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14 months after a virus wipes out the human race, a lone survivor fights to stay alive on the empty streets of London, battling her own mind as she looks back at the life she lost.
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This logline tells me that the protagonist is totally (sorry) screwed. She has no hope. Her life is going nowhere. All that is left is for her to die. Surely, she can’t be alone? Help her!! Reward her with some sort of an utopia that she can only enter on merit. Her world has changed. The parameters will be different. Give her an ability triggered by die apocalypse she just survived. Give her a reason to live and a reason for the audience to root for her.
Why stop there?
Go for an “Inception” ending where the audience is left guessing whether the whole story is a schizophrenic delusion?
I love this logline, as is.
The protagonist is herself.
from reading this logline, I imagine that the main role turns schizophrenic as her mind tries to cope with the fact that there is no one else is alive.
So her own mind makes up the cast!
A positive influential friend, a person or persons that are trying to sabotage/kill her. and theyre all imaginary!
I think it should be:
“14 months after a virus wipes out most of the human race, one determined survivor fights to stay alive on the streets of london, battling her paranoia, and other survivors, in this desolate landscape as she searches for a place to call home”
And the ending could reveal that all her friends and enemies never existed.
What? No other survivors? That’s a downer.
And her sole antagonist is herself, her regret about a life not lived, roads not taken? That’s double-downer.
And no positive, life-affirming objective goal, looking forwards in time, not backwards? As in “I am Legend” and “Omega Man”? That’s a triple -downer.
Yes, I agree with jamesmicheal. A goal is desireable. You may also want to make your character more interesting to define it from other movies who have addressed this topic. Perhaps even through it on another planet so we feel there will be something new about to happen that we don’t expect.
This is an interesting idea, but the logline is a little vague in its protagonist.
The first line is great. It sets up the inciting incident perfectly.
You just need to give the main character a goal.She needs to be going after/searching for something or someone as well as looking back on the past.
Even the movie “The Road,” which is pretty random in its lack of story, still has them heading to the ocean. That’s their goal
e.g “14 months after a virus wipes out the human race, a lone survivor searches the empty street of London others while battling her own mind and a past that haunts her”