So the working rough title for the project was Nemesis. But for a variety of reasons that needs to change. The pitch:
Roderick Ulrich, former supervillain who failed at reforming, is broken out of prison by Bridgette Flowers. The mission? Solve the murder of their fallen former lover, Andrew Kindcaid, the superhero "Rubedo." Conspiracy of the highest order and family drama drives Rod and Bridgette, accompanied by their their accomplices, across the world in a Thelma and Louise-esque race to stay ahead of the law, angry superheroes and their own demons. All the while they struggle to find out what really happened to Andrew, and find that his murder may not have been as straight forward as it seemed to be.
The basic premise was the idea of a supervillain solving his superhero's murder when someone else beat him to the punch, though know one knew the depths of the relationship they had before the 'fall'; they were lovers during his on and off again attempts at reform, but kept it on the downlow for the obvious reasons.
Now it's grown from that seed idea into something larger (goddamn you projects for growing into epics!) but it needs a new title. Nemesis was good for a more contained, intimate idea - but this? Yeah, this is different from that idea. Complicate that with the fact that one of the characters who joined the cast since the inception is a literal Fury and we need to cut Nemesis as a title for yet another reason.
Thoughts on where I could go with this? I played with the idea of Gods and Monsters in Love, but that's pretty dopey. The story's got corporate greed, superheroes who are killing each other to protect their interests and engineering supervillains to make sure they stay in business, and Roderick, Bridgette and Andrew at the middle of it, so...
Yeah, I'm at a loss.
Roderick Ulrich, former supervillain who failed at reforming, is broken out of prison by Bridgette Flowers. The mission? Solve the murder of their fallen former lover, Andrew Kindcaid, the superhero "Rubedo." Conspiracy of the highest order and family drama drives Rod and Bridgette, accompanied by their their accomplices, across the world in a Thelma and Louise-esque race to stay ahead of the law, angry superheroes and their own demons. All the while they struggle to find out what really happened to Andrew, and find that his murder may not have been as straight forward as it seemed to be.
The basic premise was the idea of a supervillain solving his superhero's murder when someone else beat him to the punch, though know one knew the depths of the relationship they had before the 'fall'; they were lovers during his on and off again attempts at reform, but kept it on the downlow for the obvious reasons.
Now it's grown from that seed idea into something larger (goddamn you projects for growing into epics!) but it needs a new title. Nemesis was good for a more contained, intimate idea - but this? Yeah, this is different from that idea. Complicate that with the fact that one of the characters who joined the cast since the inception is a literal Fury and we need to cut Nemesis as a title for yet another reason.
Thoughts on where I could go with this? I played with the idea of Gods and Monsters in Love, but that's pretty dopey. The story's got corporate greed, superheroes who are killing each other to protect their interests and engineering supervillains to make sure they stay in business, and Roderick, Bridgette and Andrew at the middle of it, so...
Yeah, I'm at a loss.