Task #2

I wonder if Orlie really wants to do a serial killer film.

I'm working on one right now!

MAN, I sure hope none of the contestants gets close to my idea!
Better get cracking on that script.

Never say never, Negative Nikee

Actually, I did read an interview with Orlando that said he was looking at a serial killer script. Something about Leo being considered for the role as well.
Don't know whats happened with it. That was last year.

Yes Nikee, I DO have a slight twist on the genre.
And you never know when you might end up next to the actor or producer you are aiming for. If you pitch well, and the story holds it's own, and the person is looking for that kind of story, maybe something could happen.
And then there is the point that while I would like to see certain actors in my films I don't write specifcally for them.

Joe, your thoughts behind the asignment work.
Bloom DOES need to do something vastly different from his heroic epic roles. And a nice serial killer would really turn his image on it's head.
I just found it funny that you created an asignment with such close similarities to a project I'm all ready working on.

The Fog

looks really good but I all ready have enough things to be afraid of.
I might go see it if I could confine myself to Bloom's lap.
Not likely to happen.
I'll settle for working on the script.

I vaguely remember Rollercoaster. I think I caught parts of it years ago on a movie channel.

A friend of mine just sent me a link to a new TV show called Wildfire.
There goes the title to my family drama.

None of the ideas posted in task 2 are remotely similar to my script.

Me, revealing?

No way!!! I'm the original Miss. Modesty.

Actually my twist is - Audience superiour
The audience knows who the killer is and so I'm hoping through the whole film they would be twisting in thier seats and screaming at the screen that sweet, cute, innocent Orlando ( or insert any other adorable young actor) is really the murderer.

The hard part is writing it so that the audience knows but it's believable nobody else does. Currently I'm just working off the idea of the audience's instinct, some weird vibe that we all have, sensing that something isn't quite right.
We all have it but often tend to ignore it.

It's my first foray in to thrillers, so, we'll see how it goes.

Nikee,
The TV show Wildfire is about a girl who gets stuck out in this ranch, I think for troubled teens. My script is about the eternal nature of love as experianced between a crippled boy, a high society girl, and her crippled horse Wildfire, set during the Great Depression, with the end coming just after the invasion on the beaches of Normandy.

I haven't

seen the ring because I am so easily freaked out.

I've heard the horse scenes were intense and people who know me well have said I shouldn't watch it.

Well No,

I'm not talking about misdirection, though that is an excellent tool and gets me all the time.

I'm talking about the audience knowing as soon as the character shows up that this is going to be the killer. I don't show him actually killing someone right away, but there are just uncomfortable things that he says and does that clues the audience in.

The audience knows they are watching a serial killer flick and so they safely assume that this guy is it. And they are correct. I don't throw any red herrings to the audience. There are for the police, but the audience knows.
So, based on that knowledge they want to warn the target and every time the killer is with someone they should be screaming "That's the guy! That's him!! "
But they don't have any proof yet.

I'm trying to go against the standard gradually reveal and discover who the murderer is with the audience going through the same discoveries as the cops and detectives.

I want the audience to be shouting at the screen "Don't talk to him in the grocery store!!! He's a serial killer!!" "You, officer, don't just give him a ticket and walk away!!!! He's your killer!!" "AHHHH! Arrest him first THEN find the clues, he's a killer!! I know he's a killer, who cares that you DON'T!!"
I'm working on a scene where the killer and the detectives are actually playing cards together. So the audience should just be beside themselves knowing that the cat and mouse are sitting at the same table. But only one knows which is which.

Does that make sense?
Sorry I'm not being clear. I'm very tired.

I don't know if it will work or not. Depends on how I write it.
I'm studying the genre.
I'm okay with killer thrillers, just not supernatural flicks.




PS, no the killer isn't one of the cops.
It's the head detectives wife's ex-boyfriend's half sister's cousin's neighbor.
Oh, dear, now I've revealed too much.