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A crusty veteran of an interstellar war just wants to spend his retirement in peace. A notorious space pirate accuses him of stealing an alien artifact. He?s got 72 hours to turn it over, or he?ll kill the grandson he never knew he had.
Good point about most people wanting peace. I suppose it would be more accurate to say that he's a loner and wants to keep to himself. I've just started brainstorming this idea, and haven't nailed down all the details, yet. I haven't filled in all the beats on the beat sheet, just the beginning, midRead more
Good point about most people wanting peace. I suppose it would be more accurate to say that he’s a loner and wants to keep to himself.
I’ve just started brainstorming this idea, and haven’t nailed down all the details, yet. I haven’t filled in all the beats on the beat sheet, just the beginning, middle, and end, plus Theme Stated.
I listened to the latest episode of ScriptNotes Podcast the other day, where Craig Mazin goes over his views on screenplay structure, using Finding Nemo as an example. Basically, I’m onboard with the MPR bit.
One thing I didn’t include in the logline, to keep it short(er), was that an old friend, another veteran, turns up early on and is the one who tells the protagonist about the pirate and the ultimatum. I’m thinking the Midpoint Reversal is that the protagonist finds the artifact but the old “Friend” comes along and takes it from him because he set it all up so that the protagonist would lead him to it.? The Protagonist then has to defeat the pirate and the “friend” who’s working with the pirate. It was also because the “friend” was so unreliable that the Protagonist wanted to keep to himself?in the first place.
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It sort of sounds like something they would do as a plot on an episode of the classic "Mission: Impossible" series in the late 60s and early 70s. Of course, then it'd be a team effort, where they'd do a combination of cons and heists until the drug lord's own people thought he'd betrayed them and kiRead more
It sort of sounds like something they would do as a plot on an episode of the classic “Mission: Impossible” series in the late 60s and early 70s.
Of course, then it’d be a team effort, where they’d do a combination of cons and heists until the drug lord’s own people thought he’d betrayed them and killed him for it. Rollin Hand (Martin Landau) would likely pose as a surgeon for a while, and even put on a rubber mask and pose as the drug lord.
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I don't know in what time and place this is set, but it sort of gives me a vibe of classical Westerns, like A Fistful of Dollars, and the Magnificent Seven?(Both of which?were based on Akira Kurosawa's samurai movies, though.)
I don’t know in what time and place this is set, but it sort of gives me a vibe of classical Westerns, like A Fistful of Dollars, and the Magnificent Seven?(Both of which?were based on Akira Kurosawa’s samurai movies, though.)
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