Devil in the Details

So Charlie and I are tossing about a story idea, ready to write the next, great film that you will shell out money for.

We have a brilliant hook- supplied by Charlie.

And we have.. an issue. Lots of them. Bushels of them.

See, his hook said one thing to me, and it seems something slightly different to him. Now, it's his hook, so there is that. But it SPOKE to me in a language that, well, is slightly different than how it chatted with Charlie. So we're going back and forth and, well, we're connecting but not quite connecting, if you know what I mean.

Here, I'll demonstrate without giving anything away.

Charlie: I've got a great idea! We'll do a movie about flying saucers!

Dave: Great! Aliens from outer space are hot, it can be scary. We need to figure out what they want, why they're here, what they do to people, why it's scary, who our heros are. This is awesome!

Charlie: What do you..? No, I mean a bunch of saucer plates that are flying around the room. Killing people. Folks think they're having tea, and they pick up their cups and the saucers fly up and kill them! Scary!

Dave: *insert sound of crickets*

Charlie: What? You said you liked the idea?

OK, it's not THAT bad, and truth told, you could switch the interpretations if you want and get the same result. I want deadly tea-cozies, Charlie wants deranged E.T. clones. The end result is the same, we have issues to work out.

In some ways, Siege was so much easier for us because of the restraints.

One location. Action. One hero. Lots of dead bad guys. Rinse. Repeat.

With this script, the sky's the limit. We can do ANYTHING. And so we are taking some time narrowing down our field. At this point, we know we're not doing a movie that takes place underwater, and that it's probably live-action.

It's a start.

Oh, and we're probably going to kill people. Probably.