The Alphabet Project: Z is for...

Zardoz (1974)

Zed (Sean Connery) is an exterminator, a savage warrior living in a post-apocalyptic future world. Like all exterminators, Zed worships a stone head called Zardoz as a god. Zardoz promises all those who worship it that when they die, they will go to the Vortex, a community inhabited by immortal men and women. Zed finds himself in Zardoz's mouth and Zardoz arrives in the Vortex. Zed's arrival in the Vortex begins to cause disruption, as Zed sets out to discover the secrets of Zardoz. Hilarity ensuses when Zed encounters a stranger named Arthur Frayn in a library and Arthur teaches Zed to read and reveals Zardoz's secrets, which could bring about the fall of all life in The Vortex and lead Zed to giving the immortals, the gift of death.

Trivia: The scene where Zed (Sean Connery) and Consuella (Charlotte Rampling) turn into skeletons had to be shot three times. The first time, the film was damaged, and the second time, a studio helper accidentally exposed the negatives. Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling were extremely annoyed, because of the time they had to spend having make-up done. To help keep the movie cost down, Sean Connery used his own car and drove himself during the production. John Boorman then gave him half the money that had been budgeted to hire him a car and driver. The idea was Connery's, according to Boorman. According to John Boorman, Sean Connery found it incredibly difficult to get work when he abandoned the James Bond role a second time after Diamonds are Forever. Thus, Boorman was able to hire Connery very cheaply for this project. Burt Reynolds was the first choice for Zed, but he bowed out due to illness.

Umm...okay. You would think somebody like Sean Connery would be in demand after six Bond movies. This was an okay sci-fi movie that had a pretty standard plot for the genre. An upperclass part of society (the immortals) live high on the hog with an easy life, while elsewhere (everybody else) works to provide for the immortals and they are controlled by a guardian group (the brutals, including Connery), but the upper class is stagnant and has lost the ability to grow and prosper and needs help to kick start the process or in this case restart. Oh, and Connery runs around the whole movie wearing a loin cloth or something.

Okay Mick, you figured it out. Since I gave you a pretty major hint (pre-75, Sean Connery movie) you don't get to pick a movie for me. Instead, come up with 2 or 3 new movie projects for me and I will put it to a vote. I know one that you have mentioned is having me watch the IMDb bottom ten (the ten worst rated movies), now come up with 2 more.