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chrryblssmninja) wrote2010-01-10 04:11 am
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I OVERTHINK THINGS
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kiratollan submitted a new suggestion for this meme:in response to this meme from the previous post
1. Ask and I'll assign you the basis of some show idea.
2. Create the characters you need, including the actors who'd play them. Photos optional but recommended.
3. Come up with a general synopsis of the premise.
PREVIOUS SHOWS I DID FOR PEOPLE ARE HERE
Her suggestion: Fairytale (gone wrong)
here it is: Storybook
Storybook is the name of a project that trains young people to be placed in advantageous places around the world. Each trainee is given a codename based on a fairy tale. Once in place, the organization influences them, in overt or subtle ways, to do things they want. This may include secret agent-type stuff, but it's more about influencing people. So these agents are in the public eye, influencing people for one reason or another. Everyone likes a story, so the codename for a person is suited for the "plot" chosen for his or her life. Some were taken earlier in their lives than others.
Think Manchurian Candidate with hints of Alias more than any connections to Dollhouse or Fables. The thing about these people is that they're crafted to sway public opinion in a seemingly natural manner. Not every project works, but the program's been going on for a few decades now. People pay the organization to influence public opinion. The organization takes only offers it can actually fulfill, but their powers of influence grow every year. Each potential is surrounded by three agents; often the parents and a friend or close relative. The organization tries to craft or adjust events to get the person in the place they need.
EPISODE 1: CINDERELLA
Shu Qi plays project codename Cinderella. She's the model famous for her rags-to-riches story.
MAIN PLOT (not including set-up for other characters): One day, someone hands "Cinderella" a note and turns away. It says, "Why do you like Spyglass brand so much?" Spyglass is one of the brands of merchandise she's associated with. She dismisses the note at first. Then she gets more messages, and she starts noticing how things are placed around her, her parents and best friend introducing her to things. And then, when another message is about to be given to her, the messenger is snatched away by security. This day's messenger cries out, "I'm your real mother!" before being pushed into a car.
EPISODE 2: ROBIN HOOD
Zoe Bell plays project codename Robin Hood, the contact used mostly for influencing social issues. A respected figure in the circles of social justice, she's tough, charismatic, and beyond reproach.
MAIN PLOT: a series of mysterious messengers try to contact her, but at the end, she's not sure whether looking into it would jeopardize all the good work she's done.
EPISODE 3: PRINCE CHARMING
Matthew Bomer plays project codename Prince Charming, a powerful socialite. He's often used to influence those in high places.
MAIN PLOT: the messengers get to him, but it turns out that "Prince Charming" already knows he's a pawn - and he seems to not care. His parents needed the money to help back up the family name during hard times. He alerts the organzation about the messengers, and the ringleader is nearly caught.
EPISODE 4: SLEEPING BEAUTY
Diane Lane plays project codename Sleeping Beauty, an actress whose recent comeback has gained her praise and sympathy.
MAIN PLOT: The ringleader appeals to her for help. After much deliberation, "Sleeping Beauty" decides to hide her. But the organization decides to use their last resort: a trigger that forces the project's mind to do whatever it's told for 24 hours, before the brain shuts down forever. "Sleeping Beauty" is forced to bring the ringleader out of hiding. The ringleader tries to help "Sleeping Beauty" break out of the deadly trance, and "Sleeping Beauty" manages to die in a public enough place that the organization can't arrange the death and control information to its liking.
EPISODE 5: SCHEHERAZADE
Morjana Alaoui is project codename Scheherazade. She was a brilliant writer (although her youth and beauty got her even more press) who eventually found out more or less that she was being used to influence things. What really broke her was when they tried to use her to influence popular opinion towards the call for a criminal's death. Her "handler" boyfriend had grown too close to her, and told her the truth.
MAIN PLOT: Scheherazade has been globe-trotting, operating on her resources and the scant knowledge her handler happened to know. She led the messengers until being caught. They know that another project was actively working with her, and they threaten to kill her boyfriend if she doesn't say who. She refuses, and they kill him. They then keep her locked up to trigger when needed.
EPISODE 6: ANANSI
Chiwetel Ejifor plays project codename Anansi, a clever and successful lawyer.
MAIN PLOT: On his own, he starts noticing that all is not what it seems. He figures out one way they're influencing him and seems to outright reject it, only to turn it into a better opportunity at the end. Using this trick to lure out who's "influencing" him, he secretly begins setting up backup plans for any and all possible scenarios, making sure that he'll come out ahead whatever happens. At the end, a person walks by him in the corridors of the court, whispering "Don't let them know" before leaving.
EPISODE 7: MISS MUFFET
Amy Acker plays project codename Miss Muffet, one of the many failed projects. She went crazy during training and the brain trigger implant process. She became too close to the "storyline" implanted in her head, and seemingly went insane. Instead of becoming the general fearmonger they wanted, she developed an insanely intense love/hate relationship with spiders. They keep her for observation, and try to rehabilitate her by making her perform various menial jobs in the organization's facility.
MAIN PLOT: Scheherazade manages to catch glimpses or hints of her from her cell. This intertwines with flashbacks for "Miss Muffet." Scheherazde almost gives up on trying to reach her, when finally there's a message sewed into the inside of Scheherazade's new clothing. "WAIT."
EPISODE 8: HANSEL AND GRETEL
Tom Sturridge and Alison Brie are the children of a diplomat, with high-potential international careers ahead of them. While they were split between their mother and father when the parents divorced (which accounts for their different accents), the brother and sister still remained close - though not close enough for "Hansel" to notice "Gretel" working with Scheherazade.
MAIN PLOT: Having not heard from Scheherazade for a while, "Gretel" tries her best to continue the work without being noticed, sending the earlier message to Anansi and trying to contact Cinderella and Robin Hood. She tries to get Hansel to help, but in trying to figure out everything, he goes too back into his memories and breaks his mind.
EPISODE 9: COYOTE
Adam Beach plays project codename Coyote, the first successful project, who was snatched for his precocious scientific ability. He was turned into the scientist who performs a lot of the programming.
MAIN PLOT: One of the few things Hansel can think of right now is Coyote's face. The others search for Coyote. They find him, and try to force him to sneak them into the facility. At the end, they find out he's a project like they are, and he doesn't know where the facility is; he works as a scientist in another lab to gain knowledge, and is driven to the organization when needed. He decides to help them, though. After they fight and drive away from those guarding him, they have a conversation in the car.
"I guess these are all of your heroes and heroines that could help," Gretel says.
"Yeah, figured as much," Coyote responds.
He thinks for a while.
"Did you guys try the villains?"
END OF SEASON 1
The Villains division was set to create negative but still influential figures to persuade either by setting an example for others to avoid, or inspiring hate, etc.
Some examples: Bathory, Big Bad Wolf, Bluebeard (played by Andrew Divoff) and Seth (or Set, played by Marc Warren).
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But this also seems like a lot of fun.
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idea: violent conflict and/or natural disaster abruptly isolated one university from the world. Why did this happen, what contacts can they maintain with the rest of the world, and how do the people trapped in the university survive?
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I would TOTALLY watch it *__*
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If such a show existed I would watch the crap out of it.
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Oh my goodness. Seriously. I want to watch your shows. O_O This are amazing.
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and thank you! I hope I can find an opportunity to make shows...while realistically supporting my family too. So no dropping everything to go on screenwriter internships in LA or anything. Oh well. But the paths I'm considering might give me greater control, so.... /rambling