I'm a writer (of sorts) and I'm looking to challenge myself with a strange project. I want to write a GOOD sequel to a really BAD movie. The worse the original movie, the better... I want to see if I have what it takes to continue the miserable storyline with a fantastic follow-up.
I just need help finding the right BAD movie. It can't be some purposely bad piece of garbage. And it can't already have a sequel. Got any ideas?
Giant bugs? Sure. Aliens? Why not... I'm up for doing this to any type of sci-fi flick.
I do believe that the ultimate challenge would be Manos: Hands Of Fate!
Why would you want to dedicate that kind of time and effort to a script that will absolutely, positively never get made? You won't even be able to use it as a "calling card" writing sample.
It'd be for good experince and practice. Why don't you try Reptilicus and then work you're way up (down?) to Monos the Hands of Fate.
Writing isn't really work for me. It's a hobby. I'm currently not looking to sell my writing, and might not ever try. Even if I did try, though, realistically the odds of me getting any of my works published (with a good publisher) are slim to none. I might actually have a better chance selling a sequel to some crap movie than I would selling an original book or movie script. But anyway, the point of this project was just pure entertainment on my part.
I might actually have a better chance selling a sequel to some crap movie than I would selling an original book or movie script.
So that's how unwanted sequels and remakes are birthed!!
nobody wrote:
> Writing isn't really work for me. It's a hobby. I'm currently
> not looking to sell my writing, and might not ever try. Even if
> I did try, though, realistically the odds of me getting any of
> my works published (with a good publisher) are slim to none. I
> might actually have a better chance selling a sequel to some
> crap movie than I would selling an original book or movie
> script.
No, you wouldn't. No one in Hollywood has ever, nor will ever, accept an outside "spec" sequel script. If it's a successful movie, they've got someone working on it already. If not, they don't want to make a sequel anyway.
As long as you know that this effort will never be of any commercial use to you, sure, go for it. But I'd much rather work on original projects that have a chance at production.
Not that it matters, but Hollywood doesn't make most of the straight-to-video (or "straight-to-the-scifi-channel") flicks I'm addressing... horrible low budget movies like "Frankenfish" or "Boa VS Python." The kind of people who make those films are obviously willing to film whatever script falls into their laps. That's why I said I'd probably have an easier time selling this sequel idea of mine (IF I was trying to sell it) as opposed to trying to sell one of my original books or movie scripts.
More than likely, Fearless Freep.
BTW, someone mentioned "Manos" as a perfect candidate for my project. That actually might be too tough for anyone to springboard off of. :) But I'll definitely keep the suggestion in mind.
The plot of MANOS is actually fairly easy to work with. It was the execution that bored people silly.
Write a sequel or reinterpretation of FROM HELL IT CAME. We don't have enough walking tree movies to satisfy the demand.
I totally agree on that one. Personally I think the ideas behind B Movies are pretty good, or at least colorfull. They're just way too ambitious for the means and talents of the film makers. Hell Manos was almost mythological. You had a Satyr jelous of the wives of an evil wizard, some mysterious god, a hound from hell, tons of good stuff. It was just really really badly executed. Made great MST3K fodder though.
Princess Warrior is probably the worst sci-fi I've ever seen. The cool part is that besides just writing a script, you could have a garage sale and use the proceeds to finance the production of sequel that had a larger budget than the original.
The comic-book version of Plan 9 From Outer Space treated the storyline straight, as if the aliens had real menace.
Do a sequel to Plan 9 -- but make it serious & deadly
peter johnson/denny crane
THE RATS ARE COMING, THE WEREWOLVES ARE HERE ends with the main character pregnant with a werewolf baby that will carry the werewolf family genes into the 20th Century (it is supposed to take place at the turn of the 19th century).
At least it'll give you a decent title.
Do something that you could easily change to something sellable later, like "The Creeping Terror" set on an aircraft carrier that you could change into the Enterprise or an isolated villeage you could change to a space colony, and characters that could be Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.
I started writing one of those Star Trek novels once, thinking that if no Treknerd mag wanted it I could change the names, make Spock a Martian, etc. The story was kind of like one of Farmer's "World Of Teirs" books, with a godlike alien making Kirk, Spock and McCoy run a gauntlet of pocket universes. The 'puter I had it on is kaput though. Also, it had no subplot. Character and dialoge are my weakest areas, I think, so using K, S, and M was kind of a crutch. Didn't want to kill myself when I had them say dumb things, because they say dumb things anyway, they're on record.
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