Re: The First Immortal

Geoff Smith (geoffs@unixg.ubc.ca)
Sun, 18 Jan 1998 16:50:21 -0800 (PST)


On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Yak Wax wrote:

> Something (I think) you recently said inspired me to start scribbling
> down ideas for a potential screenplay/novel, it was something along
> the lines of you not caring if god does exist because he'd still be a
> manipulative authority that you have no respect for. This gave me an
> idea - what if all these bible prophecies were true and our creator is
> going to come down in the next millennium and wreak havoc on anyone
> who hasn't lived their lives according to his word. We'd have a fight
> on our hands, and a big sci-fi summer-release movie style fight at
> that. So hands up anyone who wants to try and sell a movie about
> humanities war against God! Not likely, might stand a chance as a
> novel though.

Seen "Stargate"? Replace Christian God with Egyptian God, and you've got
a movie fairly similar to your idea. Seems to me the idea has movie
possibilities... throw some angels in a highly armed spaceship, pepper
with flashy space battle scenes, garnish with cherub foot soldiers
marauding small towns, and you've got yourself a blockbuster!

Geoff