Re: hallux, and dinosaur movie scripts

[Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 longrich@alumni.princeton.edu wrote:
> [...]
> Re: improving upon the Jurassic Park movies, I myself have developed a 
> screenplay:
> 
> It is entitled "Dinosaurs vs. Robots".
>       A fleet of spaceships heads for earth, robots from Planet Ten 
> demanding total submission of the human race to their empire. Just then, 
> a second conquering armada appears- Dinosaurs from Planet Eleven! A 
> terrible space battle ensues. They decide to negotiate. Whichever  side, 
> Dinosaurs or Robots, can terrorize/eat/kill more earthlings will get the 
> planet. Dinosaurs and Robots proceed to terrorize/eat/kill humans. In 
> the end, the Dinosaurs win but still decide to attack and destroy the 
> Robots... because they're dinosaurs and they attack and destroy stuff.
>     At the risk of being too obvious about the symbolism, the movie is a 
> deep philosophical commentary on the effects on humanity of being caught 
> between the conflicting forces of Nature and Technology. Issues of 
> permanence-vs-transience and life-vs-death and the inevitable question 
> of "what happens to us after we die???" are explored in "Dinosaurs vs. 
> Robots vs. Zombies" which also includes dinosaur zombies, zombie 
> cyborgs, and cyborg-dinosaur-zombies. I'm still sketching out the 
> details for Part III of the trilogy.
>     Bidding for the script starts at one million dollars.
 
Calling Toho...