I am writing a new Highlander movie about Conner Mcleod's brother. His brother is not born, immortal, but becomes immortal, because some scottish clansmen forced him into killing an immortal. After out living his love and not growing any older he discovers what has become of himself. Her dieing wish is for him to find Connor and learn the ways of the immortals. Of course this is all shown in various flash backs of the 1500's. The story takes place in present day virginia. I just wrote in a fight scene where he takes the head of an old friend gone bad for japan, but now I am realizing that, though I am off to a good start, I am now heading no where with the story. I need a good idea to spark the events leading to the end of the story. I feel like anything I write now will be pointless to the story. Any Ideas?
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you shouldn't write the script before you already have an outline...
so have your outline look roughly like this.
INTRO ----- 1st Plot Point -------------MD-------------- 2nd Plot Point ------ Ending...
Ideally, you should have the story 'turn' 25 minutes in, and 80 minutes in... once you have those pp's figured out, the rest of your story will fall into place.
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Well that is how I usualy write but my idea's were coming so fast and so quick. I got excited and just started writing. The story is to good to scrap so I think I just might start ploting now from where I left off on the script. I think I have found the point of the story too now, after reading over my script several times.
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are you writing just as an exercise? because unless you own the rights to the highlander movies it's not like you could make the movie...
i'd just plug your ideas/images/plot-points/dialogue into outline now, and then write around it... after the script with the format built in is finished, that's when you can start getting fancy.
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I'm going to make it but I wont be selling it or anything. Its just for fun.
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I have a few ideas for you. What if, after all these years, your lead character finds a new love, but she's terminal (cancer or something)? In the greatest gesture of love, he sacrifices his immortality to give it to her? He knows he couldn?t suffer another 500 years without her.
You could make her accomplish this either directly (he has to find some way of convincing her to use a sword) or through a trick (she pulls a cord, a guillotine drops).
Another idea: since you?re setting it in Virginia, you could have some fun mixing genres. Isn?t Langley, VA the CIA headquarters? To cover his identity all these years, he has moved from spy org to spy org. That way he can fake his identity down through the ages and cover his tracks. You could go an infinite number of directions from there. He?s a Yoda-like teacher at the academy. He?s the ?retired spy? that needs to be called back. He uses the CIA resources to track all the other immortals until the next gathering. And on and on.
I realize that both of these ideas could become the ultimate cheese. However, I think if done right, they could be fairly interesting. Hope this helps.
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Danr7- Thanks for you help. I have however finished my script but after reading your reply I might just go back in and add a few of your ideas. I realy like the idea of giving his life for another woman and even the whole CIA thing was a pretty great thought, but if I don't use these ideas for this film I will write them down for a sequal. Thanks Again!
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