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November 13, 2004
Take Me To This Movie
For those of you not lucky enough to be part of the Hollywood in-crowd, when a writer wants an agent or producer to read his script (I say "his" cause women can't write, it interfear with their birthin'), he sends out a "query letter." This letter contains contact info and a short synopsis of the story. Below is the content of one letter I found on a blog I've been reading recently "Query Letters I Love."
I am hoping you will please consider reading my latest Sci-Fi/Horror script 'Lost Cause'.
An ancient, evil civilization conquers a metropolis, trapping nine players of utterly different interests in an ultimate struggle for survival. The band Lost Cause plays at an underground club. All rocks! An uproar in the back of the crowd quickly evolves into a tsunami of slaughter. The club erupts into sheer chaos, as Thin-Men carve a macabre path of destruction. Suddenly, time and light are manipulated.
How?
Blackness, the survivors awake amidst remnants of the previous horrors. Personalities clash, as each player must overcome their differences to escape... "Eight people you hate, nine lives to save."
Posted by Brendan at November 13, 2004 2:16 PM
Comments
am i supposed to not understand that synopsis? im confused.
Posted by: j.r. at November 13, 2004 6:57 PM
Umm.......I agree with JR...what the fuck?? or is that the point....
Posted by: Neal at November 14, 2004 10:05 PM
Obviously, this screenwriter was going for a Daliesque, DePalmatic, pseudo-Hitchcockian, Bruckheimer homage with some neo-Tarantinodic influences.
My only question is: Where's the tits?
Posted by: The_SCSIBug at November 14, 2004 11:35 PM
Band shower scene...what the hell are "Thin-Men?"
Posted by: Neal at November 15, 2004 9:52 AM
could the screenwriter have meant 'thin mints' and just made a freudian slip?
Posted by: j.r. at November 16, 2004 2:50 AM
w00t! Vorpal Thin Mints!
Posted by: The_SCSIBug at November 16, 2004 2:02 PM
... omg!!! that movie is going to ROCK!!!
... hardcore!
mebbe
Posted by: Roc at November 19, 2004 2:26 PM
...no.
Posted by: The_SCSIBug at December 1, 2004 12:32 PM