15 Secondary Movie Characters Whose Version Of Events People Really Want To See

"I'd want to see the kickass Nick Fury movie that's lurking in the background of Captain America: The Winter Soldier."

Sometimes the experiences of secondary movie characters are too interesting to not ponder. So it makes sense that Reddit user u/porcupineapplepieces received a lot of responses when they asked, "If instead of rebooting movies, retelling them from a different point of view became popular, which movie would you like retold?"

Here are 15 of the best answers.

1. "A Lion King prequel from Scar's perspective."

Walt Disney Pictures

"Show what really happened before the Mufasa era and see how Mufasa cheated Scar out of the throne."

–u/clayhamilton922

2. "Fight Club, but from the point of view of one of the people who becomes part of their club."

Fox 2000 Pictures

"Possibly from Angel Face so we see how he was going about life and how he got roped into everything and his justification for continuing to stay. Could be an interesting movie. To see it maybe start out with him as a kid and make it seem lighthearted and then show the fucked-up life he would have that would make him want to take this dark spiral."

–u/cactar54

3. "A Biff Tannen POV retelling of Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II."

Universal Pictures

"He vaguely remembers the other timelines and descends into madness trying to destroy his arch nemesis, Marty McFly."

–u/womprat_bulls_eye

4. "(500) Days of Summer. Would be really interesting to see Summer's perspective on everything."

Fox Searchlight Pictures

–u/kishanmanoj

5. "The Breakfast Club from the perspective of the assistant principal."

Universal Pictures

"He has to work a Saturday to babysit these kids. He wants to be there just as little as they do. They all deserve detention, but damned if they believe that (with the exception of Allison, he has no idea why that girl is there, but he assumes it’s because she has a rough home life, so he just let it go). He just wants to go home and have a drink and relax, and he is fed up and tired of dealing with kids who view him as a tyrannical monster, when really all he really wants is one day where he doesn’t have to deal with the issues that come with teenagers."

–u/redpurplegreen22

6. "Halloween according to Jason."

Falcon International Pictures

"I want to see how the fuck he gets everywhere so fast while being so slow. He's gotta be opening portals or something."

–u/Landon317

7. "The Truman Show, but from the perspective of one of the other people involved in Truman's life."

Paramount Pictures

"Seeing how they deal with doing that to another person and if they truly develop a connection with Truman, plus seeing further insight into how they control Truman's life and direct him."

–u/Plain_McFlurry

8. "Captain America: The First Avenger from Bucky Barnes' perspective."

Marvel Studios

"How did he feel leaving his best friend to fight in the war? How did he feel when he got captured, not knowing if he’d see Steve again? How did he feel when he got rescued by a glowed-up version of his best friend, who he wasn’t sure he was going to see again? How did he feel when scrawny little Steve Rogers was now national symbol Captain America? How did he feel in those final moments before he fell off the train?"

–u/buckyspunisher

9. Also, "I'd want to see the kickass Nick Fury movie that's lurking in the background of Captain America: The Winter Soldier."

Marvel Studios

–u/Portarossa

10. "Robin Hood from the Sheriff of Nottingham's perspective."

Walt Disney Productions

"It'd be great to watch a movie about a medieval cop trying to catch a highway man."

–u/DunningFreddieKruger

11. "The Sandlot from the perspective of Mr. Mertle."

Twentieth Century Fox

"How he grew up in the pre-Depression, pre-civil rights era. How he fell in love with baseball, went blind, and what his life was like. And more details on how The Beast came into his life and why rumors ran rampant about the pup."

–u/FudgySlippers

12. "Similar to how Disney retold the story of Maleficent, it would be cool to see multiple villain remakes and why they became villains in the first place, starting with Ursula from The Little Mermaid."

Walt Disney Pictures

–u/disneyandcowsrlife

13. "Final Destination from Death's perspective."

New Line Cinema

"I imagine it would just be skeleton hands setting up a deadly Rube Goldberg machine with some classical music in the back."

–u/jarob326

14. "Jumanji from Alan Parrish's point of view."

TriStar Pictures

"All those years in the game being hunted. You can tell Robin Williams has a rich backstory for this character."

–u/pdromeinthedome

15. And finally, "Star Wars from Leia's perspective."

Lucasfilm

"She's a princess, raised in comfort and privilege, placed in a senate seat as little more than a child, but chooses to risk not only her own life, but perhaps the well-being of her whole home planet to aid a desperate rebellion. Add to that the fact that the whole time she's unknowingly the latently Force-sensitive daughter of Vader sitting in the senate right under Palpatine's nose.

Everything comes crashing down when she's captured, tortured, and despite her best efforts, her world is chosen to be utterly destroyed before her eyes just to spite her.

And yet she endures, her spirit unbroken."

–u/Memoryworm

Note: Answers have been edited for length and/or clarity.