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Thursday
Jun 28, 2007

Re[6]: Shockah's Time to Die Pitch: 1.0 posted by kza

Just a few quick responses while the baby’s waking up — more later.

If we define back as “back to life” you did. If we define back as “back to Earth”, which is what I was getting at, then I don’t think it’s there. But then, I don’t think Earth figured at all into your concept, so that’s splitting hairs.

Right right right. Gotcha. This is indeed the crux of the whole issue. If you need to go back to Earth for the revivication to work, then it ends on Earth. If you don’t, then it ends on the prison planet. We just need to decide which.

Silkwood

I’ve never seen Silkwood, so the allusion was completely lost on me. I mean, I know what it’s about, but not having an experience of it, it didn’t mean anything to me.

I’m still not sure what my two movie references are, but I’m leaning toward The Fugitive for one of them — that kind of energy and excitement and tension, but with that kind of cool smarts about the whole thing. Also, Speed didn’t make me think of “road trip” at all, and I think it’s kin to The Fugitive — keep it on the table. Also also, completely new pitch coming up. And finally, a critique of yours!

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Spitball! is two guys collaborating to write about writing and collaboration. We're writing partners who have worked together since 2000, and placed in the top 100 in the last Project Greenlight for our script YELLOW.

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Kent M. Beeson (aka Urban Shockah) is a stay-at-home dad and stay-at-home writer, living in Seattle, WA with his wife, 2 year old daughter and an insane cat. In 2007, he was a contributor to the film blog ScreenGrab, where he presciently suggested Jackie Earle Haley to play Rorschach in the Watchmen movie, and in 2008, he wrote a film column for the comic-book site ComiXology called The Watchman. (He's a big fan of the book, if you couldn't tell.) In 2009, he gave up the thrill of freelance writing to focus on screenplays and novels, although he sometimes posts to his blog This Can't End Well, which a continuation of his first blog, he loved him some movies. He's a Pisces, and his favorite movie of all time is Jaws. Coincidence? I think not.

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Martin (aka Burley Grymz) is a designer and writer. He occasionally blogs at his beloved Hellbox, and keeps a longer ostensibly more interesting bio over here at his eponymous website. You can also find him on Twitter.