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I like F-Box and Consciousness (prob the most), Reality Show has potential.

Alien and the Hermit

I like Consciousness, but instead of the religious group, I like the idea of the dangers of immortality - boredom, excess, switching bodies that look different so no one you know knows what you look like, etc.. Like there are good reasons for dying.

Or maybe there is an authority that decides who gets what new body/social class/etc.. You have to be chosen by some corporation or the government to de upwardly mobile

F-Box is my favorite.


What about this?

Stem Cell: In the future, the upper class "feed" on the lower class to achieve immortality. There are farms of jail cells where the elite go "shopping." That is, until a genetically-altered lower class individual breaks out and starts a revolution.

The Queen of Spades sounds interesting. Maybe you could slip in some PTSD as a motivator and have the system involve voodoo, cults, black magic etc. so that it becomes hard to know what is real.

Who are you looking at as a target audience? Consciousness seems promising but instead of getting a new body I think it would work better if you had to combine yourself with a new "vessel" ie a child were you maintain your mind and sync thoughts with the individual. The grabber could be " a mind is a beautiful thing to waste".

@Tecmo Stem Cell reminds me of Gattaca crossed with In Time (haven't seen it but the poster has Justin Timberlake!). Immortality, genetics and class warfare interest me as subjects, though.

@CloudyDream Cool idea, combining with a new "vessel." So does the vessel have multiple consciousnesses? Are they evolved beings? Or does combining with a vessel erase the old consciousness? What does syncing thoughts involve?

In many cases I feel like you've obviously got some vision for what kind of movie it would be, but I'm not getting it. I would love it if maybe there was a second sentence that nailed down a bit more of what the lead character's arc might be, the tone, and what the central conflict is (or if you can get it all in one sentence that's fine too.)

The Accountant-- is this a comedy? If so, one or two examples of what kind of funny (or messed-up) stuff might happen would help. Why is this accountant not what he seems? What is his agenda and why is it funny (or thrilling?)What does the newly rich midwestern man want, ultimately, and how does the accountant fuck up his plans? It seems like this has the rough outline of a 'be careful what you wish for story.' A humble (but more or less happy?) guy becomes rich and might ultimately wish he hadn't. I guess the interesting thing about an accountant is it's so bland. No one thinks about their accountant. Off-hand, I'd like the idea if the thing that causes the guy problems is something that's more of a universal wish-fulfillment/pandora's box deal. Ie. he moves into an incredibly fancy gated community. He gets a mistress. He marries the trophy babe. When a modest person thinks about the benefits of being rich, what do they think about? The accountant is kinda ho-hum to me.

Queen Of Spades-- is the main action him searching for mysterious woman, or is it what happens to him after he finds her? Does he get the system? If it's really about the search, it feels a bit thin for a feature, unless you build up why he needs the system, what it means to him, increasing desperation to get it, etc. If it's about what happens once he has the information, well, that could be fantastic, but the devil is in the details.

Alien and Hermit-- an Alien takes someone (or multiple-someones) hostage-- that's interesting. Why is it better that the hostage is a hermit, as opposed to anyone else? Conversely, "A hermit has shunned society and is thrust back in..." is promising, the first assumption is something like this-- fish out of water, we're gonna see this guy with limited social skills put in awkward spots, but he's got 'hobo skills' which will be advantageous in some way later-- but I don't see how the two stories are connecting. When I think "What would be the most hilarious and or fucked up situation for a society-shunning hermit to be thrust into" I don't really see why being held hostage is particularly juicy. Put another way, why is being held hostage any worse for a hermit than it would be for anyone else? How does being hostage really make the hermit have to confront society, if that's the idea?

Reality Show-- could be great. "Not on the show he thinks he is." But it could be anything right now. Is he going to be humiliated? Is it going to ruin a promising career as a chef? Is it going to endanger his life? I'm not sure what genre we're in, or who your lead character is and why this particular reality show will be a problem.

OWS comedy-- OK, it's topical, which is nifty, good material for a satire/comedy. So the idea is that this homeless guy is drunk (and presumably isn't sure of what he's saying?) and accidentally ascends to be the leader of this movement. Hmm. Is he amazingly smart and perceptive, or is he kind of a dope? Is it Being There where impressionable people are led by someone who has no idea what they're talking about? Or is it a depression-era screwball comedy where the homeless guy is actually brilliant, etc? The conservative stereotype is that the OWS people are half-homeless already so I don't know if you're getting as much dramatic irony as you'd like. I'd suggest "A slacker OWS kid assumes the role of a trader in the world of high finance" or "Donald Trumps' son inadvertently becomes the leader of OWS and falls in love with a radical young woman" or something.

Haven't seen Gattaca or In Time (never even heard of that one), but I agree that class warfare is a nice topic because its something a majority of us deal with in some way, thus relating to it comes naturally. Immortality brings in the topic of all of our impending deaths, and genetic technology is just a natural evolution that will occur making the story believable to a point.

You could even combine Stem Cell with Consciousness somehow....

I was thinking it would be an experimental procedure that would allow older generations to let the body die but have their mind and with it personal experiences, skills pased on to the next generation. Think a life time of experience in children. Eventually both identities engage in a power struggle over who controls the body. The syncing is the process that was supposed to happen the kids were supposed to gain the wealth of knowledge making it's so they don't repeat the same traditional mistakes that everyone makes though they aren't completely gone...

I also like F-box and Consciousness....not to be a follower, I actually had these picked out before reading the comments haha

"Pole of Cold
Antarctica oil rig ghost/monster movie. Ghosts of early lifeforms that inhabited the planet, angry and sinister and calculating, menace an oil drilling operation."

Isn't that just the inception of Scientology, with oil drilling?

@Tecmo, Gattaca is a great sci-fi film. Highly recommend.

@delcross, could be. Would be sick if we could get Sarah Palin too. I was thinking more like freezing cold oil rig, drilling into untouched ice lake, creepy imagery, scary oogly-boogly happenings

@Larrondo's comments are exactly the types of questions to ask. I think he has some experience w this stuff, though :)