Ed. Note: We got tired of all the ‘best-of’ lists of the past decade. So we had writer-filmmaker D.W. Lichtenberg write a best-of list of the next decade. Enjoy.

Recently, I invented a time machine. I traveled into the future for the sole purpose of seeing every movie that will be released in the coming decade. That way, I could be the first person to write a “best of the decade” movie list. And don’t worry, I didn’t cheat by traveling further into the future and copying everyone else’s top ten. But I do believe that this list will alter the future, and it’s because of this list that some of these movies will soon exist.

10.
True Grit
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. Year: 2011. Country: USA.
Starring: Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin.
No Country for Old Men meets Good Will Hunting.
Tagline: “Just like No Country for Old Men, except…with Matt Damon.”

9.
On The Road
Director: Steven Soderbergh. Year: 2014. Country: Canada.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro, Ellen Page.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Crash.
Tagline: “For legenday novelist Jack Kerouac, life was just wherever the open road took him… until he met the love of his life.”

8.
BARACK
Director: M. Night Shyamalan. Year: 2019. Country: USA.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin.
District 9 meets Gandhi.
Tagline: “When the aliens invaded, governments around the world panicked. One man had hope.”

7.
Interstellar
Director: Steven Spielberg. Year: 2013. Country: USA.
Starring: Jodi Foster, Tobey Maguire, Keira Knightley, Christian Bale.
Memento meets 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Tagline: “Spielberg fell short of Kubrick status with A.I…. and now he’s out for blood.”

6.
The Hobbit
Director: Guillermo del Toro. Year: 2011. Country: USA.
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Cate Blanchett, Jessica Alba, Ryan Phillippe, .
Lord of the Rings meets Sin City.
Tagline: “From the makers of Lord of the Rings and Pan’s Labyrinth comes the greatest story ever told.”

5.
Nobody Ever Called Me a Fool and Lived to Tell the Liberal Media About It
Director: Quentin Tarantino. Year: 2018. Country: USA.
Starring: Edward Norton, Russell Crowe, Zooey Deschanel, Robert DeNiro.
Pulp Fiction meets Little Miss Sunshine.
Tagline: “For Marty Kaplanski, the only thing that ever matted was that nobody ever called him a fool… and lived to tell the liberal media about it.”

4.
Diagonals
Director: Christopher Nolan. Year: 2016. Country: UK.
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Clive Owen, Christian Bale, Gary Oldman.
Memento meets Schindler’s List meets The Da Vinci Code.
Tagline: “From the man who brought you Batman Begins, comes the greatest secret in the history of mankind.”

3.
Stanley Kubrick
Director: Warner Herzog. Year: 2016. Country: UK.
Starring: Warner Herzog.
Grizzly Man meets Spartacus.
Tagline: “If you thought Warner Herzog stopped at eating his own shoe, wait till you see him in the epic biographical film about filmmaker legend Stanley Kubrick.”

2.
Untitled Charlie Kaufman Project
Director: Charlie Kaufman. Year: Any. Country: USA.
Staring: Anybody.
Charlie Kaufman meets Charlie Kaufman (again).
Tagline: “Another Charlie Kaufman movie.”

1.
The Chronicles of Jed Weinberg
Director: Jason Reitman. Year: 2019. Country: USA.
Starring: Michael Cera, Natalie Portman, Zach Braff, Keanu Reeves.
The Royal Tenenbaums meets Avatar meets Juno meets Garden State meets Fight Club.
Tagline: “Finally, they figured it out.”

Feel free to add your own would-be movies to this list.

D.W. Lichtenberg is a working filmmaker, poet, and writer. He’s the author of The Ancient Book of Hip (Fourteen Hills Press, 2009). You can stalk him on Twitter.