Thursday, September 01, 2005

Who wants to be a hero?

Well, it's a new month, and instead of editing in a couple of weeks, I decided to hold off on editing "Boston Thomas" until Wendy is ready to edit hers too. (She passed the 50,000-word mark earlier this week; congrats to her.)

So I've decided to see whether I can write the first draft of a screenplay in 30 days. A feature-length script is at least 90 pages, but this is a rough draft, so unless there are objections, I'm going for 60 pages, which should be 2 pages a day. (This also helps since I'm going to Vegas this month.)

It's going to be a mockumentary about a superhero about to retire, so he's willing to let a film crew have full access in his last week fighting crime. His name is Captain Venture, and he's like Mr. Incredible but without the family.

And, of course, I need everyone's help. Got an idea for a superhero/villain? I want to hear about it. You give me a submission, it'll get used. You can be incredibly detailed, or just a few lines, like the PMS Avenger from "Mystery Men" -- "I can only work four days a month. You got a problem with that?"

And finally, I promised a picture a while back, but our illustrator got a bit carried away and rather than just sketch Boston Thomas, he's going full-on with a painting. But he did give me a working sketch of our space hero.

7 comments:

Austin said...

How about your hero's roommate is another hero with OCD. The other hero's career has never taken off, because he always shows up late at crime scenes due to his leaving-the-house ritual.

But the main hero likes him a lot, and, besides, "You couldn't pay someone to keep a house this clean."

Wendy said...

I like your script idea! Sadly, I have no contributions to make at the current time, but I'll let you know if I come up with anything...

Anonymous said...

I think you should have a villain whose power is the ability to seduce people. And no one can resist this villain, and there's no one the villain won't seduce. The kicker is that when said villain has people wanting him or her, the offer is withdrawn throwing people into a state of despair. (I'm not sure why. Pheromones? Hypnosis? Mind waves!) This villain works quick too, s/he could cripple a city within a week, all its citizens moping about demanding ice cream and tissues.

george said...

Abby, you are a genius. I have the perfect way of putting that in! The villain shall be a she, but we need a name. Any ideas?

Some possible working names in the meantime:

1) Madame Heartbreak
2) Miss Disaster (because who doesn't like flirting with disaster?)
3) Christina Aguilera

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure what she should be called. I rather like the idea that she be a Mademoiselle or Fräulein, it sounds more innocent. Other names I thought of are,
Madam Desire
Mademoiselle Danger
(It's very hard to resist, the French accent.)

george said...

How about "The Mad Moiselle"?

Anonymous said...

Totally. That's why you get to be in charge of the names, you rock. Also, maybe, because it's your screenplay.