two screenplay ideas...

[sammylou]

Hi everyone. I love to write screenplays, especially living dead themed ones, and I had a couple ideas. I'm not sure how good they are, so I figured I'd weigh them with my friends/fellow dead fans here at HPOTD. The first idea I had was making a living dead film shot from the perspective of a zombie. Maybe a soldier, in the middle of trying to fight the plague, had a helmet cam and was infected with it turned on. The story is just a zombie's tale, wandering through the carnage for a day. Like a day in the life of a zombie kind of thing. Any thoughts? It may be a dumb idea, I don't know. That's why I'm asking. Thanks for the help,

[dracenstein]

Actually, it sounds pretty boring. Just a roaming picture of a landscape (urban or country), then maybe taking part in a siege. Any action will be confused or out of shot. Sorry, just doesn't do it for me. What's idea number two? My idea for a script would be a group of actors in a cavalry western film ride out with a re-enacting troop armed with authentic era cap-and-ball pistols and Springfield carbines to 'get in the part', going out on a week (or three day) patrol ride to get to know the part, dressed in US cavalry blues, leaving their mobiles and radios behind, unaware that the dead are re-animating. As the 'troopers' are learning to be troopers, the families and friends left behind at production centre have to fortify up (maybe some evacuate) with local townspeople. Imagine the trailer; a hastily fortified school or town hall surrounded by the walking dead, a bugle call and a troop of US Cavalry charging to the rescue! What do you think of that?

[SRP76]

My idea for a script would be a group of actors in a cavalry western film ride out with a re-enacting troop armed with authentic era cap-and-ball pistols and Springfield carbines to 'get in the part', going out on a week (or three day) patrol ride to get to know the part, dressed in US cavalry blues, leaving their mobiles and radios behind, unaware that the dead are re-animating. Why? Why not simply set the outbreak in the "Old West"? Zombies aren't real; you can set them anywhen, not just in the current year.

[dracenstein]

Because then we are watching actors and their egos playing at soldier, but keeping the modern setting so we can see the real world experience at the same time.

[dracenstein]

Sammylou Somebody has beaten you to a zombie pov story, this is not a screenplay, but a book. I, Zombie by Al Ewing published by Abbadon Books.