Screenwriting : That's a terrible idea! by Craig Parsons

Craig Parsons

That's a terrible idea!

30 Second Exercise- think of a terrible pitch and share it with us for a few laughs.  I'll start... "After being knocked unconscious by a fallen cell tower, an estranged professional bowler begins fighting crime as she can hear every conversation."

Hanna Strauss

A creepy middle aged former game designer is sucked into the vortex of a black hole after a lightning strike and becomes a global internet virus.

Harvey Read

Love this idea! Here goes: An aging card designer suffers a car crash, waking from a coma to realising he is in a world of the cards he created.

Hanna Strauss

Harvey: you could have animation fun with that one. An "Alice In Wonderland" kind of world

Hanna Strauss

A deaf woman becomes lovers with an aquatic monster in a government laboratory and helps it escape.( The Shape of Water)

Rutger Oosterhoff

For: "Stage32 logline contest: "That's NOT a Logline, so it must be a Movie."

(look it up people It really does....-not- exist.)

My unofficial - but very sucky - entries:

"When a screenwriter writes out a logline contest in which the very worst logline gets made into a Major Movie, every screenwriter starts writing the badest of bad loglines, hoping their idea becomes a movie." --- A Major-Sucky-Movie (A.K.A "Look honey, I just destroyed Hollywood")

or

"Spielberg’s and Tarantino’s internet bet: be the first that writes a killer logline under twenty words that gets Uwe Boll’s approval or star in his next disaster(es) movie." -- Oops mum, I Buried the Lead!

Michael Nguyen

A group of somewhat intelligent babies are enlisted in the army, assigned to rescue an adult hostage in uncharted territory only to find a much more childish crybaby than them!

Lyssa Rayne

A single barnacle decides that life of the move is too much. He shuns the expectations of most and attaches to a rock instead of a boat. He then finds out the rock he attached to was really the remains of his ancestors. They too had decided to remain sedentary.

Michael Dritto

A man goes about his day working at his job which he hates. Then one day, an opportunity presents himself to follow his dreams and he doesn't take it and lives out the rest of his life working at a job he hates.

Pidge Jobst

A filmmaker shoots an entire movie only to find out he forgot to press "record."

B A Mason

A 17-year-old uses her wits, survival skills, and compassion to fight for her life, and those of her fellow classmates, against a group of live-streaming school shooters.

- The Logline for Run Hide Fight

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