A 50’s filmmaker, obsessed with his craft, wants make a dramatic retelling about the men who first climbed the notorious K2, and shoot it all on location. He brings actors and a crew with him but can they survive the unforgiving mountain?
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A 50’s filmmaker, obsessed with his craft, wants make a dramatic retelling about the men who first climbed the notorious K2, and shoot it all on location. He brings actors and a crew with him but can they survive the unforgiving mountain?
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Updated version: When an eccentric filmmaker in the 50’s, finally gets the funding he needs to make his dream movie, he, his actors and his crew have to climb the notorious K2 to shoot the final scene.
Feels a little like Fitzcarraldo.
The real drama will be within the crew, and we need to understand this from the logline. The climbing of the mountain – which is a mere physical challenge – is only the background, providing for the jeopardy and tension that amplifies the conflict within the crew.
“When a sudden storm traps them on the most dangerous mountain in the world, an eccentric filmmaker and his crew fight nature and the mountain to film the conquering of K-2”
First of all, loglines make statements.? They don’t explicitly raise questions. So a logline should never end in a question mark.
Even more relevant than the movie Fitzcarraldo, was the real life struggle of the director Werner Herzog to make the movie in the jungle of Brazil, as documented in “The Burden of Dreams”.
If this story idea is based on the real life struggle of a real life filmmaker to ascend K2 in the 1950’s to finish a film, then it would make for a credible and compelling story.? Otherwise, imho, not so much.
fwiw