OK, I'm not sure if there was ever a thread for this before or not so here goes....

Why don't we( The UM Posters) come up with some good script idea's and maybe we can come up with something original.
I know i have read some interesting stuff on some of these boards and I'm confident that we have some Spielberg's just waiting to come out...

It doesn't have to be a long post, just enough to peak some interest and if we like it, we can post to hear a little bit more, basically just a pitch of your idea....I cant wait...

I wrote a short story a few years ago. Don't remember all of the details but it involved the ice plate in the south pole melting too much on one side due to global warming and flipping over. It would cause a tidal wave that would hit as far up as Texas.

My story involved scientists in South America who noticed that insects were disappearing and wound up trying to save a group of children.

Now of course we've seen the Tsunami in Indonesia so I realize that these people wouldn't stand a chance.

But it was interesting for a while.

Two different people become aquainted in some dreams there having and those dreams end up bringing them together. In the end the two of them are too shy too admit that it was dreams that broght them together because each of them thought that the other might think that they are crazy.

In the end it is an amazing romance that leaves the audience with a bitter sweet anticlimatic ending.

Hows that. I just thought it up. There could be a whole lot of fun stuff to put into a movie like this.

I was thinking about Brokeback Mountain type of movie, but about a cowboy and an indian. In wild west! EPIC and dangerous love story!

That should be illegal or posted on the front of the movie WARNING this movie contains same sex graphic material.

Wait - do you mean a same sex indian/cowboy kind of film?

Or just set in that general kind of "brokebacky" area?

Sounds good either way.

Sounds Good so f ar, keep them coming..........

Yes.

Another one - classical storyline about saving the world, with a hero and everything, but the hero dies and the humanity is destroyed after the first hour, the second hour it is a documentary about some mosquitos or rats that survived the disaster.

I second that motion.

If this Cowboy and Indian theme sprouts wings, you'll want to refrain from casting a police officer and a construction worker. This fails the acid test of originality.

Below is my proposal:

Renegade geneticists and militant feminists form a grassroots movement to clone women in an effort to rid the United States of men, with the legislative blessing of a Democrat Congress and Senate. Ultimately, their efforts are thwarted in civil war by a militia of masculinists and genuine feminists who represent 80% of the population. It becomes evident early in the project that the militant feminists serve no useful purpose to the field of genetics, and they are reassigned to public relations capacities with a cache of bull horns, cardboard signs, tank tops, olive-drab trousers, Army boots, and a generous supply of hair gel.

Wow, someone might get an ear full, is Hilary there leader?

Bring it on! I'm thinking Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, or even Ted Kulongoski (Current Gov. of Oregon). Anyone in the tri-state socialist regime of the left coast.

I'm thinking more along the lines of a science fiction story where we are investigating a new planet and there are all there beurocratic loopholes and red tape that keep getting in the way of the mission. There are these strange geological formations or something that is out of the ordinary, but the team is instructed to ignore them for now and continue on the mission. The general is anxious to leave the world and continue the search for habital planets elsewhere as this one would require quite a bit of terraforming. Anyway, curiosity gets the best of one of the team members and at a critical moment when he has a chance to go unnoticed he slips away from the camp to investigate the geological formation on his own.

Something happens, blah blah, he stumbles upon an alien base within the planet controlled entirely by robots who are programmed to observe intelligent civilizations like ourselves and manipulate our society so that we do not discover their presence or obtain sufficient technological advancement and that we remain skeptical about the existance of other intelligent lifeforms so that in the future the aliens who created these robots can come and take over our planet for their own uses. The fact that he enters the alien base alarms the robots and they begin a procedure to set back our scientific development 100 years.

In the end, it turns out that the makers of these robots was an alien civilization that has long been extinct but the robots have remained because they are self-sufficient. They have used mind-controll and the power of suggestion to convince all the key players in the gov't and the military that this new-found planet is worthless and there are better prospects for colinization. Meanwhile, the one man who went out on his own tries to let the truth be told but is shunned by a mistrusting society and is locked up in a mental institution where he is doomed to live out the rest of his life. The last scene is where humanity begins to descend into anarchy, the people revolt and civil war errupts over the corruption in the government. Nuclear bombs are launched, some are allowed to hit targets by the alien robots, others are dactivated to ensure the planet does not become uninhabitable for their makers who will never come. The robots were designed to stop our scientific development before we obtained the power to defend ourselves against the invaders. They were also here to make sure we didn't destroy the planet either.

I forgot to include formation of the National Urological Tracking System: a division of the Sterilization Aid Council.

I would someday like to be Steven Speilberg/John Williams hybrid

Anyway, my "creative" ideas, in the end, boil down to two different types of movies:

A tragic love story (perhaps in a futuristic/supernatural society): two people separated through some horrible event... assume the other is dead, and they have nothing left to live for... through some traumatic series of event, are reunited, but do not recognize each other, fall in love agian, but neither fully admits it, because ironically, they still love the person who died. Depression and madness finally get the better of one of them when he/she attempts scuicide to escape their emotions. However, for some reason (perhaps to confess their feelings, the other person is there and rushes to them (assuming they are dead, technically, for the second time )... a series of flashbacks occur, making it seem that they both recognized each other and the dying person reaches and pulls the other into a last kiss. F for originality, and the last line even made me question wheather or not I actually possess any creativity. In the end it would probably work best as an anime rip-off of Romeo and Juliet. The only ray of salvation this has it that it could be have some very unorthodox methods of presentation (niether of the two character being the focal point, in media res, reverse chronology, etc.). Although perhaps I am being a bit too hard oh it... I don't know, and I actually perfer someone else's thoughts.

The second, a post apocalyptic survival movie similar to Resident Evil or 28 Days Later (although, not necessarily a zombie movie), following a small group of people (ensemble cast). This one I haven't thought out yet, but this is one of my favorite premises(however, it's also one of the hardest in which to avoid unoriginality...)

A cow, pig, and chicken, all of whom can speak English, tour public schools with the aim of promoting the nutritional benefits in eating red meat, fowl, and "the other white meat". Vegan union officials interfere with the crusade, canceling several appearances, and threatening the CPCA (Cow Pig Chicken Alliance) with slaughter if so much as one anemic child is found to have regained color in his complexion. Some lectures are permitted, because the cow's empathic abilities are keen in uncovering shamelessly self-proclaimed vegans' unorthodox leather utilizations. For the sake of promoting diversity, the CPCA keeps a Spanish translating goldfish in its company; the transparent cow bell shaped container, adorned by the pig for some inexplicable reason (Fairness doctrine, perhaps), serves as a bowl. The water is never filtered, and the animals lack the phalangeal faculties to feed the fish; hence, it is dead and smells more foul than the fowl.

Arguments in favor of preserving animals and adopting a universal vegan lifestyle are spurned, because development of a vaccine for the inevitable pestilence resulting from overpopulation is speculative at best. Despite their high intellect, the CPCA spokesanimals admit that propagation is a factor they cannot control amongst the cerebrally challenged livestock. Their mission proves successful on a symbolic plane when they arrive in the final state of the tour: Arizona. The cow is spared until the third course, and she thoroughly enjoys the drumstick. It was a departure from her staple diet of grain, so she shrugs when asked in jest if it tastes like chicken.

Consumption of the goldfish is forbidden by health officials, and thus it is given a proper ceremony in El Baño Del Muerte. Ironically, had any anemic children been in attendance, they may have appeared flushed.

lol, I need to reread that one.

I had to re-read it myself to spot all the hidden political agendas.