In the beginning were two words

Kent and I have had a lot of conversations about the project that you're looking at here. We've talked about the forums and the blog, what each post needs, what each post doesn't need, should we have a blogroll or not, and a myriad of other subjects under the sun.

There's one topic we have not broached at all, save for two words. That's about the screenplay we're going to write here. After all, the idea is that every conversation we have; every attempt at outlining, writing and arguing about what parts should be in and what should be kept out--all of those conversations are going to take place here on the blog. In public. With you watching and commenting, hopefully.

But Kent and I are full of it. Ideas. We're full of ideas, so in order to give a bit of focus to an otherwise potentially out of control project, we picked an idea from our archive that we wanted to develop here. Of course, in our archive, the project is still only two words long. We've never really spent any time on it, other than to speak the two words, laugh and say "that'd be awesome to work on."

Okay, enough teasing. Those two words--the words that will start us on the journey into the deepest jungle of screenwriting--the words that will launch this ship into the treacherous seas of public humiliation. Those two words are:

Prison Planet.

I mean, come ON! How much better can you get? As a sub-sub-sub genre, I have a loving affinity for Prison Planet movies, the most famous of which is probably Alien Prison Planet, but also due mention are Escape from Prison Planet New York, and Escape from Prison Planet Los Angeles. And even though there is a movie with the moniker Prison Planet, we still feel that the genre is under mined. The definitive prison planet movie has yet to be written. And, rest assured, ours will be outside the general cliches of the genre.

Which is not to say that our writing talent is so large as to avoid them, but is to say that although I love the Prison Planet, I'm not so down with spending a big chunk of my life writing a sweaty-muscle-men-bash-it-out sort of movie, which the genre seems to naturally suggest. But, that's a topic for another post. Or, rather, a conversation another post will start. For now, dear friends, we will leave those two words hanging in the air. Two words that may evoke deep feelings in some of you. At the end of it all, we hope to take you to: The Prison Planet.