Four Little Movie Prompts #2

Step 1: Take 4 movies you've seen and list them (no matter how bad). What's important is that you remember them.

For example:

1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2. La Femme Nikita

3. Brotherhood of the Wolf

4. New Jack City

Step 2: String together a crude plot by connecting one facet from each movie. Adapt to your needs as necessary.

For example:

1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon—A stolen heirloom

2. La Femme Nikita—A runaway junkie

3. Brotherhood of the Wolf—A mist-filled, distant forest

4. New Jack City—Addicts

Step 3: Clean it up. Then wonder if this puppy's different/interesting enough to write out as a short story, comic, RPG, etc.

For example:

An ancient heirloom is stolen and broken open. Inside is a lost recipe for a combat drug. Whoever takes it becomes physically and mentally superior . . . but with a murderous intent. Side effects . . . who knows. In a remote lab, the ingredients are put together and the drug's synthesized. Animal testing yields promising results so human testing is authorized.

A runaway junkie is the first human trial. Within hours of being dosed, the frail young man breaks out of the lab, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. Worse, two of the surviving researchers began to display symptoms of enhanced aggression and strength. Apparently, the drug's effects can be passed on by close exposure . . .

Security teams put the survivors down and race off into the woods. Their aim is to terminate the test subject and anyone he's infected before he reaches the nearest town and spreads the infection any further.

There. Done. Whaddya think?

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