Four Little Movie Prompts #3
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. Machete
2. Terminator: Salvation
3. Looper
4. Coming To America
Step 2: String together a crude plot by connecting one facet from each movie. Adapt to your needs as necessary.
For example:
1. Machete—Ambitious fed trying to get a big collar
2. Terminator: Salvation—A death row inmate donates his body to science
3. Looper—A temporal mob sends people into the past to set up shop
4. Coming To America—Mismatched love occurs
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:
In 2019, the first female head of the FBI's Temporal Anti-Crimes Unit (TAU) targets an up-and-coming mob from 2060. The two main limitations of time travel are that you can only go into the past and that the process kills living matter. Since this mob can't safely send anyone through, they have to recruit crooks in the past through indirect means.
The FBI's been lucky enough to avert some tricky schemes thus far. But then someone figures a possible breakthrough, via an innocent (framed) death row inmate, who donated his body to science in the future. Freshly-executed, he's a disposable subject with no allegiance to the mob. The bad guys genetically modify his corpse and then send it back through time.
The temporal radiation jump-starts the subject, bringing him back to life. He wakes up in the past, surrounded by black market geneticists who want to run tests to see if the process is stable. The prisoner somehow busts out. Worse, TAU gets wind of this and goes after him with a kill order.
After all, this guy might be the key to safe time travel. If the process is confirmed, swarms of time crooks could descend upon the present with all kinds of future tech. They are to end him, destroy his body, and shred any research.
Hunted by both sides, the time traveler just wants to live. Along the way, both he and the ambitious federal agent bump into each other enough times for a romantic spark to occur . . .
There. Done. Whaddya think?
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For example:
1. Machete
2. Terminator: Salvation
3. Looper
4. Coming To America
Step 2: String together a crude plot by connecting one facet from each movie. Adapt to your needs as necessary.
For example:
1. Machete—Ambitious fed trying to get a big collar
2. Terminator: Salvation—A death row inmate donates his body to science
3. Looper—A temporal mob sends people into the past to set up shop
4. Coming To America—Mismatched love occurs
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:
In 2019, the first female head of the FBI's Temporal Anti-Crimes Unit (TAU) targets an up-and-coming mob from 2060. The two main limitations of time travel are that you can only go into the past and that the process kills living matter. Since this mob can't safely send anyone through, they have to recruit crooks in the past through indirect means.
The FBI's been lucky enough to avert some tricky schemes thus far. But then someone figures a possible breakthrough, via an innocent (framed) death row inmate, who donated his body to science in the future. Freshly-executed, he's a disposable subject with no allegiance to the mob. The bad guys genetically modify his corpse and then send it back through time.
The temporal radiation jump-starts the subject, bringing him back to life. He wakes up in the past, surrounded by black market geneticists who want to run tests to see if the process is stable. The prisoner somehow busts out. Worse, TAU gets wind of this and goes after him with a kill order.
After all, this guy might be the key to safe time travel. If the process is confirmed, swarms of time crooks could descend upon the present with all kinds of future tech. They are to end him, destroy his body, and shred any research.
Hunted by both sides, the time traveler just wants to live. Along the way, both he and the ambitious federal agent bump into each other enough times for a romantic spark to occur . . .
There. Done. Whaddya think?
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