An alternate history idea.

The Viking settlements in North America were larger and longer lasting than in our world. Give them forty or fifty years before being wiped out.

In my time line, this has two main effects: smallpox is introduced to the Americas nearly five hundred years ahead of schedule, and the secrets of metalworking are learned by the larger tribal nations.

Fast-forward to the early 17th Century. English settlers spreading out from Jamestown encounter "wild" native tribes with tales of the great river kingdoms that lay further to the west. These would be the Mississippian cultures (aka the Mound Builders) who have rebuilt after the early smallpox plagues and now have the same level of residence found in Europeans. They also have iron weapons, a strong centrally organized state, and are not happy with the newcomers at all.

Hijinks ensue.

I'm about to get crucified by Rocky Horror fans, but...

I'd love to see Shock Treatment get a remake.

Yeah, completely inferior to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but think about it. RHPS was a creature of its time; a camp musical that drew on the horror films of the fifties and the sexual revolution of the seventies. Shock Treatment, with it's weird town-as-TV-studio, celebrity-pop-psychology, and reality TV themes didn't hit at all with audiences in 1981.

But today? We are inundated with reality TV. court shows, tell-all day-time talk shows, Survivor, Big Brother, Ice Road Truckers, it seems that every other show involves really people have crappy days being followed around by cameras. Even the idea of a town existing inside a
TV bubble has been broached, witness The Truman Show and the recent The Week the Women Went. We even have the musical component in Glee.

I think the film would work today, because like Rocky is takes tropes we already know and blows them up to ridiculous sizes.

And I want Barry Bostwick to play Judge Oliver Wright. :)