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 Posted: Mon Jun 8th, 2009 04:08 am
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OVVI
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 While it is wonderful to dream, the reality is that film making is a business and unless your dream project can find backers that think it can make money, you are wasting your time. You all need to let LFM go. The disaster of GAG has made it hard enough to get a CW film made, so suggesting a remake or finishing the trilogy only puts the memory of Maxwell's failure front and center.
If you wish to try a screenplay about the CW, pick a battle and read everything you can about it. There are great stories to be told from the Generals down to the men in the ranks. Compelling characters that audiences care about are what make films work. Look at Glory. Not the most historically accurate film ever made, but the characters draw you into the film and we are want to see what happens to them.
I have long tossed around an idea of a film focused on what happens after a battle with a main character based lossley on Alexander Gardner. Imagine Sharpsburg or Gettysburg when the fighting stops..who cleans up the mess? An interesting subject, at least to me.

Kent Dorr