Never mind where they come from...how do you keep ideas?
I’ve always maintained that there are a limited number of ideas. Especially for stories.
And if you don’t publish your idea or get it out there then someone else will have it. Especially if it’s a good idea. Yes Hollywood is an endless miasma of remakes and imagination rationing but we are entering a new era. Indi films are getting better and better and instead of having huge budgets some of them have scripts.
I’ve outlined on this blog before where ideas that I’ve had have entered the ether in other ways when I refused to turn them into a film and of course the possible lifting wholesale of a talk I did at Melbourne Uni by Daniel Wilson.
Anyway some years ago I had a friend who is an artist and he wanted to break into comics. So he wanted me to write him a comic that he could draw. So I started writing a long sprawling complicated comic about a guy who’s girlfriend leaves him, he’s sitting on the couch and is about to commit suicide, but then he reasons that it’s all ok because if it wasn’t he would have invented time travel and come back in time to tell him what to do, so he must meet another girl and fall in love and it must in the end be……ok. Then there’s a knock at the door and he finds and older version of himself standing there…………
Anyway somehow this all related to the end of the world and a group of psycic detectives back in the 1900’s. Eventually I lost the tread of it myself and had to admit that I didn’t know where the hell it was going. Which was a shame as I actually quite liked the idea. But some things just don’t go anywhere.
In any case then next comic I presented him with was about 3 vampires that meet, nightly in an ally Protor, Gregor and I forget the name of the last one. They had all been sired at different time periods, but they were old, one of them was over 1000 years old and had “The forgetting” he was getting very strange indeed. The whole things was a bit off the wall, silly and had a lot of things in it that I hated about vampires in the media. Man. I should be writing it now. The premise was that Protor was sick of being a vampire and was trying to re-assimilate. The other two were not helping.
And so I give you:
What We Do In the Shadows
Synopsis: A vampire movie starring Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords)! Directed, penned and acted by Taika Waititi (Eagle Vs. Shark, Boy) and Clement himself, this movie centers around vampire roomates: Viago (379 years old), Deacon (183 years old), Vladislav (862 years old), and Peter (8,000 years old). The foursome all share an apartment in New Zealand (which makes sense, considering the cast). Unfortunately these very, very old monsters have lost touch with reality, thanks to their bloodlust. So they've decided they want to assimilate back into modern day society. And they've allowed a documentary crew to film their attempt to blend back in.
*sigh*
And yet another one gone…..
And if you don’t publish your idea or get it out there then someone else will have it. Especially if it’s a good idea. Yes Hollywood is an endless miasma of remakes and imagination rationing but we are entering a new era. Indi films are getting better and better and instead of having huge budgets some of them have scripts.
I’ve outlined on this blog before where ideas that I’ve had have entered the ether in other ways when I refused to turn them into a film and of course the possible lifting wholesale of a talk I did at Melbourne Uni by Daniel Wilson.
Anyway some years ago I had a friend who is an artist and he wanted to break into comics. So he wanted me to write him a comic that he could draw. So I started writing a long sprawling complicated comic about a guy who’s girlfriend leaves him, he’s sitting on the couch and is about to commit suicide, but then he reasons that it’s all ok because if it wasn’t he would have invented time travel and come back in time to tell him what to do, so he must meet another girl and fall in love and it must in the end be……ok. Then there’s a knock at the door and he finds and older version of himself standing there…………
Anyway somehow this all related to the end of the world and a group of psycic detectives back in the 1900’s. Eventually I lost the tread of it myself and had to admit that I didn’t know where the hell it was going. Which was a shame as I actually quite liked the idea. But some things just don’t go anywhere.
In any case then next comic I presented him with was about 3 vampires that meet, nightly in an ally Protor, Gregor and I forget the name of the last one. They had all been sired at different time periods, but they were old, one of them was over 1000 years old and had “The forgetting” he was getting very strange indeed. The whole things was a bit off the wall, silly and had a lot of things in it that I hated about vampires in the media. Man. I should be writing it now. The premise was that Protor was sick of being a vampire and was trying to re-assimilate. The other two were not helping.
And so I give you:
What We Do In the Shadows
Synopsis: A vampire movie starring Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords)! Directed, penned and acted by Taika Waititi (Eagle Vs. Shark, Boy) and Clement himself, this movie centers around vampire roomates: Viago (379 years old), Deacon (183 years old), Vladislav (862 years old), and Peter (8,000 years old). The foursome all share an apartment in New Zealand (which makes sense, considering the cast). Unfortunately these very, very old monsters have lost touch with reality, thanks to their bloodlust. So they've decided they want to assimilate back into modern day society. And they've allowed a documentary crew to film their attempt to blend back in.
*sigh*
And yet another one gone…..