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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:26 PM Author: Passionate Mad Cow Disease Shrine These are considered the BEST unproduced scripts in the industry. Holy shit almost all of them sound like complete garbage. It is hard to believe many of these are actually serious ideas. JFC how many assassin, holocaust, and lib wish fulfillment movies can they make? Not to mention movies featuring CIA agents, Navy Seals, or comedies with "kooky" characters. Hollywood is officially out of ideas.
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When a liberal, white, college sophomore who knows exactly how to fix society accuses her equally liberal professor of hate speech, it throws the campus and both their lives into chaos as they wage war over the right way to stop discrimination.
Based on the book The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan. An ordinary group of women provide 11,000 safe, illegal abortions in Chicago from 1968 through 1973
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:34 PM Author: Passionate Mad Cow Disease Shrine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901339) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:40 PM Author: Hyperventilating Masturbator No one would watch those movies, even people who agreed with the screenwriter's views. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901380) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:45 PM Author: Passionate Mad Cow Disease Shrine You would think they would learn their lesson eventually. Look at Miss Sloane, which was one of the top scripts a couple years ago. NO ONE wants to see these movies.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=misssloane.htm
http://deadline.com/2015/12/2015-black-list-scripts-winners-full-list-1201666353/ |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:44 PM Author: thriller ultramarine party of the first part at this point, why don't they just take these shit ideas and plunk them into an existing "cinematic universe"? ie, just transfer the whole storyline to some unknown star wars planet and make it a "star wars family"-film? milk the hell out of the IP. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901410) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:47 PM Author: Passionate Mad Cow Disease Shrine I know you are not serious, but having too many movies in a "universe" dilutes the value of the franchise. These ideas are unbelievably bad. Compare these plots to some of the better TV series in recent years: Breaking Bad, True Detective, Game of Thrones, etc. Way more creativity on TV. Movies are a dead medium. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901455) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:50 PM Author: thriller ultramarine party of the first part GOT is pure shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901477) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:52 PM Author: Passionate Mad Cow Disease Shrine (joyless faggot) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901495) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:53 PM Author: thriller ultramarine party of the first part it died once it gave up the notion of reflecting an alternate-universe fantasy world in line with early-middle-ages europe and became a grrrrl-power SJW shitshow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901507) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 7:00 PM Author: Passionate Mad Cow Disease Shrine Hate that aspect of it, but it is still well done and hugely entertaining. Can't let politics affect your view of everything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901557) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:53 PM Author: cracking drunken resort TV is drying up. I think we're going to see a writers' migration back to 2 hr features (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901502) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:59 PM Author: Passionate Mad Cow Disease Shrine IDK about that. There are a ton of shows out there with unique plots. Not saying they all succeed. But at least they are not totally derivative and boring. Shows off the top of my head that are atypical and at least have high production values: Narcos, Peaky Blinders, Last Kingdom,, Mindhunters, The OA, 13 Reasons Why, Handmaids Tale, Black Mirror, Billions, Rectify, Homeland, Big Little Lies, Masters of Sex, The Girlfriend Experience, Dark, The Deuce, Leftovers, Twin Peaks, Fargo, Legion, Mr Robot.
Apple, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, plus all the networks are spending billions on original programming. All the money and talent is going to TV. |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 7:04 PM Author: cracking drunken resort lol at handmaids tale.
all of those either suck or used to be good and currently suck or are over completely and likely not to come back.
it's very hard to create a compelling story that goes on season after season. |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 7:07 PM Author: Passionate Mad Cow Disease Shrine I never said they were all something I want to watch. I do think anthology series like True Detective and Fargo are the best way to make compelling entertainment. Shows like Lost would have been incredible if that is the format they used. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901615) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 7:12 PM Author: cracking drunken resort yeah i agree with that- much easier to set up and resolve than draw out exposition endlessly. again why I think we might see more movies, just an easier format to write in.
although tbf if disney buys up 21st century fox, that cuts the other way.
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Date: December 12th, 2017 7:17 PM Author: Passionate Mad Cow Disease Shrine I doubt we will see more movies, at least not those intended for the theater. I expect to see more of the limited run anthology or mini-series. To make long-running shows work over multiple seasons you really start having to introduce some ridiculous plot lines. Very few shows sustain high quality over time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901693) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 7:18 PM Author: Poppy plaza multi-billionaire They already do this. Most of th Die Hard sequels were stand-alone movies that were reconfigured to fit the series. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901707) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 7:30 PM Author: Abusive navy pocket flask main people It's even better than that. Dark Territory was supposed to be an independent action film set on a train. Instead, to boost its prospects, they made it into Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, even though the original Under Siege had been set on a naval vessel. Speed 2 would have been a more logical use of the train screenplay, but instead they used a screenplay set on a cruise liner that was originally earmarked for Die Hard 3, so Die Hard With a Vengeance had to use a script about bombs being planted around NYC that was originally planned for Lethal Weapon 4. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901799) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 7:50 PM Author: Passionate Mad Cow Disease Shrine There is a whole startup dedicated to doing this.
Its approach? Buying other studios’ abandoned scripts, and recycling the scraps into new franchises.
“We’re basically rummaging through studio trash for stuff that’s been discarded,” said Perrin Chiles, a founding partner and chief executive of Adaptive Studios.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/business/media/a-hollywood-start-up-sees-new-life-in-dead-movie-scripts.html |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:46 PM Author: Hyperventilating Masturbator Another problem with these and others on the full list is lots of biopics. No longer able to create original stories. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901445) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:51 PM Author: Passionate Mad Cow Disease Shrine They all fit neatly within a handful of types:
Jewish hero/anti Nazi movies
Liberal historical hagiography dealing with race/gender issues
Movies about the movie industry (e.g. John Hughes biopic)
CIA/Assassin/Special Forces heroes with a plot that has a dumb TWIST to it (multiple personalities, time travel, set in space)
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:54 PM Author: Lemon round eye lay what else is there though? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901508) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 7:00 PM Author: thriller ultramarine party of the first part how come there are no critical, incisive films about silicon valley/the modern tech industry/the weird ancillary shit like AI/transhumanism/life-extension/etc.? there is a lot of material out there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901564) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 7:06 PM Author: Passionate Mad Cow Disease Shrine You have a really poor imagination if you think that is all there is to make movies about. How about some wild large-scale historical epic or alternative history? Original big budget science fiction? War movie? Adaptation of any of thousands of unique novels? Or even a drama with believable adult characters not set in LA/NYC?
Look at Chris Nolan's movies. There is nothing else being produced like Inception, Interstellar,and Dunkirk. Not saying they are flawless films, but at least they are original. |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:55 PM Author: silver curious theater stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901516) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 6:59 PM Author: Twinkling Telephone I really can't stand movies about the movie industry. Such bullshit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901546) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 7:07 PM Author: Passionate Mad Cow Disease Shrine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901619) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 8:29 PM Author: Beady-eyed ocher queen of the night (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34902358) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 7:10 PM Author: swashbuckling cuckoldry I want to see Invasion of the Cat Zombies. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901648) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 7:17 PM Author: Abusive navy pocket flask main people LOL, is "The Expansion Project" just "The Martian" except on a fictional planet? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901696) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 7:17 PM Author: Passionate Mad Cow Disease Shrine Yup (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34901701) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 8:29 PM Author: Beady-eyed ocher queen of the night (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826387&forum_id=2#34902345) |
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