99 Original Ideas for ScreenplaysHow to Generate New Screenplay Ideas from Existing Movies© Ugur Akinci You can generate an infinite number of new, interesting and sometimes humorous and wacky screenplay ideas by cross-tabulating the names of the existing movies . The Film "Unkown" (2006) for example seems to be a cross between ""Reservoir Dogs" and "Memento". Let's create a 5X5 table and fill the last 4 row and column headers with the titles of 4 films. (The top-left square should be left empty.) Let's see what kind of cross-pollination we can get if the films we choose for this exercise are… Godfather-meets-Memento: A Mafia boss tries to get his revenge if only he can remember who killed his wife and sons. Godfather-meets-Prada: An ambitious fashion boss in Manhattan hires contract killers and forms her own posse to get rid of all her rivals in the fashion world. Raiders-meet-Prada: A Harvard educated team of fortune-hunters in Egypt hire a top-notch fashion designer to decipher the clues hidden in the clothing of the pharaohs depicted on the walls of the pyramids. Raiders-meet-Memento: An archeologist progressively loses her memory and identity as she gets closer to the hidden crypt inside the pyramid. Her only chance of survival is to enact a 4,000-year old magic-invoking ritual that she deciphers from the crypt's wall paintings. Will it work? Will she find her way back to the 21st Century civilization again? Or will she unwittingly crack the door open to Hell and get buried alive in the pyramid (and become one of the figures on the walls of the crypt)? Here is another… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) meets Das Boot (1981) – A group of mentally retarded patients are shipped to a destination unknown inside an old German U-boat. Our hero has a chance to stage a revolt and take over the command of the submarine. Can he do it? At what price? Possibilities are endless. Cross-index the movies you love and have fun! For example: Departed-meets-Giant: A police informer moves out to Texas under federal witness protection program and sets up a ranch in the middle of nowhere, right next to the Mexican border. Soon, another rancher sets up business right next door. The newcomer is another implant from the East – but he is a notorious contract killer in disguise looking for the informer. They do not know each other's true identities… yet. Soon they meet and start to visit each other's ranch house and one of them falls in love with the other's wife. Something she does sparks off a chain of events all the way down the wire, leading to the bloody final scene where no justice is served and all go to their graves with their secrets. Manhattan-meets-Traffic: A neurotic and starving NYC writer starts to act as a drug courier to meet ends meet. His life changes when one day he delivers drugs to a Christmas party attended by New York's richest politician and his young and beautiful daughter. Although he makes a lot of money supplying drugs to the girl soon his remorse and guilt for slowly killing the girl that he loves is just too much to bear. He tries to enroll her in a rehab program. She justifies the expenses to her dad as an art degree program in London. But when her dad is suddenly arrested for running the largest drug ring in history, both our hero and his teenage lover realize that the dad is actually the one who is supplying the drugs to both of them. Now our hero must decide between owning up to his love and fighting it out to the end to save her or moving out to his brother's home in Wyoming to run his winter sports resort. The girl also has a choice to make – will she stick with the our hero and begin a new life or side with her father to the very end? How to Write Your Screenplay Backwards How to Write Your Plot and Characters with the Question-Answer Metaphor How to Create Fresh and Original Characters for Your Screenplay How to Generate New Screenplay Ideas from Existing Movies 12 Ways to Get Your Screenplay Rejected Right Away How to Write a Screenplay Plot with "Tennis Paradigm" Return from "How to Generate New Screenplay Ideas from Existing Movies" to HOW TO WRITE ANYTHING home page. 
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