This script story is pretty outrageous, but apparently it's original, and I've sparked some interest to finally put it on paper.
So, Lake Vostok is a massive lake under the ice in Antarctica. It's the most pristine lake on the planet and humans have yet to touch it's waters. Right now some scientists are digging to see what's down there. hopefully i finish this short story/possible screenplay before they explore the waters. So here is a synopsis for a possible script involving this.
We start on a team of Archaeologists/anthropologists or whoever the hell would work on a project like this(I haven't done much homework, fuck off.). 4-5 at most, the leader is some old guru baster who reads a lot of historical books and has researched in almost every country on the globe, probably nominated for a nobel prize in his field and he's probably being privately funded to do this, lets name him Sanders, because nameless characters are forgettable. He probably has a romantic interest on this voyage who is also a photographer(Darrington?), and a trusty sidekick(Rettski?) who has worked for him for years, and possibly knows his obsession with discovery. He also has some extremely smart fresh out of an ivy league school kid(Warmen?) who looks upto him as if he were a god, and finally a financer(Purseau) who wants to know what's under that ice.
So we got our characters, now our story. Sanders, Rettski and Darrington are working in the rift valley when they find something truely extrordinary and groundbreaking after an earthquake causes a massive sinkhole to form where our team find an ancient city of uknown origin where he sees clues of a connection from this city to another city in an uknown land near a lake that was abandoned due to a winter that lasted a millenia years. There would also be some awesome indiana Jones style exploration in this part. Sanders then asks his financer, Purseau to get him to Lake Vostok to join a team of scientists to discover the lake. Purseau lets in, knowing that Sanders will pull something out of that lake and make Purseau's rep go up even more for aiding his journeys. Sanders team joins the lake Vostok scientists, which is 3 people, Warmen, Galvington, a scientist from germany who has weapons training and will be operating the mini submarine that they will drive to explore the lake, and Favrez, a Mexican scientist who is responsible at the surface and for the satellite imaging.
During a lunch all of our characters get to know each other, Sanders is still investigating pictures from the last site, he's deeply entranced by all of the mystery surrounding the area. pictures that feature a city built above the waters in the middle of nowhere protected by the gods(Easter Islands lol) and an actual god that wore a crown that looked similar to the Stonehenge. And something that looks similar to Atlantis. Darrington and Rettski grow concerned, but they are just as excited to learn of the mystery of the lake, Warmen is sort of comic relief and constantly annoys Sanders.
so the next day, they reach the lake, it glows bright blue, truely gorgeous. They first send a computer operated submarine below the surface of the lake and explore, but something spooky stalks the submarine and destroys it. Sanders convinces everyone to take the mini sub under the water to explore the lake for their own eyes. Once below they see all sorts of incredibly and unthinkable wildlife and fish, alien like creatures. The scientists compare them to fish and so and so. but they eventually end up finding a strange dock and then, HOLY FUCKING SHIT! A city under the ice! A massive metropolis, built by an unknown culture. The city itself is a giant museum, filled with luxury and all sorts of amazing artifacts of massive size that might suggest that this city was built by a god... Sanders is incredibly interested in this city, they stay the entire day and the crew try and convince him to come back with him for some rest and to alert the media. Sanders insists he can go without food, Rettski is worried, Warmen is excited and says he will stay behind aswell. Rettski tells the crew to get a doctor and supplies for them tommorow and he stays. The 3 of them make camp in the middle of the metropolis. Sanders hypothesizes that the city used to be a port before the climate drastically changed and froze the lake over, but the city is completed as one entire building. They haven't found any living quarters, just monuments and massive artistic structures.
That night, Sanders can't sleep, so he ventures off on his own and meets a very strange human down there! who speaks... holy shit... ENGLISH! Very broken english, but the person is incredibly smart, and incredibly old. He is the Currator. He explains that this used to be the palace of the god, the god being Qesta, the leader of a long forgotten society that existed after the dino's went extinct, they were a race of human beings that differed in bone structure from other humans, their bones decayed shortly after death along with their skin, so no fossils were ever found. The Currator then tells them of how the society was newly created, Qesta himself created the entire race, he was created by a higher power after the meteor hit to recreate society. Qesta started building. He first created the city they were in Vostok, as his own personal palace and ruling kingdom. He then created a city out of easter islands. He built it on top of the water because of the fierce predators in the waters below, it would serve as the center of the world. It was built entirely above the water, with several hundred towers with the heads on top built as soldiers. He then went to the bermuda triangle and built his second city, Atlantis. The meteor hit the caribean sea, and the impact of the meteor had a magical effect on the area of the bermuda triangle and caused the island to be incredibly fertile while the rest of the earth laid to waste, confused, it turned out to be a lot more prosperous city then the easter islands due to the farming. He then went to the rift valley, and then to new zealand to create cities, non of which were as good as easter island or Atlantis. But once the ice age came Qesta's human beings died, he tried to save them by giving up the last of his powers to protect his palace and enclose it from the elements. Unfortunately he made his followers too far apart, and they all couldn't interact with each other or have a way to get to his palace in time. His culture died. so he wandered the world depressed that his culture had died and his powers were gone to waste to protect his palace. So he buried himself, his crown can still be seen, it is the Stonehenge :P. Atlantis ended up living on until it's own random magical powers faded and it eroded into the sea. And as it turns out, The Currator was the only resident of the palace, he was also Qesta's son. Sanders and the currator talk about their worlds until Sanders mentions that he broke through the ice to get there. The Currator then informs that this could mean danger!!! As they have broken the magical seal that protected Vostok for all these years, and that Qesta might be outraged to find out that the only thing he could save is now going to be destroyed! Sanders then informs the currator that he doesn't want to destroy the city, but in fact save it. But at the surface, the rest of the crew has discovered something terrible. QESTA HAS AWAKEN! HOLY SHIT!
Yea, I'm falling asleep, so this will go in the almost finished profile. but you get the gist of it. Potential second part might feature more indiana jones-esque style scenes. Sanders will go crazy and will try and threaten to destroy the city if he cannot take it over and rule it for himself. His crew then takes over and tries to find relics from easter islands and Atlantis which have both risen to their former states and are totally fucking up the worlds and are only accessible by a portal in Vostok built after the death of the culture by the currator.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Three Children(first instalment)
This is going to be a short story from the 3rd person view that I'm pretty much gonna make up along the way. If you're not interested in reading a shit load of plot, then stop here. i might add a bit more flare to this someday but I'm not one to do rewrites until someone has critiqued it, since I'm terrible at critiquing my writing. So this is going to be a crime/drama/Action story. I'm hoping it comes off as realistic, but if it doesn't then that's fine aswell.
Theo Pecking is a 12 year old male, he lives on a farm outside of Salina Kansas with his older brother and father. His mother abandoned the family half a year after Theo's birth with no reasons. Because of this Theo has realized that he must take care of his family, he was too young to feel the effects if not having a mom. As for his older brother and father, they took the mother's abandonment as a reason to stop pursueing a proper family life on a wheat farm. Theo's brother is Kael Pecking. Kael is a 15 year old strong headed youngman. He dropped out of school due to fights and bullying and decided to follow in his dads footsteps as an operator for a farmer. Kael is tough skinned and ill mannered. Unlike his brother, he's a total idiot. He believes that his life is set in stone in this profession, but with the help of a fake I.D Kael has managed to enjoy in a bit of the adult fun, though not to the level of his father. Barret Pecking married knocked his future wife up when he was 16. He loved her and she loved him. They lived happily on Barret's acreage with his parents until he managed to get the farming gig with a commercial farmer. Barret soon became a 7am-7pm man and his wife possibly started cheating on him. He started to grow suspicious when he would go into town and find her at the bars when he would pick up beer for his weekends off. He grew suspicious, but he would never confront these suspicions with her because he believed she was loyal. He drank during his weekends without his wife, then eventually he met up with biker gangs that travelled through Salina and would stop at the hotel bar he frequently drank in. He became good friends with the bikers after a couple years, but he also became a good friend of Heroine. The town is rather small(40,000 people) so the heroine addicts could be counted in the double digits. Unfortunately for him he lost his gig at the commercial farming due to several absences so Barret decided to take out a loan and buy his own land. This was after the birth of his second son and after his wife left him. At this point he became heavily involved in the drug trade, to the extent where he was growing some in his own crops for the bikers. His kids were oblivious to the grow ops, but they knew he was a cronic heroine user. Both Theo and Kael looked down upin his father for this, but he managed to maintain the farm with ease. This was only due to the help of the bikers. They supported the place, helped out when ever necessary, and payed Barret for the grow ops. Barret eventually started using his barn for a Meth lab, although he never started using the drug himself. but the local police started to take notice of the farm, Barret had plenty of protection at the farm with several of the biker gang's lawyers sticking up for him against prior warrants. Barret's trick was that he maintained the farm to such a degree that only his family and the bikers knew he was a user. but after awhile he started driving while impaired.
This brings us to the day and age we are presented in, the setting that this story begins in. 2008 Salina Kansas. Basically, Theo is going to school and trying to have a normal childhood, Kael is trying to carry out the farming duties, but is slowly becoming an alcoholic, and Barret is operating a meth lab in the garage and is starting to drink and drive constantly. We begin in winter, Theo is getting out of school for Christmas vacation, he waits in front of his school for Barret to pick him up in the truck. After an hour and a half of waiting in an extremely rare snow storm Theo goes into the school to wait where he meets his neighbour Jory. Jory is a very mysterious girl, she was born into a very privileged lifestyle but she always wanted to explore the wild side more, so she got into extreme sports like kayaking and mountain climbing when she was young. She lives half a mile away from Theo so he asks her for a ride. Theo doesn't seem to be the smoothest with the ladies, must be his constant nervous mannerism's or his perfectionism. Jory tells him she's still waiting for her parents to arrive. They wait outside the school and by chance Barret has arrived, drunk out of his mind. Theo says goodbye to Jory but Jory asks if she can come with, since they could just drop her off on the way. Theo asks his father and he agrees to do it. Jory calls her parents, and of course they are reluctant to let her ride home with a known drunk, but she persists and eventually it happens. While on the road Jory and Theo get to know each other a bit more. Kael is in the vehicle too and he seems a bit drunk aswell, but he can't keep his eyes off Jory, she's a perfect specimen, even if she's only 12. Barret is crossing the lines on the road and swerving past traffic and doing some intense swerving. Unfortunately the police pull him over. Theo is angry at his father for being an idiot, Kael still can't keep his eyes off Jory, and Jory is extremely curious of the situation.
On this note, i need to fall asleep. so hella huge cliffhanger here. but I think this might turn into a long ass short story since I haven't even gotten to the inciting incident yet. I'll focus in this and a possible webisode in the future.
Theo Pecking is a 12 year old male, he lives on a farm outside of Salina Kansas with his older brother and father. His mother abandoned the family half a year after Theo's birth with no reasons. Because of this Theo has realized that he must take care of his family, he was too young to feel the effects if not having a mom. As for his older brother and father, they took the mother's abandonment as a reason to stop pursueing a proper family life on a wheat farm. Theo's brother is Kael Pecking. Kael is a 15 year old strong headed youngman. He dropped out of school due to fights and bullying and decided to follow in his dads footsteps as an operator for a farmer. Kael is tough skinned and ill mannered. Unlike his brother, he's a total idiot. He believes that his life is set in stone in this profession, but with the help of a fake I.D Kael has managed to enjoy in a bit of the adult fun, though not to the level of his father. Barret Pecking married knocked his future wife up when he was 16. He loved her and she loved him. They lived happily on Barret's acreage with his parents until he managed to get the farming gig with a commercial farmer. Barret soon became a 7am-7pm man and his wife possibly started cheating on him. He started to grow suspicious when he would go into town and find her at the bars when he would pick up beer for his weekends off. He grew suspicious, but he would never confront these suspicions with her because he believed she was loyal. He drank during his weekends without his wife, then eventually he met up with biker gangs that travelled through Salina and would stop at the hotel bar he frequently drank in. He became good friends with the bikers after a couple years, but he also became a good friend of Heroine. The town is rather small(40,000 people) so the heroine addicts could be counted in the double digits. Unfortunately for him he lost his gig at the commercial farming due to several absences so Barret decided to take out a loan and buy his own land. This was after the birth of his second son and after his wife left him. At this point he became heavily involved in the drug trade, to the extent where he was growing some in his own crops for the bikers. His kids were oblivious to the grow ops, but they knew he was a cronic heroine user. Both Theo and Kael looked down upin his father for this, but he managed to maintain the farm with ease. This was only due to the help of the bikers. They supported the place, helped out when ever necessary, and payed Barret for the grow ops. Barret eventually started using his barn for a Meth lab, although he never started using the drug himself. but the local police started to take notice of the farm, Barret had plenty of protection at the farm with several of the biker gang's lawyers sticking up for him against prior warrants. Barret's trick was that he maintained the farm to such a degree that only his family and the bikers knew he was a user. but after awhile he started driving while impaired.
This brings us to the day and age we are presented in, the setting that this story begins in. 2008 Salina Kansas. Basically, Theo is going to school and trying to have a normal childhood, Kael is trying to carry out the farming duties, but is slowly becoming an alcoholic, and Barret is operating a meth lab in the garage and is starting to drink and drive constantly. We begin in winter, Theo is getting out of school for Christmas vacation, he waits in front of his school for Barret to pick him up in the truck. After an hour and a half of waiting in an extremely rare snow storm Theo goes into the school to wait where he meets his neighbour Jory. Jory is a very mysterious girl, she was born into a very privileged lifestyle but she always wanted to explore the wild side more, so she got into extreme sports like kayaking and mountain climbing when she was young. She lives half a mile away from Theo so he asks her for a ride. Theo doesn't seem to be the smoothest with the ladies, must be his constant nervous mannerism's or his perfectionism. Jory tells him she's still waiting for her parents to arrive. They wait outside the school and by chance Barret has arrived, drunk out of his mind. Theo says goodbye to Jory but Jory asks if she can come with, since they could just drop her off on the way. Theo asks his father and he agrees to do it. Jory calls her parents, and of course they are reluctant to let her ride home with a known drunk, but she persists and eventually it happens. While on the road Jory and Theo get to know each other a bit more. Kael is in the vehicle too and he seems a bit drunk aswell, but he can't keep his eyes off Jory, she's a perfect specimen, even if she's only 12. Barret is crossing the lines on the road and swerving past traffic and doing some intense swerving. Unfortunately the police pull him over. Theo is angry at his father for being an idiot, Kael still can't keep his eyes off Jory, and Jory is extremely curious of the situation.
On this note, i need to fall asleep. so hella huge cliffhanger here. but I think this might turn into a long ass short story since I haven't even gotten to the inciting incident yet. I'll focus in this and a possible webisode in the future.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
November/December
I've discovered the Canadian dictionary for Firefox. So i might use it a bit more in future posts. I've been severely lacking for the last couple months. I blame this on writers block and lazyness. Working road construction really wore me to the bone and exhausted the hell out of me. Oddly enough I've started to grow as an actor. I'm currently involved in a makeup project and I think I'm doing a decent job on it. I'm really feeling the actor world, it's easy to find acting gigs for free. And I'm learning so I wouldn't accept any money at this point. But in the future I'd love to focus on both writing and acting on my own work and only my own work. I'd love to try out directing but I don't know enough about the technical stuff to get it right, so for now those 2 will be my passion. As for life, I'm currently living on EI(800$ every two weeks, better then working, until April). I'm going to be focusing on writing and acting as much as possible up until april-ish. Then I'll look for serious work in some sort of labor job, or even in a restaurant. I don't think I can do this lazy lifestyle for too long, but here's preying that I get some sort of writing gig/acting gig and get into that industry!
So anyways, I've decided to really crack down on my writing for the next couple months. This might be really bold, but I'm going to finish the second half of this action thriller I've been working on since june in a coffee shop over the weekend. Won't leave until all 25 pages are done. Then next month I'm going to focus on two mutherfucking scripts! Yea, bold eh? 3 scripts done in 2 months? I better do it, or else I'll just prove that I'm a lazy sack of shit with no ambition to enter this industry. The first script I've already started(10 pages in, comedy high school drama). The other is a horror script that I still need to beat out and focus on. I really love the idea but i need to know how to pull it off elegantly, being that it might be my easiest script to sell. Lucky for me I'm taking a day long bus trip for Christmas. so that should give me a shit load of time to focus on both scripts and crack down on them. I asked for as many transfers as possible so I could charge my laptop as much as possible. I think I can pull off 15 pages for each script during this trip. Then I'll be staying with my dad from the 18th-5th of January. So i should be able to concentrate and crack down while I'm there. It's easy to concentrate when i stay at my dads house. I don't have to worry about my mom yelling for me from the living room because something interesting is happening on the TV, or the desperate need to build the rest of the house I'm living in(Yea, it's a project house with all sorts of crazy shit going on inside of it.) I think it's the fact that I don't need to cook for myself, clean up anything besides my stuff, and it's a relaxing and quiet place.
Anyways, I came on here today to write a short story about a potential script i wanted to start. but I'm thinking it over and it would probably be a good 5-6 pages. I'd write these scripts as novels but i hate the way dialogue flows in novels. It takes me out of my element when I have to write She Said, in clever ways to avoid repetition 3000 times.... I also need some coverage so I can properly rewrite some of the scripts that I wrote away from school. I never did like Broken Home due to it's hostage situation stylings. i think the hostage film has been done to death.
So anyways, I've decided to really crack down on my writing for the next couple months. This might be really bold, but I'm going to finish the second half of this action thriller I've been working on since june in a coffee shop over the weekend. Won't leave until all 25 pages are done. Then next month I'm going to focus on two mutherfucking scripts! Yea, bold eh? 3 scripts done in 2 months? I better do it, or else I'll just prove that I'm a lazy sack of shit with no ambition to enter this industry. The first script I've already started(10 pages in, comedy high school drama). The other is a horror script that I still need to beat out and focus on. I really love the idea but i need to know how to pull it off elegantly, being that it might be my easiest script to sell. Lucky for me I'm taking a day long bus trip for Christmas. so that should give me a shit load of time to focus on both scripts and crack down on them. I asked for as many transfers as possible so I could charge my laptop as much as possible. I think I can pull off 15 pages for each script during this trip. Then I'll be staying with my dad from the 18th-5th of January. So i should be able to concentrate and crack down while I'm there. It's easy to concentrate when i stay at my dads house. I don't have to worry about my mom yelling for me from the living room because something interesting is happening on the TV, or the desperate need to build the rest of the house I'm living in(Yea, it's a project house with all sorts of crazy shit going on inside of it.) I think it's the fact that I don't need to cook for myself, clean up anything besides my stuff, and it's a relaxing and quiet place.
Anyways, I came on here today to write a short story about a potential script i wanted to start. but I'm thinking it over and it would probably be a good 5-6 pages. I'd write these scripts as novels but i hate the way dialogue flows in novels. It takes me out of my element when I have to write She Said, in clever ways to avoid repetition 3000 times.... I also need some coverage so I can properly rewrite some of the scripts that I wrote away from school. I never did like Broken Home due to it's hostage situation stylings. i think the hostage film has been done to death.
Monday, October 11, 2010
New Script ideas.
I have a couple new script ideas that I'm thinking of beating out a bit. I've decided to pursue low budget ideas before I move onto my bigger ideas(The space drifter, my pirate story, Land of the living skies, etc etc...) I'm still working on 3 scripts and I'm thinking of abandoning 2 of them because I'm just not getting them all down to a science. But Walker seems to have potential.
So anyways. I have 4 script ideas that I want to pursue. Here is some quick log lines of them.
-4 hunters find an american human testing facility in the desolate woods of northern b.c. and beocome experiments for the scientists that inhabit the place.
-A new kid at a clique high school hangs out with the supposed coolest kid in the school.(I wanna act in this, it's more of a drama then a comedy but I have some brave ideas set out for it.)
-A struggling couple goes on a road trip to try and fix their relationship. Unfortunatly the car they bring and the friend of the males test them more then they test each other.
-3 young kids witness a police officer brutally beat up their drunken father, and in an act of defense the oldest one kills the police officer, what follows is years of running from police, officials and the police officers son. While doing so they turn to crime to survive and slowly start to drift apart as they venture across the country.(I got this idea when i seen 3 kids standing in a mcdonalds, they stood in the store looking like orphans for 20 minutes and they didn't order anything or move or talk. They looked like they were gonna rob the place.)
I'm definetly going to tackle the Human testing facility script(Camp Josef) though. After i move to Vancouver i shall put deadlines on Walker and Camp Josef. I also think the 3 young kids on the run script has potential now that I think of it. I love action scripts, especially when they're low budget.
So anyways. I have 4 script ideas that I want to pursue. Here is some quick log lines of them.
-4 hunters find an american human testing facility in the desolate woods of northern b.c. and beocome experiments for the scientists that inhabit the place.
-A new kid at a clique high school hangs out with the supposed coolest kid in the school.(I wanna act in this, it's more of a drama then a comedy but I have some brave ideas set out for it.)
-A struggling couple goes on a road trip to try and fix their relationship. Unfortunatly the car they bring and the friend of the males test them more then they test each other.
-3 young kids witness a police officer brutally beat up their drunken father, and in an act of defense the oldest one kills the police officer, what follows is years of running from police, officials and the police officers son. While doing so they turn to crime to survive and slowly start to drift apart as they venture across the country.(I got this idea when i seen 3 kids standing in a mcdonalds, they stood in the store looking like orphans for 20 minutes and they didn't order anything or move or talk. They looked like they were gonna rob the place.)
I'm definetly going to tackle the Human testing facility script(Camp Josef) though. After i move to Vancouver i shall put deadlines on Walker and Camp Josef. I also think the 3 young kids on the run script has potential now that I think of it. I love action scripts, especially when they're low budget.
Friday, August 27, 2010
The Space Drifter(Part 1)
I took another break from Camp Josef and my endless amount of projects to post this. It's a really old idea i got that combines my love of drifting with my love for the infinite. i call it the Space Drifter! I think it would make a decent novel. Here's the (Rough) first half of the tale.
(copy and pasted from my post in r9k)
I had this idea for a movie a long time ago set in the future where space travel has beocme public and the universe is slowly becoming industrialized by humans. The universe is starting to shape like in Futurama. There are space highways filled with massive space ships carrying various goods. And there's space wars going on over land ownerships and former military powers on earth trying to establish dominance in the universe and find a profit somewhere out there. But in all of the busyness of space there is one man, a space drifter who has lost his wife and children years ago under the idea that a friend of his from the military killed them and has been pursueing him for the last 15 years, so he's been on the run. Until one day he finds his family in a space station where he went to refuel, and he tells the story of how he become.... The space drifter.
So back 15 years ago, mister space drifter was highly decorated in some inter stellar space battles. Of course he's american, who would watch this movie if he wasn't? and he was fighting the equivalant of afghani space fuckers. So anyways, after one of the wars is over he says he's done fighting, he's going to raise his family and forget he was even involved in the war in the first place. His best friend and wingman tries to understand his case for a normal life, but when the afghani fuckers start bombing cities due to some sort of religious dissagreement among the lands then best friend's superiors demand that they bring the soon to be space drifter back into commision. Best friend goes back to friend during a space USO show where he is being commerorated to ask, but space drifter is all "fuck that noise, i got a family now." Best friend's dark side comes out and he threatens space drifter and threatens to kill his family if he doesn't join. epic space battle happens between the two and mister space drifter ends up nearly dieing, but he is saved by some old wizard fucker who nurses him back to help and gives him words of advice, since space drifter just tried to kill a leading officer(The leading officer being his best friend, and the leading officer having the upper hand of being at the reacting end of the battle, since mister space drifter tried to kill him after his threats got out of hand, and best friend can easily determine mister space drifter as crazy.) the wizard tells the space drifter to get to his family and hide. So mister Space Drifter gets to his house to find it burnt to the ground. In despair and with the idea that his family is dead and he is now a wanted man he goes on the road to find something worth living for.
At first space drifter is reluctant to even show his face in public. but he finds a job to support his running and hiding as a long distance trucker. The war rages on in the background and unfortunatly he ends up killing a dozen or so afghani fuckers who try and hijack him. This gets attention from the space police and the army. "Who in this world can take out a dozen space ships with a fucking hauling ship alone?" Well, mister best friend finds a way to track space drifter down, and oddly enough, so does the space drifters oldest daughter, who has been searching for him secretly since he heard about him being in the battle and knowing her father, he would have managed to survive it all. She goes on looking for him, but his trail goes cold when he ditches for the deepest reaches of space where he finds himself lost and scared. He then coems upon the fucking war again as the americans and the anghanis try and rape the planet he is on. Unfortunatly he becomes a POW for the afghani's and due to his aged self they don't recognize him.
The entire story would be narrated by the space drifter as he tells it to his family, his family of course asking the questions we are curious to know, and their reactions to his actions in the story.
(copy and pasted from my post in r9k)
I had this idea for a movie a long time ago set in the future where space travel has beocme public and the universe is slowly becoming industrialized by humans. The universe is starting to shape like in Futurama. There are space highways filled with massive space ships carrying various goods. And there's space wars going on over land ownerships and former military powers on earth trying to establish dominance in the universe and find a profit somewhere out there. But in all of the busyness of space there is one man, a space drifter who has lost his wife and children years ago under the idea that a friend of his from the military killed them and has been pursueing him for the last 15 years, so he's been on the run. Until one day he finds his family in a space station where he went to refuel, and he tells the story of how he become.... The space drifter.
So back 15 years ago, mister space drifter was highly decorated in some inter stellar space battles. Of course he's american, who would watch this movie if he wasn't? and he was fighting the equivalant of afghani space fuckers. So anyways, after one of the wars is over he says he's done fighting, he's going to raise his family and forget he was even involved in the war in the first place. His best friend and wingman tries to understand his case for a normal life, but when the afghani fuckers start bombing cities due to some sort of religious dissagreement among the lands then best friend's superiors demand that they bring the soon to be space drifter back into commision. Best friend goes back to friend during a space USO show where he is being commerorated to ask, but space drifter is all "fuck that noise, i got a family now." Best friend's dark side comes out and he threatens space drifter and threatens to kill his family if he doesn't join. epic space battle happens between the two and mister space drifter ends up nearly dieing, but he is saved by some old wizard fucker who nurses him back to help and gives him words of advice, since space drifter just tried to kill a leading officer(The leading officer being his best friend, and the leading officer having the upper hand of being at the reacting end of the battle, since mister space drifter tried to kill him after his threats got out of hand, and best friend can easily determine mister space drifter as crazy.) the wizard tells the space drifter to get to his family and hide. So mister Space Drifter gets to his house to find it burnt to the ground. In despair and with the idea that his family is dead and he is now a wanted man he goes on the road to find something worth living for.
At first space drifter is reluctant to even show his face in public. but he finds a job to support his running and hiding as a long distance trucker. The war rages on in the background and unfortunatly he ends up killing a dozen or so afghani fuckers who try and hijack him. This gets attention from the space police and the army. "Who in this world can take out a dozen space ships with a fucking hauling ship alone?" Well, mister best friend finds a way to track space drifter down, and oddly enough, so does the space drifters oldest daughter, who has been searching for him secretly since he heard about him being in the battle and knowing her father, he would have managed to survive it all. She goes on looking for him, but his trail goes cold when he ditches for the deepest reaches of space where he finds himself lost and scared. He then coems upon the fucking war again as the americans and the anghanis try and rape the planet he is on. Unfortunatly he becomes a POW for the afghani's and due to his aged self they don't recognize him.
The entire story would be narrated by the space drifter as he tells it to his family, his family of course asking the questions we are curious to know, and their reactions to his actions in the story.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Camp Josef
This is a low budget horror/thriller idea I've been inventing for awhile. I think I got the general plot down after a battle with writers block. here we go.
The story is called Camp Josef. Inspired by the Angel Of Death, Josef Mengele, a nazi officer known for doing human experimenting and being one of the most cinical people to ever live.
So, we start in Prince George B.C. 3 friends, Terrence Edelman, an outdoorsman and a bit of a douchey guy, but he will kill for his friends and his girlfriend, evne though he only has one friend, Ryan Canston, a quiet mellow fellow. Kind of like me, he get flustered when stuff goes un according to plan and makes brash decisions when this happens, but he is an avid hunter and so is Terrance. Terrance also has a girlfriend, Jewel, a blond bombshell who could be a model and be with any other guy in the world besides the obnoxious Terrance, but she loves him because he loves her, and he treats her like a woman should be treated. Jewel is also an enjoyer of the outdoors. Together these 3 decide to go hunting in a top secret place Terrance has chosen. Terrance heard about numerous bear sightings around an old abandoned Camp sight called Camp Josef. Ryan is half native so he can hunt anything on the land. So they head off, but Terrance gets a call from his mom and they go to her house to pick up Terrances nerdy little brother Keneth Edelman. Ken's an extremely timid young man who probably ways 100 pounds, he has little to say and he can't seem to stand up for himself, but Terrances mom treasures him because he is such a lonely guy. Ken asked his mom if he could go on one of Terrances weekend hunting trips so he could become a man by killing something. Terrance reluctantly accepts and takes Keneth along. Terrances mom is dying from lung cancer and she has a hole in her throat that she smokes out of. she's addicted, but doesn't have the willpower to stop. And i guess this personifies ont Keneth's weekness, he doesn't have the willpower to let himself be a bigger man, but he believes that if he proves himself.. to himself, then he can figure a way to cure his mom and to find a better life for himself and his mom.
Terrance brings the group to a small town called Bear Lake to get some supplies. Terrance asks about the town of Anzac and the old Camp Josef. The clerk warns them of the tough terrain to get out there and the wolves and Bears. Terrance smiles at this, he wants there to be rough terrain and Wolves. He drives a massive Ford Explorer with mudders and all the fancy offroading equipment. thye leave with there supplies to last a weekend. They take 2 hours to get to Camp Josef, which is an incredibly Erie desolate camp ground. a park Ranger patrols the area and warns them of the cutline roads and all of the animals. Ryan shows him his red card and The park ranger lets them go further down the road. They go for another 2 hours into the mountains, they begin to reach roads that haven't been maintained in 20 some odd years. They go down a cutline made in the 60's and set up camp right in the middle of the area. The next day they set out to hunt. Terrance kills a coyote bright and early to wake up everyone. They go out for the day and explore the area. During there endevors they find a strange rusted fence that seems to be 50 feet high and stretches around a 5 kilometer radius. They can faintly see with binoculars through the fence what looks to be an old house one kilometer in. They think it might have been an old military house built back in the cold war when American troups built a missile detection facility in the area to watch for russian rockets going over Canada. The place was abandoned and destroyed after the cold war though. Night falls and they return to camp, but Kenneth thinks he seen something beyond the fence. He goes during the night and climbs the fence at an area where a tree fell on the massive bardwire at the top. Kenneth immedietly gets blacked bagged when he hops over. He tries to scream but the guy who did it injects him with something and he falls down. This man is Berry Klehr, he is silent, he doesn't even talk. And he doesn't fuck around, and for some reason he wears hunting gear, as if he was another hunter similiar to the group of good guys.
The next day Terrence wakes up to find his little brother missing. Terrances freaks out and breaks some stuff, Jewel and Ryan calm him down. Terrance decides to make a scout party, he tells Ryan to stay at the camp with a walky talkie just in case Kenneth comes back, Jewel and Terrance say they will be back in 3 hours or less, if they aren't back, go find the park ranger, they don't need Ryan getting lost aswell.
So this is act 1. The first 30 pages.... Should be intense. I'll write out the 2nd and 3rd act in later entries. I'm really tired right now.
The story is called Camp Josef. Inspired by the Angel Of Death, Josef Mengele, a nazi officer known for doing human experimenting and being one of the most cinical people to ever live.
So, we start in Prince George B.C. 3 friends, Terrence Edelman, an outdoorsman and a bit of a douchey guy, but he will kill for his friends and his girlfriend, evne though he only has one friend, Ryan Canston, a quiet mellow fellow. Kind of like me, he get flustered when stuff goes un according to plan and makes brash decisions when this happens, but he is an avid hunter and so is Terrance. Terrance also has a girlfriend, Jewel, a blond bombshell who could be a model and be with any other guy in the world besides the obnoxious Terrance, but she loves him because he loves her, and he treats her like a woman should be treated. Jewel is also an enjoyer of the outdoors. Together these 3 decide to go hunting in a top secret place Terrance has chosen. Terrance heard about numerous bear sightings around an old abandoned Camp sight called Camp Josef. Ryan is half native so he can hunt anything on the land. So they head off, but Terrance gets a call from his mom and they go to her house to pick up Terrances nerdy little brother Keneth Edelman. Ken's an extremely timid young man who probably ways 100 pounds, he has little to say and he can't seem to stand up for himself, but Terrances mom treasures him because he is such a lonely guy. Ken asked his mom if he could go on one of Terrances weekend hunting trips so he could become a man by killing something. Terrance reluctantly accepts and takes Keneth along. Terrances mom is dying from lung cancer and she has a hole in her throat that she smokes out of. she's addicted, but doesn't have the willpower to stop. And i guess this personifies ont Keneth's weekness, he doesn't have the willpower to let himself be a bigger man, but he believes that if he proves himself.. to himself, then he can figure a way to cure his mom and to find a better life for himself and his mom.
Terrance brings the group to a small town called Bear Lake to get some supplies. Terrance asks about the town of Anzac and the old Camp Josef. The clerk warns them of the tough terrain to get out there and the wolves and Bears. Terrance smiles at this, he wants there to be rough terrain and Wolves. He drives a massive Ford Explorer with mudders and all the fancy offroading equipment. thye leave with there supplies to last a weekend. They take 2 hours to get to Camp Josef, which is an incredibly Erie desolate camp ground. a park Ranger patrols the area and warns them of the cutline roads and all of the animals. Ryan shows him his red card and The park ranger lets them go further down the road. They go for another 2 hours into the mountains, they begin to reach roads that haven't been maintained in 20 some odd years. They go down a cutline made in the 60's and set up camp right in the middle of the area. The next day they set out to hunt. Terrance kills a coyote bright and early to wake up everyone. They go out for the day and explore the area. During there endevors they find a strange rusted fence that seems to be 50 feet high and stretches around a 5 kilometer radius. They can faintly see with binoculars through the fence what looks to be an old house one kilometer in. They think it might have been an old military house built back in the cold war when American troups built a missile detection facility in the area to watch for russian rockets going over Canada. The place was abandoned and destroyed after the cold war though. Night falls and they return to camp, but Kenneth thinks he seen something beyond the fence. He goes during the night and climbs the fence at an area where a tree fell on the massive bardwire at the top. Kenneth immedietly gets blacked bagged when he hops over. He tries to scream but the guy who did it injects him with something and he falls down. This man is Berry Klehr, he is silent, he doesn't even talk. And he doesn't fuck around, and for some reason he wears hunting gear, as if he was another hunter similiar to the group of good guys.
The next day Terrence wakes up to find his little brother missing. Terrances freaks out and breaks some stuff, Jewel and Ryan calm him down. Terrance decides to make a scout party, he tells Ryan to stay at the camp with a walky talkie just in case Kenneth comes back, Jewel and Terrance say they will be back in 3 hours or less, if they aren't back, go find the park ranger, they don't need Ryan getting lost aswell.
So this is act 1. The first 30 pages.... Should be intense. I'll write out the 2nd and 3rd act in later entries. I'm really tired right now.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Walker Revised
I've been working on this script for the last month or two and I've gotten to page 25 and realized I really need to rethink some of the story. I really need to preplan a lot better, unfortunatly I hate outlining and doing treatments. But they are the best way to plan out a decent script.
so the basic's of the first 20 pages is that Walker is an assasin on his last kill of the night when he is jailed by a 14 year old girl(Katie). Instead of calling the cops, he lets her go because she killed her mothers boyfriend, who was abusing her. Walker lets her live and tells her to runaway. Instead Katie follows Walker back to his home in an industrial park. Katie ends up getting caught by a guard and Walker stands up for her before she is killed by his father. Walker and Katie are both injured in the incident and so is Walker's father(Ronald). Walker says he is taking her to safety.Meanwwhile Ronald fixes himself up at the house, Tarvin, another assasin for Ronald comes and meets hinm and takes on the task of finding Walker and killing Katie. They go to Walker's only friends house, Danny, a drug dealer who lives with his mom. Walker and Katie get fixed up by danny and are off on there way. They start walking towards the boarder. Walker ends up talking to Katie and getting to know her more, but when she needs to go to the bathroom they go to a gas station. At the gas station two gang members try and rob the place. They notice Walker and mention his father getting injured, the gang member then brings up the cost on his head, Walker then reacts when Katie comes out of the bathroom, he saves her and kills the two gang members and the gas station owner shoots at the two of them as they escape.
More to come, i'm tired right now.
so the basic's of the first 20 pages is that Walker is an assasin on his last kill of the night when he is jailed by a 14 year old girl(Katie). Instead of calling the cops, he lets her go because she killed her mothers boyfriend, who was abusing her. Walker lets her live and tells her to runaway. Instead Katie follows Walker back to his home in an industrial park. Katie ends up getting caught by a guard and Walker stands up for her before she is killed by his father. Walker and Katie are both injured in the incident and so is Walker's father(Ronald). Walker says he is taking her to safety.Meanwwhile Ronald fixes himself up at the house, Tarvin, another assasin for Ronald comes and meets hinm and takes on the task of finding Walker and killing Katie. They go to Walker's only friends house, Danny, a drug dealer who lives with his mom. Walker and Katie get fixed up by danny and are off on there way. They start walking towards the boarder. Walker ends up talking to Katie and getting to know her more, but when she needs to go to the bathroom they go to a gas station. At the gas station two gang members try and rob the place. They notice Walker and mention his father getting injured, the gang member then brings up the cost on his head, Walker then reacts when Katie comes out of the bathroom, he saves her and kills the two gang members and the gas station owner shoots at the two of them as they escape.
More to come, i'm tired right now.
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