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In the distant future, a brilliant, but timid theoretical physicist must accompany a team of reckless specialists and go back in time to prevent the last world war from ending to avert even greater atrocities.
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You might want to do a slight correction to this logline.
Unless I am wrong I don’t think they want to prevent “the stop of the last world war…” That would mean they would want the last world war to continue… which is actually kinda interesting.
I am thinking it is a typo and a quick edit to fix.
However, if it is a typo I kinda like it. In the middle of the last world war (In the future) there was a peace deal. The war stopped but the ensuing peace caused the end of most life on the planet, so now the lead and his reckless team must go back in time to sabotage the peace deal and let the world war run its course… lol. If it is a typo, it’s a good one!
It’s not a typo actually
I like it!
lol
Possible Title: Give War a Chance
“a brilliant, but timid theoretical physicist” = protagonist
must … “accompany a team of reckless specialists” = response to inciting incident (possible antagonist?)
“go back in time to prevent the last world war from ending to avert even greater atrocities” = main character goal
Great main character, lots of potential for internal conflict, given the character will be afraid, but skilled in getting out of conflict. Implication is character arch of timid, moving through to courageous.
Missing link feels like it might be the inciting incident. What has motivated our timid scientist into working these reckless specialists? Guessing it might have something to do with the time machine …
Orbital to a main character, are characters who either help or hinder. However, there is the idea of a contagonist, (think the Wizard, in the Wizard of Oz). Here they are not the principle villain (of course the Witch is the villain in Oz), and while the Wizard kind’a helps Dorothy, principally he hinders, by making it hard for her to find home. Basically, “reckless specialists” implies hinder, but he must “accompany” or work together, harmoniously and helpful in someway!
More to the point, who is the main bad guy? Perhaps it is a character related to starting the “last world war”. A kind’a Ares villain character found in Wonder Woman, 2017.