Facebook Update Becomes A Film

[loopdesign]

Yeah, sounds great. High concept. 4 quadrant. Great hook.
:rolleyes:
"Lisa Hamilton Day, a book executive for Dreamworks, has a book and film deal being shopped around by UTA and Fletcher & Co. based on a Facebook update she posted last week says Publisher's Weekly.

The update in question? "Lisa Hamilton Day's Pomeranian raided Chinese takeout bag overnight, opened and ate a fortune cookie. Her fortune: You have strong spiritual powers, and you should develop them."

Thus the aim is to make what could be the next "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" or "Underdog". Sigh, next thing you know it'll be a tweet on Twitter that becomes a movie."

[doubler83]

Right...

[instant_karma]

And yet there's no interest in my Facebook update where I talked about how I single-handedly foiled a terrorist plot to fire grappling hooks at the moon and pull it down to crash into Washington.

[doubler83]

When was this and why aren't I your friend on Facebook? :D

[loopdesign]

And yet there's no interest in my Facebook update where I talked about how I single-handedly foiled a terrorist plot to fire grappling hooks at the moon and pull it down to crash into Washington.

Updating now ...

[instant_karma]

When was this and why aren't I your friend on Facebook? :D

I'm not really on Facebook. I just tell lies all the time!! I'm sick, and I can't stop myself!!!!

[doubler83]

:bounce:

[Peripeteia]

I literally quit screenwriting as of right now. I'm going back to graphic design.

There's no point in writing for Hollywood when an exec sprouts a film idea from their Facebook status update.

[sc111]

Yeah, sounds great. High concept. 4 quadrant. Great hook.

:rolleyes:"Lisa Hamilton Day, a book executive for Dreamworks, has a book and film deal being shopped around by UTA and Fletcher & Co. based on a Facebook update she posted last week says Publisher's Weekly.


The update in question? "Lisa Hamilton Day's Pomeranian raided Chinese takeout bag overnight, opened and ate a fortune cookie. Her fortune: You have strong spiritual powers, and you should develop them."


Thus the aim is to make what could be the next "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" or "Underdog". Sigh, next thing you know it'll be a tweet on Twitter that becomes a movie."



I don't get it. Where's the story? Book? Film? What's the second act?

"My Dog ate my fortune cookie?" If the dog ate the fortune -- how did she read it?

[Jenny]

Maybe it was still legible when it came out the other end.

[sc111]

The thing is -- the woman works for Dreamworks in the book department. She had the connexs.

[billmarq]

I propose that we all, each and every one of us, post a logline disguised as an update on Facebook, each and every day.

"Today I awoke from the floor of my bedroom to find my entire house empty. No furniture. No clothes in the closet. The carpets were gone. No curtains on the windows. Nothing else in the house except my Rottweiler, asleep in the corner of the living room."

(I just made that one up so don't criticize. Yeah, yeah, I know. Where is the conflict?)

But it does have a dog.

[loopdesign]

I propose that we all, each and every one of us, post a logline disguised as an update on Facebook, each and every day.

"Today I awoke from the floor of my bedroom to find my entire house empty. No furniture. No clothes in the closet. The carpets were gone. No curtains on the windows. Nothing else in the house except my Rottweiler, asleep in the corner of the living room."

(I just made that one up so don't criticize. Yeah, yeah, I know. Where is the conflict?)

But it does have a dog.

Make the dog red and you've got a nice opening scene for a Clifford feature.
:bounce:

[Sinnycal]

Not only is she shopping a facebook update, but she's hoping it will be the next Underdog, a movie that did poorly by both financial and critical standards.

[LaWizard]

I propose that we all, each and every one of us, post a logline disguised as an update on Facebook, each and every day.

"Today I awoke from the floor of my bedroom to find my entire house empty. No furniture. No clothes in the closet. The carpets were gone. No curtains on the windows. Nothing else in the house except my Rottweiler, asleep in the corner of the living room."

(I just made that one up so don't criticize. Yeah, yeah, I know. Where is the conflict?)

But it does have a dog.

I actually like this idea (the logline as updates). It would be good practice if nothing else.

[alitel]

Sigh, next thing you know it'll be a tweet on Twitter that becomes a movie."What's wrong with this exactly? Potentially, for a high concept pitch, it is the perfect, concise medium. If you are really striving for something commercial, I don't think it is bad, and possibly even preferable, to make sure that you could communicate something in 140 characters or less.

[vmf]

"Lisa Hamilton Day's Pomeranian raided Chinese takeout bag overnight, opened and ate a fortune cookie. Her fortune: You have strong spiritual powers, and you should develop them."
So.... a person who wrote the fractured, barely-comprehensible passage now has both a book and movie deal?

Goldman was right.

[billmarq]

[/indent]So.... a person who wrote the fractured, barely-comprehensible passage now has both a book and movie deal?

Goldman was right.

As far as the story goes, how does anyone know what the fortune read, after the dog ate it? Yecch.

[Naudikom]

After reading this article, I could quite possibly be a very real danger to myself.

On a side note, I am now marketing my new spec "Mafia Wars": When a bone-headed college student engages in an online mobster simulation game, he inadvertantly finds himself communicating with - and indebted to - the resurrected La Casa Nostra.

[stuy]

And yet there's no interest in my Facebook update where I talked about how I single-handedly foiled a terrorist plot to fire grappling hooks at the moon and pull it down to crash into Washington.

Michael Bay just jizzed in his pants.

[Charisma]

Michael Bay just jizzed in his pants.

An Don Johnson was just a tad bit too interested in that development.

[scruffdiva]

And the race begins! I wonder which will hit the screen first, if at all.

Columbia Pictures is in advanced talks with David Fincher to direct "The
Social Network," the Aaron Sorkin-scripted film about the formation of Facebook.
The film will focus on the evolution of Facebook from its 2004 creation on the Harvard campus by sophomore Mark Zuckerberg to a juggernaut with more than 200 million members.

Scott Rudin and Michael De Luca and Trigger Street are producing for Columbia Pictures .

The hope is to begin production later this year.

Fincher last directed "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

[loopdesign]

And the race begins! I wonder which will hit the screen first, if at all.

Columbia Pictures is in advanced talks with David Fincher to direct "The
Social Network," the Aaron Sorkin-scripted film about the formation of Facebook.
The film will focus on the evolution of Facebook from its 2004 creation on the Harvard campus by sophomore Mark Zuckerberg to a juggernaut with more than 200 million members.

Scott Rudin and Michael De Luca and Trigger Street are producing for Columbia Pictures .

The hope is to begin production later this year.

Fincher last directed "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

Uggh. What could be more boring than that? I'll take the magical fortune-crapping dog, thanks.

[scruffdiva]

Uggh. What could be more boring than that? I'll take the magical fortune-crapping dog, thanks.

Agreed to the crapping dog degree.

[mlongton]

I literally quit screenwriting as of right now. I'm going back to graphic design.


But 'twas ever thus, t'weren't it?
A long time ago Walt Kelly said -

Break out the cigars, this life is for squirrels,
We're off to the drugstore to whistle at girls.

I've got to stop now and clean the blood off my keyboard.

[Kevan]

It just gets crazier and crazier..

The mind boggles...

:eek: