JOHN STAMOS IS MAKING MY MOVIE!
Rebecca Romijn's ex-husband is doing my movie! That's right, Uncle Jesse is doing my film.
BUT IT'S NOT MY SCRIPT!!
I am thisclose to vomiting all over my house right now. After spending four hours tonight working on a rewrite of "Mouth of the South," I see that John Stamos is currently shooting a movie in Canada right now called, "The Wedding March." It is EXACTLY the exact same story.
There really are NO original ideas in Hollywood.
I'm so numb right now I don't know whether to puke or throw my laptop over the balcony.
No! That's not right! I'm sorry.
But hey... his film might end up sucking enormously. You ARE right, there are no original ideas in Hollywood. But YOUR script (and consequently future film) will be more clever, more entertaining, and have waaaay more interesting actors attached than John Stamos (who is not a bad guy per se, he just has nothing on the guy who'll star in YOUR movie).
And that's that. Now go back to writing!
Posted by: the swede | Thursday, July 06, 2006 at 12:50 AM
Chad... how about a movie where a guy's heart and soul is stolen and he dedicates the rest of his life to exacting revenge on John Stamos (who probably had no idea it was stolen anyway)?
Pitch it like Natural Born Killers meets The Count of Monte Cristo.
Posted by: David | Thursday, July 06, 2006 at 02:25 AM
No original plots, but new and neat ways to tell a story, with some new twists are still out there.
What's your opinion on a bit of mainstream, a tad of sci-fi, and a good dose of fantasy? I've got an idea you can use. Tried as I have I just can't seem to get it into novel format. I suppose I could if I tried harder, but I just always saw it 'on tv' never 'on paper'. Alas my script writing skills are mediocre at best.
Don't worry Chad. There are plenty of other stories lurking in your head.
Just think of it as a creative challenge :D
Posted by: Jennifer | Thursday, July 06, 2006 at 04:32 AM
I guess that is something writers run into alot. Don't get discouraged and keep working on your script. If John Stamos is in it, it will not be a big success. So you still have a chance at getting your script on film. Hang in there.
Posted by: sharon | Thursday, July 06, 2006 at 07:26 AM
Go puke. Don't throw the laptop off the balcony. They're expensive to replace.
Then go back to writing. No one has had an orginal idea for hundreds of years. Even Shakespeare borrowed plots for his plays. He just served them up with a twist.
Go thou and do likewise -- to borrow from scripture.
Posted by: Sherri "Doc" Fields | Thursday, July 06, 2006 at 09:15 AM
I think you should write about how you wrote a great script and then you heard that it was being made into a movie, and you had to find the theif and kill him in a totally cool gory way. and how you actually got away with it. it would have cameos of all kinds of famous people. kind of the player meets alfred hicthcock. if you use this, you'll have to give me creative credit!!
Posted by: R-Lee | Thursday, July 06, 2006 at 02:42 PM
Maybe this will insprie a Crossing Jordon episode.
Posted by: sharon | Thursday, July 06, 2006 at 06:31 PM
I once wrote a fantastic short story in grad school. Others in my writing group adored it. It focused on a man--gruff, OCDish, older--who daily frequented a cafe and ordered the exact same breakfast from the exact same table from the exact same waitress, on whom he had the strongest crush of his life. He'd spent months pontificating on how to ask her out, and was just about to do so, when she asked him out...
Six months after my story, "Pancakes for Breakfast", made its final round through my writer's group, I saw "As Good as it Gets". Granted, it wasn't exactly the same, but so close that anyone who read my story would find it a diluted version of the film.
I was so proud of that story...ugh.
Posted by: courtney | Thursday, July 06, 2006 at 06:52 PM
No one will ever steal my idea. Mine is for a movie of the week. There is a big Tsumani approaching Southern California and all the people with the money and cooler weather in Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and Malibu are trying to get into the Valley. The Valley folks will have no part of it because of the years of disrespect they've been shown. Of course, all the Valley people are now proudly sporting their "I'm an 818" shirts.
Luckily for everyone, I don't work in the film business. HA HA
Sorry to hear your idea was swiped, Chad. Keep in mind we are all just channeling from the same cosmic force. :)
Posted by: Sally | Thursday, July 06, 2006 at 09:57 PM