Uwe Boll is seeking scripts! (Holding a contest!)

Plot Device · Sep 28, 2007

Deadline is Sunday, September 30, 2007.

http://www.greatideasent.com/goldenticket/

Sounds like a real opportunity!

(Actually, it's not him, it's a company called Great Ideas Entertainment that has done past deals with him. But I couldn't resist!)

Hollow · Sep 28, 2007

Hahaha, I immediately started to laugh uncontrollably after reading the title. Nice gag.

nmstevens · Sep 29, 2007

Plot Device said:
Deadline is Sunday, September 30, 2007.

http://www.greatideasent.com/goldenticket/

Sounds like a real opportunity!

(Actually, it's not him, it's a company called Great Ideas Entertainment that has done past deals with him. But I couldn't resist!)

You have to read these things carefully. What they're saying is this.

You pay 75 dollars to enter.

The top three winners are going to be sent "Edge Entertainment" (or whatever it's called -- not Uwe Boll's company) -- for them *to consider.*

That's all.

The best you could possibly get is paying 75 dollars for the chance to have one single company consider your screenplay.

With a little work and some phone calls you could probably get thirty companies at the same level as Edge to consider your screenplay and it would only run you the cost of copies and postage.

Something to think about.

NMS

billythrilly7th · Sep 29, 2007

$75 is an insane amount to pay to enter a crap contest like this.

IMO

Plot Device · Sep 29, 2007

And in case anyone is is interested, tonight at 7PM Eastern Time, the Sci-Fi Channel is showing "Alone in the Dark."

(There's an old thread somewhere here in this sub-forum where we discussed/lamented/trashed that exact film. Let me see if I can find it.)

Plot Device · Sep 29, 2007

Found it!

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65275

And here's one of my posts from that thread where I replied to a few of the comments about "Alone in the Dark."

I rented it a few years back. It was just dumb.

It started off with what seems like three entire minutes of some really lame narrator-delivered back-story with a montage of past events concerning some secret government experiment gone awry and some underground tunnels connecting the lab with a little cabin out in the woods. And something about little orphan children screaming in the night as they are plucked from their beds at the orphanage and taken to the lab to be experimented upon. They tried to make it all very creepy with dark shadows and sinsiter music.

After all that dumb dumb lame-o back story, the film began and it had NO BEARING AT ALL on all that narrated stuff we just sat through for three whole minutes!

And then there was this female archeologist and then Christian Slater. And then, for some reason that utterly escaped me, we suddenly had a monster running around. And he wasn't even a very interesting monster.

I kept waiting to see when the cabin in the woods and the underground tunnels were going to swing back into the plot again. I kept waiting for them to discover the horror of children having been experimented upon. They didn't. Not one thread of any of the narrated stuff ever made its way into the rest of the film. It was all very painful to endure.

I felt so badly for Christian Slater.

Flu · Sep 29, 2007

Careful, Plot Device. Uwe might challenge you to a boxing match.

Rainy Night · Sep 29, 2007

Uwe who?

valen_sinclair · Oct 1, 2007

yep sorry folks not getting this either....who is he?????

dpaterso · Oct 1, 2007

Mr. Boll is a writer/director/producer who seems to have earned himself a reputation for making awful* low budget movies, some adapted from computer games. Check out his filmography on imdb.com:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093051/

* going by what I've read. I don't think I've seen any of his films.

-Derek

BenPanced · Oct 1, 2007

So, yeah, if anybody needs any help, I think I still have my Atari 2600 version of "Pac-Man" lying around somewhere...

dpaterso · Oct 1, 2007

What attracts you to Pac Man's story? What obstacle(s) must he overcome? What's his character arc?

-Derek

BenPanced · Oct 1, 2007

It's a story that can be retold with LOTS OF EXPLOSIONS AND GORE.

clockwork · Oct 1, 2007

I recently saw House of The Dead (don't ask) which was intercut with footage taken from the game. In more than one scene, the film abandons all traditional attempts at storytelling and instead shows the POV of its characters as they walk along darkened corridors and graveyards, shooting zombies as they appear from left and right.

Technically, the film was well-made. Unfortunately, that made it dull as hell.

He is, however, (and according to others) a savy businessman who utlisies the unique system of German government-subsidised filmmaking to its full potential. I know that's my dream.

Flu · Oct 1, 2007

He's also not particularly fond of criticism.

Here's Uwe beating up some critics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqbVb-W7GqI

Hobbledehoy · Oct 1, 2007

BenPanced! What have you done to Cheese? He is not a Spanish woman!

valen_sinclair · Oct 2, 2007

dpaterso said:
What attracts you to Pac Man's story? What obstacle(s) must he overcome? What's his character arc?

-Derek

Pac Man, could be searching for Mrs Pac Man who has been taken by the ghosts into the haunted hideout. There she is being forced to tell of Pac-Man's homeland as the ghosts and once and forall take over the kingdom where they once laid claim.
It is basically a romantic movie with an action hero twist.
I personally like the idea, think we should run this into a fun challenge for us all.....10 page script.

BenPanced · Oct 2, 2007

WITH LOTS OF EXPLOSIONS AND GORE!

valen_sinclair · Oct 2, 2007

yes pen with lots of explosions and gore...

who's up for the challenge.....

dpaterso · Oct 2, 2007

I can't remember who owns the Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man copyrights, is it Namco or maybe Atari? But I'm not gonna mess around with it. Pardon my cowardice.

I've no problem with fun challenges featuring explosions and gore as a general concept.

-Derek

Uwe Boll is seeking scripts! (Holding a contest!)

Plot Device

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Hollow

nmstevens

What happened?

billythrilly7th

Plot Device

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Plot Device

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Flu

Rainy Night

INFJ

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Blowing bubbles in the wind

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