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The Premise:

Believing that it would be awesome to have zombie dinosaurs ransacking contemporary cities, I had to develop some rational means for this scenario to happen. M. Night Shyamalan came over, and he suggested some magical bullshit with fairies and a boy named Stuart Little who could see dead people, and was Unbreakable, living in a secret Village where there were no Signs. I didn’t like it – so I did two things: 1) develop a complicated, religious/spiritual and historical way to bring forward a virus to activate zombie as well as return dinosaurs to the modern day; 2) I also conceived of this story starring George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, George Romero and a dinosaur puppet named Mugabe.

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Tomb of the Undead | Mugabe

I've managed to wrap of the first act, and I'm at the "First Pinch" in the script for the second act in the Tomb of the Undead series - which is good. I haven't mathematically written a new page for the script each day, but I have been making additions on a regular basis (especially this week).

I've also made some quality progress on side-project to this side-project that is operating in the same vein, I may have the first page of it prepared for posting by the beginning of next week. It's only nine pages long, but it's fun.

Just an FYI on how things are coming along.

Peace

Tuff stough

So I have every intention of writing a new page of the script every day - but I'm finding that the hardest part is when you set your screenplay/story in a foreign place that you don't know anything about. 

Case in point, I've got to figure out where in Turkey I'm going to place some of these scenes and events BUT I literally know nothing about Turkey (though I've learned a bit in the last little while, at least a bit about its geography). In these instances, it becomes a significant barrier - and that gives you enough reason to take a break (and that's the worst thing you can do when you're having trouble getting going!)

Anyhow - through yesterday's research with google maps, I've found  a strong candidate for the location and setting of the opening scenes, which is great. I've even read through a few old scripts so I can get the feel and taste for writing in that format, too. All I can recommend is, use Google Maps to check out the Eiffel Tower - it's to the southwest of Paris in a park - use the "satellite" view to get the details. 

Go ahead - check it out. 

It's HUGE, right? I was astonished to see how massive that thing is!

Also astonished that the Turkish geography is absolutely alien to me - plus, I realized that for the last few months, I've had Pakistan and the Sudan mixed up in my brain. Jeez. 

Act three's a wrap

Which is great. The story is technically finito, which is cool by me. This has all been developed to be the first in a trilogy, not because I'm pretentious enough to think that it needs to be three stories long - but rather I just like the story, and felt that it should have three distinctly awesome parts (parts that were far too long to tell all smashed together in one story).

That being said, the third story was my original spark - the idea that started it all, but that doesn't mean that this won't have lots of good stuff to lead up to the third part. Like a mystery novel, you have to start with the end first, and then build up to it. Or so I've heard.

Anyhow - I'm real excited that the first three acts are shaped together, they introduce characters I like, plot points that I like, and they tease the overall story I want to tell. I hope to eventually get to telling it in a form you can enjoy easily.

Right now I'm going over the cue cards I wrote all the scenes down on and am drafting all the details for the settings in each scene. I've got my character biographies, traits and ideas, my plot points and an overarching narrative - I just have to see if I can't craft more details into the settings so that everything is one big cohesive unit. And of course, once it is, then I can smash through the writing and then get down to the presentation of the story - which I'm really looking forward to.

I would really like to make this into a comic script and do all the artwork. I really would.

Broke Act III

I managed to break act three a little while ago - and I'm just getting it scrawled down on flash cards. I think after this I'll go through the whole thing and start making notes on the settings and stuff like that - maybe go over the tone and feel for each scene. Should be very cool.

I've got the brass tacks all figured out, but artfully linking all the scenes together and writing the story and dialogue for the thing will surely take a lot of time. I'm excited, though - this story is pretty cool, if you ask me.