just found this, it's pretty funny. movie industry worker recounts the strange pitches that he receives.
"Actual, honest to god query letters I've received in Hollywood."
http://queryletters.blogspot.com/
Quote:
"Title: Evil People
Genre: Horror
How you dress is how you die.
Synesthesia occurs when one of the five senses is aroused, yet two respond. A synesth killer chooses it's victims by colors of clothes they wear and how they sound, which arouses second senses that makes them kill them. FBI agents catch the killer with the help of a synesth on death row. Silence of the Lambs meets Scent of a Woman."
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"Four centuries in the future - Earth's atmosphere decimated - population out of control - suicide becomes legalized - one man loses all meaning - he decides to sign - but changes his mind - and has to run to stay alive."
Genre: Science Fiction
Alfred Chen Samuel is a ruling elite who lives for his sole source of warmth, his family, in a frighteningly stratified and cutthroat society only to have his wife, daughter and unborn sun perish instantly in a fiery crash. Alone in a frightening world, he decides to sign a suicide contract. Too impatient to wait for the contract, he throws himself in front of a speeding train, but is heroically saved. His savior's dying request - find and tell his brother what happened. But the state now ready to execute the contract forces Alfred into a moment of decision: fulfill his contract and end his own pain or run for his life and fulfill his savior's dying wish. He decides to honor the sacrifice. The media catches wind of the pursuit and coins it: Suicide Run.
141 pages - industry formatted with Movie Magic Screenwriter - SUICIDE RUN awaits."
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TITLE: 'Ready or Not'.
LOGLINE: A comedy about a kid who's so good at hide-and-seek that nobody finds him for 20 years."
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LOGLINE:
When the Vice-President makes a deal with carnivorous aliens who chew the human race into near-extinction, a resourceful inventor and two equally-brilliant young women struggle to protect the survivors and lead them to safety.
SYNOPSIS:
The Vice-President makes a corrupt deal with a carnivorous race of aliens, nearly decimating Earth's human population. But one survivor may have the technological skills and resourcefulness to save the rest of us from extinction. Ensconced with his two female colleagues in a 26-wheeled truck-trailer made of impervium and armed with pulse cannons and phasic missiles, Jake Holiday fights his way across the North American continent in search of safe harbor for the survivors.
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Here's two loglines that are for movies that are actually in development. From today's trades:
"Set in the 21st century, the Tripods have conquered Earth and enslaved the human race by implanting a mind-controlling device in the heads of everyone over fifteen.
"A young girl from a Brazilian village realizes that it's impossible to own anybody except by touching their soul during a sexual encounter, the average duration of which is eleven minutes."
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there's a lot more. scary that this guy is able to post (several) almost daily.