I reckon most people have a good book or film in them, it's just the execution of making it is the hard bit.
So, pitch me your film(s)/book(s) ! I'll do mine first to get the ball rolling, I'm sure I've mentioned this a few times, but here we go.

Edward Nortan, who is the son of the inventor of the time machine. Edward isn't a bad person, but he uses the machine to try and find the cure for something horrific that his mum went through, like, cancer or something. As Edward goes through history, finding ingredients that aren't in his Natural Time Zone, he saves his mum, and then realises he can use his machine to save other people. He could stop the 9/11 attacks, he could get villages to abandon themselves before a volcano goes off... Every time he changes the timeline, the future changes. Saving Pompay means the Romans never stop their movements (for example). But then, some people from Edward Nortan's future catches on, the saving of his mum didn't have enough changes in The Natural Timeline for them to bother, but the other stuff he does, does. Changing 9/11 means there is no war in the middle east, for example. Time Travellers have some sort of timeline protection, where as if you tried to kill their mum before they gave birth, they would have been born to someone else with the exact same attributes... and they can remember before-changes too. These police try and stop him, but if the world is so much better, would it really be a good idea?

.... i've not thought out the details, origionally it was about Jacky Chan and Will Smith chasing after time-traveling criminals, but this idea is better.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:14, 56 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

What drugs do you have? I want some!

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:18, Reply)

Nyom nyom nyom, opiets and Red Bull (like) Drinks.
/ac
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:31, Reply)

I'd pay good money for the g0nzo book of typos

( broadsword, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:18, Reply)

One day I'll make "The Dickshonairy".

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:22, Reply)

I have a story I've been failing to write for years
I think I might start with painting the city, then making short stories. Like a kind of run up at a full novel.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:25, Reply)

Check this out, this guy is amazing (I haven't read that link, but I've read other ones on him that I can't find ATM)
www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant_syndrome/savant_profiles/gilles_trehin
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:31, Reply)

I think I've seen this before
it's pretty impressive.

I won't be doing that
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:33, Reply)

That's quite brilliant, Gonz.
I had started a book when the whole Twilight thing started, stopped writing once I saw how horrifically popular it got.
A girl's family dies in a fire and she goes home for the funeral, when she's leaving town at night she hits a deer, she gets out to investigate and she's hit by another car. The driver of the car is a vampire and he turns her to save her life.
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:28, Reply)

there is nothing wrong with cashing in
there are so many books that were published in the wake of Dan Brown. I suspect most were just thing people happen to have written on teh same subject, but suddenly the publishers were interested
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:32, Reply)

I really have no skills as far as editing goes, I suck at that sort of thing plus I have no technical training

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:58, Reply)

Seen it

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:34, Reply)

Oh that sounds good, where do you think you're going to run with the storyline too?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:35, Reply)

i dont know, its all over the place, i still have a fair bit of it
I can totally post the first paragraph
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:41, Reply)

lol nevermind
it's a bit shit
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:57, Reply)

post it post it post it

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:11, Reply)

*grumbles*
The sound hit me first. Tires screaming. Brakes locking. The inevitable crunch. It felt as if a thousand needles flew into my ears, penetrating my very being. The scream of the driver. My own blood curdling moan suppressed by the cries of the black birds scattering overhead. My skull was forced back against my own vehicle. I felt the glass crack and pinch threads of my brunette hair, the sting as they ripped from my body when my head whipped forward. The car slid swiftly to the right. My knees buckled and I fell into a crumpled mass beside my car. My fingers gripped and scraped at the gravel beneath me. Blood spewed from my mouth. My teeth released it's grip on my tongue and it flapped helplessly behind my lips. "Oh God," I heard in the distance. It took me a moment or two to realise it was my own voice. My lips cracked at the sides as I tried to scream for help. Hands found my face as I slowly leaned to rest on my side. Black enveloped me.
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:14, Reply)

keep going

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:15, Reply)

As I opened my eyes I was immediately thrust back into my own personal horror. "Don't close your eyes!" He tapped lightly at my cheek, his skin cold and unfamiliar. "Shhhh...." he soothed as I let my terrified voice moan delicately in the night. "Shhh....don't leave me. I have you...don't leave me now!" He shouted as I was thrust upward and he carried me swiftly to his shattered vehicle. I barely felt him lay me onto the back seat before I felt myself fade out again. "No," he growled from the driver's seat. I jolted into the leather as he slammed onto the gas pedal and I felt my heart flutter as it struggled beneath my chest. The tears flooded from my eyes involuntarily, leaving a sticky salty glow across my face as the blood thinned beneath it. Pink water flowed across my lips and dripped onto the black carpeted floor.
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:18, Reply)

and...
is there going to be sex in this?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:20, Reply)

There's some somewhere I think.
The thing is....is that my computer crashed and I hadn't been saving it properly. So I lost a chunk at the end. I haven't read all the way through in a few years. It's from '08.
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:23, Reply)

Was it called "The Venison Benison"?

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:41, Reply)

SHOOSH

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:54, Reply)

comedy gold right there

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:24, Reply)

My Film would be in a coalescing sketch format about the various stories of concert goers waiting for an unnamed band to play at the Hollywood bowl.
Their experiences in getting to the concert, buying tickets and sitting in the stand of the sports arena waiting for the show to begin.
Sort of like a comedy Waiting for Godot.
Points if you can find the other work (game, book, play, film, song) from which I lifted the idea.
(888777555, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:38, Reply)

Evening chompy

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:41, Reply)

I find you refusing to believe he's real even though he put a fucking photo up saying hello b3ta
much more annoying than anything he says.
He's like 10 he's got an excuse to be shit.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 23:04, Reply)

I've had a rough idea for a book brewing over the last 6-7 years.
It's set about 30 years in the future, when England is a totalitarian hellhole with a strict caste system. Some bugger gets murdered somewhere and the family can't afford to pay the police to do a proper investigation, so they get their dark-horse cousin in to have a poke around; as he lives across the border in Oldengland (which is pretty similar to the present) and the government doesn't approve of foreign visitors, they have to bribe a highways official to do this.

The Oldenglish cousin, who is the main character in the book, turns up and scares the life out everyone with his strange foreign ways (he's a red-faced heavy drinker and is appalled by the idea of fake tan and cosmetic surgery), but proves to be a good detective even if he does have a tendency to fall asleep at bad moments. The plot is mind-bendingly complicated - at one point he has to die and go into the afterlife to follow a lead - but it's packed with intrigue, laughs, terror and culture shock. Now I just have to sit down, get all the details down on paper and write the bloody thing.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:40, Reply)

Better do it quick before some knob nicks it now!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:44, Reply)

Is Oldengland by any chance a rosy view of Scotland, or is it an actually divided England?

(888777555, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:47, Reply)

It's everything in England north of Stoke and Chesterfield.
Also, Stoke is part of a disputed territory, so it's gone from a mere shithole to an actual war zone several times.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:48, Reply)

I recon I can see some socio-cultural bias creeping in here...
Are you subtly praising the...well known political leanings of most Northerners in relation to Midlanders or Southerners, or am I reading into this too much?
Well anyway the idea of being within an Independent South appeals to me!!
(888777555, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:50, Reply)

You are reading too much into this.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:51, Reply)

Freefair
Can you stop being a bellend and reading Tory/ Socialist dialectic into everything? You have neither the wit nor the intelligence to utilise any such methods of textual interrogation into even a brief synopsis of a hypothetical book.

Thanks bbz.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:54, Reply)

There is no need for this, I was just curious, not about to start a row.

(888777555, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:59, Reply)

I don't want to start a row.
And I'm not being that rude. Just pointing out that you don't have the knowledge or the technical understanding of academic literary criticism to tackle even the most basic of textual analyses.

And also that you seem to be hung up on the whole left/ right dialectic when you really don't quite understand that either.

I welcome everybody that wants to take part in things on here, I just think one needs to know when one lacks the critical faculties to actually take part.

hugz4ubbzlol
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:08, Reply)

Very, very much this^

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:00, Reply)

I got told off by someone for saying "p-ass" rather than "parse"
You lot with your "independent South" bollocks can fuck right off.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:05, Reply)

The best response to that I've ever heard is "shut up, you twart".

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:08, Reply)

I don't even have a broad accent anyway :(
Just my vowels. I fought damn hard not to have a Mancunian accent.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:12, Reply)

Hey hey, I'm a Midlander with an accent myself, but If I had to pick sides I know who it would be with.

(888777555, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:09, Reply)

I like the sounds of this, it reminds me a _tad_ of Children Of Man.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 20:59, Reply)

Night Night chaps (and chapesses)
Don Juan Quixote is off to drink and fornicate his way around the good half of London for most of the weekend.

I sincerely hope that those of you still on here have a good weekend, I love you all, especially Rory, toodles.

XXX
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:03, Reply)

OK OK BYE BYE OK OK BYE BE GOOD LOVE YOU BYE BYE !
/ac
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:05, Reply)

get you and your 'life'

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:11, Reply)

I occasionally get snatches (lol) of ideas, or phrases that make me think of things
but I don't write them down when I'm thinking of them and forget them.

I really used to want to write, but I've really got out of the habit.

/yaaaawn
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:04, Reply)

There's a street in every city
called Hallows End. It's not on any maps and you'd never normally go down it. Drew Hardy, Girl Detective is tailing a mysterious oriental type who leads her down Hallow's End where she finds herself in the First City, unable to return as the road has its own agenda and never lets you go back to where you started from.

Having outsmarted the Chinaman she makes the best of it and sets up a detective agency in the First City, catering to the needs of its strange and wonderful inhabitants with only her two gay employees, The Nancy Boys.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:35, Reply)

oh boy
go on
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:40, Reply)

Still working on the fine details
like a middle and an end.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 21:45, Reply)

aw yeah Frantic has just started
two hours of Harrison Ford doing his angry/confused face.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 22:08, Reply)

I'm a bit squiffy.
How aree you?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 22:14, Reply)

knackered
watching Top Gear sprawled on the sofa and dozing off.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 22:19, Reply)

I'm having another beer, listening to music and I'll be to bed early.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 22:20, Reply)

early bed sounds appealing
I've had some late ones this week and I'm out tomorrow night.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 22:27, Reply)

Good work young 'un!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 22:38, Reply)

I can write about stuff, just it never seems to make good sense reading it back
always wanted to write a novel. just don't have a clue what about. i've been through some weird shit but it all seems boring ultimately. maybe I'm waiting for a subject/scenario/plot, maybe I'm procastinating.
(Alfonso Bongo BELL AIRE HORSE EXTRAORDINAIRE, Sat 16 Jul 2011, 0:09, Reply)

It's so believable as a film I almost feel like I've already seen it!
A number of times
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Sat 16 Jul 2011, 9:15, Reply)