...called Chessboxing. What´s that? It´s a hybrid sport that combines the sports Chess and Boxing. Two players fight alternatively chess and boxing and the first one who wins in any of the rounds (KO or Checkmate) wins the game. I recently heard about it and found it funny, so I did a long research about the history and the rules and decided I wanted to write a script about two characters who compete in this sport. My question is: do I need to get some sort of permission from anybody involved in Chessboxing to write a movie about it? It turns out there is an official chessboxing association that organizes the games around the world. Should I write them an e-mail and tell them about my idea? Of course I would like to get in contact with somebody to ask sepecific questions about the rules of the game, which I need to have crystal clear. But are there any rights I need to have to do this? I wanna be sure.
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Question is - why would you want to write a movie about a sport NO ONE has heard of? And a sport that would turn off half the audience you'd want to attract? if it's an over the top comedy, then maybe. but sports movies are hard, even comedies. there were a skew of "silly" sports projects like ping pong, paintball, dodgeball, handball, darts, etc. 2 got made. 2 made money. the rest died a horrible development death. know the market before you write.
Thanks for the advice, I was already giving the idea up, in fact!
what would the Writer be satiring? Chess players? Zzzzzzzzzzz
As long as you don't infringe on any organisations, like a ChessBoxing franchise (yep hard to believe I wrote that) then you should be okay. Look at the last Batman movie. They just created fake football teams so they did step on anyone's IP. After all your film will be about people and their struggles and challenges. It may even help the sport grow.
Chessboxing is not an unknown sport, it's simply a little-known sport. I saw a clip a couple of years back and although I thought it was pretty stupid, I could see it being a funny satire so long as it's written well and has a decent story behind it. People will be attracted to it for the comedy, not the sport.
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make it chinese checkers boxing and u probably get funded in Asia
I think Craig is right, you would not need to worry about permission. I agree with Pierre, it could be a funny satire if it has good characters - and good story.
"I recently heard about it and found it funny". Um...eh...OK...are you sure its not a predictive text problem? Chess sets and cheese come in boxes, not sure about chests - I'll have to ask.
attach Kevin Hart and chess boxing will be the hot spec property