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Brad Bird's Scifi Fantasia That You'll Never See

blurey — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:04:36 PST

thank you now i can pitch this idea to geneon entertainment of japan.-blurey

blurey

Brad Bird's Scifi Fantasia That You'll Never See

ubik — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:00:52 PST

meh, and then they say this movie is probably not going to happen...

I thought it sounded like a great Idea .

ubik

Brad Bird's Scifi Fantasia That You'll Never See

Agro — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:27:13 PST

Brad Bird should get to do whatever the hell he wants, however the hell he wants to do it and whenever the hell he's ready.

Agro

Brad Bird's Scifi Fantasia That You'll Never See

t3knomanser — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:40:15 PST

It sounds like you'd have a common theme that ties all the films together. And maybe not even in the literary sense of "theme". Think about the MacGuffin driven Heavy Metal. While the genres of the vignettes were all similar, there was the same idea of very disparate stories tied together by a common piece.

You could do a great story like that- in the ancient world, we meet a young shaman who must go on a vision quest to save his people and interact with the common thread (fantasy); the same thread shows up during the Revolutionary War and takes control of a division of Hessians that are wreaking havoc on the countryside, etc.

The musical could be a self-aware story-in-a-story or something like "Once More, With Feeling". And so on.

I could see this working, and it'd be a great exercise in world-building storytelling.

t3knomanser