Crude. To the point. And true.
In 1979, a produced named Sean Cunningham took an idea to a marketing company. They created this ad for him:
Sean ran the ad as a full page in Variety. He thought it was an incredible title and “the most terrifying film ever made” was a bold statement.
He had no script. No story. [...]
A frustrating week brought on by a change in schedule, new computer equipment and… don don don! A bad outline!!!
The good news is, ”11 Days” is still a solid idea and I’ve have a new appreciation for stream-of-consciousness-no-real-plot Clerks-esque type films.
The bad news is, my crappy outline just wasn’t going to get it done. At least not by me [...]
So with the re-write schedule scraped clear, I moved on to some new ideas. Two percolated to the top: one an idea about a sickly boy who saves his small town from a threat after an enormous sinkhole opens; the other about two guys that run a Texas fireworks stand for 11 days in the summer just after [...]
There was a movie that came out called “The Lookout.” It was about a popular kid (Joseph Gordon-Levitt as “Chris Pratt”) who has severe memory problems after an auto accident. He has to put post-it notes everywhere to remind him to do basic day-to-day duties like “wash your hair.” You might remember Gordon-Levitt as “Tommy” [...]
MAYNARD
I think the Gimp’s sleepin’.
ZED
Well, I guess you’ll just wake ‘em
up then, won’t you!
Right here, I was going to put a picture of The Gimp. But man man oh man. That’s a tough one! You’d think that in this day and age, it wouldn’t be such a big deal to get a picture of The [...]