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Ok,most of us here on Dakka have endured quite a bit of swill that's been churned out by the briliantly creative minds in Hollywood,many of us have commented on how we long for original entertainment or at least films that don't suck.
So,I'm wondering,can we do any better?
What I'd like to do in this thread is have peole basicly "pitch" a movie idea,it dosn't have to be a "script",just a paragraph or two giving a basic idea of a film you would like to make,sequels and re-imaginings are ok,but "original" ideas would be nice to see as well.
I'll get the ball rolling with (surprise,surprise) a Zombie film.


" 2021,Earth has been over run by a zombie plauge,with in Americas borders several "camps" have been established (perhaps milatary bases witch have been sealed off but still function),hundreds of citizens and soilders occupy each base,and each base is in contact with the other.
Each base also has a small amount of helicopters,planes and various other military hardward,seek & destroy missions are sent out,along with rescue opperations,the citizens basicly try to maintain some sort of existance,using green houses for most of their food as well as items scrounged in "raids".
The film would adress human coperation,power system coruption,attempting to find sanity in madness & facing overwhelming adversity,it would also have lots of battles/action between zombies and the forces from the bases ,as well as various groups of survivors trying to reach the bases moving through zombie infested America"

Ok,that's what I have...how about you?

A tv show really but its in the spirit of the thread.
2010. A couple of years before rapture. The main chracters are angels. The angel society is protrayed As highly militiristic(with weapons such as sword and such)
Ther are different sects that perform different roles(warriors,tactition and assasin). The 2 main chracters and villian are triplites(twins have never happned before so this is frightening) a prophecy said 3 sibling born on the same day will help jesus defeat the anti-christ. But only god(who the angels call the "benevolent one"), jesus and very high up angels(which include there paarents). All others are scared of them and the children dont play with them. So they grow very tight knight. This is hard when the second boy(there is one girl 2 boys) Betrays them and works for satan(know appropriatly as The molevelant one) the angels of the high court order an execution of the other two. but god decides the intervene(also un heard of).
the are cast to earth and take human forms and go to school. Later there little sister joins them. The would fight various demons and the brother. It deals with betrayel and looking on humans from a different eye.
In the end the good brother is able to convince him to return and they kick some serious demon ass and defeat the anti-christ with jesus at there side. And the world enjoyes everlasting peace.
the 2 brothers are warriors and are the highest(there generals with metal wings and other cool stuff) the sister is an assasin(high up but havent figured out the rank yet) and the little sister is an healer. Would you watch it?


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Benevolent means good right. melevolent bad right. i forget.

Having surfed instead of remembering to go to court, the Asian mafia from the first movie gets away from Samuel L Jackson. No use crying over spilt milk, though; there's more important things to worry about. While surfing, Samuel L Jackson has come across the lost city of Atlantis. He finds out about the secret plan of the cultists who live on the bottom of the ocean to awaken their dark god and enslave the human race, and with the help of a wisecracking robot sidekick, he goes to warn the navy. Fearful of American retribution against the bottom of the sea, the cultists intend to make sure he never reaches whoever is the boss of the navy... by filling his plane with poisonous jellyfish.

This is... Jellyfish on a Plane!

Zombie apocalypse. Small group of survivors doing their best to survive. Early in the movie they encounter another person whos been surviving who joins their group....little do they know that he is a vampire. He cannot feed off of the infected. SO he joins this group of survivors so that he has a potential blood supply.

How do the survivors react when they eventually find out? Is there enough benefit to having a supernaturally fast/strong/alert nightime protector? Is the vampire TRULY beneficiant or simply using the group? Is the role of "blood bank" too much for some of the group? Is daytime protection of this "savior" to dangerous in and of itself in this world of zombies?

Half shark, half octopus, all death!

You owe me SyFy, you owe me...

Dogma, you do realize they're having a contest to name their next movie right?

the story centers around a teenage boy, high school age, who is sort of a loner. He doesn't have much of a family, parents divorced, dad is a depressed alcoholic, no siblings. No real friends at school, he's not socially awkward or anything, he just doesn't really want friends. His dad doesn't do anything at home, was a college professor but lost his job, now he just sits in his chair and drinks all day, staring out the window. The boy takes care chores, bills, everything. So not much of a home life. At school he doesn't talk to people, just sort of drifts from class to class. When he is in class he doesn't pay attention. The majority of the story takes place in his daydreams. He fantasizes about being a knight, pirate, astronaut, etc. each fantasy is different daydream. Each day dream ends the same way however, with him being completely alone. One night he is on the computer and checks the history only to find that his dad has been researching ways to commit suicide. Distraught but not able to bring himself to talk to his father (they haven't talked the whole movie. his father never speaks.) He goes to school the next day, not knowing whether his dad will be alive when he comes home. All his daydreams this day have his dad in them and they all end with he and his dad together. He is distressed all day, and on the walk home he almost breaks down in tears. He reaches the steps to their home and can't bring himself to go in, fearing what he might find. Just as he is about to completely lose it and break down sobbing on the doorstep his dad opens the door and the boy rushes into his dads arms. He hasn't seen his dad move from his chair for months. his dad has shaved for the first time in months and looks like he's taken a shower, cleaned himself up. He tells his dad he loves him so much and his dad say"I love you too." it's the only dialogue outside of one of the boy's daydreams in the whole movie. It ends with him and his dad hugging on the doorstep.

It's a little sappy i know, but i think it could be pretty good if it was made properly.

Also i was thnking of. In When ever deamons and angels clash on the mortal realm. that causes things like raid, thunder etc. The particiulary deadly ones Are when generals fight one on one. although that might not work.

Okay, here goes. This guy who was abandoned in a dumpster on the day he was born and has a strange scar on his chest that must have happened before he was born is kicked out on the street the day he turns 18 because social services isn't responsible for him any more. He has a job at a crappy fast food joint but he keeps looking for something better. He moves in with one of his co-workers who he grew up with at the state-run group-home. One night, they are driving to a little bar on the outskirts of the city to see a band play and they see a UFO. It flies around some and they watch it, then some military jets shoot it down. It crashes close to where they are, so they drive to the crash sight. They approach the crash and see that it is indeed an alien spaceship. Upon closer inspection, it turns out that some of the diminutive grey aliens are still alive, so our hero and his buddy take them in their car and leave the area just as sirens and lights appear on the horizon. They keep driving until they are in the next state, and out of gas. One of the aliens is seriously injured, but the other two do something that heals it. Then, telepathically the aliens direct them to a low cliff overlooking a creek, where their is a small cave opening. They all go into the cave and walk for a couple of miles, constantly going downward. Eventually they arrive at a door made of the same stuff that the alien ship was made of. It opens, and inside is an alien base. Several of the greys gather around our hero, and one of them points at him, making the symbol on his chest glow. They say nothing, but then several people arrive who seem to be half-human and half-alien. One of them actually speaks to him, telling him that she is indeed his mother, and he is an alien/human hybrid, but his father was fully Human which is why he doesn't manifest any grey features. The greys surround him once again and they use their telepathic abilities to awaken in him his innate alien telepathic abilities. Just as this is done, there are explosions in the distance and the greys are shocked, because they did not get any warning. It turns out that our hero was being tracked by a psychic who is working for the US government, and he led a platoon of specially equipped and trained soldiers to the base so that it could be destroyed and the greys taken to be studied. Our hero and several of the older hybrids go out into side-tunnels so that they can use their powers to fight the soldiers while the greys escape to their ship. The hybrids can concentrate on a person and make their head explode, but it's difficult because these specially chosen soldiers are all the worst sort of psychopaths, and so their minds are strong enough to resist any but the most determined psychic attack. However, they are all eventually killed. Finally, the hero has a psychic showdown with the government psychic, who as it turns out is also a hybrid, but he was identified and brainwashed by the CIA as a child. Their battle nearly destroys the caves but the greys escape and eventually the government psychic succumbs and his entire body explodes into quivering, bloody sushi. Then, the greys and the hybrids decide that the can no longer work in secret so they gather all of their ships and hybrids, including all of those who didn't even know they were part alien and descend upon Washington DC en masse, gathering the media despite all crackdown attempts. Our hero and the rest of the hybrids step forth from the ship and smile for the cameras. Fade to black, roll end credits.

This summer LAZER MAN DOG

A mans consciousness is transported into a special dog's body in a lab. The dog has laser beam eyes and can bite with the force of a mack truck. Rescued by PETA in a bumbling black op he then goes insane as they try to dress him up in stupid dog clothes. Laser man dog then goes insane proceeding to depopulate the entire American continent. No one is spared.

Roll credits.

I would love to see a film about this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Maskelyne

He and a team of assistants (nicknamed 'The Magic Gang') used stage magic techniques to fool the Nazis in Africa during WWII. They built all sorts of wacky things - inflatable tanks, fake airstrips and even:

His largest trick was to conceal Alexandria and the Suez Canal to misdirect German bombers. He built a mockup of the night-lights of Alexandria in a bay three miles away with fake buildings, lighthouse, and anti-aircraft batteries. To mask the Suez Canal he built a revolving cone of mirrors that created a wheel of spinning light nine miles wide, meant to dazzle and disorient enemy pilots so that their bombs would fall off-target.

He built a fake PORT! Genius.

I would have Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in it - the tone would be similar to 'Shaun of The Dead'/'Hot Fuzz'.

Doorbell rings.

Lady answers the door.

"Did you call a plumber, ma'am?"

"Well, technically, no. I did call someone, though."

"Well what did you call for?"

"I called for somebody to lay some pipe."

Twenty minutes later and it's a whole new scene.

What do you think?

Druss The Legend.

Midgets dressed like IG fighting purple SM. Directed by Uwe Boll. We can title it "Traitor Gaurd".

Sorry rocklord,but any film directed by Uwe Boll is insta-fail.

Mine wins as someone asked by PM to use my idea..

Go me.

oh yea well like 10 peeple asked me 2 ues my idea an 1 of tehm was george lukas so there

haha your 10 imaginary cant compete with my one legit one

Wish some one would use my ideas. i dont have the ability or time to do it. all i would want is recognition. to bad. i just hope no one stole my idea and didnt tell me. ya never know on the e-webs.

Heres a idea for a movie.

Lets make a fantasy world. throw in generic stuff like. Elves, Dwarves and orcs.

Let's make 3 movies. The Fellowship of the necklace, A couple of towers and hey the king is back!

Totally original.

FITZZ wrote: Sorry rocklord,but any film directed by Uwe Boll is insta-fail.

Thats the idea. I figure a bad idea directed by him should hit the point of so bad its funny. Granted the risk of it going way past that is pretty high but the idea of a war movie full of midgets still makes me laugh. :3

Deadshane1 wrote:Zombie apocalypse. Small group of survivors doing their best to survive. Early in the movie they encounter another person whos been surviving who joins their group....little do they know that he is a vampire. He cannot feed off of the infected. SO he joins this group of survivors so that he has a potential blood supply.

How do the survivors react when they eventually find out? Is there enough benefit to having a supernaturally fast/strong/alert nightime protector? Is the vampire TRULY beneficiant or simply using the group? Is the role of "blood bank" too much for some of the group? Is daytime protection of this "savior" to dangerous in and of itself in this world of zombies?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


Id like to see Being Human the 3hr movie THAT! would be good better than that piece of insta-fail above

Hmmm, how about somthing like this....

" In the not to distant future a group of people who have met via the internet (they don't know each other IRL),stumble across a hidden top secret government computer file.
This file reveals that the world IS flat,that Obama IS the anti-christ,that the government IS slowly trying to turn citizens into slaves via media control,economic deprivation and police brutality and that the IRS is an alien orginization bent on world domination.
The group attempt to alert others via the interwebs of their discovery,however they are soon found out,and the evil goverment dispatches "hit sqauds" to silence our heros.
The heros (after one is killed) relize the hit sqauds are on the way,and also discover the location of the goverments "true" seat of power,they decide to form a hit sqaud of their own and take the fight to the "evil overlords",the group decide to meet in real life to continue planing,unfourtunatly they are all to fat to board any air craft (they have obviously spent far to much time at their computor desk)...
Now the race is on...can our chubby heros make it to the meeting area to form the perfect plan to topple the evil overlords...or will the hit sqauds find them first?"

This pitch brought to you by several OT threads.

FITZZ wrote: Hmmm, how about somthing like this....

" In the not to distant future a group of people who have met via the internet (they don't know each other IRL),stumble across a hidden top secret government computer file.
This file reveals that the world IS flat,that Obama IS the anti-christ,that the government IS slowly trying to turn citizens into slaves via media control,economic deprivation and police brutality and that the IRS is an alien orginization bent on world domination.
The group attempt to alert others via the interwebs of their discovery,however they are soon found out,and the evil goverment dispatches "hit sqauds" to silence our heros.
The heros (after one is killed) relize the hit sqauds are on the way,and also discover the location of the goverments "true" seat of power,they decide to form a hit sqaud of their own and take the fight to the "evil overlords",the group decide to meet in real life to continue planing,unfourtunatly they are all to fat to board any air craft (they have obviously spent far to much time at their computor desk)...
Now the race is on...can our chubby heros make it to the meeting area to form the perfect plan to topple the evil overlords...or will the hit sqauds find them first?"

This pitch brought to you by several OT threads.

I don't know about you, but I got a 200HP DOHC V6 and I WILL run the servants of the shadow government off the damn road. Perhaps I could be a hero, Flatulence Man!

warpcrafter wrote:

FITZZ wrote: Hmmm, how about somthing like this....

" In the not to distant future a group of people who have met via the internet (they don't know each other IRL),stumble across a hidden top secret government computer file.
This file reveals that the world IS flat,that Obama IS the anti-christ,that the government IS slowly trying to turn citizens into slaves via media control,economic deprivation and police brutality and that the IRS is an alien orginization bent on world domination.
The group attempt to alert others via the interwebs of their discovery,however they are soon found out,and the evil goverment dispatches "hit sqauds" to silence our heros.
The heros (after one is killed) relize the hit sqauds are on the way,and also discover the location of the goverments "true" seat of power,they decide to form a hit sqaud of their own and take the fight to the "evil overlords",the group decide to meet in real life to continue planing,unfourtunatly they are all to fat to board any air craft (they have obviously spent far to much time at their computor desk)...
Now the race is on...can our chubby heros make it to the meeting area to form the perfect plan to topple the evil overlords...or will the hit sqauds find them first?"

This pitch brought to you by several OT threads.

I don't know about you, but I got a 200HP DOHC V6 and I WILL run the servants of the shadow government off the damn road. Perhaps I could be a hero, Flatulence Man!

...And casting has begun..

A sci-fi movie or series that's basically an exposé of the sort of society and morals needed for a human civilization to conquer and exploit space and alien civilizations, while maintaining long-term stability in the face of internal population/cultural pressures. I suppose the setting's MacGuffin would be that no other sentient race is as violent or militaristic as humanity....and the rest of the galaxy suffers because of it. But who cares? It's good to be a human! The important thing would be to paint humanity in a sympathetic light while still pissing all over modern Politically Correct sensibilities.

^All of that will be intermittent with copious amounts of gritty "realistic" sci-fi ground and space combat.

Fantasy 'Space Opera' using flying ships (never leaving atmosphere) boldly going where no mage has gone before.

Four astronauts (1 middle-aged male, 1 30-something year old woman, 1 man and 1 woman around the age of 25) wake up on a spaceship with no idea why they're there, who each other are and what their mission is. Things get hostile when they try to discover these things and fights start out on the ship. They soon find out that they're 23 million miles from the sun and they're being sent there to circle it and collect rays for scientific experiments. They later find out from digging around that the sun is being hurdled towards Earth which would wipe out all mankind, and they're actually being sent there to crash into the surface of the sun to create enough force to push it back into it's original place. The ship is on autopilot but when they reach the sun it would heat up and malfunction (knocking it off it's course) which is why they needed pilots to navigate it. At first they try to find a way off the ship and find out they can fly the ship back to Earth if they want but they would be looked at as cowards and other people would have to step up for the job (maybe throw in a powerful line like "Either we die a hero, or we live to be looked at as cowards for the rest of our lives"). They soon come to peace with their fate and they all sit around and talk about their lives up to now. Friendships are made and maybe the two 25 year olds confess a crush for each other. It would end with them each commanding a part of the cockpit and it shows them peacefully but still destructively flying into the sun. It would be a sad scene with sad music in the background but you would know that they were all happy with how everything ended.

A movie that takes place on multiple worlds and spaceships about a tyrannical empire that rules with an iron fist and is having problems crushing a slippery organized rebellion within its own borders. In the final iteration of the story, the penultimate figure in the evil empire ends up being related to the protagonist of the good-intentioned rebellion.

I'm not sure what to call it, it's still very much a work in progress.

Blaming the Victim: The True Story

"One man against an entire internet forum; one final battle between good and fascist corporate slave bully cowards. This is his story, this is his legend."

Coming soon to a theater near you!