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Title: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: Necrocetaceanbeastiality on Apr 14, 2009, 10:14 PM
It's a zombie comedy. It's basically me and my best friend, written as ourselves, having a normal, friendly, us kind of day...and then we are thrown into a zombie invasion.

It's hilarious and I can honestly say, without feeling like a complete jackass, it's really good. It'll be posted up here as soon as I feel like the first draft is solid. Nearly done writing it. Gonna revise some shit and then put it up here.

I was thinking about mailing it to some hollywood-types, but I figured that they wouldn't do a zombie comedy with two nerds, one of which is in a wheelchair, as the heroes. Still, I think it's funny enough to not be COMPLETELY out of the question. Either way, I have a good friend that is an awesome director and it will most likely be made into a movie. Probably a very low budget b-movie, but a movie none the less.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: one weak on Apr 14, 2009, 11:12 PM
sounds like "Shawn of the Dead"

Ah, what am i saying, go for it - there's tons of great ideas for great zombie movies.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: Necrocetaceanbeastiality on Apr 14, 2009, 11:27 PM
It's rather inspired by it, yes. Also had to include a reference to it.

Also included is a blatant reference to "They Live".
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: bright lights, big city on Apr 14, 2009, 11:31 PM
Quote from: Necrocetaceanbeastiality on Apr 14, 2009, 11:27 PM
Also included is a blatant reference to "They Live".
amazing. cant wait
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: Necrocetaceanbeastiality on Apr 14, 2009, 11:58 PM
I used the "bubble gum" line. Because it's hilarious.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: lithium on Apr 15, 2009, 03:33 AM
I can't wait to read it
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: pissedandpierced on Apr 15, 2009, 12:14 PM
I have a really cool idea for a screenplay but I need to know how I go about it, so if you have any tips for me, it would be very appreciated.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: Variable on Apr 15, 2009, 01:15 PM
Yeah, some good friends of mine have a great idea for a Heinz ketchup commercial.  But we have no idea how to go about selling it. 

Sounds cool though Josh.  You might as well try to sell that shit in Hollywood.  People love nerds these days.  And Jimmy from southpark ;) Might as well try , right?
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: pissedandpierced on Apr 15, 2009, 02:45 PM
Quote from: Variable on Apr 15, 2009, 01:15 PM
Yeah, some good friends of mine have a great idea for a Heinz ketchup commercial.  But we have no idea how to go about selling it. 


Find out who does the marketing for Heinz in the US then approach them.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: deftonekid on Apr 15, 2009, 08:53 PM
I have some screenplays as well but I dont have the money to produce 'em, since I want to film 'em with atleast a HD camera. I know digital is cheaper but... I dont know.

I'd love to read the screenplay bro and also in a future watch the final cut, why not? Good luck with that.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: Necrocetaceanbeastiality on Apr 17, 2009, 05:26 AM
Quote from: deftonekid on Apr 15, 2009, 08:53 PM
I have some screenplays as well but I dont have the money to produce 'em, since I want to film 'em with atleast a HD camera. I know digital is cheaper but... I dont know.

With all the fanciness of HD, for some retarded reason it can't even film in slo-mo.

Quote from: lithium on Apr 15, 2009, 03:33 AM
I can't wait to read it
Quote from: deftonekid on Apr 15, 2009, 08:53 PM
I'd love to read the screenplay bro and also in a future watch the final cut, why not? Good luck with that.
Quote from: Variable on Apr 15, 2009, 01:15 PM
Sounds cool though Josh. 

Thanks folks.

And as far as getting started, I thought it would be very difficult, but I've been stewing in this idea for a couple months and had grown a few simple ideas as far as the basic outline of the story and a very few ideas as far as details. Basically I just wrote it as me and my friends exactly are, so I didn't really have to worry about character development (plus, it's a fuckin' zombie movie) so I just sat down and started writing an average summer day for my friend and I and gradually brought in zombie elements. All the dialog and funny actions we do in the script are based on things we say and do, so that was also pretty easy. Honestly it's been easy from the get-go. I'm not even a writer by nature. I'm just writing things I know and things that I think are funny. It was really easy to get going especially since I was just so damn into it. It's been great fun. I've taken a short break from it for the time being to work on music stuff (Not for the movie. For performing live but that's a different story). I have a mostly completed version easily accessible to post on here, but I don't really want to until the story part is fully completed.

Sorry for rambling.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: Jizzlobber on Apr 19, 2009, 09:53 AM
iwrote a screenplay for a short animated feauture..

i based it on Star wars, and marijuana..its called "Weed Wars : A new Dope"

i wrote it, concieved the characters and drew rough sketches of how th  characters should look and the general "feel" of the environments.

it took me about 40 days, and is roughly 50 pages long, which i might add, reads too long, could be shorter.

its fun shit to write stuff like screenplays etc.. : )
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: goldpony on Apr 20, 2009, 09:41 PM
Quote from: Necrocetaceanbeastiality on Apr 17, 2009, 05:26 AM
Quote from: deftonekid on Apr 15, 2009, 08:53 PM
I have some screenplays as well but I dont have the money to produce 'em, since I want to film 'em with atleast a HD camera. I know digital is cheaper but... I dont know.

With all the fanciness of HD, for some retarded reason it can't even film in slo-mo.

Quote from: lithium on Apr 15, 2009, 03:33 AM
I can't wait to read it
Quote from: deftonekid on Apr 15, 2009, 08:53 PM
I'd love to read the screenplay bro and also in a future watch the final cut, why not? Good luck with that.
Quote from: Variable on Apr 15, 2009, 01:15 PM
Sounds cool though Josh. 

Thanks folks.

And as far as getting started, I thought it would be very difficult, but I've been stewing in this idea for a couple months and had grown a few simple ideas as far as the basic outline of the story and a very few ideas as far as details. Basically I just wrote it as me and my friends exactly are, so I didn't really have to worry about character development (plus, it's a fuckin' zombie movie) so I just sat down and started writing an average summer day for my friend and I and gradually brought in zombie elements. All the dialog and funny actions we do in the script are based on things we say and do, so that was also pretty easy. Honestly it's been easy from the get-go. I'm not even a writer by nature. I'm just writing things I know and things that I think are funny. It was really easy to get going especially since I was just so damn into it. It's been great fun. I've taken a short break from it for the time being to work on music stuff (Not for the movie. For performing live but that's a different story). I have a mostly completed version easily accessible to post on here, but I don't really want to until the story part is fully completed.

Sorry for rambling.

just make sure you turn into a zombie. has there been a film with a zombie in a wheelchair?
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: devlin on Apr 20, 2009, 10:50 PM
i haven't seen it but there is a movie called "special dead" about zombie attacking a camp for "special needs kids" so i'm sure there is in that movie.

i have thought about writing a couple of screenplays. i have a couple ideas (all very rough ideas). i really just don't know where to start. or what all goes into writing one. i know its different from a book having to include stage directions and shit like that, but i don't know all those details. honestly i'm just to lazy/unmotivated to find out those things and get it started.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: Necrocetaceanbeastiality on Apr 29, 2009, 05:08 AM
Just don't think about it. Just write it. I have absolutely no experience at all. Just stop being scared and lazy.

Quote from: goldpony on Apr 20, 2009, 09:41 PM
Quote from: Necrocetaceanbeastiality on Apr 17, 2009, 05:26 AM
Quote from: deftonekid on Apr 15, 2009, 08:53 PM
I have some screenplays as well but I dont have the money to produce 'em, since I want to film 'em with atleast a HD camera. I know digital is cheaper but... I dont know.

With all the fanciness of HD, for some retarded reason it can't even film in slo-mo.

Quote from: lithium on Apr 15, 2009, 03:33 AM
I can't wait to read it
Quote from: deftonekid on Apr 15, 2009, 08:53 PM
I'd love to read the screenplay bro and also in a future watch the final cut, why not? Good luck with that.
Quote from: Variable on Apr 15, 2009, 01:15 PM
Sounds cool though Josh. 

Thanks folks.

And as far as getting started, I thought it would be very difficult, but I've been stewing in this idea for a couple months and had grown a few simple ideas as far as the basic outline of the story and a very few ideas as far as details. Basically I just wrote it as me and my friends exactly are, so I didn't really have to worry about character development (plus, it's a fuckin' zombie movie) so I just sat down and started writing an average summer day for my friend and I and gradually brought in zombie elements. All the dialog and funny actions we do in the script are based on things we say and do, so that was also pretty easy. Honestly it's been easy from the get-go. I'm not even a writer by nature. I'm just writing things I know and things that I think are funny. It was really easy to get going especially since I was just so damn into it. It's been great fun. I've taken a short break from it for the time being to work on music stuff (Not for the movie. For performing live but that's a different story). I have a mostly completed version easily accessible to post on here, but I don't really want to until the story part is fully completed.

Sorry for rambling.

just make sure you turn into a zombie. has there been a film with a zombie in a wheelchair?

There's at least one shot of one in Shaun of the Dead
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: defTHE1s on May 02, 2009, 03:31 AM
Quote from: Necrocetaceanbeastiality on Apr 14, 2009, 10:14 PM
I figured that they wouldn't do a zombie comedy with two nerds, one of which is in a wheelchair, as the heroes.
take it to the studios were they did Malcolm in the middle, and sell the story to perform it by Malcolm and Stevie or by yourselves, it would work there, right?.. i think.. those studios were FOX, right?
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: roflestiltskin on Aug 09, 2012, 04:28 AM
Where's this zombie script?
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: blixa on Aug 10, 2012, 06:07 AM
Quote from: roflestiltskin on Aug 09, 2012, 04:28 AM
Where's this zombie script?

but you can't read.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: roflestiltskin on Aug 10, 2012, 11:37 PM
Quote from: blixa on Aug 10, 2012, 06:07 AM
Quote from: roflestiltskin on Aug 09, 2012, 04:28 AM
Where's this zombie script?

but you can't read.

And, you can't write!

Quote from: blixa on Aug 10, 2012, 06:02 AM
welcome to me life  :'(
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: Penicks on Aug 10, 2012, 11:39 PM
why zombies

everything is zombies nowadays

even fucking prometheus had zombies
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: Variable on Aug 11, 2012, 10:33 AM
Yo. Fuck zombies. I'm sick of hearing about the fucking zombie apocalypse. Talking about zombies is as cliché as talking about how much you hate niggers if you lived in 1890.

It's all about the dragon apocalypse guys. It's going to happen. And nobody is going to be ready because everyone is focused on these stupid fucking zombies. I suggest you all forget about the zombies, find a underground shelter, and read "the hobbit" a couple times.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: lostpilot on Aug 11, 2012, 11:17 AM
FUS RO DAH!

... - - I think I am safe from the dragons.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: Variable on Aug 11, 2012, 11:39 AM
Tell that to Christian Bale and Matthew Mcconaughey........ you're never safe.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: downtownpony on Aug 11, 2012, 03:32 PM
Speaking of Matthew, You should really check out his new flick Killer Joe.
KILLER JOE Trailer 2012 - Emile Hirsch, Matthew McConaughey Movie - Official [HD] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzRa3GAqNBY#ws)
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: blixa on Aug 13, 2012, 02:31 AM
Quote from: roflestiltskin on Aug 10, 2012, 11:37 PM
Quote from: blixa on Aug 10, 2012, 06:07 AM
Quote from: roflestiltskin on Aug 09, 2012, 04:28 AM
Where's this zombie script?

but you can't read.

And, you can't write!

Quote from: blixa on Aug 10, 2012, 06:02 AM
welcome to me life  :'(


because that comma after 'and' was so necessary, wasn't it?
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: roflestiltskin on Aug 14, 2012, 02:08 AM
Yes, it belongs there.  You don't believe my?
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: Variable on Aug 15, 2012, 09:01 AM
I vote no on the comma. It''s distracting and adds noise to the flow of the rude statement. Like you're slow and had to think of your comeback. Which is probably true; but you shouldn't advertise it through your grammar.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: blixa on Aug 17, 2012, 02:58 PM
Quote from: roflestiltskin on Aug 10, 2012, 11:37 PM
Quote from: blixa on Aug 10, 2012, 06:07 AM
Quote from: roflestiltskin on Aug 09, 2012, 04:28 AM
Where's this zombie script?

but you can't read.

And, you can't write!

Quote from: blixa on Aug 10, 2012, 06:02 AM
welcome to me life  :'(

this is actually an australian way of speaking.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: roflestiltskin on Aug 19, 2012, 04:59 AM
chyeah right
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: Variable on Aug 19, 2012, 01:57 PM
Quote from: downtownpony on Aug 11, 2012, 03:32 PM
Speaking of Matthew, You should really check out his new flick Killer Joe.
KILLER JOE Trailer 2012 - Emile Hirsch, Matthew McConaughey Movie - Official [HD] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzRa3GAqNBY#ws)
I just can't buy into him being a big bad ass. Maybe the movie will change my mine. But none of his past movies have made me buy into it. He's very 1 dimensional in my opinion.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: defskull on Aug 19, 2012, 09:10 PM
He's not badass in the movie. He is an awesome creep/perv.
Title: Re: I am writing a screenplay
Post by: Variable on Aug 20, 2012, 04:23 AM
How can you be a hit man and NOT be a badass? That doesn't make sense.

But I guess I see your point. I'm guessing this is supposed to be some kind of modern lolita with a few more thrills? I'm sure it's good. Ill just have to check it out.