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SyFy Wants You To Contribute To An Upcoming TV Movie!!
Merrick here...
SyFy (aka The Sci Fi Channel) is giving viewers the chance to help shape a TV movie that'll be heavily influenced by contributions from folks like you.
The network is launching a production site, B Movie Mogul, where fans can vote and pitch ideas for the film, from title, creatures, wardrobe, dialogue and character deaths to promotional taglines.
The resulting "script" will be shot as a two-hour Syfy original movie to be released next year.
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Syfy is teaming with entertainment site IGN on the site; the partnership will last 15 months and launch Friday.
...says THR HERE .
The last I heard, the network was being inundated by killer Koala pitches (Koalas on a rampage, mutant Koalas, etc) so that may be one conceit to steer clear of in this instance. As you see above, the article says the new site (B Movie Mogul) will open up on Friday - so put your thinking caps on, conjure-up Squidephant (or something like it), and get to work.
The Hollywood Reporter posits the question: "What if fans create a lousy movie?" That's a pretty funny question, all things considered...
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Alas, no ta-ta's would be on display since it'll be on syfy.<p>Someone make this happen!
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ATTACK OF THE GIANT SNAKE! MINOTAUR! and WWF Wrestling! We've RUN OUT OF IDEAS! <p> SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE US A SHITTY IDEA FOR FREE!! PLEASE!
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I've got one all ready. Just hire me to write and direct it sheesh.
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Don't give away our most precious idea!!!
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"They Saved Billy Idol's Brain", "Dr. ACULA!"
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Shape shifting reptiles from the 4th dimension, who drink blood and pretend to be Jewish industrial bankers, are secretly ruling the world for nothing more than shits and giggles. (Games in the 4th dimension can take 1000's of years) <p> It'll be the Battlefield Earth of TV movies.
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... the movie that gets produced from the ones SyFy puts on anyway? Or half the series they do? The Phantom?? Really??
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Muslims are really aliens, and they've invaded the White House! At least it will play in the redneck states, to the same people who watch wrestling and were impressed with the brand change to Polish Syphilis...
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Nah, they are too stupid to ever pounce on such a sweet idea.<p>Fucking syfy...make another Yeti or something.
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"It'll be the Battlefield Earth of TV movies." If by that you mean it'll be a mammoth steaming pile of iguana shit, well, Siffy is already that.
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but I think they could outdo themselves with that plot line. <p> I mean, cast a has-been wrestler as the hero, and it's GOLD Jerry! GOLD!
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But fuck off, SyFy, unless you want me to helm it myself!
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Death never smelled so good...
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Little Cyborg...BIG problems!
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And continues to put out the usual shit.
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*pillow crosses fingers*
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You can't lose with a title like that!
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I never thought I'd see the day.
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...But He's Pissed, Black, And Has Converted To Islam" It'll fit right in with Siffy's demographic, except they'll all think it's a particularly nightmarish documentary.
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A group of vacationing students get trapped in their hotel as (GASP!) a torrential downpour ruins their day out!
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Needs to be cast in the lead! lol
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Aliens arrive and begin killing humans. At first we're all terrified and fight back, but then it turns out they were only killing executives from the syfy channel and they were here on a mercy mission to help humanity, but we didn't appreciate them until it was too late.
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June 22, 2010, 12:32 p.m. CST
Gee, it's not like they couldn't go looking for a decent idea or
by impossibledreamers
Hell, I've got a pile I could see them. The last schmuck from one of their production outfits I talked to said they only use inhouse writers... um... was he lying?!?
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And sponsored by 4chan!
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the better question is 'how would we tell the difference?'
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http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/8/2010/06/0d3891ae9f86a4205308a266ed916dc2/original.jpg
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for this one, so they take less heat for the crap they put out as "original".<p>Gotta believe MediaMessiah will be all over this 24/7..........
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and be really annoyed when his "great" idea wasn't selected. <p> Either that, or he'd insist he couldn't sully his awesome ideas with such an open competition, where it could be stolen by evil execs.
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...thinking they are, at long last, going to the Emmys for the awards they are sure they deserve.<p>But the limo takes them to the wrestling arena, and one by one they are taken into the ring and beaten to a pulp by a WWE Wannabe. The Wannabe with the pulpiest exec wins the "reality show" and then we cut to Plumbers trying to commune with the pulped exec's ghost.
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I guess SyFy realizes that they can get shitty scripts for free rather than shell out actual cash money for them. This way they can take the insult out of the injury.
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theres no better feeling then seeing your words or ideas transferred to the screen
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They get LOTS of them. Hell, there is nothing better to watch on a saturday or sunday hangover than a crappy SyFy Channel movie. Watching Flu Bird Horror or Grizzly Rage or Grizzly Park while hungover works WONDERS.
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...the "History" Channel (Note: Read the quotation marks I've added as sarcastic air-quotes) and they all guest on that show where some guy saws shit in half in the roles of saw-ees! Then the "History" Channel execs are bused over to the (Bullshit) Discovery Channel where they're all blown up by Kari Byron (and of course, she's wearing a bikini!). Then the (Bullshit) Discovery execs are sent to E! where they're all sat on and crushed by those fatass Armenian b*tches. Then the process continues ad infinitum until there's no basic cable channels left and everyone has to actually... I dunno, go read a book or do something constructive for once.
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http://www.myphotos.yahoo.com/s/20w9iu333sjusjdbf6ab
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Blades will be ran!
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was it any good?
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Starring Dave Coulier and Melissa Joan Hart!
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The above posters are right. INstead of cranking out really crappy B-Movies seemingly once a week, they should invest in better miniseries and better movies. Think what would happen if they dedicated the budget of 5 or 6 of those film to green lighting the next Stargate film, whether it be SG-1 or Atlantis. MGM needs the money so they pay MGM to make it in return for broadcast rights and a profit share. Hell, they really should make a miniseries or perhaps even a weekly series about Captain Riker of the Titan. People have been curious about how that would look for almost ten years. There are existing properties, and better people they could work with. So maybe the blow their budget on one or two major projects a year and they show reruns on Saturday nights. But they'll draw for more publicity, money, and viewers with TRULY original ideas, or helping out the above franchises.
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Starring David Hasselhoff and Sandahl Bergman!
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...reading blogs on the air, asking people to email in questions for guests ("cuz it's like hard 'n' stuff to think up questions ourselves") and using viewer photos and crappy videos to show the weather, etc. They'll call it "engaging" the audience, "interacting" with viewers, but it is really just a cheap-ass way to fill 24 hours a day with something, anything, for free.<p>And they wonder why no one respects them anymore....<p>Syphy already knows we don't respect them, so this is just throwing in the towel. "We could do better work, or we could just let viewers do the work, then blame them. No brainer since we don't give a shit."
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90% of the "We are not even gonna try" shit syfy scripts.
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June 22, 2010, 1:14 p.m. CST
so then does that mean samurai monkey will be made?
by just pillow talk
Played by midgets dressed up as monkeys? <p>Are you listening syfy? You could fuck this up so badly, I have the upmost confidence in you.
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Get it?<p>Asi knows what I'm talking about.
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... and kill all the emo/goth chicks that think they're so cute and cuddly, so they can get their street cred back. Starring Bruce Campbell and Norm McDonald
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Hire a couple of guys to read through every nebula winning, Saturn winning, Hugo winning, short story in the last 30 years. And the ones which were nominated but didn't win. Select the ones which haven't been optioned, and option them. Give them to some TV writers and find a way to alter them JUST ENOUGH that they can be made for a reasonable budget. Not to alter the Sci Fi content in any way. <p> Then make an anthology series. Things like Outer Limits and Twilight Zone, while having good audiences and critical approval, got over reliant on having a TWIST ending. <p> Forget the twist ending. Just have a good sci fi tale.
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June 22, 2010, 1:24 p.m. CST
Ahem: "THREAD MELTDOWN!" Thank you, send my royalty check.
by JasonPratt
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this one.
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....and dont let it be all cheap like JMS's Babylon 5 direct to video films.
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...but I can see it ruined by people sending in a bunch of jokey suggestions. If they could somehow get a bunch of serous suggestions from fans who are sincere and creative about it, it could be amazing.
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Night of The Sloths.
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Don't call us slow! Don't call us sloooooooooooooooow!!!
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It writes itself.
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Fishing will never be the same again!
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Veggies the world over, have sudden unstoppable cravings for meat, but still don't want to injure any animals. So they turn on HUMAN FLESH! But here's the twist, it's got to be KOSHER flesh! They're JEWISH!! (That's how we can use the word Holocaust.)
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I'm sure they would come across really cool on film...wha? It's been done already...in a Hulk film? Really?
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I assumed their Saturday Night Shitfests were the results of them being forced to produce films based on a lawsuit brought by a litany of contest winners who supplied them with an unlimited amount of bad ideas that the courts have deemed them responsible to turn into TV movies, and that luckily for Syfy the courts didn't include any statement of the quality of said films. No?
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Clearly you haven't seen there masterpieces, otherwise you would not have typed such an outlandish comment....<p>How about instead of Handy Manny, Handy Mauler...where the tools are possessed and go on killing rampages. Or Little FrighteningSteins...about four kids who have a rocket ship that does their evil bidding.<p>Er, I have kids..really.
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I'd love to drop in some ideas, but I don't know if the contest is open to WGA members
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June 22, 2010, 2:05 p.m. CST
well, if they shout "Can I enter" aloud, then maybe
by just pillow talk
Why not tweet in your ideas JettL?
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If it gets enough votes, then maybe there could be a string of Gerbilsaurus movies - Gerbilsaurus vs. Vampire Congress, Gerbilsaurus vs. Robot Aztec Mummy, Gerbilsaurus vs. Nazi Neanderthals, and so on.
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June 22, 2010, 2:14 p.m. CST
Hey sci-fi, I'm not taking blame for your shitty movies.
by The_Maltese_Vulcan
Just own up and give the money to someone who knows how to do them.
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just stop making them. They can use the money to finance some better shows and increase the budget of the ones they already have.
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I don't think membership is going to be an impediment.
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Going through film school, everyone was always super excited about 48 hour film festivals and movies by committee, where the whole group votes on what to do next. <p> Fuck that. That's not a film, that's an experiment. An exercise. It might be fun, but it's not a fucking movie. I have a better idea for Sci-Fi: Don't hamstring your writers. Let them be creative. By now they should have a pool of talented young people, and considering they shoot everything outside of America, the combination of young talent and foreign production equals cheap as shit. So maybe if they just took a chance on a good movie, things would turn out better, without too much risk, and they wouldn't have to waste their time with this high school film club shit. <p> I know I seem bitter. I'm just really bummed that there's an entire channel for science fiction, but it wastes its time on this drivel.
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provide my own TV content as well.
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A chronic mastrabating nerd flushes massive amounts of his seed daily down the toilet. <P> Hi spunk mutates with the duke in the sewers and creates an army of shit monsters that want revenge. <P> I envision a Nuernberg style ralley with the lead turd firering up the troops before they storm the city looking to find their maker....and KILL HIM!!!!! <P> That one is free.
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I'd literally watch all those movies and laugh my ass off. You know this idea won't work so I hope they do make a just way over the top stupid one. The problem the Syfy B-movies have is that they try and be movies. Just go over the top a crazy body count stop trying to actually make movies unless you're going to actually try, since they don't why not just make really silly movies... Vampire Congress that shit made me laugh.
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Than the usual SyFy garbage. Their self produced stuff is barely better than an infomercial.<BR><BR> Except for Mansquito. That title was so amazing, I didn't even have to watch it to love it.
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or They Doublestuffed Secretariat. I don't really care which.
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With my girlfriend Desdemona.
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Are they trying to make a movie that's so bad it's good or do they literally just go with the cheapest production team/script and figure if they slap a funny title on it people will watch? Like you figure there would be a gem eventually just by blind chance.
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I mean, that might break their neverending series of crap and SyFy execs could end up jumping out of windows. And then think of the poor people they might hit when they land...
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played by your great grandpa
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June 22, 2010, 3:54 p.m. CST
Here's an idea: Strive for some quality
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
And take a little fucking pride in your work, instead of just slapping together some bullshit and hope it catches on "ironically" among the young persons etc.
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I guarantee whatever the come up with will be worse.
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http://atopiary.com/<p> Hard to believe there is nothing on the front page about this. Considering it is the Coolest News this year.<p> http://atopiary.com/<p> But shit, we'd better have a Dinoshark talkback!<p> http://atopiary.com/
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The saga of a love lorn Superhero (superheros are hot) Vampire (vampires are hot) that transforms (transformers are hot) into a some sort of Lord of the Rings / Harry Potter wizard ('cause those are hot). 3D is hot, continues in 3D!
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And the title is in quotation marks as its a line of dialogue. There. Done. Won't be as bad as Miami Shark Attack or whatever the fuck else passes for entertainment on that pulsating orifice of a channel
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So I'm just gonna keep CAESAR FROM SPACE to myself.
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Sounds all right.
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tagline "i just sharted... in 3D!"
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...only on SyFy!
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make sure to cast Russell Brand as Reagan!
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dude stuck on a spaceship a billion lightyears away, no toiletpaper and a bad case of swass like a muthafucka. it writes itself...
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Perfectly normal people appear to be fucking.
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about movie geeks who get some upset that their beloved childhood toy has aflames on it... then said geek is raped by said childhood flamin toy
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hell, I'd watch the shit out of that....
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I loved Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, and I'm enjoying Stargate Universe...but it just seems that they CAN'T find their feet with good shows for the most part. when they have a GREAT show, they seem to drag out getting to the next season, or they cancel the show! WTF? When I was younger, and heard Sci Fi was coming, I was excited. I thought, "Man, these guys could give us a channel of some older stuff you haven't seen in awhile, and slowly give us original programming. They really could give us some memorable shows." Man, who whats to see Shark Vs. Octopus? The majority of their programming is embarrassing! Get with it Sci Fi, quit being pussies and give us some kick ass shows!
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Ah, shit, they did that already.
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That is the theme!
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an uplifting and inspirational story
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BWAH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
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...a bunch of losers, geeks, freaks tryin to find love... at a comic convention... just get Kevin Smith to host it
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That would be... painful.
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Or maybe the manatees went on strike?
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Frankly, the last thing I want to be associated with as a filmmaker is a SyFy Channel Original Movie.
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whatever like im gonna watch syfy regardless.<p>bring back BRIMESTONE yo.
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Theres this great scyfi show everyone loves. Then some douche network execs cancel the show! Well, a meteor rock hits the studio at night, where all the films are kept. The alien radiation makes the characters from the tv reels come to life. And they want revenge for ending the show. And the characters are angry at the execs and a few of the actors who portrayed them, so you have the same actors fighting against themselves in a character vs actor fights where the actors are all wtf, and so are the execs. In the end, the characters go off somewhere hidden and magically continue to broadcast new episodes to the same network, and no one knows how its happening. Its the scifi show that runs itself!
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This is how it works: You pitch ideas to them, and they steal pitches, like a Venus Flytrap capturing flies. I see no mention of profit sharing here, ala royalties, no mention of prize money either, or payment for writers' ideas? The scam is just designed to have everyone pitch their ideas, they...Syfy, then sorts through them, they take what they want, and then make a script from those selected ideas, and that's it? But what about screen credits for those whose ideas are selected, and again, the issue of royalties, prize money, and or, pay? <BR><BR>Clearly they aren't serious here, and if you do submit ideas, that they truly like or love, they will probably be pilfered, and of course, there will be the standard protective "clause" that claims that SyFy has the right to any ideas that are being pitched (the submissions) by the invited posters, as "accidental" similarities to, and between, other Syfy projects now in development, or in the future, may occur. Posters surrender all rights to their submissions to Syfy. Yes, that will be the disclaimer, or something similar, you can bet your collective lives on it!!! <BR><BR>Look, if they are serious, they will ask people to submit original screenplays (spec scripts), and if said scripts are selected for production, writing winners will receive standard writers' screen credits, pay, and or, a royalty...and any writers protections under standing WGA union roles. That should be the deal, and if they where serious, beyond a mere bogus promotion, or for purposes of simply cyphering others' ideas, it would be just that!!! This is a promotional gimmick and a writers' trap, thus I am not submitting anything so much as spit...here.
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is the latter of your observation. Hee hee hee.
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If I'm going to give people my ideas, the very least I want is to make money. Then I can be like Bob Orci & talk down to people on TBs about myself.
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so I'm not going near it
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I just looked over at the siffy site for more info on this b movie bollocks & stumbled across it. I din't know they were making one, but fuck me, it looks good! <p> I'm not a fan of multi-player online stuff, (too time-consuming if you actually have a job & a life but also want to do well in the game), but I might make an exception for that!
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and pick out a science fiction novel at random and it would make for better Tv than anything syfy comes up with.
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Jesus comes back... WITH A VENGEANCE! (jews scatter in fear) :)
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Cuz really....
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...but I'm blanking. There's a million funny jokes to be made here and I got nothing.
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Part man, part lamprey, all toothy-anus-snake nightmare. The lamprey is like a fleshlight with teeth.
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ALL KILLER!
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So You Want to Be a Superhero: Origins:Fat Mama
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Sounds like a movie about rape victims
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The toilet paper allows you to teleport.
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Would be an edgy version of fraggles
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I don't believe any of it. The script is already written. Heck, the movie is probably already filmed. They'll pretend to take suggestions though they never have any intention of actually listening to any of them, like a suggestion box with no bottom. It's a publicity stunt.
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People come in but they don't come out.
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Great book, would be brilliant to see on screem, love a bit of alternate history, but who am I kidding its Sci Fi behind this not AMC. <p> But anyway there is plenty of amazing sci-fi novels out there a lot of them very interesting, don't have to be big budget. But have a feeling that Sci Fi are looking for "cool" (well at least if you are 12-14) rather than great sci fi, story etc. So in that case how about Ninjas v Vampires (set in feudal Japan) or how about Cowboys v Vampires (set in the 1800's US of course). In both cases the twist is that the Vampires are the good guys, and they sparkle in the sun (kidding).
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a bunch of old child actors who are being hunted and killed by aliens who are disappointed that the actors are not the icons that they portrayed on the TV shows they have been intercepting. The main alien can be played by Gary Coleman's ex as she seems to do anything for a little cash these days.
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to see on screem...sorry I couldn't resist
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I think Howard Stern already did that.
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"You're a part of its well balanced breakfast!" that one won me a copy of Cabin Fever years ago
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Sorry, from one writer to another.
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would be a documentary inside the SF network's offices where pitches for their productions are given and then approved.
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Even Lord Valtrex is powerless as her herpies attack
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oh the horror! the horror!!
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I thought they already made "The Black Hole"
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but find a way to feature Clint Howard.
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Because you are the skiffy network after all. Which is supposed to sort of mean science fiction, which should lead logically to you making bad horror. Right?
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But it's no big deal cause you can't see him.
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would be to go off the air. They suck.<p> Now if they want to go back to being the Sci-Fi channel and maybe share some of the air time with some quality, classic Sci-Fi... maybe things would change.
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Seriously, who watches that show?
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VS the Komodo Dugonotaur.
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"Hey! Here's a contest to contribute to a script we won't have to pay $40,000 plus for as we'll be able to completely skirt WGA guidelines! Your prize? Nothing! Not so much as a legible credit as you'll be making this with 5,000 other SyFy nerds who can't see the forest for the trees! Meanwhile, make sure you tune in this weekend for Giant Salamander versus Ancient Pharaoh Ninja Warrior...ONLY ON SYFY!"
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It sounds fun. I always wished AICN would do something like this actually, to generate a script -- though I have no idea how they could organize it; it would probably be a bloodbath. But why not give this a shot? Who cares if you don't get paid? Ideas are fun to come up with; it's not like they're asking you to dig ditches. And wouldn't it be cool to get something onscreen?
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He's a man, he's a meal, and now he's BACK FOR REVENGE!
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Hah!
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He keeps whining and whining. His friends try to murder him, but he just won't die. Poor sap.
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..., but a Manwich is DESTRUCTION!" (could pay for some of the budget with a Hunt's/Con-Agra Foods product placement deal) A "genetic scientist" (or maybe just generic) accidentally takes his lunch with him into a "matter transference" chamber. Horror and hilarity ensues.
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http://tinyurl.com/2umd2fw
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To LOSE your LUNCH!
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Indestructible man whose only power is to take a beating gets his real name and address posted to a forum by his arch-nemesis "The AdministraTOR" and one by one, all the users he acted like an Internet Tough Guy(TM) toward over the years show up to give him a beating. Finds redemption by ridding the world of evil bad guy "Nigerian Prince" in the end.<br><br>.. or is it?
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two bi-polar midget twins named "Fail" and "Win".
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Along the lines of the other comment about a suggestion box with no button, we could all be getting took right now! They planned to release this idea, then plan not to actually take suggestions, but glean ideas from posts like those above from sites like this. All part of their evil plan. Im kicking myself for offering such a Golden Globe winning idea now....
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I'm not going anywhere near something called "SyPhy"
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a rubber, at least.
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are as stupid or fucked up as the Tiffany/Debbie Gibson MEGA PYTHON Versus GATEROID.<br /><br />We might mock their stupidity, but these people are Professionals. Compared to them, our mere internet idiocy is amateurish at best.
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It's pure genius on their part. <p>The amount of alchohol that must be consumed in their "meetings" must be astonishing.
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True that. They have the power of 10 testosterone rage powered retards.
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Hey, the title has "mega" and "oid" in it - that's the basic requirement for a SyFy crapfest, right? All they need is Bruce Campbell, a couple reality tv show bimbos and $75 worth of CGI work and it's straight to dvd gold!
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Hire the animators from Robot Chicken for a weekend to do the special effects, pay Lindsey Lohan in coke to appear for a few minutes as a victim, cast Vern Troyer as the lead and bingo! TV ratings gold!
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IMAGINE GREATER!
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Never hire anyone named Antonio. Again.
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Sorry, I'm all out of MegaGeckos & DinoSkinks.
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Two hours of exploring her frightening nether regions. might win an Emmy!
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A herd of hungry Raptors is set loose during an American Idol shoot. Everyone is torn apart and devoured. Randy jackson tries to save the day but winds as Raptor turd. Fantastic!
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fucking depressing it gets. Here we have a channel that's supposed to be devoted to science fiction. And they keep spending middling budgets on these horrible, insulting concepts when there's literally hundreds of thousands of great stories, worlds, universes of material floating out there. Material that could be adapted at reasonable budgets. Some would need very little in the way of budgets. There's tons of actual GOOD young and old acting talent out there that could be had cheaply. And what about all the young, up and coming directing and writing talent displayed in the independent film world. Talent that would love to have a tiny budget and some creative freedom.<br><br>So how do they react to widespread fan criticism? Essentially by saying.. "okay, you guys think you're so great and could do better, give us your ideas and let's see where that leads us". How about instead of embodying what is essentially a snark, you man up a bit and just put together something that doesn't scream "this is a GOOF" right out of the gate for once?? Are the people in charge THAT disconnected? Do they view sci-fi as all "goof" and no substance? Are they simply not AWARE of how much great science fiction there is out there?? Are sci fi writers getting greedy and expecting too much money for adaptations of their work? Do they refuse to write for hire to create new stories and characters, new original ideas? I find that hard to believe. Do you remember the enthusiasm people felt when the channel was first announced many years ago? It's been downhill ever since, hasn't it? Sure there are bright spots, like BSG and the amusing but formulaic Eureka and Warehouse 13. The barely tolerable first Stargate series'. (the new one, to me, is superior to any and all Stargate that comes before it, even with its hiccups and occasional mis-firings) The still open wound of Farscape. But the direction the channel is going in now reminds me less of a channel dedicated to science fiction and more of the slow, painful demise of Tech TV and transition to SPIK... uh.. I mean G4. Reality shows, shows aimed at the MAXIM magazine crowd with their quietly and impotently fading culture and tastes (nu-metal, fake tits, cars, wrestling)remind us constantly that SKIFFY has little to no respect for its audience. Even the name change speaks to a sort of shame in itself. It's as if every niche cable network is ashamed of its niche. The long view that I don't think these networks can see is the fact that if they continue to resemble each other, they will compete and destroy each other. Because guess what!? SPIKE, G4 and now maybe even SKIFFY if they keep going as they are, are already a single niche. There's no room for 3 or 4 SPIKEs. And when the time comes to realize this, will they point to their mistakes? Nope. They'll say that SCIENCE FICTION on TV as a network was the failure. Pessimistic, I know. But it's so obvious where this is all going, unless the audience speaks up and lets them know how shitty they think things are.
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By giving them 10 Bucks. lol
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In the sequel, a man's penis is transformed into a Lamprey. But it's hazing night at Yale! The assblood will flow!!
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...Stop calling it "SyFy" - that is fucking retarded.
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It's going to suck. All they're doing is holding polls to vote on shitty ideas they already have. It's like a "Choose Your Own Adventure" thing with polls to determine this or that. And OF COURSE the movie will be terrible! Even the 3 pitches were lame shit. <p> Now if they'd let us "write it" by pitching gags, characters, lines, plot developments, etc. this thing might actually be fun. Like set up a forum and then let people nominate proposals, then vote on those.
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June 27, 2010, 3:52 a.m. CST
jsarnold513 beat me to it -- it IS "choose your adventure"
by Big Dumb Ape
This is totally LAME. When I first heard about this from a friend, I thought fans would have a chance to pitch their actual ideas -- at which point ALL fans voted and it sort of became a SyFy version of "Project Greenlight" where a fan-created film got made.<p>But if you go to the website which is now up and running, jsarnold513 is right -- it's nothing more than the equivalent of "choose your own adventure" where they're simply putting up choices that they've obviously ALREADY made behind the scenes.<p>Just when I thought SyFy couldn't get lamer, it does!
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and I have to tell you that in Romania, everyone LOVES and takes very seriously the SyFy and Hallmark Channel original movies. Interesting, no?
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