A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about how studios are creating movie trailers that feel more like a music video than a commercial. They are pulling this off by perfectly pairing music with scenes from the movie. The Logan and Thor Ragnorak trailers are perfect examples.
Margot Robbie as Harley Quin was the only redeeming feature of the movie Suicide Squad. Yet they managed to make the music video/trailer look awesome.
I realized that I forgot one more great example. In fact, all of the trailers for Suicide Squad were actually far better than the movie itself (which is one of the worst movies I have ever seen). The movie really only had about 3 minutes of actual content so a music video was the perfect length. There were a few to choose from. Here's my favorite one using the song Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.
Ok but what about the title of this post?
In the comments of my original post, joked about turning every music video ever into a full length movie (it makes sense since it seems movie studios are clearly running out of ideas). We continued joking in chat and he gave me his permission to hijack his idea and do a post about it... he's cool like that.
So...
Which music video would you like to see turned into a full length movie?
Personally, I would love to see Where's Your Head At? by the Basement Jaxx turned into a movie.
When this video was released way back in 2001, it had some of the most cutting edge special effects available at the time. I was blown away by Traktor's ( a highly secretive Swedish production team consisting of five directors and two producers) ability to transpose human faces on the monkeys. They looked perfect! The story was also pretty clever.
If the video were expanded to a movie, they could go in one of several different directions.
It could be a sci-fi/horror movie about evil scientists capturing humans and splicing them with monkeys. Perhaps even make the villains some government agency that is using alien technology in order to create these hybrids. Maybe they need the hybrids to infiltrate that same alien race. The possibilities are endless.
Or they could make a satire poking fun at the American population and its tendency to like crappy entertainment. The man-monkeys could release a song that the record industry forces to go platinum. The company thinks they are playing a trick on the public. Instead of thinking "we are morons for liking man-monkey music" the fans go crazy for it and want more man-animal combinations. (A new take on The Producers)
This could also be a straight up comedy... because monkeys doing anything is freaking hilarious. They could pick up after the man-monkeys are created in the lab and just take the plot from Almost Famous and switch Stillwater with the man-monkeys. Hijinks ensues. Who wouldn't want to see that?
But the absolute best option would be to make a mockumentary like This is Spinal Tap.
They actually already have a nice start...