Thursday, September 15, 2011

New new idea

Just the other day I realized I hadn't thought up a new idea in quite a while. I'm booked solid on ideas for a while, but I like being ten ideas deep to be comfortable. And it concerned me that I hadn't gotten excited about a new concept for a few months.

Then I got this idea last night for a new spin on an old story that hasn't been touched in feature form for decades. I was watching a thing on History Channel or Discovery or something and there was like this throwaway line and I just went Oh my god! I suddenly realized there was this story just waiting for me. It's so perfect for me it's ridiculous.

The thing is, on the surface the story's a bit of a western, and we all know westerns aren't really selling like hot cakes, but as I started to do preliminary research and put my own spin on it, I realized there are all kinds of neat non-western directions I can take this. So it could be like a western but not a western.

It's a period piece, but you never know. I think I could pull this off. I have to finish what I'm working on now first, then I'm going back to Burnside for a page one rewrite, but that won't take as long as starting from scratch, so I hope to be working on this new western/non-western thing early next year. And then I'll be set.

5 comments:

  1. THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE SITUATION?

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  2. It wasn't, but it is now!

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  3. Anonymous7:48 AM

    IT'S NOT ABOUT THE IDEAS.
    IDEAS ARE A DIME (GB) A DOZEN.
    IT'S ABOUT HAVE THE MONEY,BRAIN AND STAMINA TO MAKE A F***** MOVIE!
    Do you agree Emily?
    Not being a JERK OR ASS**** but really ideas, WTF.
    Just work hard to sell it or make the damn script. Stop listening to these so called experts out there.
    STOP blogging and writing in forums and get a life and star to understand the way a business works.

    Marylyn

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  4. Actually no, I don't agree. You kind of have to have something to make a movie about before you get any funding.

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  5. You can transpose your idea into another genre if a straight Western doesn't work for you. Urban crime movies are basically Westerns -- a lone good guy that has to take down a bunch of bad guys. The movie I saw last night, Drive, had a protag straight out of the Western -- strong, silent, very skilled with a moral code.

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