Definitely #2. That sounds like a ton of fun to write.

Seems unanimous - got to go for 2. Vampires bore the shit out of me. Infinite amount of things you can do with 2 in terms of the alien culture - ultra religious aliens who have rejected all their own technologies - aliens that eat other aliens - gay aliens - fossils of ancient aliens - their climate change issues.....

Quote:Idea 1: A girl from a long line of evangelical righteous Irish Catholic vampire hunters falls in love with a vampire, and is prophesied to bring an end to the persecution of vampires by religious extremist hunters.

I doubt very much this would work, as Irish Catholics don't hunt vampires (cuts into the drinking time). Quite frankly, I've never really bought the idea of people falling in love with the undead.

Quote:Idea 2: In the distant future, a team consisting of both scientists and military personnel explore distant unknown space and land on a planet with an Earth-like atmosphere with multiple intelligent alien species, some hostile and some potentially friendly, some primitive and others advanced. There are spaceships, robots, and advanced AI. Also there are some nasty alien diseases. And in turn, some Earth diseases ravage the locals on the planet.

Alternately, you could make it an historical picture, and just tell the story of Europeans in the Americas.

If you're fortunate enough to see either of these films made, try to have a say over casting. That way, you can make sure that only pretty people are in your film. If one of them dies, it'll help your box office, as people won't be so neutral about it.

Boru

(February 4, 2014 at 6:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If you're fortunate enough to see either of these films made, try to have a say over casting. That way, you can make sure that only pretty people are in your film. If one of them dies, it'll help your box office, as people won't be so neutral about it.

Boru

(February 4, 2014 at 4:17 am)futilethewinds Wrote: Avatar was Pocahontas in space...

In my household, we call Avatar 'Fern Gully: the live action movie'.

I like Idea 2 although you'd have to have quality character interaction sequences to:

1. stop the film being characterised as AI porn

2. avoid the general audience getting bored by the build-up while the diseases are establishing themselves

3. make the audience care when the aliens start dying from Earth diseases

...think of the depth of interaction between humans & Prawns in District 9.

I don't understand the hype about avatar.

If they weren't blue and they didn't connect their hair or ride that weird bird thing I wouldn't even remember the movie. But now I just remember it as weird, glad I didn't waste the money to see it in 3D.

(February 4, 2014 at 11:51 am)Ben Davis Wrote: In my household, we call Avatar 'Fern Gully: the live action movie'.

In mine we call it Dances with Wolves, in Space!

Jake Sully is Kevin Costner's character John Dunbar/Dances with Wolves; both Jake and John leave behind their lives and world (after suffering leg injuries) to venture off into an unknown land, make friends with the native peoples, fall in love with their culture, their way of life and their women, turn against their former allies to defend the natives and ultimately choose to join the natives permanently.

(February 3, 2014 at 9:49 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: Idea 1: A girl from a long line of evangelical righteous Irish Catholic vampire hunters falls in love with a vampire, and is prophesied to bring an end to the persecution of vampires by religious extremist hunters.

Been there, done that. Unless you have a completely new take on the vampire trope (like District 9 did to alien invasion movies, IMO) than don't kick this horse anymore. It's dead. It's been dead for years. You can look up the death date of this trope: it was the release date for Twilight.

Quote:Idea 2: In the distant future, a team consisting of both scientists and military personnel explore distant unknown space and land on a planet with an Earth-like atmosphere with multiple intelligent alien species, some hostile and some potentially friendly, some primitive and others advanced. There are spaceships, robots, and advanced AI. Also there are some nasty alien diseases. And in turn, some Earth diseases ravage the locals on the planet.

This is interesting but I'd want to know more of the story. How is this story going to be different than all the other stories that involve space exploration, forging new inter-species relations and pandemic disease movies? What are the goals of the characters? Who is the antagonist and what is their goal?