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Post by Dr LuKas on Jul 17, 2007 10:40:07 GMT -1
If you don't want to know don't read on but this is a film idea I just thought of tell me what you think. Its a few years in the future and NASA announce they won't be able to send man to Mars any time soon. But a funky (and clearly a bit crazy) young man about mid 20's makes a proposition to NASA. He tells them if they send him to Mars they don't have to make the difficult journey to send him back, he'll die there having collected a lot of information about Mars and having filmed from the surface. The guy claims he'll die a happy man if he is the first man on Mars. Sending one man to Mars so he can live on the surface for a short period of time is just within NASA's capabilities so after much deliberation they accept. Just over a year later he lands on Mars (the film follows the guys troubled journey completely isolated millions of miles from any other human) and does as NASA had told him to. Now our leading man is having second thoughts, the animal instinct in him makes him want to live when it's time to die. Staring out at the red surroundings that filled him with wonder to begin with, he now sees them as endless nothingness a desolate land where nothing lives apart from himself. NASA greatly over compensated when it came to providing oxygen and food so conceivably the crazy lad could survive where he stands for quite some time. He must make a difficult decision of weather he wants to plead for rescue or accept his fate and pay the price for his foolhardiness but a year ago. His decision is difficult but it is even harder for those back on earth.
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jul 17, 2007 11:43:12 GMT -1
will there be any sex scenes
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Post by Billy on Jul 17, 2007 12:01:58 GMT -1
It would be cool if he changed his mind and wanted to come back but NASA said no, and he had to make his way back to earth on his own - and then NASA sent space ships to try and shoot him down
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Post by Dr LuKas on Jul 17, 2007 12:10:34 GMT -1
Woo Hoo responses 'It would be cool if he changed his mind and wanted to come back but NASA said no, and he had to make his way back to earth on his own' yes Billy thank you And as for sex scenes probably not but 100 of my other film ideas will include many. Did you like it though? But I can't help but think you didn't read it properly when you said: 'NASA sent space ships to try and shoot him down' Why would they actively try to kill him and even crazier why would the spend millions trying to do it when that was apart of the reason they didn't try to bring him home in the first place. This is a story that does have an ending, that was just the prologue; you'll have to see the movie to see what happens next.
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Post by Billy on Jul 17, 2007 12:16:04 GMT -1
They would try to kill him because they would believe that he was bringing back poisons or contagious materials from Mars (a bit like in Alien) So in order to save the greater good (ie the human race) they would decide to sacrifice him
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Post by Travis on Jul 17, 2007 12:17:10 GMT -1
Is his mode of transport to Mars a mothership by any chance?? Will there be a boarding at the International Funk Station?? Could he produce a clone of a female human using basic materials like dry frozen chicken soup, tissue samples and Martian soil??
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Post by Dr LuKas on Jul 17, 2007 12:32:56 GMT -1
;D I can't help but feel you guys aren't taking this seriously (and I wonder why...... if I see a film like this with the credits for writing in the name of Travis and Billy in a couple of years time don't think I won't sue! ) Why would they believe he was bringing back 'poisons or contagious materials' he’s in his space suit the whole time and even if he did find anything poisonous he wouldn't bring it back and tell them about it. There's nothing poisonous on Mars and that’s fact in real life too. And you can't just go around killing the first man on Mars; nobody actively tried to kill Neil Armstrong on his way back from the moon did they. This guy has done NASA an awful lot of help, if they can bring him home they might but they won't kill him on purpose, they’d only let him die because it'd be too difficult to save him. And Trav you're talking about one of my other movies, this is an attempt at a serious one, I guess I didn't make it that clear, this is as serious as I get. Do you like the idea, has it got legs?
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Post by Shippers on Jul 17, 2007 12:44:08 GMT -1
how many killings?
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Post by Billy on Jul 17, 2007 12:50:20 GMT -1
oh, sorry I was being serious. I was just trying to help. Sorry if you thought I was taking the piss
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Post by Travis on Jul 17, 2007 13:10:10 GMT -1
;D I can't help but feel you guys aren't taking this seriously (and I wonder why...... if I see a film like this with the credits for writing in the name of Travis and Billy in a couple of years time don't think I won't sue! ) Why would they believe he was bringing back 'poisons or contagious materials' he’s in his space suit the whole time and even if he did find anything poisonous he wouldn't bring it back and tell them about it. There's nothing poisonous on Mars and that’s fact in real life too. And you can't just go around killing the first man on Mars; nobody actively tried to kill Neil Armstrong on his way back from the moon did they. This guy has done NASA an awful lot of help, if they can bring him home they might but they won't kill him on purpose, they’d only let him die because it'd be too difficult to save him. And Trav you're talking about one of my other movies, this is an attempt at a serious one, I guess I didn't make it that clear, this is as serious as I get. Do you like the idea, has it got legs? Sounds like it could work better as an arthouse piece rather than a blockbuster, maybe something along the lines of Solaris. The story could form the basis for some sort of character study, examining the effects of isolation, and also of ambition and its consequences. Echoes of 2001 : A Space Odyssey, maybe too in terms of the isolation theme....
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Post by Mrs H on Jul 17, 2007 13:12:13 GMT -1
;D I can't help but feel you guys aren't taking this seriously (and I wonder why...... if I see a film like this with the credits for writing in the name of Travis and Billy in a couple of years time don't think I won't sue! ) Why would they believe he was bringing back 'poisons or contagious materials' he’s in his space suit the whole time and even if he did find anything poisonous he wouldn't bring it back and tell them about it. There's nothing poisonous on Mars and that’s fact in real life too. And you can't just go around killing the first man on Mars; nobody actively tried to kill Neil Armstrong on his way back from the moon did they. This guy has done NASA an awful lot of help, if they can bring him home they might but they won't kill him on purpose, they’d only let him die because it'd be too difficult to save him. And Trav you're talking about one of my other movies, this is an attempt at a serious one, I guess I didn't make it that clear, this is as serious as I get. Do you like the idea, has it got legs? Sounds like it could work better as an arthouse piece rather than a blockbuster, maybe something along the lines of Solaris. The story could form the basis for some sort of character study, examining the effects of isolation, and also of ambition and its consequences. Echoes of 2001 : A Space Odyssey, maybe too in terms of the isolation theme.... The twist is it's Ken Bates in Space
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Post by Travis on Jul 17, 2007 13:13:42 GMT -1
Sounds like it could work better as an arthouse piece rather than a blockbuster, maybe something along the lines of Solaris. The story could form the basis for some sort of character study, examining the effects of isolation, and also of ambition and its consequences. Echoes of 2001 : A Space Odyssey, maybe too in terms of the isolation theme.... The twist is it's Ken Bates in Space FUCK IT THEN!!!! A BLOCKBUSTER IT IS!!!! ;D
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Post by Mrs H on Jul 17, 2007 13:28:52 GMT -1
The twist is it's Ken Bates in Space FUCK IT THEN!!!! A BLOCKBUSTER IT IS!!!! ;D And the sex scenes will be him getting violated by Martians with poisionous reproductive organs.
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Post by Peschi on Jul 17, 2007 13:43:52 GMT -1
Sounds it could be a very interesting story there!
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jul 17, 2007 14:44:30 GMT -1
FUCK IT THEN!!!! A BLOCKBUSTER IT IS!!!! ;D And the sex scenes will be him getting violated by Martians with poisionous reproductive organs. not quite the sex scenes i had in mind, but a sex scene nevertheless ;D
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Post by Dr LuKas on Jul 17, 2007 15:09:41 GMT -1
Cool ok thanks guys, (no I didn't take it like that Billy but if you steal my idea AHHH!! ;D only joking ). Yeah not necessarily a blockbuster just an interesting piece that gets you thinking a little, the funk blockbusters come slightly later in my career. So Billy will you fund me? I'll give you all jobs like executive producers or actors.
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Post by Billy on Jul 17, 2007 15:11:35 GMT -1
Yeah sure I'll fund you - how much do you need?
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Post by Dr LuKas on Jul 17, 2007 15:46:36 GMT -1
5 billion million. You're wage'll be high trust me. Shall I play the leading man? I kinda wrote it for me, it sounds like a crazier version of me.
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Post by officergroyman on Jul 17, 2007 15:51:29 GMT -1
5 billion million. I have that in my piggy bank funkster - shocking huh!!! WANT A LOAN
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Post by Dr LuKas on Jul 17, 2007 15:53:17 GMT -1
Oh yes please, do you want to join the team, joint director maybe?
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