Monday, March 21, 2011

Script notes

You're sitting around thinking to yourself  "Boy I'd love to see the raw, unedited, script notes you get from David Frey about the robot war screenplay which, apparently, you have to finish before you start shooting the movie in 10 days."

The ISS. Note the complete lack of visible stars in the BG. It's like a bad composite.
So I'll help you. We'll start with a question I asked to the guys:

Why isn't Doc Ponce with the rest of the guys when they save Prince Beckett? Is it because we don't like the actor playing Doc Ponce and want to have fewer days with him on set? Is it for some other reason? Is that just a legacy issue in the script? 
That's a good question. One would assume that the team have a medical person with them, although Predator didn't have any medical people around. Doc Ponce not showing up until later didn't bother me, although you may be right, you might have to explain why.
Ending version 1:
Foxy is running back to save Yurra. Foxy begins rescuing yurra, but it's too easy, the trap snaps. Foxy learns the A.I.'s evil plan.
Foxy says "you'll stick that thing in me over my dead body". Foxy and Big Bad start battling it out. Foxy is kicking the bad bots ass, until, bad bot rallies and gets the upper hand. About to have the chip inserted,
A.) Yurra sliders her laser sword to Foxy and foxy strikes the final blow
B.) Yurra comes flying through the air striking the final blow
C.) Yurra says "No Momma bad bot, she's mine" and in Temple of Doom Fashion winks at Foxy and jams her laser sword into the big bad.
Yurra and Foxy make their Hollywood run, jump explosion escape by the bionic skin on their behinds. 

Ending version 2:

1.)Foxy grabs BFG from bellware and says she's gonna go balls to the wall and save Yurra
2.)Foxy stalks her way down to AI mainframe to find Yurra
3.)Foxy get's to main frame and falls into the A.I.'s trap. A.I. explains the thing about inserting the chip to kill all humans
4.) Foxy want's Yurra to insert the chip or Yurra offers to insert chip
5.) Foxy grabs laser sword and kills big bad, or Yurra does "Hollywood Explosion Jump"

18 comments:

joe said...

most military combat personnel have very advanced first aid training thereby alleviating the constant need for a team medic. i can perform a tracheotomy or set a compound fracture and suture the wound with the best of them. don't piss me off and force me to prove it to you the hard way.

Andrew Bellware said...

You need to add "again" to that! ;-)

daddy d said...

For the record: The Predator cats sooo did have a Med dude with 'em. Remember, the dude checks out the Minnesota Gov. after he gets shot, and even bandages him up? Of course, that character is prompty knocked unconscious post-raid on the cartel people, but.

Andrew Bellware said...

Oh. Uh. Well. Then. OK. I don't know what this means for the screenplay.
Right now I'm thinking that Foxy has to sacrifice herself.
Maybe the robot deactivator is still with Rathbone, and his body is in the robot room. So Foxwell finds it and uses it and... deactivates all three of them?
I don't know.

joe said...

what about Hammermill?

joe said...

and why can't the "laser sword" be a "proton scimitar"?

joe said...

makes the whole friggin' picture a little more exotic

Andrew Bellware said...

I like "proton scimitar".

What about what about Hammermill?

joe said...

my love scene with Yurra won't seem redundant because of my love scene with Foxwell will it?

joe said...

and can my name be Peppermill or maybe Hammertime?

Andrew Bellware said...

No, it won't. Especially after your love scene with the director. Have a seat on my couch...

joe said...

damn it! another bogus offer. i'll bet Daddy D didn't have to take the back door into Pandora's productions. damn these good looks - i knew no good would come of them!

Andrew Bellware said...

He totally thinks he did, I mean from what I did to his script.

joe said...

he knew whose couch he was climbing onto

DAVID FREY said...

Holy crap, are those really all my notes? I said all that?

I haven't had the chance to read the new script yet, but why are people getting sacrificed or dying?

If Yurra and Foxy are alive at the end of this, you leave yourself the awesome possibility of making an Alien-ish sequel.

Think about it... if they all die, that's pretty much it, but if those two make it out you could end with: tight shot of chip, tight shot of Foxy and Yurra's eyes and then Foxy saying something action packed like "we've won the battle... Let's go win the war"

The ending will stand alone, or give you the option of pairing Yurra and Foxy with an even more bad ass team of mercs to take down the super A.I.

DAVID FREY said...

Oh, and Daddy D used the back door last night

Andrew Bellware said...

See? "We won the battle, let's go win the war" is perfect! That's just what we needed!

DAVID FREY said...

Arnold was my favorite action hero growing up, so I'm full of silly one liners that you just love to hear.