Instead of the whole 'pandemic' storyline that we've seen before, how about a movie just about those who decided to get on board these ships and hope for the best?
You could have people dying, the ship being refused to dock, people deciding to jump ship.
It might make for a good disaster movie.
We are already living it, why would you pay to watch a 90 minute version of the same thing?
It would also be somewhat disrespectful to the family members of the victims... but I'm pretty sure many producers won't care about that.
I bet hundreds of movies will come out of this though, but it's a subject which doesn't appeal to me.
Perhaps comedies and uplifting movies will make a comeback once this is under control because of the depressing times we are currently going thru right now.
I'm wondering how many of these cruise ship enterprises are going to go bankrupt. Being known as " floating petri dishes " is not going to be good for business.
Too soon but yes.
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Probably not, but the pinheads in Hollyweird will probably do one anyway.
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I think they ought to make an old-fashioned, cheesy, all-star, borderline camp movie about an infected cruise ship!
If they leave out the cheesiness, it won't be any fun to watch, it'll be just like real life. And real life is no fun right now.
PS: Of course what I REALLY want to see is a movie about a billionaire who tries to wait out the pandemic on a huge luxury yacht, and either the plague breaks out on board when they're a thousand miles from the nearest hospital, or they're attacked by sea pirates. The hero of the film would not be the billionaire, of course, it'd be a plucky young crew member who manages to survive the billionaire's narcissism and chaos.
This would be the perfect movie for Newman, Kennedy and McQueen!
Edit: maybe throw in a scene where they all compare scars, I don't think that's been done yet
It might make for a good disaster movie.
Barely anyone dies in Airport, The Towering Inferno and other disaster flicks of the 70s heyday. I don't think disaster movies are necessarily defined by bodycount.
Hardly anyone dies in Outbreak either.
Those movies don't have a big body count, but they have a potential big body count. Perhaps the airplane doesn't crash, but if it does, everybody dies.
The coronavirus was almost a full outbreak in the Diamond Princess, and 7 people out of 4,000 died. What would have happened if the outbreak wasn't partially contained in the ship? What was the potential body count? Perhaps instead of 7 deaths, there could have been 8! Or 9!!! Let's not be shy! There could have been 10 deaths out of 4,000!!! What a great disaster movie!!
Ah there go the goal posts. It's nothing to do with body count. It's potential bodycount. And you know for a fact that 7 was the max number that could have died. Right.
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