Thursday, July 3, 2003IdeaThis hit me during the previews for T3... Hollywood. now. Every Bigtime director is looking to out-do everyone else. Better effects, bigger budgets - everyone wants the holy grail of hollywood: the movie that sets the standard for all future movies. No one has hit that Matrix standard yet. B-movie director (modeled on Peter Jackson I think) - basic unknown, meets or knows a sort of nerdy genious who stumbles onto that elusive grail by developing a program that will leave all other directors, studios, producers in the dust. But they can't get anyone to buy into it. No one believes it will work (it's got to be something completely outrageous... work on that). So the story goes that my b-movie guy and his friend (a girl would be cool. Girl geeks rock) sell everything that can be sold, mortgage their properties up to their eyeball, cash in a small inheritance (anything that will give them a small but doable budget - work on that too). This program his friend has invented works so well, creates such perfect almost holographic images that they appear utterly real - so real that they don't need to hire actors. They quietly set about making this movie. They write the script, they produce, direct and eventually sell Hollywood on the idea of putting the holograms (yeah that's it, the program she develops creates perfect holographic images a la Star Trek and they are able to reproduce big hollywood names starring in their little movie) in movies. Actors don't lose out (at first) because they can sell their image for millions of dollars to be used. They can dictate the films their hologram appears in - the only thing they can't do is dictate how they are directed. Getting ahead of myself tho and I'm totally just writing this off the top of my head. My first thought was just to write a basic b-movie director makes good kind of story now I'm doing sci-fi and that scares me. Need to think more on this one because there's a plot in there somewhere 
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