Pitch Your Dream Project

[The Sevenshot Kid]

It's safe to say that most of us like to fancy ourselves the creative types. We read, watch, and write a bunch of different things. Our tastes are varied but we're united by our love of media.

As a fun little exercise, I think it'd be a great idea for us all to pitch our dream projects that we'd love to create. It can be anything ranging from a treatment of a famous character you think would go over well or an entirely original creation that you feel could become a future icon.

This can be an idea for a movie, book, tv series, comic, anything. Just make your pitch really good and make everyone see what you see.

[Seil]

I have a bunch of ideas for stories I should write:

1) There's an elderly man in an appartment building who the landlady's daughter has fallen in love with over the years. The idea is that she never lets him know it, she just watches him through the years that he lives there.

2) A series of novels - each one the POV of a different character. The first book establishes them all as stereotypes: the jock, the nerd, the goth, the preppy cheerleader, the whatever. Then as the books continue through the high school year, each stereotype is deconstructed and eventually dismissed.

3) A father and daughter are involved in a car crash, and the daughter survives. The father lives on as a guardian angel, and can affect things in small, subtle ways in the favor of his little girl. The climax is where she's about to be date-raped, saved by a friend, is in ill-health because of the drug used, dies in the ambulance but saved at the last second. When she dies, she sees her dad, watching over her.

4) A love story between two women trying to manage a long distance relationship over a number of years.

5) Superhero story - a man in a relationship with a woman who suspects him of cheating on her because he sneaks out every night to be super.

6) Restaurant owner hates his lazy staff. They never show up on time, they don't do their jobs and they leave early. Because he's hard on them for it, they decide to quit all at once. Owner brings in new staff from 5-Star restaurant, who work well, but want to be paid 5-Star wages. He tries to balance the needs of his new staff while off-playing his stress to the old staff.

7) Milton, the guy who wrote Paradise Lost, was blind. He dictated a lot of the book to his daughters, who wrote it for him. My version is that he was trying to dictate childrens books, while his daughters, fearing for their fathers reputation, write Paradise Lost to cement his place in history.

8) WWIII - an alternate-reality fiction story set after 9/11 that talks about the racism that swept North America and likens us to Nazi Germany. War breaks out, and we fight our own minorities as much as we fight the war.

9) A woman inherits a piano from her grandmother who's passed away. While moving it in to her loft, the movers take a break. A resident of the same building sees the piano, and plays a little. The woman walks in on the resident, and forms a relationship, listening to him play the same way she listened to her grandmother play.

[Seil]

Come to think of it, (9) would be a nice moment in (1).

[The Sevenshot Kid]

Come to think of it, (9) would be a nice moment in (1).

I feel I deserve a credit if you ever write this for facilitating this realization.

[Seil]

You'll get a cut. Probably a papercut on my book of terrible puns, but a cut nonetheless.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

My dream project has always been to develop a live action Batman series for the likes of AMC, HBO, or Showtime. I've conceived it as a cross between Nolan's Batman and Dexter.

There'd be a much larger emphasis on Bruce Wayne as a character with a wide supporting cast including Thomas Elliot, Harvey Dent, Jim Gordon, and Selina Kyle to say a few. The plot would be highly serialized with a full two seasons compromising Bruce Wayne's first year back in Gotham.

The first season would be all about Bruce developing his crime fighting methods while rooting out corruption in his company. This would be set up against a budding romance with Selina Kyle and a few side stories involving Gordon and Harvey Dent. Think the first couple seasons of Dexter transplanted into the Batman universe.

[phil_]

I don't write or produce anything; someone else makes some literature about something or other, and I get paid more than the writer because I'm the Executive Producer.

[Seil]

Mr. Kid, I think you'd get a kick outta Jekyll (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dJhxCS3vec). Not to drag anything too far off-topic, Jekyll is a show that establishes The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO2385sbNX0) in a current setting. You watch the show for James Nesbitt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjRqMSmvpzw), everything else is just so much salad dressing.

[Doc ock rokc]

First Paradox -Time reversal centered, metroidvanian, first person shooter. Mostly dealing with the paradoxes of time reversal in the first place (grandfather predestination etc) essentially you can literally become a army of one. At certain places in the game you can chose to encourage or discourage paradoxes to help you survive. For example. If you discourage the Grandfather paradox you can use your past selves as body shields for their deaths no longer effect you...however you could encourage it and any damage you prevent on your past self you gain back (or rather never took...don't over think it) during this entire process your trying to figure out if you are the "first paradox" or the thing that makes Time travel possible in the first place all while keeping your malfunctioning time travel device from placing your consciousness in a past self.

The Escher project- third person, gravity centered platformer/shooter. Your trapped in a think tank satellite. the first hot spot of the second cold war (between US and China) and quite possibly, the beginning of WWIII, wearing a prototype super weapon that allows you to manipulate your own and others gravity. However the Facility's Gravity pumps are severely damaged and are bending so much gravity space has become warped. With The US, China and the Facility members themselves trying to get the weapon you have to survive and repair this warped war filled environment or else the Facility will colaps into a black hole and destroy everything.

Evil Genius Computer repair-Ever wonder what villains have to do when they are low on cash? Wonder no more. in this comic you follow the unnamed evil genius as he has to manage his evil career and still spare time to do crime. Along for the ride are the indispensable number threes(or the number two's number twos), Johnny McRedshirt, and The EVIL LEAGUE of bowlers who fight their heros, customers, and ultimately try to not get their plans foiled again (but somehow kill Johnny)

UED-this is a project I want to make so bad but No one wants to help with. I have a theory on how to stretch the Second law of thermodynamics and help with the energy crisis. Essentially I have devised a magnetically propelled motor that could easily crank a generator. the only problem is the excess magnetic waves eventually kill the powerful magnets. What therorise is that Metamaterials could detect and even manipulate these low frequency magnetic waves and remove them from the system allowing for the system to run on it's magnet's natural span of time. Effectively creating a temporary to longterm power source. However my last try at making a limiting system created a ...problem to say the least and metamaterials are on the cutting edge so they are hard to come-by.

[Toast]

I've been working on a lot of projects, some more than others.

The first is a series of short stories, and I still don't have a title for the series, about a woman, Ezri, and her fraternal twin sister who are abducted by government agents at a young age and trained to be assassins. Over the next 25+ years, Ezri develops extraordinary mental powers, first she can hack into computers wirelessly with her mind, and later develops telepathic and other powers. Ezri escapes government control and begins a campaign of revenge, only to learn that during her training she was also being studied, and now the government possesses the capability of teaching her mental powers to others. I have 4 and a half short stories already written. When I get six, I'm going to try publishing them as an ebook collection, probably kindle, but I haven't decided for sure yet.

I'm also working on a science fiction space adventure for now called Crossing the Threshold. Originally, it also started as a short story idea, but I think it would work a bit better as an episodic novella. It's a little like Firefly in that the characters are on a ship and take whatever jobs they can get. Unlike Firefly, they don't have a small cargo ship but rather an outdated, obsolete battlecruiser. It's also not a space western, but more like Pirates! Live the Life in space. They can only really take jobs that the galactic corporations wouldn't touch, while dodging said corporations attempts to buy them out. I haven't worked on this one in a long time, though, mostly because the next project has been taking up most of my time.

This one is supposed to be a collaboration with my brothers. I don't know exactly how that's going to work out, as one brother hasn't even started any writing and neither of them seem very interested in world building, setting, plot, history, etc. that are kind of necessary if we don't want to have to rewrite every time one of us does something, which has already come up more than once. I'm ranting. It's going to be a pretty low magic fantasy story. The idea is three brothers are caught up in a war between their home county and a neighboring rival county. All three distinguish themselves in battle and defeat their enemy so soundly that after the war, all three leave home and go separate ways. The oldest starts his own professional army, the middle goes on heroic adventures in search of fame and glory, and the youngest joins a secret society in order to explore his spirituality.

I'm writing the youngest brother. From a young age he's had an intuitive sense that he can't quite explain. He sometimes seems to know things he can't know. He also has dreams that are too real to be just dreams. He joins the secret society in order to sort it all out. The secret society isn't just going to help him because they're good guys. They have an agenda of their own and they expect service in return for their knowledge.

[Azisien]

1) d20 Modern or D&D running on a top notch SRPG game engine, complete with epic campaign and multiplayer.

2) Get anything I've written published? Right now I'm working on a fantasy novel. It's fairly generic and I wasn't shooting for anything else at the get-go. Suppose it's practice, mostly. I'm experimenting with some concepts and characters that I never would have attempted before, for example, the main protagonist is female.

3) Direct either the REBOOTED hush-hush The Last Airbender live-action movie to set the record straight, or direct the horror-comedy sequel where a serial killer (me) systematically slaughters everyone on the The Last Airbender 2 set after the killer's screenplay gets rejected.

[tacticslion]

Well, I have several dream projects

First: a series of novels, specifically a quadrilogy (I don't care if it's officially a "trilogy", that's stupid, it's four books, not three) concerning a young man who, near the end of book one, gets royally screwed - literally and figuratively, in two separate events - and manages to survive. That moment changes the nature of the rest of the book and series, but it's both gritty and high-fantasy in several ways (the hidden side of the world makes it sci-fantasy, but no one is likely ever to see this ever).

I'd plotted out and written the over-all story arcs (three rather rapidly sequential books, and a fourth book set some time in the future), carefully understood the inner workings of my world, fully fleshed out all the hows and whys of my characters, and fully written three-quarters of the first novel, when my computer died the long death (the CPU actually died with the info stored in it - I could have had a 50% chance of recovering around 50% of it, if I payed more money than I had. I declined.). But fortunately, I'd had the good sense to make back-ups! ... which cracked when, a short time later, the desk they were one broke. But I'd had ANOTHER back-up! ... that had (without me realizing it) gotten stored in the garage. So, I now have no story, characters, plot, or world. I could just rewrite it, but that was devastating. It would most certainly not be anywhere nearly so good as I could write now, though. Which might be a blessing in disguise. Anyway, that's dream project one.

Second: a series of four video games starring a one (or more) character(s) who has many multiple paths (s)he can take in order to completely "the story", as well as multiple "paths to power" - i.e. multiple different ways the same character can increase their personal power, including abilities to follow multiple paths "at the same time"... all while still being balanced to each other. The first game would be basically a city-exploration game as he tries to (hah-hah, this is secret!). I don't want to go into toooooooooooo much detail here, but it's got several unique elements that I still haven't seen anyone do in video games, and is basically the kind of game I'd like to play. It does have some quick-time stuff, but I'm taking a heavy and critical look at whether or not that'd work well, or if there's a better way of executing what I'm thinking about. I've got the story-idea, and several of the mechanics nailed down, as well as the history and atmosphere. One way of looking at it is a combination of Vagrant Story, Ico/Shadow of the Colossus, and Legend of Zelda (especially Twilight Princess and Wind Waker), though I didn't know of some of those originally. Unfortunately, a few of the unique ideas I had were taken by other games, but its still unique so far.

One other unusual element of the game is that two of the games are actually prequels - I also want to make it so that you can play them in any order, but you can 'update' any game save you have with all of the relevant information from any of the games. The final game would be the culmination of the other three and the slow building tension that each of the games has built on.

Third: a series of fantasy-based short stories that I've been developing, mostly for myself, but also for a game-world I've been working on. I actually started making the game world, took a look at one period of history, found it to be endlessly fascinating, and began writing about that. It's come out quite amazing, so far. I mean I don't think I'm that good of a writer, but I'm impressed with the look of it. Short version: gnomes take over the world! Beware the GNOMES!

The stories are from various people's views during the world-wide war, ranging from gnomes to their enemies, usually taking a slightly positive spin on whoever you're reading about - regardless of what side of the war their on.

Also various other stories I'm looking at and developing - including one fantasy set in historical Baltic-coast Lithuania-Polish Commonwealth era, and another following a series of incidents in London c. 1830-1880. The former is darker and more terrible, while the latter is much lighter in tone, form, and story.

Also, the first two (out of three) Azisien said. :D

[Kim]

Right now all I want to make is a spiritual sequel to Eternal Darkness where you go to sleep and play as other people in your dreams.

THIS IS ALL I WANT

[Bard The 5th LW]

1.) A sort of graphic novel about a super hero who gets his/her powers from a lovecraftian abomination. It'd probably be a bit like Dr. Strange but not exactly. The main character would be really unassuming and despite being the Edlritch chosen one.

2.) Some sorta big fantasy novel that spans for a few books, taking place in the modern day. Lotsa time travel, and conspiracies and lies all over the place. Magic, laser beams, and the apocalypse all spinning around the place. Sorta an epic.

3.) A series of 3 horror/mystery/adventure stories, told from the perspective of a different character each time, with each character in a different state of affairs regarding the situation. One wanting to run away from it, one wanting more answers to it, and the final character wanting to end it permanently.

[Bells]

1) i'm still working on my Book, i don't care if i have to pay to get it out there and never see a dime on sales for it, but it will get out there.

2) I really would like to create a Simple and Fun pen and Paper Strategy RPG based around Gundam/Macross-Like Mecha. And i know i can make something WAAAAAY better than Battletech...

3) I would love to create smaller projects with other people to mess around and have fun editing videos and creating Special effects on the PC. It's my Hobby, but it's hard one to work with if i don't have a project on it or at least some fun footage. My dream work would be to make a short movie recorded with several people from around the globe that are never in the same place together...

4) My Star Wars Reboot of the first 3 Movies that takes the Star Wars saga back to the "Wizards in Space" and deals with Hundreds of years before the original Trilogy, where Space Flight is just beginning, the birth of the Sith, A Sith Lord capable of compressing a entire Moon Colony after 3 months of pure meditation and Lightsabers being so rare that only the Jedi Council have them.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

I'm currently working on my book that I've been putting together for about four years. The tentative title that I've given it is Saga of a Deadbeat. It started off as a little vanity project to have fun with but once I reached a certain point I had no clue how to keep going. I took a year long break and then came back to find that it was poorly written and the plot was in shambles. I started rewriting everything and planted seeds everywhere that I could use to get past the point where I hit a road block.

It's a series of memoirs from a young man to the daughter he never got to know. After an accident he gets roped into the world of the supernatural and subsequently forced to take the role as the world's protector at the loss of having a family. The entire thing is him rationalizing his decisions and how hard he's trying to do the right thing.

When I started rewriting it I ended up changing him from the perfect man for the job into the most qualified man for it. He tries but he fails a lot because of his almost obsessive strive to be perfect. His mentor knows that he's not quite the right fit for the position but he's the only choice so he's very hard on him.

There's also a framing device about two friends on a cross-country road trip finding out how they fit into the supernatural world at large after a ghost hunt gone wrong.

The whole thing is a giant mixed bag of influences ranging from Buffy to the Dresden Files to John Dies at the End. I'm pretty proud of the product. Now I'm nearing the end game and I'm a little worried about screwing it up.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

D-Resonate, my finally cleaned up series spamming 8 Sagas (you might remember as the "D-Universe" thing I kept whining about every year). It's been 3 years since I started it (Mischief Knights) going on 4. And even though things ended up dragging along (only have 40+ pages written after 3 years... which is pathetic), poor decisions resulting in me screwing my college life up almost beyond repair.

Several nervous brake downs over the years nearly tearing my sanity in two (probably did seeing as I can't sleep well much now a days). Being completely and I mean completely destroyed on Penny Arcade by a mod of all people.

And with it's artwork now becoming perverted and used more as a means of venting sexual frustration because of my conflicting emotions about rather or not I should start looking for a girlfriend to keep me company and maybe even help me VS me wanting loads of alone time to work and relax.

Not to mention the requests I STILL owe to everyone here, along with a few on Deviantart and furaffinity. some of which are nearing a year or two old.

And being forced into a corner where I may have to sacrifice the story I made and fell in love with for a new one or be doomed to being consider mediocre at best because of what happened on PA. Even though it was largely aimed at writing errors rather then the plot... Lease I hope it was...

Despite all of this, I still want to and plan to finish the whole thing. It will be damn near impossible at times but I've got to make it work somehow. Even If I have to do it all alone. Which I most likely will rather I want to solo it or not.

[Jagos]

Creating the largest library of media in the history of the world.

Not only would it be catalogued by the Dewey Decimal system, it would double over as the newest entertainment area for ideas in various places. I figure a mall size area with the first two floors being books, the second floor would be the old school arcade along with some new games to try out. The top floor would be dedicated to indie music, movies and manga.

*sigh* It's still a pipe dream. I would have to find a way to make money on it since it's mainly a nonprofit endeavor. But damn would it be great to get this one finalized.

[rpgdemon]

You know, the PA forums aren't the entirety of the world.

Incidentally, right now for me, it's this (http://www.clockworkcardgame.com), if it ever makes it off the ground.

[BloodyMage]

I already wrote a book. I want it published

[The Sevenshot Kid]

I already wrote a book. I want it published

When you do, let us all know so we can pre-order our copies.

[Kim]

I want to make Metal Gear AC!D 3. It would be a standard "blow up Metal Gear" story but grow increasingly surreal over the course of the game and things would feel fundamentally off from the very beginning. Near the end you find out that Snake is a virus based on dead Snake's brain and being used to destroy the AI of a new Metal Gear. You also find out that destroying the AI will result in virus Snake being destroyed as well. Still, Snake finishes the mission and you watch the world turn to meaningless data along with Snake himself.

[Darth SS]

My friends and I have actually been tossing this idea around a bit. The timeframe continually varies from a year from now to ten years from now, but the idea always seems to come back to the same endpoint. Myself and two other friends will, in two years time collectively have an M.A. in Economics, an MBA, a Bachelor's in Accounting and a B.A Honours in Food Science. And we want to start up a brewery. A brewery in Saskatoon. This obviously poses some logistical challenges, mostly because brewing equipment that can operate on a business scale don't cost a dollar. The other problems would be obtaining sufficient quantities of ingredients to at a reasonable cost to produce the neccesary trial and errors to get to a product which we want to sell, and then ramp up production.

But still, brewery. That's what we want to tackle. We've even drawn up business plans for various scenarios based on various market projections that I forecasted a couple months ago.