The fact that we’re still in the middle of a pandemic, albeit better off than we were a year ago at least here in The States my question is this: Are pandemic-themed ideas selling? It almost feels like the post 9/11 climate where no one wanted to touch anything that had to do with NYC until about a year or 2 later and then there were a slew of movies/tv shows dealing with 9/11. Since we’re basically still living in the pandemic do people wanna see stories set in that world? I know it’s been touched upon very lightly in short films and on tv but nothing so outright that I’ve noticed. What’s everyone’s thoughts? Too soon or would audiences be interested?
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Nobody knows how it will play out, so it's hard to tell the story. Seems to me, that as a theme, it can either be told in the future or else be approached with a different setting that deals with similar issues.
You've got a good point there.
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To be entirely honest, the word pandemic is an automatic pass at facet.tv.
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Casey Bowker Yea, I think it is more useful to look at what makes a pandemic interesting from a story-telling POV: uncertainty about the future, disruption, fear etc. and use those elements in a different context or time.
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Theirs a movie called Locked Down starring Anne Hathaway which is a covid heist movie which came out this year although I havn;t seen it.It usually takes 2 years plus from a screenplay hitting the market to it being seen on theatre screens so perhaps now is the right time to write a pandemic movie.My personal feelings are that a small personal pandemic movie may be better received than a broad epidemic genre movie.Having experienced a pandemic and in many cases personal loss makes the traditional outbreak type movies problematic in my opinion.
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Craig Prickett That's a good point. Also, this pandemic, although devastating to so many families, was/is not dramatic in a cinematic sense.
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It's like making cosmic horror great in a book very difficult in a movie.You need a character to represent evil etc.
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This is evolving into anything but plain simple undercooked bat....Check how other directors/writers battled over controversy of their stories....Oliver Stone had had even death threads for his JFK film some 30 years after the actual event...why would that be when no good ex marine, ex communist climbed up the book storage and exiled his rage over society shooting Kennedy? Right?
So the thing is...ure interested do it, make some new angles, talk to respectable men of the science field (most of them are in the shadows - dunno why?) See if some smoke comes out, cause whenever there's smoke....it ain't the undercooked bat... :)