relationships she had that damaged her.

Fairest

A dark version meant for a mature audience. It would be a lavish and aesthetic medieval period piece with a gothic aesthetic. This version would be kind of a retelling taking place on the evil queen and it’s whole premise would be taking on narcissistic personality disorder and borderline personality of what the queen has and her magic mirror tells her that she is ruining herself and she needs to be better. The queen cuts out beautiful women's hearts and eats them to contain her youth. Snow Whites is her meal ticket to give her eternal youth since she was born of the gift of glimmer.

A Midsummer Nights Dream

A remake of the film adaption but it takes place in the 1600s and it’s super aesthetic.

American Crime Story: Studio 54

Ryan Murphy’s next season will be focused on Studio 54.

The Fantastic Four

The Marvel Adaption that will tie in with the marvel universe that is announced.