After my repeated attempts to write a convincing storyline for Thundercats the movie, I have recently shifted my attention to my old favourite "Visionaries".
I have a a basic comcept for a TV movie with a modest budget, but would appretiate any input others have as to the direction or mood it should have.
If anyone is interested I will post the outline I have, if there is no interest I wont bore you all with the details.
Looking for Visionaries fans
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Unless you're the same guy, someone on the Eye Of Thundera forums is (allegedly) being paid to write a Thundercats script. Unfortunately, when he revealed the plot it was very disappointing. They want to make the first film entirely about the fall of Thundera and what led up to it and not get to Third Earth until part two. How stupid is that! See here's the right way to do a Thundercats film:
In act one we see the fall of Thundera and the citizens escape (basically an expansion of the episode "Exodus"). In act two, the surviving Thundercats awaken on Third Earth and must deal with mutants and other problems as they build Cats Lair and adjust to life on their new planet. We see a scene or two of Mummra but don't know who he is yet. In act three, Mummra makes himself known and the Thundercats must find a way to defeat him and save their new home from subjugation.
Nice, simple and you get everything in one film (although it might have to be a 2 1/2 hour one like Transformers). If only the kooks in hollywood would realize that. Okay, rant over. On topic: I've never seen Visionaries, but I've heard of it. It seems like a really obscure thing, though, so it'll probably be a hard sell for a movie. Best of luck to ya!
In act one we see the fall of Thundera and the citizens escape (basically an expansion of the episode "Exodus"). In act two, the surviving Thundercats awaken on Third Earth and must deal with mutants and other problems as they build Cats Lair and adjust to life on their new planet. We see a scene or two of Mummra but don't know who he is yet. In act three, Mummra makes himself known and the Thundercats must find a way to defeat him and save their new home from subjugation.
Nice, simple and you get everything in one film (although it might have to be a 2 1/2 hour one like Transformers). If only the kooks in hollywood would realize that. Okay, rant over. On topic: I've never seen Visionaries, but I've heard of it. It seems like a really obscure thing, though, so it'll probably be a hard sell for a movie. Best of luck to ya!
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I am new to this Forum and have been trying to sell my Thundercats idea through my editor at Orbit Publishing, and yes I know this is not the ideal way to go about it but the direct approach gets me a shorter letter.
My Thundercats concept was a two film storyline from opposing view points. The Introduction would be from Mummra's perspective, how he came to be his background etc... and his Xenophobia of emerging and alien life forms. The "Cat's" arrive late in the film and even though we might love them the film is designed to posion the viewer against these strangers who make claim to OUR home.
The second film is based almost wholey on the original storyline, The desperate evacuation of a planet torn apart by war and stupidity, however. I do point out that this planet is not the Thundercat's original home planet but like Earth they arrived on the Reptilians homeworld as guests who were welcomed at first because of the knowledge of technology & mystasism, but once everything that could be freely learned they became an unwanted pest and war brakes out.
I am curious Ben do you speak from experience? have you ever had anything produced ? or is it simply that you have never met anyone who has posted and then been accepted? Since most films are books before they are converted to screen why not divulge a story helped me get my first book published when I had a few short stories placed in a regional newapaper.
My Thundercats concept was a two film storyline from opposing view points. The Introduction would be from Mummra's perspective, how he came to be his background etc... and his Xenophobia of emerging and alien life forms. The "Cat's" arrive late in the film and even though we might love them the film is designed to posion the viewer against these strangers who make claim to OUR home.
The second film is based almost wholey on the original storyline, The desperate evacuation of a planet torn apart by war and stupidity, however. I do point out that this planet is not the Thundercat's original home planet but like Earth they arrived on the Reptilians homeworld as guests who were welcomed at first because of the knowledge of technology & mystasism, but once everything that could be freely learned they became an unwanted pest and war brakes out.
I am curious Ben do you speak from experience? have you ever had anything produced ? or is it simply that you have never met anyone who has posted and then been accepted? Since most films are books before they are converted to screen why not divulge a story helped me get my first book published when I had a few short stories placed in a regional newapaper.
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Yes, I speak from experience. I work in "the biz" over here in London. 'Nuff said.
I wouldn't go around posting story thoughts if you are serious about approaching studios with a proposal and surprised that you're doing so even though you have an editor and book deal.
That a newspaper printed story helped get your book published is great: newspaper are printed media that would place a copyright and a date on when that work was made widely available. The net, on the other hand, is lightning fast and anything posted on it can go zipping around the world and come back to you within a matter of hours, and you simply don't own it any more. Dates can be fudged, posts can be deleted, edited, etc.
If you're serious about promoting a piece that isn't fan-fiction, you don't post any story ideas on the web, plain and simple. I'm sure you didn't distribute thousands of copies of your initial stories before they got published, so why expose your ideas for them to be looked at (and copied) by many others before you have a chance to make your move?
With me?
I wouldn't go around posting story thoughts if you are serious about approaching studios with a proposal and surprised that you're doing so even though you have an editor and book deal.
That a newspaper printed story helped get your book published is great: newspaper are printed media that would place a copyright and a date on when that work was made widely available. The net, on the other hand, is lightning fast and anything posted on it can go zipping around the world and come back to you within a matter of hours, and you simply don't own it any more. Dates can be fudged, posts can be deleted, edited, etc.
If you're serious about promoting a piece that isn't fan-fiction, you don't post any story ideas on the web, plain and simple. I'm sure you didn't distribute thousands of copies of your initial stories before they got published, so why expose your ideas for them to be looked at (and copied) by many others before you have a chance to make your move?
With me?