# Pitch Your Idea For the Next Made For SyFy movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592 "2009-09-10T19:17:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/1 "2009-09-10T19:17:25Z")
Do you think _Citizen Kane_ would have been better if Rosebud was a giant man eating armadillo? Do you think _Gone With the Wind_ should have been about a radioactive super hurricane that destroys New York? If you answered yes, then this is the thread for you. Pitch your idea here, and remember, if the people behind _Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus_ can get that thing made, then your idea stands a pretty good chance, too. I’ll start us off: Brick Shetland is a rogue lepidopterist who was kicked out of the Navy Seals because his unconventional ideas about butterflies were too extreme for the military establishment. He’s a loose cannon, but after an accident in an Iowa based government genetics lab releases an unspeakable horror, it’s up to Brick and a beautiful FBI agent to save the day in: _Mothra: Death over Des Moines_ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/2 "2009-09-10T19:41:40Z")
The only choices are ridiculous monster flicks and souped-up versions of classics? I can’t ask for, say, a remake of _Demon with a Glass Hand_ with CGI effects and more convincing aliens? or a faithful adaptation of Fredric Brown’s _Arena_? Or some low-budget but well-made adaptation of some other short story, like Robert Sheckley’s _The Leech_? Or maybe even Heinlein’s _By His Bootstraps_ without screwing it up? ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/3 "2009-09-10T20:00:26Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > The only choices are ridiculous monster flicks and souped-up versions of classics? Nope, those are just a couple that I came up with. Be as creative as you want, just remember the type of movies that the SyFy channel actually makes. [Here’s](http://www.syfy.com/movies/originals/index.php?pageid=83) the section of their site that lists all the “SyFy originals”. I don’t think you’re going to find a faithful adaptation of Heinlein in that list, but you will get stuff like: _Man With the Screaming Brain_: A rich industrialist and a cab driver are fused together and must share a body to find the woman who murdered them both. Now that’s a SyFy movie. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/4 "2009-09-10T20:05:11Z")
Yeah, but they adapted Tom Godwin’s _The Cold Equations_ and Rod Serling’s _The Town that Turned to Dust_. They even tried to adapt _Riverworld_ and _EarthSea_ and _Lathe of Heaven_. They failed miserably with the last three, but at least they were _trying_ to do real SF. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/5 "2009-09-10T20:21:26Z")
**Attack of the Alien Space Bats** , Supersized bats attacking commercial airliners over the Praire Provinces of Canada. I’d thrown in as much Canadiana as possible, but just for laughs film in the States. I’d also flip the gender roles so all the bimbo eye candy roles (like scientists 20 yrs to young for their jobs) are young men straight out of Abercrombie & Fitch, whole all the authority figures (inlcuding evil military types) are middle aged women. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/6 "2009-09-10T20:30:39Z")
Well, if you want outrageous movies with impressive visuals, how about Willis O’Brien’s unrealized projects: 1.) **The War Eagles** – Warriors who ride on the backs of eagles, a la Gandalf in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings 2.) **King Kong vs. Frankenstein** – it couldn’t be worse than _Frankenstein Conquers the World_ 3.) **Creation** – 1930s explorers find an island of prehistoric beasts and a lost civilization. But no giant ape. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/7 "2009-09-11T00:02:22Z")
**Wyrm** : In the highlands of Scotland, an amphibian expert has been persuing his maverick theory that legends of dragons were inspired by rare instances of a species of ordinary newt remaining in it’s juvenile stage and growing to monstrous proporttions. Hormone treatments of test animals have resulted in one growing into a 15-meter long voracious carnivore. When it kills the scientist and breaks loose to terroize the countryside, authorities call in Britain’s best newt man, a brash Australian big game hunter, and a pretty local woman who’s knowledge of dragon lore yields clues to the monster’s movements and whereabouts. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/8 "2009-09-11T00:11:54Z")
**Leather Goddesses of Phobos: The Movie** –hot chicks in leather, with lots of gratuitous nudity. **The Babylon Hillbillies** –hijinks ensue when Kosh gets into Granny’s rheumatism medicine. ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/9 "2009-09-11T00:15:56Z")
Dinosaurs VS Zombies: I think the title says it all. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/10 "2009-09-11T00:53:24Z")
> [@Xan](#): > > Dinosaurs VS Zombies: I think the title says it all. Actually, the Harry Dresden novel **Dead Beat** , has a Zombie Dinosaur! ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/11 "2009-09-11T00:55:58Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Actually, the Harry Dresden novel **Dead Beat** , has a Zombie Dinosaur! That Harry rides like a steed and Bob later possesses. Probably one my favorite parts of the series (and there are lots of cool parts) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/12 "2009-09-11T01:59:15Z")
It’s a shame that reasonably good (though cheesy as all hell) concepts are ruined by low rent everything-else as well. Some of Syfy’s ideas only need a few tweaks by someone with actual talent, without needing to increase the budget, to make them more watchable. My idea: Set in the 18th Century, a mysterious masked folk hero is captured by a secret organisation run for the King, where he is enticed to work for them as their head spy. Much dashing adventure takes place, with crossbows and flintlock pistols, and a romantic interest. But as he investigates, it turns out the organisation are the real enemy, and his every act for them has been in service to an evil plot to kill the King. Somewhere in amongst there are clockwork robots and giant lizards. I am actually planning to write a script sort of like this, only hopefully less cheesy ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/13 "2009-09-11T02:10:07Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Or maybe even Heinlein’s _By His Bootstraps_ without screwing it up? I’d pay good money to see this! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/14 "2009-09-11T02:52:09Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > **The Babylon Hillbillies** –hijinks ensue when Kosh gets into Granny’s rheumatism medicine. I think I love you. In a purely platonic way, of course. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/15 "2009-09-11T03:29:10Z")
**Chromega Man** - the last guy on the watch. **To Catch A Kieth** - Roby the Cat (a real cat) has to stop an evil army of Brian Keith clones. **Reservoir Dog Star** - After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is an illegal alien. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/16 "2009-09-11T05:18:18Z")
**LEECHES** An underground DARPA funded project, staffed only by models, are hard at work creating the ultimate bio-weapon: Leeches with the strength of 100 leeches! When Christy Banks, head of research and a D cup size, accidentally reverses the polarity on the ionization tank (keeping the leeches in a state of unleechness), it’s an all out massacre, killing all but the best of the best looking and the worst of the worst acting. And also that one black guy. Christy, Sky and Dillan try to stop the leeching hoard before they enter the general population and dazzle citizens with their horrible CGI just before they suck them of their lower intestines. Because that was a weird side-effect, the super-leeches suck out lower intestines. Oh and, Sky dies. Which leaves just Christy and Dillan. Bow chicka bow bow… Oh and, As Christy and Dillan mouth kiss, the camera pans down to reveal a sole leech squirming its way toward the sewer drain. The End? ---
**Author:** ![SweetLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/17 "2009-09-11T05:43:34Z")
Giant mutated cockroaches invade modern-day Los Angeles, via a time portal from 500 BC-era Egypt, along with a bunch of ticked-off ghosts of Pharaohs who want to get their mummified remains back from modern museums. An actor, whose last job was in a TV movie 20 years ago, plays a slightly geeky but nevertheless gorgeous museum curator, who must reunite with his cranky ex-wife and his kooky grandfather-scientist to fight the roaches/ghosts. 😃 Or is this too intelligent for Sy-Fy? ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/18 "2009-09-11T06:02:37Z")
A communist alien warlord is beaming ideas of universal healthcare and a regulated economy to takeover the US. The warlord didn’t count on being spotted by the great scientists who’s son **Flash Gordon Liddy** is the only the only thing between us and things being generally pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/19 "2009-09-11T06:09:40Z")
Nostradamosaurus In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people… the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing… One of them, Nostro (Kirk Cameron) is some how teleported to modern day Vancouver, where he has an unfortunate coming together with a passing Velociraptor (Shannon Tweed). Stars Whoopi Goldberg as the Professor. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Baldy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Gary\_Baldy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Baldy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/20 "2009-09-11T06:34:24Z")
> [@WarmNPrickly](#): > > A communist alien warlord is beaming ideas of universal healthcare and a regulated economy to takeover the US. The warlord didn’t count on being spotted by the great scientists who’s son **Flash Gordon Liddy** is the only the only thing between us and things being generally pretty good. Mysterious car crashes are happening on the all-American Route 66. Flash Gordon Liddy investigates believe an sinister plot to destory American interstate commerce. Instead, he discovers Bigfoot has awaoke from hibernation and is irrated by these noisy fast machines. Flash Gordon Liddy must dipose of Bigfoot before the world finds out, since Bigfoot might be the missing link to prove evolution. And this movie would be called **Slaughter Alley Oop** of course. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592.md?page=2)