BBC Focus Magazine

[worldmaker]

It's been a while since I've posted a few words (been busy trying to raise money for the starship thingy), but I've been so inspired by that exceptional movie "Skyline" I thought I'd share them with you, by way of a WARNING!

On Independence Day, a War Of The Worlds erupts in the little Californian suburb near Cloverfield, where an Invasion Of The Body Snatchers sends everyone into a Matrix of frenzied hysteria at this unexpected Event.
Or to put it another way, if you're stuck for a good idea, and you have enough reputation to trick Hollywood into putting money behind anything, then just watch a load of old movies, take all their plotlines, stir in a liquidiser and pour this stinking goop down on paper.
With unsympathetic characters running around like headless chickens, before they all (except the pregnant girl) get their heads snapped off by the aliens, leading to the exciting ending (the excitement is that you did survive to the end without running screaming from the cinema), with the clear suggestion they hope to write a whole series of this nonsense, you'll find plenty to laugh at, if you can be bothered wasting your life on this.
Avoid like the plague and hope no one makes the sequel that's hinted at the end ("hero" gets turned into alien monster to protect his girlie).
Verdict: Idiot turkeys eaten by aliens at Christmas.

There, vented.

[Jamie]

Are there explosions though ? You haven't mentioned. A good explosion goes a long way to helping!

[Healerman]

Yeah And what about lumpy bits on their faces. Any of them?

"Growl for me, Mr Woof".

[Shadowwolf]

Eat any good books lately?

[Dark One]

Hollywood are just lazy...there are so many sci fi books begging to be made into films. I want to see the Culture on the big screen before I die

[Shadowwolf]

Pfffft, Culture

Warhammer and W40K that's what I want to see.

Happily there is an animated work coming but a full blown big budget epic in the dystopian grim future of humanity where there is only war, I can see it now..., of course there is the risk that they might ruin it but Lord 'o' the Rings worked out..., mostly.

[Healerman]

I'd like to see them make "Footfall". There's a story that has just about everything you need in half a dozen disaster movies, plus aliens and a space battle and lots of believable, fallible characters.

So that's Holywood out of the loop then.

[Dark One]

Eisenhorn, Shadowolf. Eisenhorn. I'm thinking javier bardem in the title role. And john hurt as Aemos. Now we just need some investors...

[Shadowwolf]

Good idea Mr Dark One, soooo, any takers

[Dark One]

Haha the apprentice has just finished...anyone got Lord Sugar's number?

Im sure he'd be up for a film about big men handing out grim death and murder with big sharp things...he's from Hackney after all