My subconscious wants me to do a pilot!
(Err, that's in the Hollywood sense of the term. Although, if she were attractive, my subconscious would probably also want me to do a pilot in the other sense)
So, I had a dream last night. I've long since stopped relating all the interesting dreams lately, but once in a while I do find one that's cool for on reason or another - usually because it feels something like my brain is pitching a movie, book, or TV show idea to somebody. And this one kind of amused me.
Anyway, as usual for these things, what follows is sort of a combination of the dream itself, and my half-awake mind trying to elaborate on it and make sense of it, such that by the time I write it down I'm not always entirely sure which ideas came from which part.
The dream started sort of as me watching or hearing about the upcoming show "Alphas" from the SF channel, sort of a 'heroes light'. Anyway, in some way I don't quite understand or remember, it metamorphosized into this new show idea called "Readers".
In it, there are people in this world who have special, magical connections to specific books (or maybe it's that everybody has that connection to one particular book, just odds are nobody ever encounters their proper book), that once they read them (their 'key book' or something), they're transformed, mentally or physically or both, in some way that reflects the book, sort of. Like, for example, if somebody's Key Book was a Sherlock Holmes book, they might get the ability to make startling deductions in a Holmesian style. But it's not always directly stealing the powers from the character, if a book's primary theme was, for example, miscommunication, it might grant someone the ability to have a temporary tower-of-babel effect and make nobody able to understand each other. 1984 might make someone be able to alter people's memories. There weren't too many examples in the dream... the only one I can remember aside from Sherlock makes (probably) no sense. There was a woman who's 'book' was the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever (which I own but never got around to reading)... anyway, after reading the book, she developed a starkly uncompromising moral code that was very black and white - bad people deserve to die, and if you won't kill them, I will, type thing.. like I said, probably doesn't make sense at least considering what I read ABOUT the book, but it was a dream.
Anyway, the show would center on a 'book club' of people who'd found their books but were also book-lovers in general, and work for the government (maybe?) solving book-related crimes (an example in the dream had a terrorist or serial killer leaving clues from the novel Gone with the Wind, except most of the people in the club had only seen the movie, which really annoyed one character) and trying to track down others who've found their key books. Each episode would focus on and highlight a different book, so it would not only be a supernatural/superhero action story, it would also promote reading and work as an advertisement for specific books.
Actors in it included Dave Thomas (Doug, from Bob and Doug McKenzie, but in this case playing a dramatic role as a sort of curmudgeonly guy who's book was a Sherlock Holmes one), and the Matthew Grey Gubler (the genius guy from Criminal Minds)... there were a few others but none I could place or remember from specific roles.
(I never said it was a GOOD idea for a series... in the light of day, these ideas usually turn out to suck, but it still kind of amuses me... and I think some aspects of it might be workable).
Oh, and Happy Mothers Day to all the moms out there. I already said it to my Mom.
So, I had a dream last night. I've long since stopped relating all the interesting dreams lately, but once in a while I do find one that's cool for on reason or another - usually because it feels something like my brain is pitching a movie, book, or TV show idea to somebody. And this one kind of amused me.
Anyway, as usual for these things, what follows is sort of a combination of the dream itself, and my half-awake mind trying to elaborate on it and make sense of it, such that by the time I write it down I'm not always entirely sure which ideas came from which part.
The dream started sort of as me watching or hearing about the upcoming show "Alphas" from the SF channel, sort of a 'heroes light'. Anyway, in some way I don't quite understand or remember, it metamorphosized into this new show idea called "Readers".
In it, there are people in this world who have special, magical connections to specific books (or maybe it's that everybody has that connection to one particular book, just odds are nobody ever encounters their proper book), that once they read them (their 'key book' or something), they're transformed, mentally or physically or both, in some way that reflects the book, sort of. Like, for example, if somebody's Key Book was a Sherlock Holmes book, they might get the ability to make startling deductions in a Holmesian style. But it's not always directly stealing the powers from the character, if a book's primary theme was, for example, miscommunication, it might grant someone the ability to have a temporary tower-of-babel effect and make nobody able to understand each other. 1984 might make someone be able to alter people's memories. There weren't too many examples in the dream... the only one I can remember aside from Sherlock makes (probably) no sense. There was a woman who's 'book' was the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever (which I own but never got around to reading)... anyway, after reading the book, she developed a starkly uncompromising moral code that was very black and white - bad people deserve to die, and if you won't kill them, I will, type thing.. like I said, probably doesn't make sense at least considering what I read ABOUT the book, but it was a dream.
Anyway, the show would center on a 'book club' of people who'd found their books but were also book-lovers in general, and work for the government (maybe?) solving book-related crimes (an example in the dream had a terrorist or serial killer leaving clues from the novel Gone with the Wind, except most of the people in the club had only seen the movie, which really annoyed one character) and trying to track down others who've found their key books. Each episode would focus on and highlight a different book, so it would not only be a supernatural/superhero action story, it would also promote reading and work as an advertisement for specific books.
Actors in it included Dave Thomas (Doug, from Bob and Doug McKenzie, but in this case playing a dramatic role as a sort of curmudgeonly guy who's book was a Sherlock Holmes one), and the Matthew Grey Gubler (the genius guy from Criminal Minds)... there were a few others but none I could place or remember from specific roles.
(I never said it was a GOOD idea for a series... in the light of day, these ideas usually turn out to suck, but it still kind of amuses me... and I think some aspects of it might be workable).
Oh, and Happy Mothers Day to all the moms out there. I already said it to my Mom.