Spore
A microbiologist and his son discover a new strain of mind controlling fungus in the deepest mine on earth, now they must stop it from getting to the surface and infecting the world above.
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I like this a lot!
In my opinion you should found some good adjectives to describe the main characters. I seea potential of “sacrifice” at the end, where the father or the son or someone unexpected decide to blow up the whole mine to save the others.
The ant one is exactly what it’s based on.
I like your story idea very much. Could be a winner. I think Nir’s take on this is excellent. But I’d keep the mind controlling bit in. Also, maybe say ‘while stopping the fungus from reaching the surface and infecting the world’ or something that better hits home their urgency to get out themselves without the fungus.
Have you read anything about the neurological virus ants get that makes them climb up grass and let birds eat them? Or the rat virus that makes them like cats?
Thank Nir, that helps a lot. Making the inciting incident an event rather than ‘They found out’. Good stuff!
This has good potential man V nature with a hint of scifi. A disaster movie set under ground with huge stakes humanity is at stake and a clear goal stop the fungus.
Secondly this could be a relatively cheap production with a handful of sets and a handful of characters.
I would structure the logline differently though. Make the inciting incident more significant of an event that explains the risks at hand perhaps they had a few other members in their expedition and one got killed by the fungus.
E.g:
After a fungus infects one of their team members a microbiologist and his son must lead their under ground expedition up from the deepest mine on earth to stop the fungus from reaching the surface and infect the world.
Hope this helps.