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Ideas as to movies that America needs.
I would like to post some thoughts and discuss them with others, without hope of financial gains.
For example: I think we need a good movie about Atlantis. What do you think? (Just an example, don't start to imagine Atlantis - the land, not the space shuttle.)
If you know a better place, I'll go there.
 

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America doesn't NEED anything. it's all about what we WANT. you have to figure out what Hollywood wants and then write it or write what you want and convince Hollywood that America needs it. it's that simple!
 

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OK, so Hollywood doesn't care about foreign audiences, which often provide a third of the income from a movie?
Write what I want to whom? If there was a paper publishing articles with collections of current ideas, I would try to get there. But such a paper doesn't exist (yet).
I also have ideas as to videos that America wants and needs. For example, today I've imagined Jennifer Lopez as an aristocratic lady in Texas around 1835.
 
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European said:
OK, so Hollywood doesn't care about foreign audiences, which often provide a third of the income from a movie?
Write what I want to whom? If there was a paper publishing articles with collections of current ideas, I would try to get there. But such a paper doesn't exist (yet).
I also have ideas as to videos that America wants and needs. For example, today I've imagined Jennifer Lopez as an aristocratic lady in Texas around 1835.
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Write what YOU want and do it from personal experience. There are enough good writers out there writing Jennifer-Lopez-in-a-banana-suit scripts. Anyway, I think she's a bloody boring actress.
 
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I think America needs a movie without Samuel L. Jackson in it.

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General ideas?

I've got this idea about this guy doing all these really cool action sequences, and this other guy is trying to stop him.

I've got this other idea, about this guy in the Army, called General Idea. Only, he isn't really a guy, he is a robot, well, more like a machine. Well, really he is like a magic 8 ball, only instead of answers, the ball has ideas written on it. When the troops get stuck, they roll the magic 8 ball, and good old General Idea comes through like always.
 
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Chasing trends is pointless.

As Hill said above, write what you want to write. Keep an eye on the market, don't write anything that's had recent success. Try to place yourself in a gap that hasn't been filled and write a great story with unforgettable characters and hope that someone doesn't beat you to it.

Then submit.

It's all we ever can do. If you want to write an Atlantis movie, write it and let the chips fall where they may. Try to write it for mass market appeal.

Studios buy what they think will sell, period. First and foremost to the American audience, in the box office. Since that is often what they measure success by. It's about instant gratification. We're talking about a group of people with short attention spans, big visions, and who want the payoffs to be yesterday.
 
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Well...to presume you know what an entire country needs to see is a bit arrogant. Wrong attitude; it'll get you nowhere.

Instead, write what interests you and if you're lucky, it'll interest someone else, too. And hopefully that someone else will have money to make it with.
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