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After a ship is shot down on a remote desert planet, the surviving Marine’s only hope of survival, and getting off the planet, is in a nearby mining town which is being torn apart by two feuding gangs.
"I intend to make use of some worldbuilding?real estate that I already have." By this do you mean that you have other works set in the same universe? Because at first I was thinking that you mean that you had land you owned where you could film. (I guess my brain skipped over the "worldbuilding" parRead more
“I intend to make use of some worldbuilding?real estate that I already have.”
By this do you mean that you have other works set in the same universe? Because at first I was thinking that you mean that you had land you owned where you could film. (I guess my brain skipped over the “worldbuilding” part.)
See lessAlso, yeah, many TV shows are filmed in Vancouver because it costs less. Besides, as the writer(unless you have another role as well) you don’t have worry about that stuff much. That’s what other people have their jobs for, to make the film the cheapest possible, and good. (can’t have fast as well).The only thing you have to worry about is not be new writer pitching a multi million dollar budget film. This, even though it’s SciFi, doesn’t sound like that in the least bit.
After his ship crashes on a remote planet, the surviving Marine tries to get back to the front but finds himself in a mining town ruled by two rival gangs. He must stop the gangs fighting to get out of there alive.
The revision by Recluse is more concise, but still has the same problems the original post had - predominantly in the basic logic of the premise.
The revision by Recluse is more concise, but still has the same problems the original post had – predominantly in the basic logic of the premise.
See lessWhen characters in a virtual reality game rebel and take players hostage, a psychologist, specialising in human AI relationships, must prove to their leader that their sentience isn’t real in order to free the hostages.
Given the awesome advancements in ?virtual-video game technology it's topical. ?And I like the general idea of the avatars taking their puppet masters hostage. ?And with somer pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo to explain how its possible, I'm willing to suspend to disbelief. But I don't see how all theRead more
Given the awesome advancements in ?virtual-video game technology it’s topical. ?And I like the general idea of the avatars taking their puppet masters hostage. ?And with somer pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo to explain how its possible, I’m willing to suspend to disbelief.
But I don’t see how all the pieces fit together. ?Even antagonists have objective goals. ?So the avatars aren’t happy warriors — what do they want in taking the players hostage? ?What is their objective goal? ?And why would proving that they aren’t sentient cause them to release their prisoners, when they’ve just proved to themselves (and humans) that they don’t have to be sentient entities to kick serious gluteus maximus and take hostages?
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