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Which Would You See?
February 3, 2014 at 9:49 pm
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I've got two different ideas for screenplays swirling around in my head right now. I don't know which one I want to actually commit energy to. Help me decide.
My writing in general is sex positive and usually includes queer characters, and I'm not shy about making them the main characters instead of red shirts and 20-seconds-of-screen-time throwaways. I also assume a certain level of genre savvy for ALL my characters, because more than likely, they've seen a movie or read a book of the same genre they're in before, y'know? I tend to straddle the line between drama and comedy.
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.
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.
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RE: Which Would You See?
February 3, 2014 at 9:54 pm
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Idea 2. That's a movie I would like to see/ book to read.
Honestly I think the vampire thing is circling the bowl. Even zombies are beginning to wear thin.
With Star Trek and the up coming star wars movies I think the space thing is the way to go.
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RE: Which Would You See?
February 3, 2014 at 10:01 pm
Idea 2. If done well can really make us look at ourselves differently.
Agree with Drich (words I never thought I would say) about Idea 1. Anything about vampires or zombies just looks like they're milking the trend and not really serious pieces.
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RE: Which Would You See?
February 3, 2014 at 10:09 pm
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Idea 2. Especially if it involvs gas masks somehow. 
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RE: Which Would You See?
February 4, 2014 at 2:15 am
Vampires seemed to be the thing five to ten years ago, but overall interest seems to be dwindling.
The problem with the alien scenario is that there never is a properly good one. It would have to be as amazing as Avatar to catch my attention.
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RE: Which Would You See?
February 4, 2014 at 2:18 am
I would probably see both, but 2 seems more appealing.
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RE: Which Would You See?
February 4, 2014 at 2:20 am
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Idk I really like Prometheus.
I think the space thing will be good if the Brits aren't given the script to produce.. ;P (they think they can do sci fi just because they like it..) But the world knows 'who' can and 'who' can't do sci fi
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RE: Which Would You See?
February 4, 2014 at 2:38 am
Both.
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RE: Which Would You See?
February 4, 2014 at 2:46 am
I think option 2 holds a lot of potential. You can model it after earth's history and introduce tons of ethical problems (something good scifi always tries to do), would also be a reverse of the usual alien invasion story, now humans will be the invaders and you can get the aliens to do what we've always thought we'd do to aliens who come and visit us: nuke them or study them. It'll be really interesting and people would have to consider if one of the requirement for being an intelligent lifeform is to be cruel and dangerous because we'll see ourselves in these aliens.
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Yea ... it's really late and I haven't slept for a while. But still, option 2 so much better than option 1. Not sure if there's even much room for originality in vampire stories.
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RE: Which Would You See?
February 4, 2014 at 4:17 am
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(February 4, 2014 at 2:15 am)Kitanetos Wrote: Vampires seemed to be the thing five to ten years ago, but overall interest seems to be dwindling.
The problem with the alien scenario is that there never is a properly good one. It would have to be as amazing as Avatar to catch my attention. Avatar was Pocahontas in space, and with no musical numbers, and super racist. Considering the whopping budget, I was definitely unimpressed. Don't get me wrong, my heart broke when Sigourney Weaver lost all her research (it's an anthropologist thing)... I mean, uh, when the evil white people cut down the Great Tree.
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