Remember, all suspension of disbelief is, is your story devolving into something so unbelievable that the reader becomes aware the script is written. But that instantly killed my suspension of disbelief. I was upset because until that point, the script was good. As soon as they said, “We’re clones,” I threw up my arms. But if you introduce a second outrageous conceit late in the screenplay, most people won’t. For example, if you set up two conceits right away, readers may go with it. What could be better than one trippy sci-fi element? How bout two! What I eventually learned is that readers tend to give you one outrageous conceit and that’s it. “As soon as you mentioned aliens, I was done.” I didn’t understand this at the time. When I sent the script out, every reader reacted the same way. In this script, I came up with a scenario by which the time travel was being generated by aliens. Utterly gobsmacked, Carter realizes that unless he wants to keep getting regenerated forever, he has to take down the alien beast once and for all.Ī long long time ago, I wrote a time travel script. And they’ve been grown here, over and over again, to tangle with this alien in the hopes of jamming its signals so that it can’t phone home and order an invasion. Once safe, Taylor reveals herself to be a 7-years-older version of Taylor, and she regales Carter in a shocking tale. The creature corners him there, but he’s saved at the last second by Taylor. “Quarantine.”Īfter Taylor decides to look for more stuff, Carter heads back to see a group of soldiers on horses ride up and kill Swod and Freeman! Those same soldiers are then attacked by an 8 foot tall creature! Freaked out, Carter makes a run for it, eventually running into an old Cold War facility with a bunch of dead bodies inside. Oh, and they also find an old sign buried in the sand. Carter and Taylor head to the wreckage, and after locating the kit, notice a giant antennae farm in the distance, which is pumping out a grating signal to their walkie-talkies. Swod is injured, so the first order of business is finding him a medkit. The group is able to parachute out in time, and end up in a desert. Out of nowhere, the plane is hit with turbulence and seconds later, they plummet towards the earth. We’re on a C-130 Cargo plane with four Air Force soldiers – the good-looking carefree Carter, the blue collar lover of lit, Swodzinski, the skinny nervous kid of the group, Freeman, and the beautiful and intelligent, Taylor. The main difference between this Netflix film and other Netflix films, though? This one has a chance of being good. I wouldn’t be surprised if Netflix stole this from Sony at some point. I bring this up because today’s script is the ultimate Netflix film. But if their customers are anything like Larry the Lyft Driver, they don’t feel the same way. I’ve been convinced that Netflix is dumping shitty movies on their viewers for two years now. It was a reminder that people like myself who live inside this industry bubble don’t see things the same way regular movie watchers do. He said he felt like the Netflix brand was a seal of quality he couldn’t get from other movies. He answered without hesitation, “More likely.” I asked him why. And Larry loved Netflix so I asked him, “What do you think when you see a movie that’s branded as a Netflix Original? Are you more or less likely to watch it?” I’m always interested in what non-industry people think about movies. I was taking a Lyft home (I don’t do Uber) and I got into a conversation with Larry the Lyft Driver about Netflix. I’m not sure who I’m more mad at, the director or the company that greenlit a terrible script (Netflix).īut a funny thing happened today. They have a couple of other sci-fi projects in development as well. Writing partners Daniel Stewart and Noah Griffith wrote some episodes on the Spike adaptation of The Mist. Starting with a short movie is a great way to do this. And you must figure out ways to promote your script. Once you have a script or an idea, you become a promoter. If you can put anything on film, anything at all, it’s better than nothing. It is the feature adaptation of a short the writers made. They aren’t alone.Ībout: This script finished with 25 votes on last year’s Hit List. The survivors can’t radio for help, but they pick up a mysterious signal. Premise: (from Hit List) An Air Force cargo plane on a routine delivery breaks up over the desert.
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