The Next Spectacular Multi-Million Dollar Hollywood Sci Fi Extravaganza!....You saw it here first. (934 hits)
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Submitted by Amusediniraq (View user info) at 2004-02-24 00:49:49 EST
My idea for a Sci Fi thriller movie
The movie would open with a small crew (6-10 people) of an interstellar merchant ship being awakened from Hyper-sleep (very Alienesk, I know).
The crew would meet in the wardroom and discover that there is a mechanical problem on board and the ship is in danger of becoming a derelict.
The Captain decides to set the ship down on a nearby uncharted (of course) planet in order to effect repairs. Initial scans of the planet show an abundance of life on the surface that is foreign to the crew. The life appears to be well organized but inferior to the crew. The crew is reluctant go forward with landing but the ships condition deteriorates to the point of "no choice". The Captain decides to pilot the craft to a relatively uninhabited area of the planet.
This area of the planet is desolate and barren. The atmosphere is incompatible with their own and the crew is forced to work in pressure suits when outside the ship.
As the crew is working on the repairs of the ship they become aware that they are being watched by some of indigenous life forms.
At first they are afraid but they soon realize that the indigenous life forms appear to be cautious of them and refuse to show themselves. This creates division within the crew as the anxiety increases discussions on how to best handle the situation develop.
There is a moment when the unseen indigenous life forms surprise a work crew outside. The crew is frightened, confused and disoriented by the encounter. They feel the need to defend themselves and destroy the life forms with small arms issued as a precaution. The life forms are still unrecognizable.
The division within the crew deepens, part of the crew want to ignore and discount the indigenous life form as inconsequential while repairs are being conducted, taking a "speed is security" attitude, while others want a more active security posture to be taken.
The Captain over rules the more martial of the crew members urging everyone to speed repairs so they can leave.
With several more hours left on the repairs the crew monitors a large mass of indigenous life moving and enclosing around the ship. Crude flying objects are noted and close with the disabled ship. The crew perceiving a threat fire on the flying objects and in return the UFO's attack the ship, killing some of the crew, including the Captain (of course). The remaining crew reorganizes and feels justified in defending themselves more vigorously while continuing to repair the ship.
The crew grows more frantic as an all out air and ground assault from the indigenous life forms is seen forming.
The crew complains about not having the ability to effectively defend themselves against so many numbers while broken down on the surface. They initiate a plan to decimate the surface and destroy the life forms once repairs are finished with an improvised weapon. Several crewmembers make the necessary arraignments while repairs are finished and the fight is engaged.
Several more crew are lost in an intense and heroic battle. The indigenous life forms are using low tech explosive types of munitions and lack the range that the ship has. Regardless, the ship is not a combat ship and has too few weapons and crew to successfully repel the unseen enemy. Relentless numbers are noted on the monitors within the ship as the aliens continue to press the attack; the crew continues to sustain losses as repairs are sufficient to enable the ship to take off.
The surviving crew readies its improvised weapon to wipeout the attacking creatures on the planet's surface.
As the ship ascends to leave the atmosphere and destroy the planet the audience gets its first glimpse of the unseen enemy.
The ship has crash landed on modern day earth. The indigenous life forms are human and the fight is against what the humans perceive as alien invaders.
That's pretty much it. I haven't figured out how the "alien" crew should appear in order to prevent giving away the fact that they are the aliens and they landed on earth. I thought about ignoring this point because audiences went to see the Ernest movies didn't they?
Have your people call mine and we'll do lunch and figure this out, baby.
Caio!
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Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2004-02-24 11:23:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
meh...in fact, double meh.
If it was done really,REALLY well and had a decent script it could be OK but for now >> M.E.H.
Submitted by Quartermain (user info) at 2004-02-24 11:14:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
It's not a bad idea, but like has been said, its been done ad infinitum on shows like the The Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits. Of course, people went to see XXX and that was nothing more than than 'The X Games, with like, you know, guns.' If you could flesh it out, it would still be pretty cool.
As for getting around showing the aliens, maybe you could have it so their ship was damaged so they have to wear pressure suits inside as well as outside and have reflective faceplates and have them talk over radios.
Submitted by DrunkMonk (user info) at 2004-02-24 10:26:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Probably work better as a short story than as a movie.
Of course, then you wouldn't get the visual twist at the end, maybe they'd have to intercept a radio transmission after they've lauched the weapon.
Submitted by reallybored (user info) at 2004-02-24 09:53:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I saw that twist coming about ten miles away.
Submitted by Goldeneyes (user info) at 2004-02-24 09:34:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Wow...I thought I was the only one thinking of "Pitch Black" when I read this...
As a sci-fi nut I'd have to say it's good...but very cliched. Then again, a lot of stuff in sci-fi is cliched, so you never know.
Probably better suited for a 1-hour show (like Twilight Zone or Outer Limits) than a movie.
But I agree - it would be difficult to show the aliens and not give it away (unless they are "human-like" with just minor differences). Also, how do you show the "attacks" without giving it away (people would recognize the "UFOs" as aircraft and such).
OMG...I can't believe I'm actually critiquing this thing like it's real...
Submitted by dyerbm (user info) at 2004-02-24 09:29:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Trout (user info) at 2004-02-24 06:31:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Twilight Zone has done something very similar.
As soon as I read crash landed on an uncharted planet I immediatly thought "earth" in the past/present/future.
Too cliched I'm afraid.
Submitted by drky (user info) at 2004-02-24 04:35:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Hehe!
Doh! All the way through i was thinking, hmmm Pitch Black...
Nice idea for an end though, but as had been said. Not too original! Oh well
Submitted by amusediniraq (user info) at 2004-02-24 03:31:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by yeah at 2004-02-24 03:16:26 (#)
Ranking: 0
okay yeah, except that the first 90% of it is identical to the movie Pitch Black. The ending is good though. (although it has been done a million times in old 1950s tv and radio shows)
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Yeah!
So!
You should watch pitch black again...Me thinks you are in err.
Damn!
Submitted by yeah at 2004-02-24 03:16:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
okay yeah, except that the first 90% of it is identical to the movie Pitch Black. The ending is good though. (although it has been done a million times in old 1950s tv and radio shows)
Submitted by Lyric (user info) at 2004-02-24 01:46:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Seriously, this would sell.
Why don't you write up a script for it?
Submitted by DJMattB241 (user info) at 2004-02-24 01:05:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
awesome!
maybe you could make the people on the ship humans too, just like, from the future. like planet of the apes, only backwards.