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Holy shit write John Carpenters next movie?

post #1 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:16pm
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Goddamn that's too cool for words and now I must dust off my Movie Magic Sreenwriter 2000 and get to work.

I thought the average Option these days was $60,000 not $500. Ah well, It'll be a cool several hundred thousand when I win.

When's the due date? At least 2 months I hope.
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post #2 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:31pm
What a coincidence.

Mine is also called Arbor Day.

What's yours about?
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post #3 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:33pm

Write his next film!?

What the hell is this all about!
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post #4 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:33pm
where do we send the script, where was this posted? i have one...
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post #5 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:36pm
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Don't you guys read the main site?
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post #6 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:39pm
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Originally posted by cobane
What a coincidence.

Mine is also called Arbor Day.

What's yours about?

President's Day would be better don't you think?
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post #7 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:40pm
Am I blind? I'm not seeing this anywhere.
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post #8 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:41pm
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Write JC's next movie
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post #9 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:42pm
so you have to be a member...i haven't found any official page for this, help me
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post #10 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:45pm
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CS Daily

Do you want me to write it for you too?
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post #11 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:47pm
Oh for fuck's sake! I forgot Creature Corner was even a site!
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post #12 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:50pm
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Figures, you CHUD freaks!
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post #13 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:51pm
Carpenter loves Westerns, I think I'll attempt to scribble out a Lovecraftian Spaghetti Western.
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post #14 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:55pm
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Originally posted by Floydian Trip
CS Daily

Do you want me to write it for you too?
Don't be like that, I found this site, but where is an official contest information page,t hat's what i'm looking for and can't find.
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post #15 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:56pm
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Originally posted by ChrisKismet
Don't be like that, I found this site, but where is an official contest information page,t hat's what i'm looking for and can't find.
Hey man, only joking. Don't worry about it.
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post #16 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:56pm
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Originally posted by Bunny Dracula
The real-life actor Woody Harrelson goes crazy from smoking paraquat laced mary jane and goes on a rampage of murder and carnage trying to kill "all of those mothefuckers who screwed me over when I was on Cheers". I will be re-uniting the cast of Cheers just to bump them all off in the most horrid ways imaginable. The coup de grace is in the final scene where Woody chases Shelly Long through Boston Common with a battery-powered mix-master while yelling Henry David Thoreau quotations at her back. The look of terror on her face when he finally frappes her to death will be priceless.
That's great.

/scribbles down furious notes.
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post #17 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:57pm
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Originally posted by JacknifeJohnny
Carpenter loves Westerns, I think I'll attempt to scribble out a Lovecraftian Spaghetti Western.

He loves something else even more.
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post #18 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:58pm
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Originally posted by Floydian Trip
He loves something else even more.
Money?
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post #19 of 56
4/8/04 at 10:58pm
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Heh, no. In his movies.
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post #20 of 56
4/8/04 at 11:00pm
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Heh, all you gotta do is pump.

Not those either. Haha, I will win this competition!
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post #21 of 56
4/8/04 at 11:00pm
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Originally posted by Bunny Dracula
Are Adrienne Barbeau's breasts still working?
They've retired to my desktop! *splooge*
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post #22 of 56
4/8/04 at 11:02pm
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Originally posted by Floydian Trip
Heh, all you gotta do is pump.

Not those either. Haha, I will win this competition!
Of course I've been into him since I was three, and I can write, so I'll see you at Precinct 13 B*TCH!!!

I believe it's time to take in a few Howard Hawks' movies, develop a kick ass female lead, and a hero NO ONE wants to f*ck with!
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post #23 of 56
4/8/04 at 11:07pm
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Fuck that you'd rather be absorbed by the Thing then to go through the ruin and disappointment that you're sure to face. I've got it in the bag baby.
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post #24 of 56
4/8/04 at 11:10pm
I'm already typing away friend, see you on Sunset Blvd...giving me head!
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post #25 of 56
4/8/04 at 11:12pm
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These posts aren't interesting enough for a movie loser.
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post #26 of 56
4/8/04 at 11:21pm
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Originally posted by Floydian Trip
President's Day would be better don't you think?
President's Day would make Arbor Day look like Friendship Day.
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post #27 of 56
4/8/04 at 11:29pm
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Originally posted by ChrisKismet
Don't be like that, I found this site, but where is an official contest information page,t hat's what i'm looking for and can't find.
Okay, go back, read the story. In it you will see that in order to be eligible for the contest, you have to be a member of CS Daily, which you can do through CS's site. Once you do that, that official rules become available. If they were available freely to non-members, they would be flooded with scripts from people that were...well, non-members.

Seriously, it's all there on the site.
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post #28 of 56
4/9/04 at 12:12am
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Originally posted by Bunny Dracula
Nick will love reading that.
Yeah, it's not gonna kill the guys who write for the Corner any...
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post #29 of 56
4/9/04 at 12:54am
Hmmm, $29 monthly... for a chance to see John Carpenter reject a good script.

Will he be able to judge something good? He really hasn't been flexing his excellent judgement skills lately, churning out some sad scripts.

Nevertheless, I've got something I'd LOVE for him to direct... THE FOG meets THE BEYOND, with a little THEY LIVE... (hoping he's reading this).
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post #30 of 56
4/9/04 at 3:31am
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Originally posted by Johnny Butane
Okay, go back, read the story. In it you will see that in order to be eligible for the contest, you have to be a member of CS Daily, which you can do through CS's site. Once you do that, that official rules become available. If they were available freely to non-members, they would be flooded with scripts from people that were...well, non-members.

Seriously, it's all there on the site.
ok thank you....it wasn't obvious. SERIOUSLY
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post #31 of 56
4/9/04 at 4:26am
It's $29 yearly.
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post #32 of 56
4/9/04 at 6:13am
Bizarrely, I'm about 80% done on a script that would make a perfect John Carpenter movie - though it's not strictly "horror". I may check this out.
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post #33 of 56
4/9/04 at 10:17am
Am I the only one that see nothing about Carpenter or this contest on the Creative Screenwriter website?
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post #34 of 56
4/9/04 at 12:53pm
How I understand it, as was said earlier, is that you get the details upon subscribing.
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post #35 of 56
4/9/04 at 1:35pm
which very well could be some evil ploy to get millions of people to register, they should have some official statement. that's would be professional...especially if they wanted good scripts by people who don't waste 30 bucks to subscribe to their magazine, because they're trying to be a writer and would actually like to eat once in awhile
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post #36 of 56
4/9/04 at 3:02pm
If it is a scam then John Carpenter will never get to see the script for my horror comedy BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD in which a sassy black woman from the hood moves into a house of lily white zombies and improves their afterlives through the use of ebonics and hip hop fashions.
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post #37 of 56
4/9/04 at 3:30pm
You don't have to subscribe to CS, you have to subscribe to CS Daily, which is "A free magazine on screenwriting delivered to you daily via e-mail. Each issue of CS Daily features screenwriting news of the day, an original feature article (topics rotate on a daily basis, see below), and the DVD of the Day review. At the end of every week, CS Daily content will be posted here."

Here is the direct link to sign up for it. Just fill in the box on the right.
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post #38 of 56
4/9/04 at 4:04pm
I have a great rough draft for a Carpenter movie, tenatively called "Escape from Des Moines".
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post #39 of 56
4/9/04 at 4:35pm
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Originally posted by Johnny Butane
You don't have to subscribe to CS, you have to subscribe to CS Daily, which is "A free magazine on screenwriting delivered to you daily via e-mail. Each issue of CS Daily features screenwriting news of the day, an original feature article (topics rotate on a daily basis, see below), and the DVD of the Day review. At the end of every week, CS Daily content will be posted here."

Here is the direct link to sign up for it. Just fill in the box on the right.
Why could I not figure this out? Thanks!
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post #40 of 56
4/9/04 at 5:09pm
Yeah, it's free you all! Already signed up and started digging thru the old idea folders.....but for some reason I can't get past this idea of a movie called Arbor Day...
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post #41 of 56
4/9/04 at 5:31pm
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Originally posted by Dr. Vitus Werdegast
Yeah, it's free you all! Already signed up and started digging thru the old idea folders.....but for some reason I can't get past this idea of a movie called Arbor Day...
Bad news, Doc.
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post #42 of 56
4/9/04 at 6:32pm
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Originally posted by soultaker
Bad news, Doc.

Hah Oh well, guess I'll just have to steal someone else's idea....
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post #43 of 56
4/9/04 at 6:39pm
I'm currently working on Pancake Day if you're interested.
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post #44 of 56
4/9/04 at 6:43pm
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Originally posted by soultaker
I'm currently working on Pancake Day if you're interested.
Actually if you wanna save me some work, just send it to me when you're done with it. Or even better, just submit it with my name. Thanks.
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post #45 of 56
4/9/04 at 7:24pm
I admire you guys who can get a script in time for a comp deadline. My screenplay is aiming to be like 80 pages long and im only on page 25 after about two or three months.

I am new to this screenwriting thing, I dont know any screenwriters here......would one of you guys who write scripts for fun PM me? I would like to ask some advice if any of you would be so kind. I would appriciate it guys if you could just pm me or something.
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post #46 of 56
4/9/04 at 10:45pm
Important Contest Tip: Make sure whatever your script is the title starts off with "JOHN CARPENTER'S". That always gets his attention.
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post #47 of 56
4/9/04 at 11:07pm
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Quote:
Originally posted by foywonder
Important Contest Tip: Make sure whatever your script is the title starts off with "JOHN CARPENTER'S". That always gets his attention.
Heh.

So I'm serious. President's Day. All the dead presidents rise from their graves. I can see it now an Abe Lincoln zombie. Just think of the marketing possibilities once it hits the big time. Zombie presidents action figures by Todd McFarlane.
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post #48 of 56
4/10/04 at 3:52am
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So I'm serious. President's Day. All the dead presidents rise from their graves. I can see it now an Abe Lincoln zombie. Just think of the marketing possibilities once it hits the big time. Zombie presidents action figures by Todd McFarlane.
And then you could follow it up with a remake of MARS NEEDS WOMEN called VALENTINE'S DAY or VD14 for short.
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post #49 of 56
4/12/04 at 10:52am
As far as I can tell, Carpenter is only going to read the WINNER of this contest... which means the winner is actually determined by the Creative Screenwriting staff.

Also, they went out of their way to point out they're only interested in SUSPENSE stories. Meaning, I assume, something that could be done low-budget.
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post #50 of 56
4/12/04 at 1:41pm
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Also, they went out of their way to point out they're only interested in SUSPENSE stories.
I'd think that would go without saying. You never hear the name John Carpenter attached to romantic comedies or courtroom dramas.
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