How I would start a RIFTS movie franchise
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:42 pm
If I were to do a RIFTS movie, with the hopes of tantalizing audiences with the beginnings of a deeper setting in order to build on it in later movies, I would start with a single character.
I wrote a short story about five years ago for my own amusement based on a few of my own life experiences and personal interests( I write what I know.). The protagonist was a modern day US Navy petty officer on an aircraft carrier that along with about a dozen other sailors vanishes in a freak storm while in the Caribbean Sea(Bermuda Triangle). On the same day, several hours later, the sky rips open and deposits a demonic monster on the flight deck of the carrier and it proceeds to do what demons do best:kill indiscriminately, intimidate, demand worship and generally cause trouble. A few minutes later, a figure in armor riding a hovercycle zooms out of the same rift and proceeds to battle the demon with blazing shafts of energy wielded in each hand; saving many lives and possibly the entire ship. He calls himself a Cyber-knight and reveals himself to be the same young petty officer that vanished only hours earlier. But to him, nine years have passed.
I intended to write more, possibly a novel. I intended to set it in modern Earth and extend the adventures of a RIFTS cyber-knight in modern Earth. That might make for interesting movie ideas. But once such a character is introduced, telling tales of another post-apocalyptic Earth filled with chaos, horrors and fascist regimes, he would be a great central hero to explore RIFTS Earth in future movies.
That's my idea.
I wrote a short story about five years ago for my own amusement based on a few of my own life experiences and personal interests( I write what I know.). The protagonist was a modern day US Navy petty officer on an aircraft carrier that along with about a dozen other sailors vanishes in a freak storm while in the Caribbean Sea(Bermuda Triangle). On the same day, several hours later, the sky rips open and deposits a demonic monster on the flight deck of the carrier and it proceeds to do what demons do best:kill indiscriminately, intimidate, demand worship and generally cause trouble. A few minutes later, a figure in armor riding a hovercycle zooms out of the same rift and proceeds to battle the demon with blazing shafts of energy wielded in each hand; saving many lives and possibly the entire ship. He calls himself a Cyber-knight and reveals himself to be the same young petty officer that vanished only hours earlier. But to him, nine years have passed.
I intended to write more, possibly a novel. I intended to set it in modern Earth and extend the adventures of a RIFTS cyber-knight in modern Earth. That might make for interesting movie ideas. But once such a character is introduced, telling tales of another post-apocalyptic Earth filled with chaos, horrors and fascist regimes, he would be a great central hero to explore RIFTS Earth in future movies.
That's my idea.