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Old 06-23-2017, 10:03 PM   #17
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I would be down for that IASIP movie on day one
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Old 06-24-2017, 05:59 AM   #18
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I wrote a Saw VII script in the three days after Saw VI came out. I still maintain that it's better than the Saw VII that we got.

Then I've thought of this before, but never once ran with it. Here's a quick synopsis:


Born Again

A family loses their teenage child in a car accident. Concurrently, another family gives birth to a child that is a reincarnation of the decedent. The two families know each other, and the child starts to piece together a puzzle of a former life that he had with that other family. Within lies a moral dilemma between which family the child feels he belongs.
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Old 06-24-2017, 03:40 PM   #19
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I wrote a Saw VII script in the three days after Saw VI came out. I still maintain that it's better than the Saw VII that we got.

Then I've thought of this before, but never once ran with it. Here's a quick synopsis:


Born Again

A family loses their teenage child in a car accident. Concurrently, another family gives birth to a child that is a reincarnation of the decedent. The two families know each other, and the child starts to piece together a puzzle of a former life that he had with that other family. Within lies a moral dilemma between which family the child feels he belongs.
my first thought was "he ain't heavy, he's my brother'', then I realise ''he ain't heavy, he's me".
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Old 06-24-2017, 07:42 PM   #20
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Haha!

I had another one that I would get into more detail about (I actually started writing it as a screenplay then annexed it because college), but it's a little convoluted and doesn't work well in synopsis form:


Pox

A man is framed and convicted for raping a young girl. He is later released when the real rapist confesses by documenting all incriminating evidence (which also exonerates our protag). The story from here comes two-fold... part of it is involved how he tries to regain his reputation within his community (always will be naysayers out there, and people will obviously always see you one way)... the other part involves him investigating what kind of game the rapist is playing by submitting to his crime (kind of one of those mind games).

While Born Again would be a straight drama, this is more drama/suspense.
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Every so often when I watch action films where our hero kills henchmen leading up to the evil boss's lair, I sometimes think the following:
  • That person's life is just over. Boom.
  • I wonder if he had a family?
  • How often do they just stand around waiting for bad to go wrong? I know security has to do this all the time, but evil lairs seem a little less enticing despite the pay.
  • Assuming they believe in the evil cause, how were they discovered or how did they come to this situation?
  • What does it feel like to be under the big guy? Do they care for your allegiance toward them? Again, I know on the good side we have this as well, but something feels different on the other side.
All that this gets me to wonder whether there could be a good movie about a henchman. I'm wondering if it would serve best as a comedy, drama, or action movie. Maybe there is nothing entertaining enough to be told in the format, but I think these questions could be poked at, and even in a non-comedy can bring a bit of levity to addressing some of those questions.

What would be really interesting beyond that is that we're seeing about a hero possibly but from another point of view, and we're on the bad guy's side with this one. Obviously part of it could involve him questioning his own morals so we can side with him a little better, but the end result is this would get more people to think about the downed henchmen in these movies as more than simply expendable.
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I was just thinking of this thread a few short weeks ago but now can't remember what idea came to me

as for a henchmans story, Finn's started off great in Force Awakens but fizzled quickly in Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker

a great spinoff story for a henchman would be Oddjob from Goldfinger

also, off-topic, when the last Christian Bale Batman came out with Tom Hardy as Bane, I originally thought Bane was just a henchman because I only previously knew him from the 1997 Clooney/Ahnold Batman installment, with Bane as a henchman for Uma Thurman's Poison Ivy. at that time I didn't know he had been created for the comic book series 4 years earlier

and back on-topic, it's probably inevitable there will be a movie about the worst ever true-life henchman, assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. Kevin Spacey would be perfect for the role
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Old 01-23-2022, 10:09 AM   #23
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Calling all Yankovics

not really a movie or tv show pitch but I do feel like LA/ Hollyweird has a disproportionate amount of musical talent, and maybe this could work on soundtrack for a movie; got the start of a Joe Diffie parody song. so you songwriters feel free to run with this and finish:

Prop me up beside a juicebox 'cause I'm five
Lord I wanna go to lunch, but I don't wanna go to school, alright?
put a straw in my hand, tie my shoes and...
...Prop me up beside a juicebox 'cause I'm five
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Theoretical physicist tragically loses her husband, and she want's to access the multiverse to bring back a version of him.

It would a thriller and use real science when it comes to that subject.

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