#screenplay ideas

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Terrible Screenplay Ideas: "Clean Getaway"

Shawn Spencer and Burton Guster need a vacation: so where better than New York?! For Shawn, it's a chance to re-enact Beastie Boys videos, and for Gus, more importantly, it's a chance to visit the esteemed Soap Museum in Brooklyn! Jules is on board, but insistent that she be Ad-Rock. Both Shawn and Gus are okay with this (even though Shawn wanted to be Ad-Rock)...

There, they meet fellow tourist Adrian Monk and his lovely assistant Natalie: here to help her daughter Julie on her thesis and extra credit at school, having twisted Mr Monk's arm in order to have him come along and help them here. He actually rather likes it: but has a few problems with the displays not being parallel.

Gus and Trudy trade knowledge of their soaps, and he gets on swimmingly with Monk (who despises the loud and slovenly Spencer), whilst Natalie and Jules also get along swimmingly, and Julie finds Jules cool.

Things take a turn South, however, when the curator turns up horribly murdered! He is another victim of the Brooklyn Butcher, sliced and torn to ribbons, a horrifying case! So, resigned to having to work on a murder investigation, Shawn and Gus and Jules get to work, but also have to work with Monk.

Only not so fast! On the scene are Detectives Jake Peralta and Charles Boyle, delighted to be working a serial killer case and surrounded by lavender respectively. Jake and Shawn bond over their love of all things weird, and he has to take them all to the station for questioning.

MEANWHILE

Amy Santiago is looking into getting a new place for her, Jake and the baby here in New York, but has not been having much luck. She meets a pair of absolute sweethearts at an organic sandwich shop by the names of Joel and Sheila Hammond: "real-tors" who are here to meet a client (Joel is carrying a peace lilly, at Sheila's behest. He is terribly allergic but must make a good impression) and they very quickly chat and get along, she's a sweetheart after all!

Amy comes to the station to do her job and tell Jake, on her day off, about the great times she had. But what is this?! A development in the case of the killer slashing apart innocent people and sometimes devouring the remains?!

Captain Holt has his hands tied: the latest victims were from Chicago, and thus this is a joint investigation. Randy Disher and Captain Leland Stottlemeyer are coming over to liase with their departments. Monk should just go home, but he needs to solve this. Shawn is here to have a good time and solve the case (and beat that smartass Jake Peralta, who's not even Ad-Rock, he's not even "Skee-Lo"! To which Gus responds only HE can be Skee-Lo, and Shawn tells him he's way too cool to be Skee-Lo, and Gus fist-bumps, he is correct there! Not that Skee-Lo isn't cool) and Gus just wants to get to the theatre on time, because he has tickets to "Hamilton" and he can't miss it even though the show is 3 days away. Natalie and Julie are interested if he has them going spare. Detective Carlton Lassiter, upon finding out that Spencer is going to bungle a serial killer investigation, takes his banked 400 days of leave to go to help. ESEPECIALLY when he discovers that the greatest cop he ever worked with (Captain Leland Stottlemeyer) is there on the job, and he gets furious when Shawn and Gus refer to him as a "weird looking House on the Prairie Bloodhound". Unfortunately for Lassie, he gets saddled with Lieutenant Disher, who is eager and keen, but oh so daft... Joel and Sheila, meanwhile, fall into a panic: they are trying to keep some human flesh for Sheila, but the cooler broke (fucking NEW YORK!) and they need some flesh fast. PLUS cops just turned up at the house of their client, who was slashed to pieces, and Sheila left their card there! ("Well excuse me for promoting our business!" "Nobody hates you for that honey, it's empowering and effective, I'm just a little stressed that the cops may figure it's a clue." "Do you think I murdered him, Joel?" "Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm... No?" "Good answer honey!") Plus Ms Santiago is very perky and eager, and a police officer, they'll have to keep their cool...

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I’m rereading Percy Jackson because we’re all quarantined and why in the name of Zeus hasn’t somebody pitched these books to Netflix as a series yet?! THEY ARE SO GOOD AND I FORGOT HOW GOOD THEY WERE!!!!! The movies sucked so hard but the books are literally amazing and therefore deserve a second chance to shine for a new generation! So all I have to say is someone please appease the Muses and write the damn screenplay!! ⚡️

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STORY BROADS: Want Story Ideas That Rock Your Socks Off? Use lists! - Script Magazine

Great scripts start with great ideas. Sabina Giado explains how lists can be the best way to snare that great concept.

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Terrible Screenplay Ideas: "Vexing: A Benoit Blanc Mystery" Debonair detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) finds himself in Salem on a "Witch Tour". He and his fellow tourists shall experience the dark, spooky corners of the most haunted city in America under their guide "Virginia" (Ayo Edibiri) - a college student just trying to make money during the dry months. But Benoit doesn't believe in all of that hokum mumbo jumbo: he's here to try and find a particular cafe where, many years ago, he enjoyed a rather delectible hoagie. One tourist (James Marsden) gets everybody's backs up: he's rude, arrogant, vulgar, interrupts a lot, and (to Blanc's horror) seems to know more about this place and the trivia than him at every turn. So when he turns up dead, seemingly of a heart attack, it is no great loss and Benoit can go and find his sandwich. But he cannot let this be, something nags at him, and he must solve the case. Not only is his suspect list the entirety of the tour, but many of them believe this murder to be that of a long deceased witch, not least of all the Detective on scene (Jeffrey Combs) And his suspects include: Horror maestro Simeon Kincaid (Brad Dourif), hoping that inspiration will strike him here after his last book received mixed reviews. He is accompanied by his daughter Kitty (Fiona Dourif), an academic and scholar on a leave of absence after an embarrassing meltdown went viral... Goth trio, occult fanatics and theatre kids Kyle (Skyler Gisondo) and Belladonna (Molly Gordon) and Belladonna's new girlfriend Mavis (Kathryn Newton), who relish the spooky and occult, have dressed up and everything. Kyle is horrified that it's the ghost of a witch whose grave he disturbed, whilst Belladonna is convinced the result of a curse they placed on the man in a moment of anger, and Mavis is thrilled to claim that the deceased is now talking to her... Widow, social butterfly, lady of town and definite woman of culture and the arts Charity Le Mort (Christine Baranski) - who has rather taken a liking to Mr Blanc and finds herself stricken not just with he, but the city too... Retired Salem Police Detective Wolfgang Pecker (John Goodman), who is also on this tour to enjoy the culinary delights and expand his palette - he and Blanc get along swimmingly, although this murder puts a damper on things but his brain is still razor sharp! Zeke Underwood (Sterling K Brown) - a scorned tour guide (infiltrating as a customer in a terrible disguise) whose route was usurped by Virginia after a few too many bad calls, and now a loud contrarian and thorn in her side. Killing a man to haunt her tour is EXACTLY the sort of thing he would do... Can Blanc solve the murder, or is his skepticism blinding him to powers beyond this mortal coil?

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Terrible Screenplay Ideas: "Hollingberry Farm"

Father Carpenter and Father Hooper are called out to a farm by their local bishop in order to perform an exorcism: local farmer and ne'r-do-well ruffian Mr Hollingberry and his clan have a problem daughter named Faith, who is seemingly possessed by a demon.

The two priests, one grizzled and veteran and the other young and of wavering faith, meet Mr Hollingberry, his tough as nails wife Marcie, his son Clyde and his other daughters Hope and Charity: they've all tied Faith into the room outback. A typical exorcism movie ensues, but as the two priests knuckle down to do it, the farm is attacked by local meth dealing bikers and shit bag acquaintances of Hollingberry, out for blood and carnage after a bad deal. Shit hits the fan quickly, with the bikers invading the place armed to the teeth and beyond all sense of reason, and all seems lost, until Faith rises up still possessed by "Karnaj" the demon. She/They tears through shit like literal hell on wheels, but is out of control.

Our heroes must team up with the demon possessing their daughter to save their lives and souls.

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Considering writing a screenplay about an OC that’s been manifesting in my brain the last few months. Something short, only a few pages, specifically about his origins.

He’s a priest who was forcefully turned into a vampire, constantly contemplating killing himself because he’s now so at odds with himself and his morality and religion and what he must now do to survive.

But of course, his religion teaches him that suicide is the worst sin, and over time he slowly loses his faith and feels God has turned His back on him, though he continues to preach and convinces his congregation the best time of worship is in the darkness because ✨they are the light✨.

He also has a whole moment where he finds joy in the kill and ridding the world of what he considers sinners, also discovering himself and fighting his repressed sexuality forming a relationship with a member of his congregation only to ultimately kill him for his sins.

He also feeds off the unfortunates unlucky enough to wander into the church in the later hours of the evening, those that no one would blink an eye at if they disappeared.

AND even though he loses his faith overtime, he chooses to stay in the church as they become a form of protection and take pity on him when finding out who he is, the cardinals moving him from church to church across the country over centuries in order to keep his secret hidden. He’s moved whenever people start digging too deeply into his past or someone discovers what he is.

I totally haven’t thought about this way too much lmao. His name is Father Elias btw.

But yeah idk I think that sounds fun to write and it’s been a minute since I made an attempt at a screenplay so why tf not.

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Terrible Screenplay Ideas: Knievel Dead

The "Jackass" Crew must band together to deal with an uprising of the undead.

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Terrible Screenplay Ideas: Thigh Noon Thicc cat boys and thicc Goth girls showdown in the Old West.