What should i write next?????----i have no clue

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ted
posted 07-30-2000 08:21 PM              
i just wrote my first movie, and we are going to film it soon. It's a typical slasher but everyone who's read it likes the twists in it, and an overall all right story.

But what next......

this is what i want to do:
an action movie----i've been trying to come up with decent plots, but all i have are grasps of the concept: someone or people who can manipulate time, a movie with a cyborg built from a dead terrorist, a straight up action flick

a true horror movie----i want to do a movie about a teen who's haunted by a poltergeist

a funny ass comedy-----my friends want some stupid bull crap like a parody on return of jedi, but i think a parody of survivor would be better, or a comedy bout a farmer who becoems a porn star

a serious movie----i have a script from a friend bout an angel who ressurects a dead cop to find a killer(can't really do that right now--cause i need my license to drive to the locations), or a movie about a photographer who witnesses murders and is opened up to an underground murderers who are represented by people with white collar jobs, liek a telemarketer or a cable guy

i know i basically threw out crap for all of u to copy but these are what i've been thinking of for the past few months. if you read this then give me your idea and if you could please kind of give me somewhere to go with the idea, a direction.

Thanks

thegreatone
posted 07-30-2000 11:52 PM              
just a suggestion: if you do an action movie, add a little bit of romance to it, it makes it more interesting (thats what i do with all my action movies)

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SilverbladeX
posted 07-31-2000 03:04 AM              
Hey1 i am currently producing and directiong a POLTERGEIST movie i wrote up. maybe i can help u if u like.

If yer interested e-mail me at
silverbladex@hotmail.com

Pyromaniac
posted 07-31-2000 04:17 PM              
I thought about a horror comedy about a farmer who plants his crop over a cemetary,
like corn crops. Then the corn stalks are reincarnated from the dead and they go after the farmer and his farmhands, they could all be a bunch of rednecks and do stupid things, like toss one of "the cornstalkers" into the fire and they explode into cournals of popcorn. The cornstalkers want to plant them dead so they can grow into the pods as like vessels. I know it probably sounds corny, but that's all I could think of.

shakespeareskin
posted 08-01-2000 09:21 AM              
Silverblade and Ted, my next project follows the same line as the ones you guys mentioned. would love to compare notes with you guys.

SilverbladeX
posted 08-01-2000 03:21 PM              
i don't see any problem with that. Do u wana do it viva e-mail or do u have ICQ?

If you do, my number is:

14029350

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shakespeareskin
posted 08-01-2000 11:38 PM              
cool. Email sounds good (as I don't have ICQ) looking forward to sharing some ideas.

Gr|fter
posted 08-02-2000 09:21 AM              
Sitting here at work, so I have nothing better to do than think of an idea.

Just some rough ideas i JUST came up with, so don't laugh..........

IDEA #1: A story about a guy who spends his life in front of computer and on the internet. One day he sits down to start his daily ritual at the computer. The next thing he knows, he looks at the clock and its 8 hours later. His hands havent moved and he still is on the same page. But now he has a missing 8 hours he can't account for.

Why the missing 8 hours?? He had come across a breach of security/backdoor on a major government site and downloaded some important information a few days before. The government tracks him down to get the info back and erases his memory. They succeed in their mission. But the thing is that he has a camera set up in his room that broadcasts 24/7 on the internet and one of his viewers/friends has recorded the whole incident and has contacted him about what was recorded. Then he sets out to find out what happened to him and why. Along the way, he wants to find out what was so important in that file he downloaded....

(Maybe a world wide virus that was actually created by the governement? Or the formula for McDonald's secret sauce? Or the secret place missing socks go after escaping the laundry?)

IDEA # 2: A young guy is home alone one night in his country home sometime after midnight. Then something weird starts to happen. He hears a voice of a young boy. He keeps uttering something about his mother and an accident. After grasping his fears, he tries to communicate to the boy who he can't see. Then the boy's spirit shows itself. He tells the guy about an accident he was just in with his mother and that she needs help because she's hurt badly. And the other car's driver is dead. The boy leaves the house and asks him to follow. They walk through a field and through a group of trees to the nearby road. Two cars sit in the middle of the road, badly mangled into each other. The woman in the car barely moves, blood covers her face. A little boy who looks like the spirit lies motionless in the passenger seat. He turns to the spirit boy again, but he's nowhere to be seen. The teen runs back home and calls for help. An ambulance arrives and takes the mother and boy to the hospital. Two days later he decides to go to the hospital to see if the lady is ok. He finds out she's ok and decides to go to her room to tell her her that her little boy saved her life after he passed on. He walks in but sees she's sleeping. He looks over to the bed next to her.........and its the little boy that came to him...but he is alive. The little boy looks up....and smiles. The teen backs up, and a shocked look crosses his face.....

Eh well, all I could come up with in 5 minutes.

Later,

Gr|fter
ICQ: 19369462

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Bread
posted 08-06-2000 11:26 PM              
Here is an idea for you. In the true spirit of Blade Runner and the upcoming film Imposter.

The main character of the film wakes up in an alley somewhere. It's night. His head is bleeding. He had been knocked unconscious. Even worse, he can't remember who he is. He has been given amnesia. He checks his pockets to find that his wallet is missing. He figures he must have been mugged and robbed.

He goes to the police to report the alleged crime and tell them that he can't remember his identity.

However, it isn't until he gets near a computer when strange things begin to happen. He could swear that the machines were all talking to him. But how could this be? They are lifeless machines. He would hear oddly robotic voices wherever he went. When he looked at a computer screen, it would type messages to him. He couldn't understand what was going on. And that was just sitting in the police station.

As he walked along the sidewalk, a car jumped the curb and tried to run him down. He narrowly escaped.Running down a dark alley off the road, something reached out of the shadows and hit him across the head. He was knocked out again.

When he woke up, he was strapped to a surgical table. He couldn't move. He looked up at a man holding a scalpal. This man explained the man's past and his name. He wasn't even human.

The man was a prototype android. However, his technological advancement made a rather large corporation very nervous so they tried to destroy him. Not only that, he was originally designed to work as a spy for the government. Although, their funding fell through and the project was supposed to be shut down. That is why he could communicate with machines.

The prototype didn't believe it was true. So, the man with the scalpal sliced him open revealing a metalic underbelly.

The prototype finally believes him, gets to know his creator, and is unstrapped from the table. However, the Corporate men burst through the door brandishing many advanced weapons and killed the creator. They also thought the prototype was destroyed as well. Therefore they stopped firing.

Then comes the scene where the prototype, in a humanesque fit of anger, attacks and kills all of the Corporate men ala The Matrix.

He then goes to the Corporate headquarders looking for revenge. He has no worry about security because he can control it. He goes in and destroys the building also ala The Matrix. And lets not forget a good fight scene in the lobby. Pesky security guards always have to die first.

And that about sums up my idea. Enjoy.

My two bits,

Bread

Felix
posted 08-07-2000 02:23 AM              
The Farmer Who Became A Porn Star!! CLASSIC!!

cosmicsponge
posted 08-07-2000 06:31 PM              
Hey better yet,What about...Attack of the killer Rooster. The farmer works during the day at a university.He brings home some tomato plants that someone at work had given him.What he did not know was they had been doing secret test on these tomato plants.Well he brings them home and plants them in his garden.His young cockey rooster eats them and grows into the killer Rooster.And for some reason he loves brains!

SeerSavant
posted 08-11-2000 07:53 AM              
Do a complete 180, write something you never even thought of. Instead of horror or sci fi or some parody, try a western, a detective story, or better yet, something in a hitchock kind of vein.

That's what I try to do to keep myself from falling into a routine.

hope it helps.

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SixOfNine
posted 01-28-2001 06:55 AM              
Hey, Bread, may I use your idea with the cyborg for my next film?

Skinned Fox
posted 01-29-2001 12:00 AM              
A show like Survivor is being filmed at some remote island off the coast of a third world country. The third world country is in need of money and rents it to the American producers for a load of money. Due to gred and snafu the island is also on loan to one of those weird aXX Japanese gameshows that plays like a really surreal, disturbing Survivor. The Japanese show is louder and litters the island with multidolored props, generally makes a mess of things. The two show argue over who has rights and the Japanese show fgenerally has the advantage because the American show is struggling to maintain a facade of stoic, rugged isolation. Meanwhile some rebel anarchist try to highjack the tv equipment in order to broadcast thier revoloutionary message to the countryside.

Okay , I kind of ran out of steam at this point but it can go all different ways. Make a good media satire like the Wag The Dog or Network (Finch, Duanway '76). It could go slapstick or culture clash, maybe a little action. It has possibilities.

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Bread_12
posted 01-30-2001 04:59 PM              
Sure Sixofnine. Go for it. Sorry if this is a late reply.

My Two Bits,

Bread

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