by PrairieMule » Tue 07 Mar 2006, 20:16:40
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'M')aybe I should explain, PM, more about this post-post-modern idea. The movie would have a gimmick, but the actors and situations would be played straight and serious. The gimmick is the Simpsons parody thing. What would make it work is if the action gets really bad a-la-TEOTWAWKI. You see, scare the shit out of the audience while playing a game of ripping off scenes from other movies. They won't "get-it" unless they realize their world is about to implode. Should make for good after-viewing conversation, don't you think? Show para-military gangs terrorizing civilians, summary executions, turf wars, famine, pestilence, common random murder, throw in a parody of 28 Days Later.
OK,OK, let's ditch the skirts and get preachy. Preachy is very 70's sci-Fi. Like "No Blade Of Grass". Deals with a virus that kills all the wheat in the world. We could redo that only put a humor spin on it like the remake of The Stepford Wives did. Or remake "Like a Thief in the Night" only This time John Carpenter will do the remake. That will draw out the Christians and equal box office reciepts like The Passion. Thief in the Night is the one thing that freaks us christians more than Jack Chick.
Let's do the math. Apocolyptic-check
Big Brother-check
Box Office Potiential-Check
Preachy-check
Mod 70's sci-fi-check
I think were done, I'll fly out to Cali tommorow and set up a meet with Capenter's people.
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