If a new movie was to be made it has to be a different genre. Not the semi crime/drama like we know, but something completely different. The challenge of course is to incorporate pool in a way that makes sense. So that it is part of the story line/tension and so that the audience can tell why pool is fun.
Imo the times are so different... Even if you do it perfect, there's not so much soil for new plants to set root. Back then the audience would leave the cinema and be like "what do we do now? Why not try pool? That bar has pool!". Obviously that's not how it's like nowadays.
I would like a movie about an African prodigy that rises through the ranks, faces hostility in the pool world, gets abducted in Manilla just before his first Matchroom major...
Or an arthouse movie in the style of Amelie. Every scene is art in itself. The storyline is not straight forward and the movie gives the viewer ambiguous emotions.
Or, slightly controversial, a young Efren like talent with Latino roots starts winning local tournaments without much practice. The local hero, an older failed semi pro, recognises that talent and takes him under his wings. Unfortunately the parents get deported, the kid gets homeless and the old guy takes him in. He is a staunch conservative and over time his beliefs are challenged by the situation.
