TIMELOOP BLUES is now on my Profile Page. It has a new Logline and Synopsis as well. I hope you like it. Thanks, William Gunn
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As a sci-fi writer, I can tell you that writing a "good" time travel movie is extremely difficult at best. You basically have to write the screenplay in reverse. From end to beginning, taking into account every action/reaction due to the "Butterfly Effect" or worse paradox.
Plus there are two schools of thought on existing in your own time line. Fate vs Freewill. You go back in time and attempt to kill yourself, parents, or ancestors further up the chain.
Fate - It doesn't work because you cannot change what will be.
Freewill - You create an alternate time line at best or destroy the fabric of the universe at worst. Same rule for touching your younger self due to the same matter existing in the same place at the same time.
Examples - I once saw a TV show where someone went back in time to kill Hitler as a baby. He did it but died in the process. Hitler's parents then took their maid's baby to raise as their own. Thus 'Hitler' still became who he was. "Back to the Future" did alternate time lines very well. ('Avengers Endgame' left too many holes.) With alternate versions of the time traveling characters.
Not saying that it can't be done but take care on how you handle the linear transitions.
Good Luck!
You're both right. A Time-Travel story is hard to write. I haven't seen ENDGAME, so I can't comment either way. Truth to tell, I've found the Superhero Epics too loud and predicable to enjoy anymore. I still think Tim Burton's 1989 BATMAN and the 1978 SUPERMAN are the Best! But I digress...I went back and reread TIMELOOP BLUES and you know what? It''s too Heavy-handed in places. It's downright Logy in others. It has too many unnecessary characters. So I went back and now I'm in the process of trimming about 45% of the 'Fat' off the screenplay. When I'm done it'll be shorter of course, probably TV movie length. But it'll be much improved (I hope!) and hopefully more commercially viable. And isn't that the whole point?
Thanks....It should be done in a few days. It's more fast-paced too...I think.
Why would you rush into a full page 1 rewrite over one opinion?
Because Dan, I have OCD!!! LOL!!!