Pitch an Original Idea!

You know what they say. All toasters toast toast.

Okay, here is my original idea, there is this little girl and she has a little dog and then there is this tornado and the little girl and the little dog are in this little house and the tornado comes along and... freakin hits the house! And the house is all spinning around and stuff and the little girl and the little dog are all like "Oh no" and then the house lands in this weird place filled with midgets (we'll think up a politically correct name for them though) and there is this witch under the house and she gets pissed off so the little girl steals her silver slippers and runs away.

I think this story would make a great film/novel/play/video game/graphic novel or something, especially if I can come up with a way to incorporate flying monkeys into the story. Flying monkeys = f-king epic!

There's these guys on a boat somewhere, they get lost, find an island with a big f**king monkey. 

There's these monkeys, they get lost, and find a planet with a f**load of humans! It could be a sequel to Johnny Ringo's movie.

Okay, mine starts with a baby, only he's in a rocketship, cause he's from another planet. And a couple of podunk farmers find him and raise him as a Methodist and he becomes this protector of Earth because it turns out he has alien super powers.

I have an idea about a weird science guy who makes a time machine using a fancy car, or something, and goes back in time to hunt-down and kill the mother of his main business rival. Along the way, a 'time cop' is tracking him, trying to prevent the science guy from altering the future, and helping someone else from the future capture a pair of whales in an attepmt to repopulate the species in their own time.

I know it's a crazy idea...but I think Lucas might help me make it ;).

Darth Chaltab said:

Okay, mine starts with a baby, only he's in a rocketship, cause he's from another planet. And a couple of podunk farmers find him and raise him as a Methodist and he becomes this protector of Earth because it turns out he has alien super powers.

Whoa! You just totally blew my mind with that one! That is the craziest idea for I story I have ever heard! Personally, I'd absolutely love to see a film like this one, but I just don't think there would be a market for it. I mean, rocketships, aliens, Methodists, superpowers, and protectors of Earth? Perhaps even truth, justice, and if I could be so bold to assume your story takes place in our fine country, the American way, I just don't see people buying it. Too out there. Too far fetched. We'd see Sean's story about the guy dating the mentally retarded girl before we'd ever see this thing on the big screen.

And canohumdingers, no offense man, but your story sounds awful! A Western in space? Come on! Those are two seperate genres, and they just don't mesh like that. They both stand well enough on their own, westerns are fun action stories, and the silly space stuff keeps plenty of kids entertained well enough, but when you mix them together like that, you're just asking for something awful.

ferris209 said:

Alright, mine's a western. Two middle aged former Texas rangers have a ranch on the border. They decide that they can run a bunch of cattle up north and settle a place up there. Just before they leave, another former Texas Ranger stops by and offers to come along, but little do they know he is wanted out of Arkansas for killing a man who happened to be the brother of the Sheriff in that community. So the old Rangers start out on their journey and many tales can ensue regarding the group. Eventually, one of the old Texas Rangers die from an Indian raid, the other Ranger preserves his body and establishes the ranch. When the ranch in finally settled, he takes the body of the other Ranger back to Texas to be buried by a creek. The kicker is that this could be an EPIC like a trilogy or maybe even four parts. Lots of stories to tell in this one saga. Sounds great don't it.

Movies about baseball never work.

Okay, so there is this huge freaken money, I'm talking sixty feet tall. And he can fly. Then there is this alien, while on a vist to earth gets left behind and desperately wants to phone home and ask dad for a ride, but doesn't speak English and cannot communicate this to anybody. He and the giant fly monkey meet up. The giant monkey doesn't speak any English either (he is from Latin America and can only speak Farsi, which doesn't make any sense, but he is a giant flying monkey after all), so they become fast friends. Even though the alien doesn't speak Farsi, somehow the giant simian explains that he too is lost and cannot find home. When the monkey was just out of high school, he worked at a phone repair shop and so knows a lot about phones and promisses to teach the alien how to use one if he will help him find his way home to the long lost island of giant flying monkeys (which just so happens to be an active volcano named Musafar). Along the way the alien gets depressed and the monkey helps him through it in some very touching scenes which are sure to become a true inspiration for addicts dreaming to some day no longer be addicts. Eventually they find Musafar, and the monkey's mother lets the alien use her phone to make a collect call home (she doesn't have a long distance service), and his dad comes to pick him up and the monkey decides to go back to their planet with them. They end up getting there late and not getting to go to bed until really late at night, and in turn sleeping in most of the next day. When they wake up they decide to go to the movies and end up hating it and asking for their money back. As the story ends they are greatful to have gotten their money back, but they muse about what a shame it is they lost those minutes of their lives, wasted watching a bit of a crappy movie. Anyone who actually read this post all the way through can probably relate.