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]

Originally Posted by Seil

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. Not to drag anything too far off-topic, Jekyll is a show that establishes The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in a current setting. You watch the show for James Nesbitt, 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.