1.) Peter Scolari becomes famous from Bosom Buddies instead of Tom Hanks. In a world where this happens, there is no internet; instead, people send notes to and fro via model trains that run from house to house and along the skyline. Write a note, pop it in the little coal car or the caboose and off it goes to its destination. There can be some sort of James Ellroy-style murder mystery going on as well, that's not my department. Still, Terry Gilliam can do this one. Imagine the climax of the the story taking place at the Hub where all the trains go in and out, with, I dunno, Steve Buscemi as the Hubmaster guy, and a scene where Peter Scolari is accepting an Oscar on a TV on someone's police station office desk. Tom Hanks (who can also executive produce) makes a comical cameo, groveling to PS in thanks for a, um, cameo. GOLD!2.) Another mystery: this is like Rear Window, only it's about Francois Truffaut in California in the 70's shooting his scenes for Close Encounters of
the Third Kind. One night he hears a brief eldritch shriek and a thud from the next room! More "clues" appear (I don't have time for all these details!), all the while during the day FT continues to shoot his scenes for Spielberg, which call for full-scale replicas of the ship in the desert, the trip to India, all that stuff, with EXACT costumes, etc. Needless to say (?), the whole thing ends with a shootout/chase scene across the alien landing set-piece at Devil's Tower. Again, all this crap needs to be rebuilt to such as exactitude that even the most strict sci-fi geek is dumbstruck. Maybe Henry Winkler can play Truffaut. Spike, get on it!
3.) This is the simplest and could be done by Merchant/Ivory: the 21-year-old Sarah Palin, loopy with anticipation, and her activities the day before Prince's Around the World in a Day comes out. She's a huge fan! Movie can close with her walking up to her local RecordShack as the store opens. "A revelation!" - Rex Reed.
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