New Sci-Fi project

[napolyphonic]

"A young, professional time-traveler stuck in deep space hunts precious metals on past, present, and future alien worlds while attempting to uncover the memory he lost at the mission's outset."


Just started this project. Any comments appreciated.

-G

[speakingofsegues]

Hey phonic,

I must admit, this logline has me a bit confused. It almost sounds like two movies in one; the first being about a deep space miner, the second being about a professional time-traveler who has woken up 'stuck' in a time that perhaps he doesn't actually know he's stuck in since he's forgotten the mission.

Actually, that might be interesting. A guy in whatever time wakes up and goes about life, only to discover through the course of the movie that he's not actually from that time and that he shouldn't actually be there. In fact he's a professional time traveler from the future who was on a mission - a mission he has forgotten and now must try and remember so that he can finish it and get back to his current time.

... well now I really like that idea! lol

But if you could provide some more info on yours, it might help establish a logline that better explains the plot of the movie. Please and thank you!

Cheers,

-Another G.

[mscherer]

speakingofsegues,

I like your idea. How about something along the lines of:

A cop, who travels 300 years into the past to terminate a megalomaniac geneticist about to unleash evolutionary havoc on the human race, suffers amnesia and struggles to remember his mission while surviving in a world he no longer understands.

Just thinking out loud.

Keep Writing!

[napolyphonic]

@segue

Here's some more:

Obviously in the distant future. He works for a company that sends people throughout space and time to mine precious metals that have since disappeared on earth. Basically, they know these metals will have existed in the past or future, and sometimes the present of a certain celestial body and the miners have to find that period to mine the metals, using a time-travel device and futuristic tech that makes the mining pretty idiot-proof. It's a dull and lonely existence, except for the occasional life-threatening situation while on these planets.

As a result of all this time-traveling, he loses his early memory up until about the start of his mission, and a little before then. He sees a flash of a memory of his grandfather in a dream and is inspired to use company time and equipment to rediscover this past and what exactly it means to him and the company.

So it's a mix of time-travel/alien planet adventure/thriller with a little existentialism for good measure. It's got some nice twists with connections between his grandfather and the development of the time-travel device and the broken family he's from. If I can pull it off, I think it'll at least be interesting, and at best be readable enough for a contest.

mscherer

I think this would make for a good 1980s Schwarzenegger B-flick, if you wanna write it, but it's not exactly what I was going for. I've already written two detective scripts in a row. I think I need a break.

Thanks for the comments!

-G

[speakingofsegues]

mscherer

It's Terminator meets Memento/Bourne. I love it.

@phonic

A new attempt:

"In the year (3000?) when in-demand precious metals no longer exist, a private contractor must travel back through time to mine the ores necessary for business. But when extensive work renders him an amnesiac, a flash memory of his grandfather leads him on a journey that reveals to him a much deeper and unknown history of his employer..."

A bit long, though.