No its not the most original idea out there but I feel like running with it and seeing where it goes. This is part of my series of Movie/Series/VideoGame/Whatever Pitches that I started on Twitter and now I’m crossing it over to here with added value for the people. First I’ll show you the Twitter beats along with commentary and more ideas.
https://twitter.com/FireAwayMarmot/status/1572665550446149634
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I’m thinking the first death involves a bean or legume or seed in some way, somebody choking on a bean soup or something. “The germ of an idea”.
How the no man's zone develops is both challenging but potentially rewarding to the story… The emotional effect of such a thing would be excruciating; on relationships, the spatial logistics. There’s a lot of work available here.
https://twitter.com/FireAwayMarmot/status/1572666144225464321
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Another way the kill zone is determined is by suicidal people using the Sean Bean zone to trigger their own deaths. This becomes known as “Suicide by Sean Bean” and causes the actor to retreat into seclusion. This is also provided as a reason for the assassination attempt.
One of the things that the Final Destination movies lack is a strong central character through whom we can interpret the phenomena itself, that is, someone who’s position is so unique that it produces an emotional compulsion in the audience to see things beyond their normal frame of reference.
Scenes like the assassination attempt described above, seen from the perspective of the man around whom the actions are taking place, provide this opportunity. A dramatic reason that comes to mind is that he may have decided to allow an attempt on his life, thus enabling a visual gateway to the audience, as well as emotional heft to the scene.
https://twitter.com/FireAwayMarmot/status/1572666977935826944
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And that’s how far I took it on Twitter, now let’s pick it up here, to develop the project further and maybe acquire some funding along the way.
A daughter figure is introduced, along the lines of the religious controversy surrounding the Sean Bean phenomenom. She manages to physically breach the Sean Bean Zone.
A set piece follows, featuring the daughter figure engaged in acrobatic acts to dodge all of the uncanny death traps that increase in number and rate as she approaches Sean Bean’s home. She accomplishes this with the aid of her fellow cult members, who sacrifice themselves to the death traps in ridiculously gruesome ways. As for Sean Bean, he starts out by warning her off, but as she gets closer, he switches to encouraging her forward, even stepping outside to meet her. Eventually the daughter figure reaches Sean Bean and the two are engulfed in an explosion of light.
The daughter figure endures every Sean Bean death ever captured on film. We see the characters in each scene react to the fact that the person dying/dead before them has transformed from Sean Bean into the daughter figure.
Next we see the daughter figure standing on a street in central Europe. We see Robert Deniro, that guy from Leon the Professional, and Kevin Bacon standing before her. A POV shot shows the men shaking their heads in disgust and turning away.
The daughter figure pulls out her pistol and shoots all three men. She then rushes forward and takes out all the other antagonists from the movie Ronin, firing with two pistols and picking up guns and just keeping the mayhem going.
Next is a reverse montage of all the Sean Bean death scenes we just saw, with the daughter killing everyone involved even though she’s still dead on the floor. It gets pretty convoluted at this point but I think if we periodically include Kevin Bacon that should keep the audience engaged.
There are different options to go from here. One is to reproduce that Joker stage set scene only now Murray is Sean Bean and the daughter figure sneaks up behind the Joker and hits him over the head with the hammer from “You Were Never Really Here” while yelling “Hi Yo!” at the audience.
Another is that scene from 2001 where the astronaut sees himself as an old man dying in bed, only the astronaut is Buzz Aldrin and the daughter figure shows up and forces him at gunpoint to admit that the moon landing was faked and the earth is flat. The old man in the bed is Sean Bean, who dies peacefully content in the knowledge of the Second Coming.
Another is a final showdown with John Wick. Let’s see how metaphysical that franchise gets with their next instalment and whether there are sufficient crossover opportunities to exploit.
So what do you think, does it sell? Does it got legs and knows how to use em? And lastly:
HAVE YOU THE MONEY?
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Writing and images by Greg McCann, the author of this post and owner of this Hive Channel. To view more of my work, please visit www.fireawaymarmot.com as well as www.theartofgreg.ca.