Vote on your favorite script ideas now! If you want to jump straight to the loglines in contention, you can scroll down to the marker!
Today we’re going to vote on a dozen loglines to see which ones get into the HIGH CONCEPT CLUB CONTEST.
But, before we do that, I want to talk about the frustration behind the pitching this past weekend. Believe it or not, I hate giving “no’s.” I’m constantly hoping that every idea is that awesome idea I’m looking for. So, it was discouraging that the quality of the ideas wasn’t as good as the first weekend.
But let me say this….
Coming up with a good movie idea is hard.
And I think, for some reason, a lot of you think it shouldn’t be.
But the fact that it is is good. Cause if everyone in the world could keep coming up with great movie ideas, then nobody here would be needed. It’s the very reason that good ideas are hard to come by that we need you. Because you are the people who are willing to keep coming up with ideas, to keep trying, until you find one that stands out from the pack.
Everyone else out there has quit. They had their two “big” ideas. Both of which were lame. When nobody responded, they gave up. You guys are different. You are artists. You are the ones who keep pushing through the mud to get to enemy lines. The very act of continuing is what’s going to make you succeed.
However, I’m not here to reward effort. I still need a good idea. Trust me when I say, you don’t want me to let in an idea that I don’t believe in. People in this industry can tell when you don’t believe in something. So, if I’m pitching some idea of yours that I never believed in six months from now, you better believe that people will not hear the passion in my voice. And they will pass for that reason.
You want me to be excited about your idea because that excitement will translate when I’m pitching it.
If you have an idea that didn’t get into the contest but you still love it, WRITE IT. I’m not the only way to get your script noticed. But if you’re trying to convince me to like something that, deep in my gut, I’m not into, that’s probably not going to work out. You still have TEN pitches over the next two weekends. Buckle down and keep generating ideas. There’s a great one in you. You just have to dig deeper than you’ve ever dug before!
Okay, let’s announce the big winners of the weekend.
It starts with our golden ticket winner, Scott, with his overwhelmingly popular pitch, Seizure!
Title: SEIZURE
Genre: Action
Logline To stop terrorists who have seized a maximum security mental hospital, a visiting FBI agent running low on ammo teams up with an escaped prisoner running low on meds and whose violent blackouts make him a perfect killing machine.
Writer: Scott
We also have two yes’s. These ideas are automatically in the competition. They are…
Title: How To Lose a Job in 10 Days
Genre: Comedy
Logline: A desperate employee has ten days to get herself fired and collect the severance that will save her family’s home, but every sabotage only makes her more indispensable and fast-tracks her toward CEO.
Writer: Moscow Mule
Title: Peacekeeper
Genre: Action/Comedy
Logline: When 2 bickering married CIA agents threaten to divorce right before completing a major covert operation, the agency dispatches its most versatile “peacekeeper” operative to save the marriage – and the mission.
Writer: AlexE
And we have SIX projects voted in by you guys. These loglines received the requisite 15 votes to get in, and also did not get vetoed by moi.
Title: Dungeon Brawler
Genre: Fantasy Action Comedy
Logline: When his impoverished village can’t afford the king’s crushing tax, a scrappy peasant enters an illegal bare-knuckle fight circuit against trolls, orcs, and other mythical creatures to win enough gold before the crown comes to collect.
Writer: Joseph Jay Carroll Jr.
Title: Fireballer$
Genre: Action Comedy
Logline: Four Philadelphia construction workers must climb to the roof of a towering inferno to retrieve a lunch box containing a life-changing lottery ticket.
Writer: CJob
(Carson Note: I originally vetoed this. But the fact that it got 42 votes and that I think it has more potential than Cjob’s other entry, Mrs, means I’m reversing my veto and will place that veto on “Mrs.” instead)
Title: Escape from Avalon
Genre: Sci Fi/Adventure
Logline: After an American tech executive crashes his yacht on an uncharted Pacific island, he must coordinate his escape with the island’s only other occupant – a 17th Century Spanish explorer who claims to have crashed only two weeks earlier.
Writer: wlubake
Title: Star Fall
Genre: Sci Fi
Logline: As a massive prison ship spirals toward a nearby star, its crew must fight their way through hundreds of the galaxy’s most dangerous criminals, now released from containment, to restore the ship’s power and prevent total annihilation.
Writer: Romer6
Title: The Family Jewels
Genre: Comedy
Logline: When a clueless American influencer pulls Excalibur from the stone during a viral publicity stunt, an ancient law makes him the rightful King of England, forcing the greedy royal family to scheme, sabotage, and manipulate their way into stopping a well-meaning idiot from inheriting the crown.
Writer: Josh Bullock
Title: TBC
Genre: Horror thriller
Logline: When the first English ship arrives in the New World, a Powhatan warrior discovers the settlers are savage vampires who have crossed the ocean not for land but for fresh blood.
Writer: Gavin John
Okay, now it’s time for the scripts that will be voted on today. I’ve got some strong maybes for you, as well as some maybes that I’ve upgraded. Here are today’s 12 contenders. The TOP 7 will get through.
Each entry will have its own individual comment in the comments section. To vote for them, simply upvote that comment. You can vote for as many entries as you want. Just please don’t vote for stuff you don’t like.
TODAY’S ENTRIES START HERE
Title: INFERNO LINE
Genre: Action/Thriller
Logline: A jobless smokejumper teams up with a veteran thief to rob $3.4 million from a postal train. But the plan derails when the arson he started becomes a massive wildfire, cutting every way out.
Writer: Florent Hendrickx
Title: THE PAIRING
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Logline: A disgraced golf icon and the newly crowned queen of the LPGA—who can’t stand each other—are forced to team up in the sport’s only mixed-team tournament, the Grant Thornton Invitational.
Writer: Chrishillwrites
Title: RAMREE
Genre: Thriller
Logline: (based on a true story) A World War II assassination mission on Ramree Island becomes a nightmare when 5 British soldiers are trapped in crocodile-infested mangroves with hundred of crocodiles to face to reach freedom.
Writer: nicohajj
Title: THE JUMP
Genre: Action/Sci-fi
Logline: When terrorists seize a commercial airliner and threaten to crash it, a SWAT team must use experimental teleportation to board the plane. But they only have four jumps, each lasting ten minutes, to retake the aircraft before time runs out.
Writer: mahyar
Title: ACTION REPLAY
Genre: Action/Hesit
Logline: After years in prison two legendary old tough guys get hired as consultants on a movie about their famous last (failed) heist and decide to use the filming as cover to try the heist again…
Writer: Mike Hurst
Title: FOOL’S GOLD
Genre: Comedy/ Western
Logline: During the California Gold Rush, a struggling backwater town fakes a gold strike to lure fortune‑hunters and boost its own fortunes. But when real gold is found, the townsfolk try to drive away the prospectors and keep all the gold for themselves.
Writer: Formation Wave
Title: The UnSub
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Logline: A formidable and domineering District Attorney must find a way to try and convict a sadistic crime boss, without revealing her secret past as his BDSM submissive.
Writer: Sthside
Title: CELLAR DOOR
Genre: Thriller
Logline: After breaking into her neighbor’s basement for shelter during a tornado, a disgraced detective unearths an intricate tunnel system that secretly connects to numerous houses including her own—and to the homes of multiple missing teens she failed to find.
Writer: Redd
Title: WAR GODS
Genre: Action
Logline: An elite Delta Force team is shot down during a hostage rescue mission in Greece, forcing them to pursue terrorists and their hostages into the original Labyrinth, where humanity’s oldest monsters never died.
Writer: David Cahill
(Carson Note: This got 15 votes but I’m still on the fence about it).
Title: It Lurks Beneath
Genre: Creature Feature/Survival Horror
Logline: A family fishing trip turns into a desperate fight for survival when an ancient sea creature relentlessly hunts them after they unknowingly kill its offspring.
Writer: D. Lawrence
Title: THE KILLING WATERS
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Logline: During the American Civil War, Confederate and Union soldiers clash in the Second Battle of Sabine Pass in Texas. In the aftermath they find themselves hunted by a huge shark from the Gulf of Mexico
Writer: Mr Macca49 Fizzerton
Title: I Think I Hate You
Genre: RomCom
Logline: After professing his love to his best friend and subsequently being ghosted by her even though they work together every day, a crushed young man hires a tech startup to edit his brain chemistry so he can finally move on. But now that he finds her repulsive, she finds him irresistible.
Writer: FloydC
Voting ends at 11:59pm Pacific Time Tuesday July 21st!
Good luck everyone!
