If you saw this trailer, would you watch the movie? (Code box to preserve formatting) Code: [/FONT] FADE IN EXT. ST PAUL, MINNESOTA - DAY Minnesota state Capitol. EXT. MARS - ASCRAEUS MONS - FLANK - DAY The Martian Capitol amidst city. EXT. DEEP SPACE - 'DAY' 20 large ships. NARRATOR (V.O.) 350 years from now, man began his conquest of the stars. EXT. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - UNIV. MINNESOTA - NIGHT A winter night. A bonfire. A book burning. Copies of '1984', 'Farenheit 451', 'Brave New World', the Bible, amongst others, thrown in blaze. NARRATOR (V.O.) (CON'T) Big Brother gave his blessing. EXT. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - LAKE HARRIET - NIGHT A winter night. Two GIRLS on lake. One underdressed for weather. On knees. GIRL They took him! They took him! INT. MINNESOTA CAPITOL - OFFICE - DAY A BRUNETTE WOMAN, mid-20's, in office wear. Livid anger. Gun aimed. WOMAN You're going to tell me how you could dare vote for that bill, Cameron, or so help me God, I will make sure you can't ever vote for such idiocy again! INT. SHIP - BRIDGE - 'DAY' Starship CAPTAIN, 40's, French, watches TERRAN ADMIRAL on viewscreen. ADMIRAL Your job, Captain, is to safely ferry the 10 million convicts in cryo aboard your ship to Vega so they can pursue their lives as they please. INT. SHIP - HALL - 'DAY' The captain walks corridor with his COMMANDER, 30's, CAPTAIN What was their crime? COMMANDER They were religious. INT. SHIP - BRIDGE - 'DAY' Epsilon Eridani on viewscreen. Radiation warnings flash on screen. CAPTAIN Mon dieu. INT. HOUSE - NIGHT A widescreen with censored internet and news. NEWS ANCHOR headlines. ANCHOR The Terran Senate has just unanimously condemned and outlawed religion today-- EXT. ST PAUL, MINNESOTA - CAPITOL - DAY A large CROWD demonstrates outside. RIOT POLICE responds with brutal force. INT. MINNESOTA CAPITOL - HALLWAY - DAY Terran PRESIDENT scolds brunette woman. PRESIDENT This is for the good of the Terran people, Sophie! Our job is to watch over them! INT. SHIP - BRIDGE - 'DAY' Captain furiously types commands at console. Epsilon Eridani grows larger. CAPTAIN I don't give two damns if it's a software issue! Fix it or we all die! INT. MINNESOTA CAPITOL - PRESS CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY President gives conference. PRESIDENT Mars either willingly joins the Terran Empire or they will be forced to do so. They're either with us or against us! EXT. MINNESOTA CAPITOL - NIGHT A molotov cocktail thrown through window. An explosion. EXT. MINNEAPOLIS - HOUSE - NIGHT POLICE kick in door. Storm house. EXT. EPSILON ERIDANI II - POLAR REGION - DAY Ship crashes onto tundra. EXT. ST PAUL - LANDMARK PLAZA - DAY A BUSINESS MAN on cell phone. BUSINESS MAN Get rid of her. EXT. EARTH - 'DAY' A barrage of missiles leave Earth, space stations. Streak toward Mars. INT. PENTHOUSE SUITE - NIGHT Sophie and business man in passionate embrace. INT. MARTIAN HOTEL - NIGHT A panicky MAN. MAN Terry, I'm so sorry! They arrested Sophie! She's been tried and executed for sedition! BLACK Superimpose: The Roots of Coincidence NARRATOR (V.O.) Big Brother is watching. EXT. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - UNIV. MINNESOTA - DAY The two girls walk through campus. GIRL Sophie, be careful! You're going to get us in trouble. They're gonna take you away like Mom and Dad. FADE OUT
Sophie better be dead by the end of Act 1 or the spoiler did it's job double plus good. The thinly veiled martyrdom of "the religious" kinda implies that this is as much agenda serving as it is entertainment. We might get the double allegory thing out of it, y'know, where the savages all have the idealized protestant values of leave it to beaver with a dose of "to serve man".
Sophie better be dead by the end of Act 1 or the spoiler did it's job double plus good. The thinly veiled martyrdom of "the religious" kinda implies that this is as much agenda serving as it is entertainment. We might get the double allegory thing out of it, y'know, where the savages all have the idealized protestant values of leave it to beaver with a dose of "to serve man".
6 and a half years! And those six years really gave me a 'fresh' look at what I wrote, and holy shit I think this has potential. @Spaceturkey I was actually considering reducing or eliminating the religious angle after rereading your comment, but the story as planned isn't going in a direction you were thinking when you first read this. With that said, I'm curious as to what @Diacanu or others think.
yeah, I kinda want to see where you were gonna take this. Especially after we've had stuff like Ascension and the 100 playing around with the lost tribe conceit (presuming that's what the colony ship is about?) I get a feeling "they were religious" doesn't necessarily mean what we think it means at this point? definitely intrigued to see what kind of world you're painting for these folks to inhabit. chop chop
