# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/41 "2009-09-14T15:10:47Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Did the movie keep the Nazi aspect that the novel had? That’s the ultimate movie awesomeness trifecta - sharks, zombies, and Nazis. I think so, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen it. ---
**Author:** ![r9107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c67d28/32.png) [@r9107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/r9107)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/42 "2009-11-24T09:32:33Z")
This is a work in progress. It takes place on a planet named Edo where there is a war between humans, vampires, lycans, and demons(has other races too) but the demons want more land and so do the lycans. the vampires are in their way so they are attacked and when the humans deny helping any side they become part of the war but they are just trying to survive. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/43 "2009-11-24T15:23:31Z")
Hijack/ > [@AtomicDog](#): > > I’ve always wanted to see [I’m In Marsport Without Hilda](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_in_Marsport_Without_Hilda) on the small screen. I’ve always hated writers who try and describe in too much detail a work of art that they couldn’t possibly produce themselves-- usually it’s describing music, but this story one also qualified. I mean Asimov couldn’t write a sexually-arousing story with an automatic sexually-arousing story writing machine turned up to 11. And I knew this when I first read this story even though I was at an age when I was not yet capable of being sexually aroused. So thinking about this story now, I’d like to see an updated version, where the agent tries the same tactic again, but it turns out nobody gets a physiological reaction because the smuggler is in fact gay. And so is one of the innocent and powerful guys, who rather than enjoying the story gets pretty offended at being subjected to a random letters-to-Penthouse monologue, and gets the agent fired. And the agent’s wife divorces him for consorting with prostitutes. So maybe there’s a happy ending for him after all (being permanently in Marsport w/o Hilda) Except that the other innocent-but-powerful guy decided the hooker sounded pretty good and made her his mistress so the agent is in Marsport w/o Hilda or anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/44 "2009-11-24T16:37:08Z")
LOL, my idea for SyFy would be to get their acts together and start gobbling up all the shows that would be a hit for them but are not hits for NBC or Fox like Dollhouse. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/45 "2009-11-24T17:54:38Z")
I put the following items into my Autoscriptwriter: nazis, green fuels, evil corporation, ghosts- and it came up with the following synopsis: In the last days of WW2, the Nazis discovered a way to make synthetic gasoline from the body fat of concentration camp victims. Decades later, an evil corporation is trying to recreate the process but runs into trouble when the resulting fuel is haunted by the ghosts of the slain test subjects, resulting in possessed vehicles running amok. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/46 "2009-11-24T18:25:38Z")
**Night of the Lepus II: Revenge of the Dust Bunnies** ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/47 "2009-11-24T18:44:51Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > **Thumper:** A sadistic killer with a bunny outfit and a sledgehammer holds the city in the grip of terror! Starring washed-up prop comic **Gallagher** in a role that will simutaneously surprise and terrify you, never before has the “Sledge-O-Matic” been so sinister! (in Real3D, wet-weather gear strongly recommended for the first five rows) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/48 "2009-11-25T01:19:34Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Especially if you make the bog zombies dead witches/satanists. Actually, there is a movie, with a bog body or two wrapped in plastic in a basement, and a witch that was trying to raise it. I vaguely remember watching it on one of the cable channels about 10 years ago or so… ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/49 "2009-11-25T02:14:07Z")
The dedicated team of archaeologists trek their way into darkest Africa. They are seeking a remote location that, according to ancient legend, was both the cradle of modern man, and the site where a previous global civilisation came to an end. This location, though referred to in many legends across many cultures, has never been accurately identified or explored. Time passes. Adventures ensue. Finally, they find this lost, ancient place. They come across some debris buried in the ground. It seems to be some form of machinery. This seems impossible, given that it is buried in ancient earth and mud deposits that date back to the start of civilisation. They scrape away at a portion of this metal. Some identifiable characters emerge. They recoil in horror. The words say… … …Large Hadron Collider. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/50 "2009-11-25T02:40:16Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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 Actuallyy, you just described “Tarnsman of Gor.” Unfortunately, the movie that was based on it, “Gor” … left out the giant eagles. And a lot of other stuff, too. Like anything that would have been remotely interesting to anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/51 "2009-11-25T02:50:32Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > 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. OK, almost there, you lack one key fact. The raptors are more accurately called [dromaeosaurids.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromaeosaurid) So Nostro of the druids is genetically mixed with one of these creatures in a tragic witch’s cauldron mishap, and the resulting creature is: Nostrodromaeosaurid! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/52 "2009-11-25T03:10:03Z")
My son suggests combining two favorite SciFi genres to produce _Lizard Quake!_ in which an earthquake in Los Angeles releases a species of giant komodo dragons on a ghost town inhabited only by a busload of credulous tourists. And I suggest adding “Atomic” to the title because everything is more frightening when it’s atomic! (See the actual Syfy channel movie, “Atomic Tornado!”) “Atomic Lizard Quake!” How can you lose? Finally, an idea based on the actual Syfy movie channel film “Supergator.” In “Supergator,” a pair of models and a photographer first encounter the titular creature, a very, very large and fast alligator in Hawaii. (For the love of God, don’t ask!). One of the models sees the photographer and her cow-orker eaten by the Supergator and runs like hell dressed only in a very skimpy thong bikini. She encounters two or three groups of people and tries to tell them about the creauture, but they dismiss the ravings of the almost-naked woman as druggy nightmares and proceed onward, and of course, are eaten. After warning two or three she hides with a guy she encounters and is eaten in short order. My idea: “Atomic Giant Lizard vs. Naked Cassandra!” Same basic plot premise, but this time the thong clad woman does not stop running. She encounters group after group and tries to warn them about the giant atomic lizard chasing her, but none believe her, including the scientists whose clandestine experiments in atomic genetics spawned the monster, the gruff old hunter whose know-how may be the key to killing the beast, and the tourists who are basically giant lizard snack food on a bus. All are eaten, except Naked Cassandra, because she is the only one with the good sense to run like hell away from the beast, eventually giving it a heart attack and killing it as it chases her with all that food on its stomach. We get lots of shots of her running at top speed in a very skimpy thong in slo-mo, and lots of shots of the giant lizard eating people. Can’t lose! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/53 "2009-11-25T03:19:14Z")
Oh, gods, “Supergator”! Quite possibly the absolute worst movie ever! My daughter brought a friend home from college last year, and we all sat around watching this POS and giving it the MST3K treatment. It gave me a reputation with her friend of being a Cool Dad. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/54 "2009-11-25T03:36:31Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > My idea: “Atomic Giant Lizard vs. Naked Cassandra!” Same basic plot premise, but this time the thong clad woman does not stop running. She encounters group after group and tries to warn them about the giant atomic lizard chasing her, but none believe her, including the scientists whose clandestine experiments in atomic genetics spawned the monster, the gruff old hunter whose know-how may be the key to killing the beast, and the tourists who are basically giant lizard snack food on a bus. All are eaten, except Naked Cassandra, because she is the only one with the good sense to run like hell away from the beast, eventually giving it a heart attack and killing it as it chases her with all that food on its stomach. We get lots of shots of her running at top speed in a very skimpy thong in slo-mo, and lots of shots of the giant lizard eating people. Can’t lose! This is great, except it needs a scene at the end where Cassandra has a Crowning Moment of Awesome where she steps out of the shadows in front of Supergator as it’s happily munching on it’s latest victim. She gives the cool quip ala “Time to make gator bites” and then blasts it with a rocket launcher or something huge and 'splodey from the old abandoned air base. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/55 "2009-11-25T06:30:10Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > This is great, except it needs a scene at the end where Cassandra has a Crowning Moment of Awesome where she steps out of the shadows in front of Supergator as it’s happily munching on it’s latest victim. She gives the cool quip ala “Time to make gator bites” No, no, no. We can think up a better one liner than that. I’m thinking.. _Scene set: atomic mutant supergator tail lashes two National Guard vehicles into oblivion only to have bikini clad Casandra step from behind a palm tree with a rocket launcher and say._ **You like tail? I’ll give you a piece of tail!** BOOOOOM! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/56 "2009-11-25T16:38:03Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > No, no, no. We can think up a better one liner than that. I’m thinking.. > > _Scene set: atomic mutant supergator tail lashes two National Guard vehicles into oblivion only to have bikini clad Casandra step from behind a palm tree with a rocket launcher and say._ > > **You like tail? I’ll give you a piece of tail!** > > BOOOOOM! I seem to recall a couple of girls in some other Giant Crocodile Movie attempting to lure it into the trap by flashing their assets at it, while talking about “croc teasing”. Still not quite as bad as SuperGator. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/57 "2009-11-25T19:51:51Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Actually, there is a movie, with a bog body or two wrapped in plastic in a basement, and a witch that was trying to raise it. I vaguely remember watching it on one of the cable channels about 10 years ago or so… Is this it? _Trance_, aka _The Eternal_, aka _The Eternal: Kiss of the Mummy_. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158011/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158011/) Christopher Walken is featured prominently on the box cover, even though he only has a small role in the film. ---
**Author:** ![MeDrewNotYou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@MeDrewNotYou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeDrewNotYou)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/58 "2009-11-25T20:22:09Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > The dedicated team of archaeologists trek their way into darkest Africa. > > They are seeking a remote location that, according to ancient legend, was both the cradle of modern man, and the site where a previous global civilisation came to an end. This location, though referred to in many legends across many cultures, has never been accurately identified or explored. > > Time passes. Adventures ensue. Finally, they find this lost, ancient place. > > They come across some debris buried in the ground. It seems to be some form of machinery. This seems impossible, given that it is buried in ancient earth and mud deposits that date back to the start of civilisation. > > They scrape away at a portion of this metal. Some identifiable characters emerge. They recoil in horror. > > The words say… > > … > > …Large Hadron Collider. “You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!” ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/59 "2009-11-25T22:23:23Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Is this it? _Trance_, aka _The Eternal_, aka _The Eternal: Kiss of the Mummy_. > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158011/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158011/) > Christopher Walken is featured prominently on the box cover, even though he only has a small role in the film. Yup, that is it =) It is a really wacky movie … ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592/60 "2009-11-26T23:09:27Z")
**Kingfish** : A reclusive billionaire is accused of murdering prostitutes. It emerges that he is trying to breed them to his half-fish son in order to create a race of underwater killers to sell to the highest bidder. Smoker: A serial arsonist is caught in a fire he created-trapped by a vengeful arson investigator. Five years later a new series of mysterious deaths begin-is the charred villain back from the dead? (A hint-yes.) It needs something else, though, some goofy twist. Splatterday!: A crazed ex-construction worker named Bob Builder goes on a rampage of terror against the ruthless architect who ruined him, using all kinds of power tools and heavy vehicles, which the madman believes are telling him to kill! Wrecking-ball, roadheader, bulldozer, ect. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-the-next-made-for-syfy-movie/509592.md?page=4)