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Writer's Block: Leaping from the page
Jun. 22nd, 2011 08:47 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
Oh God, the Fourth World. I mean, I'm sure Hollywood would decide that since it's such an obscure property, they'd need to have Dianna Argon and Penn Badgley as Barda and Scott to get some PG-13 asses in seats, but if they did it halfway faithfully... I have actually outlined the first two acts in my head. It's really hard, because it's this huge epic saga with a million different characters, but I thought of a way to do it without some unrealistic Lord of the Rings, film three movies at once deal. And no voiceover narration.
You'd just start off with one of Scott's escape attempts and that would tell you all you need to know, with an action sequence. Apokolips is a hellish cesspool and Scott wants to leave. Then he'd meet with Barda and you'd see there was some chemistry there. There'd be this great sequence where Scott has to run through this trapped corridor, Indiana Jones style, but the walls are impenetrable glass so Barda is following him on the outside and they're bantering with each other.
And the backstory would be something we'd find out with Scott, not something forcefed to the audience. Imagine this: Scott is actually able to go back and see himself being traded to Apokolips for peace. Up til then, he and the audience has thought that he was Apokoliptian, but now he sees how much it hurt his parents, his real parents, to give him up, sees that he was loved all this time, and he got screwed out of his family, his childhood, his entire world because Darkseid was trying to prove a point. You can't keep running after that. You have to make a stand.
Then I started in on a third act where Scott meets the Hairies, who are these motorcycle-riding hippies versed in superscience, and I realized I'd gone too deep.
But anyway, it should be some cuddly dork guy paired with an action heroine. Say, Lee Pace and Ali Larter, or someone else who can act gruff, has comedic timing, and can bulk up to Sarah Connor levels.
...you wouldn't even have to have Scott in-costume for most of the time, he's on the run, he's trying to lie low, maybe he could dress in a nice summer suit...
Oh God, the Fourth World. I mean, I'm sure Hollywood would decide that since it's such an obscure property, they'd need to have Dianna Argon and Penn Badgley as Barda and Scott to get some PG-13 asses in seats, but if they did it halfway faithfully... I have actually outlined the first two acts in my head. It's really hard, because it's this huge epic saga with a million different characters, but I thought of a way to do it without some unrealistic Lord of the Rings, film three movies at once deal. And no voiceover narration.
You'd just start off with one of Scott's escape attempts and that would tell you all you need to know, with an action sequence. Apokolips is a hellish cesspool and Scott wants to leave. Then he'd meet with Barda and you'd see there was some chemistry there. There'd be this great sequence where Scott has to run through this trapped corridor, Indiana Jones style, but the walls are impenetrable glass so Barda is following him on the outside and they're bantering with each other.
And the backstory would be something we'd find out with Scott, not something forcefed to the audience. Imagine this: Scott is actually able to go back and see himself being traded to Apokolips for peace. Up til then, he and the audience has thought that he was Apokoliptian, but now he sees how much it hurt his parents, his real parents, to give him up, sees that he was loved all this time, and he got screwed out of his family, his childhood, his entire world because Darkseid was trying to prove a point. You can't keep running after that. You have to make a stand.
Then I started in on a third act where Scott meets the Hairies, who are these motorcycle-riding hippies versed in superscience, and I realized I'd gone too deep.
But anyway, it should be some cuddly dork guy paired with an action heroine. Say, Lee Pace and Ali Larter, or someone else who can act gruff, has comedic timing, and can bulk up to Sarah Connor levels.
...you wouldn't even have to have Scott in-costume for most of the time, he's on the run, he's trying to lie low, maybe he could dress in a nice summer suit...
