We need your ideas!
This is our second flagship project—a screenplay Star and I hope we can all write together. What better than a zombie movie, right?
We're going to take this project a little slower than Smoking Dragon. Using our new scene locking function, we'll write this screenplay one scene at a time. When we think we've finished a scene, we'll lock it and move on to the next.
In addition to writing the screenplay itself, we're still working on the complete plot.
We're going to take this project a little slower than Smoking Dragon. Using our new scene locking function, we'll write this screenplay one scene at a time. When we think we've finished a scene, we'll lock it and move on to the next.
In addition to writing the screenplay itself, we're still working on the complete plot.
The pitch, as you've probably already read, is that something in the supermarket samplers turn the customers into zombies. Great! But we need a clever little twist for what that "something" is.
That "something" will also determine where we go with the story. We haven't come up with any good ideas yet, so if you've got any, lay'em on us! Please add your ideas in the comments to this post.
'Directors cut' of Night of the Living Dead given out as a Halloween gift,turns the town into zombies. — shogobob, two years ago
Since it's a supermarket, I'm thinking of products that would be sold at a supermarket. It has to be something desirable. I'm thinking chocolate. That's what I first thought of when you mentioned samplers. It is also addictive which goes along the idea of the soccer mom needing more. The product is marketing as having new "special ingredients" which make it taste supernaturally good. A vision I'm having is of the factory, injecting the chocolate treat with nuclear sewer sludge. This would give the treat a neon green glowing center. — style414, two years ago
blah. marketing, I meant marketed. Now it looks like I can't write. : ( — style414, two years ago
I like the idea of a good old-fashioned Re-Animator-style glowing green goo! — star, two years ago
i like that too, but if no one else replies you can always have no reason for the zombie invasion. makes it psychological — PlaceboMogwai, two years ago
I think it should be caused by energy drinks. They are neon colored, theyre delicious, and they claim to cause "Monstrous" effects. Sorry, bad joke. Hyper zombies are always fun. — katharineis, two years ago
I say it's tampons. "triple absorbency guaranteed, some zombie like side affects have been reported, but should be ignored" — talkinwalrus, a year ago
The samplers, which appear to be food, are made from a company that plans to use its experiments on the town. The samplers are given to stores all around the area, thus the cause for the zombies appearing outside the store. — LeftUnsaid, a year ago
energy drinks are interesting. my main issue right now is that i have no idea where the story is going. It doesn't help that i've been away for 3 months and upon coming back, i feel lost in terms of what changes have been made and what not. — style414, a year ago
Maybe it should be meat, maybe even zombie meat. The samplers could be some kind of mutant zombie pig meat (in the factory they feed the pigs with zombie meat so they won't die) Is there like a standarized way to become a zombie? like the bite or a spell? — Otro, a year ago
I think most people become zombies by being bitten. Star is a bigger expert than me, though. — brad, a year ago
Yeah, the bite is definitely the most common way to zombie-dom. It's pretty loose from film to film, though. In Return of the Living Dead, none of the bitten come back - they pretty much stay dead - and it's a chemical gas that reanimates the corpses in the first place. In the original Night of The Living Dead, Barbara's brother dies from cracking his head open on a tombstone, and we never see him bitten by a zombie, but sure enough, he's moanin' and roamin' by night fall. Dawn of the Dead (along with most modern zombie films) is pretty clear on this point, though - anyone bitten becomes a zombie. So we could theoretically have infected meat that creates zombies who are themselves contagious. Best of both worlds, and with more guaranteed mayhem! — star, a year ago
That's it! — Otro, a year ago
The samplers are made in China and use the powered remains
of human brains. Its a Chinese plot to take over the west and the clerks find out when their manager feeling hot and sweaty sprays
himself with a perfume sampler and falls to the floor,only to start shivering and sweating and his face turning beetroot red. — willshakespeare, a year ago
of human brains. Its a Chinese plot to take over the west and the clerks find out when their manager feeling hot and sweaty sprays
himself with a perfume sampler and falls to the floor,only to start shivering and sweating and his face turning beetroot red. — willshakespeare, a year ago
Shawn of the Dead created a new genre of the campy horror movie, where buckets of blood are more fun than a barrel of monkeys. If taste samples (which are probably junk food) turn housewives into zombies, then you could have diet, exercise, and support groups reverse the effect. You could have zombies chained to treadmills, and have them gradually transition back to humans when they reach a certain number of miles. You could have 12 Step Zomboholics meetings where the zombies are supported by their fellow undead comrades as they struggle to transition back to humans. You could have zombie TV talk shows like Meet the Dead (Sunday morning) where current events are discussed from zombie's point of view. You could have zombie entertainment shows like Dance with the Dead and The Real Afterworld. Wayne's World and Stay Tuned explored some of these themes, but I don't think that the idea has been beaten to death. Hey, that's my two cents. — Bobsher54, a year ago
Im thinking hair product. LIke styling gel, or something. Chemicals would corrupt the human mind and turn them into mindless zombies, but WITH GREAT HAIR!!! Its like Resident Evil meets Hairspray hahahaha! But im serious with the "styling gel" pitch. It's un-expected. — karlos_popper, a year ago
it aint that good it needs more inprovements — dhanda, a year ago
what about the material used to make spandex waistlines eventually crept into one persons skin and made them die but just like spandex they bounced right back but as a zombie — MurdokV, 6 months ago
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