Mofo ideas for new films

You connect everyone to a heart monitor as they listen to the audio.
The technology makes a visual display from the hearts' reactions.

Bear with me while I explain this. You find a good script. Then find some producers who feel passionate about the film and really want to make it. Then find a director who feel similarly and feels they can really tell this story well. Populate it with good actors and technical staff. But, more than anything, don't worry about the audience. Just make the thing and, if it's good/funny/romantic/whatever, it'll find one.

I know! Wild, right?

That, or the same film I've wanted every year for decades. Drew Barrymore sex tape.

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That's too easy for Robert. He needs things to be needlessly complicated so he can sound dishonestly clever.

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A found footage film on streaming... ...but some of the archival footage are randomly sourced from your phone. You didn't realize it, but you clicked a permission with a new App and a few bits from your Ring doorbell, etc., are randomly inserted in the version of the thriller you're watching. Everyone else sees stuff taken off their devices. It heightens the terror, provokes lawsuits, permanently sends borderline schizophrenics into permanent wacky-land, and inspires a doomsday cult. But apart from that, it is fondly remembered as good clear fun.

I'll share that after I make the movie. I do have a few ideas. But I'll never be able to make the movies. I've tried. It was easier with music, since all I had to do was learn guitar, bass, piano, composition, engineering, producing (on top of my drums/percussion) and only needing a microphone and a Tascam portastudio. But I would use this song I just finished in my home studio for a scene I had in mind.






Ah screw it.. I'll just reveal two of the least best ideas... In one movie, I would want subtitles in the same language they're speaking, to show the disparity between what we say and what we actually feel.


Idea #2 is (I started with this a long time ago and never finished) is to go to the word document file of a subtitle, and it would have to be played for people who don't know the language, but I learned how easy it is to simply go to the file of the subtitle, and put my own dialogue/subtitles. I downloaded one in a language I didn't know so I couldn't be influenced, and write a story in my own style.


P.S. - Hollywood (or Russia) if you can read this, I'm 200k in the hole and have nothing to lose... Hire me before I lose my mind! Will work for free!

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Scott of the Antarctic would be interesting.

I actually wrote a short script the other day I plan to start filming as soon as I get my new camera and get it ready to use, which should be tomorrow. I'm looking forward to starting production. Vis I don't want anyone to steal my mediocre idea, you'll see what it is when it's done.

I'm really champing at the bit to get this going. The tracking won't update like it said it would so I'm growing impatient. Unfortunately when I shoot it I may need to wear shoes.

OK, I got it. The premise of "Carry On" is boring. It's in that sub-genre of "the reluctant accomplice." The good guy caught up in an evil plot. Some TSA schlub is coerced into helping a baddie get a bomb into an airport and it turns into a Die Hard-style adventure when Mr. TSA finds his mettle. BOOORING.

Redo the threat scene.

CHANGE UP: Evil dude gets a Chicago bureaucrat on the phone.

Bad Guy: If my package doesn't make it through security, someone you love will die.

TSA Guy: OK, I see the stick but where's the carrot?

Bad Guy: What? I'm not screwing around here.

TSA Guy: Neither am I. Look pal, you can threaten me and I will probably comply out of fear. But then... ...you have to worry about whether I'll try to grow a brain or a conscience, right? Who needs that? You don't. I don't. What you need is a partner, see? But partner's get paid. Make me a willing accomplice. Pay me.

Bad Guy: How about I just kill your wife right now?

TSA Guy: How about I tell you we was gettin' divorced anyway? You want your package to go through, YOU. PAY. ME. Don't call back until I see $50,000 deposited in the bank account number I'm texting you as a show of good faith. Do it and we can talk about what you need. You it and I guarantee your package gets the red carpet through all security hoops with no questions asked. Make me your friend, OK?

The film flips into a story about the TSA dude bugging the s**t out of the baddie, demanding more and more money, shaking him down for every penny. He pushes through a fake package, routes the real one to a different airport by "accident" and then demands more money to get it back. Eventually, his union guys want a cut and then the mayor's office gets involved when someone tries to make a move without the machine's approval. TAG LINE: Everything dies in Chicago gridlock. Why should terrorists catch a break?

The film ends with the villain's defeat at the hands of illegal red-tape and endless side-deals which put him on the radar of some other agency that closes in and captures him. End scene: TSA guy visits baddie in prison in a vain attempt to squeeze him for the money he thinks he's owed. Gives a poignant speech about how hard he works and how it ain't easy being a civil servant.

HELL'S GOLD - As World War 2 draws to a close, a team of Allied Commandos goes on a mission to steal back Nazi gold from Hell. Nazi occultists, realizing that the war is lost, opened a gateway to Hell to hide away war loot. Now a Dirty-Dozen type team is going into that gateway to steal it back.

The Last Driver -- Mic is the last licensed cab driver in New York city. Twenty years ago he saved the life of a celebrity who was in cardiac arrest, driving her across town in record time to the ER. He was given the Key to the City and public sentiment pushed the city to grandfather his license to drive and to operate a cab in Manhattan. Now, he is a curiosity for tourists and the occasional subject of a special interest news piece.

Now, we can go in one of two directions with this.

1. We can have an introspective "end of an era" slice-of-life movie in which we get the last words of wisdom from the last member of that particular tribe of people watchers, cabbies. As he struggles with his obsolescence in age age of automation, the audience is invited to consider what their own live will be like in the coming years. His life is thrown into crisis when he hits a pedestrian, something a robotaxi would never do. Is it time to retire?

OR

2. All the other AI vehicles in town go crazy after a cyber-crypto bomb explodes in the holo-web. Our cabbie just barely exits traffic when an FBI agent jumps in the back seat of his cab. He has an armed bioweapon (taken from a terrorist and which an autocopter was suppose to remove to a safe distance) that will release a deadly toxin in 30 minutes. If they don't successfully exit Manhattan Island in time, millions will die. But an army of crazed self-driving cars is the gauntlet they must run to save the city. Can they make it in time?

OK, two directions.

Which film do we make?

Vis my camera arrived, I started production of two films today. Ooh I need to edit the second one. I don't think I've done that yet.

Actually one film I'm doing was springboarded by the v3.5 DMG. It has a list of 100 possible adventures, and I found a starting point and used it, although the film went in a hugely different direction when I got going. The prompt is "An ancient curse is turning innocent people into evil murderers." I used it for all of one scene.

Nice. Enjoy.

Lol, I'm not sure about the film one way or the other, but I love your summary. Brilliant.

You could be Richard E. Grant in The Player.

hahahahaha

brilliant stuff.

More laughter from where I am.

I love the options.

The one I forgot to edit is about a computer virus affecting a man's electronics, and also his real self. It's the fourth Virus film I've done with this character. They're fun to do. The third one isn't very good though... I'm using I Studied for My Blood Test This Morning as redemption for my third Virus film.

The DMG one, Scout P'Ting, is more D&D than just DMG, and is a spin-off of my Wizard Ing film series, which is basically LARPing with a script and either metal or plastic weapons instead of foam. They're based around D&D tropes as well as being Pythonesque. I've made three I think. So I have a Scout Ing and a Wizard Ing series.

And then I have three more films to do after these two, including a Wizard Ing film.

I should be able to film Scout P'Ting some this morning. "This" being Wednesday. I need sleep...

I had another idea. I took a Paranoia Vidtape Metal Complex plot and made it a D&D Adventure Scout Ing script. I'll work on that today.

I think a summer camp comedy about a group of girls who start their own summer camp with no adult supervision could be fun.

Rock Biggerson is whispering death. One shot. One kill. He's taking one last job. But he has irritable bowel syndrome and his adult diapers, of all things, didn't clear customs at the airport (the baby powder was deemed suspicious - "Oh great, you found my diapers, but my bloody sniper rifle made it through, you incompetent nits!"). Now he's in a third world nation where he doesn't speak the language and where he desperately needs to find a toilet. The hunter has become the hunted. Join Rock in his mission to find relief for IBS, kill the Prime Minister and in time to make it back to his granddaughter's birthday party. DEATH AND TOILETS coming in 2026. Staring Jason Statham.

Any novel I write is pretty much an idea for a film, as I would love for someone to make movies out of them. My debut, Wings of Nialoca, should be done by someone with a touch for both dark and angelic imagery. My most hype choice would be Hidaeki Anno, but I won't settle for anyone less than 4/5.