You have been dumped in the Glory Days of the Hollywood Studios (1930s
or therebouts) with the addresses of the the Idea People of the
studios in question, a set of proper ID/refernces to get you in the
door, and one of the following in the form of a bound Screenplay.

BTW, to give you a bit more motivation you have no money.

Black Lagoon
Avatar: the Last Airbender
Witch Hunter Robin
Girl Genius
Mahou Sensei Negima!
Heroes
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
Firefly
Neon Genesis Evangelion
The Terminator
Gargoyles
Ranma 1/2
Boondocks

In rec.arts.sf.movies heretic yahoo.com> wrote:

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I'd bet on _Ranma 1/2_. A man who changes into a woman when doused with
cold water is a concept that would fit right in in one of those light
fantasy/comedies that old Hollywood often did well (_Topper_, _The Ghost
and Mrs. Muir_, et al.).

Avoid normal situations. wrote:

Anybody ever make a movie of Thorne Smith's Turnabout?

In article enews1.newsguy.com>,
Avoid normal situations. eskimo.com> wrote:

In article enews1.newsguy.com>,
Avoid normal situations. eskimo.com> wrote:

A lot of Ranma is based on parodies and exaggerations of martial arts
movies and Japanese culture. Hollywood decades ago would care about and
understand neither of these.

In article blue.rahul.net>,
Ken Arromdee green.rahul.net> wrote:

True, and it would have to be modified somewhat.
Perhaps a Western, with a tomboy cowgirl who can out-ride and
out-rope all the boys? A collection of shape-changing pools
somewhere out in the lone prairee, found and lost _ad libitum_
like ghostly gold mines, would fit right in.

So, would any of these concepts have succeeded in 1930s Hollywood?

(Disclaimer: I haven't actually seen/read all these concepts, but I
think I know enough about them to answer the question.)

Given the popularity of both gangsters and pirates, it might have
worked in the 30s (albeit with a lot of retooling).

Martial arts weren't that popular then.

Maybe; horror was popular in the 30s.

It's similar enough to the pulp fiction of the time that it might have
had a chance.

Fantasy wasn't popular then.
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Maybe, considering that superheroes were just emerging then, but would
the special effects of the day been able to do the concept justice?

On Mar 26, 2:34 pm, heretic yahoo.com> wrote:

This could work but you need to get rid of the violent nuns.

This will not work unless it is really re-tooled. You need
to de-Asian it and make it Western. Even then, most of the audience
will not have a base to act as a reference for getting it.

These two could work without much retooling.

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:01:45 -0700 (PDT), marklungo
care2.com> wrote:

Ah, but we/they didn't know any better, did they/we?

I remember being absolutely satisfied with the FX in the "AUperman"
teevee series (of course, i was five or six at the time) and blown
away by some of Harryhausen's stop-motion and George Pal stuff like
"War of the Worlds" (which is still superior top the Spielberg remake,
BTW).

In article <55ab9677-17bc-4e93-9a6f-5f88f34e7f04@24g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
marklungo care2.com> wrote:

But westerns were also popular.