Fantasy Logline Challenge No. 1: THE WINNER!

So my friends and readers, we have come to the end of the first logline challenge! To read about the challenge, click AQUI. To read all the original pitches in full, click MOI.

Anyway, the votes were ridiculously close, and all the entries were great. Thanks so much to the two of you who entered, and for everyone who voted!

Here's just a quick recap on the entries.

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Pitch 1: Pint of Bitters by Marc Edward Heuck

Carey Mulligan plays the young version of Maggie Smith, who becomes young when her husband of many years, Michael Caine, goes into a coma. She must decide whether to keep her youth and leave Michael in a coma or to go back to normal. Ok-Bin Kim plays Caine's nurse.

I really liked this one, Mulligan playing a young Smith is pretty amazing. I also love the moral conflict that the Mulligan/Smith character has to deal with - verrrrry nice indeed.

Pitch 2: You Can't Love Her by Simon

Michael Caine, who is on the verge of dementia, and who is hallucinating of his dead wife Smith, enters a strange love affair with his nurse Ok-Bin Kim, who is searching for citizenship and has her own very strange motives. Caine's daughter is Carey Mulligan, whose boyfriend is Wild Card Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Mulligan is Kim's immigration officer, and circumstances elevate when they learn of their connection.

Another fantastic entry! I'm loving the coupling of JGL and Mulligan (Hollywood producers, make that happen, please?). If this were to be made into a movie, it has the potential for a really layered and compelling screenplay and if helmed by a director with good vision, it could be quite fantastic.


Pitch 3: Father's Girls by ME! (Yes, me. I entered my own contest, because I'm awesome like that, haha, and three is a good number)

Ok-Bin Kim plays the adopted daughter of the long-divorced couple of Caine and Smith. Kim is a bubbly florist who questions her own sexuality though she enters a relationship with the shy Ben Whishaw. Things get even crazier when she meets and falls in love with her father's new, young girlfriend, Carey Mulligan. Family drama ensues.

I'm not really entitled to comment upon my own piece...hehe. ;)

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And the winner is...

"You Can't Love Her", by SIMON!

Congratulations Simon! You win my undying love, as well as the ability to pick the cast for the next Logline Challenge if you should accept.

As all of you know, the voting was horrendously close (there was a tie until like, the last two hours of voting), so thank you so much to all of you who entered and voted...I bet you can't wait until the next one! ;)

I Want YOU...

...to go vote in the Logline Challenge contest! We've only got two days left to vote and there's a tie so far so go read the pitches and vote.

That is all.

Fantasy Logline Challenge No. 1: The Pitches

About a week ago, I gave you all a mission. It was to take this wonderful cast...

...and to create your own plot summary utilizing them. I got only TWO entries!!! You lazy people! JK. But, these two entries were both quite brilliant. Since there was such a low number, I decided to throw in my own idea as well.

So, now, I present you with the three loglines that will be competing for your vote at the bottom of this post. They're a bit lengthy, but I assure you, they're definitely worth the read. So here you go!

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Pitch 1: Pint of Bitters

Michael Caine and Maggie Smith are a long-married couple with a rocky history involving career sacrifice, fights, loss of their only child, and, as the story opens, Caine's debilitating illness that requires Smith's constant attention, along with that of a chipper visiting nurse (Kim).

During a rare moment when Smith is out of the house, Caine comes upon some mementos of her youth and shares the stories entailed with their nurse, becoming guilt-ridden for what he now sees as his cavalier treatment of her. A few nights later, during his birthday party, after blowing out his candles, he confides in her that he wished she could be a bird again, and lapses into a coma.

After getting him to hospital, Smith goes home to sleep...and wakes up a young woman (Mulligan). When the nurse comes over, Mulligan only convinces her she is the wife by showing a scar on her body left behind by one of the arguments she had with Caine in their youth. After some time mulling about the circumstance, and no change in Caine's inert status, Kim takes her now-young boss on youthful exploits, so that indeed she can indulge in the fun she had given up to be a wife and homemaker.

It would appear her youth is tied to his coma - when he shows signs of activity, Mulligan shows signs of aging - and on one day when he is alert and speaking, she is thrust into her old self as Smith. Thus she must decide whether to let him be fully awake and be old again, or let him "sleep" so she can have her second chance at youth.

Written and Directed by Audrey Wells. Music by Pete Townsend.

Pitch 2: You Can't Love Her

Nigel (Michael Caine), an old man on the verge of dementia, begins to hallucinate of his dead wife Emma (Maggie Smith), meanwhile entering into an illicit affair with a young nurse sent to care for him (Kim Ok-Bin). Mi-do, the nurse, is applying for British citizenship and initially hopes the community service will put her in favor of the immigration offices, but finds herself falling in love with the old charge, much to his chagrin.

All the while, Nigel's distant daughter Karen (Carey Mulligan), and her American boyfriend Luke (Wild Card: Joseph Gordon-Levitt) have gotten pregnant, and Karen contemplates telling Nigel, while Luke frets with the thought of being a father. Coincidentally, Karen is Mi-Do's immigration advisor, and soon the women learn of their connection. Can these circumstances bring the unlikely family together, or tear them apart.

Pitch 3: Father's Girls

Roger and Emma Woodard (Caine and Smith) are a long-divorced couple. Roger is a retired lawyer, and Emma is a successful novelist. Their adopted daughter, Sarah (Kim) is now a bubbly florist who deeply loves both. Despite Sarah's confusion regarding her own sexuality, she meets a shy man, Adam (Wild Card: Ben Whishaw) in her shop and the two begin a relationship.

However, things get thrown for a loop when Emma and Sarah meet Roger's new girlfriend - the young, beautiful, and mildly enigmatic Alexandra (Mulligan). Emma immediately dislikes her, though she no longer has feelings for Roger, and Sarah begins to fall in love with her, though at the same time she resents her for being her father's girlfriend though they are basically the same age.

This not-really-romantic dramedy deals with the impact of the complex relationships between these family members and lovers and how finding love isn't always for the better.

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So there you have it, the two marvelous submissions, and mine. Haha! I'm not telling you who wrote what, though if you see yours up here, feel free to tell people you're participating and link to have them vote. I'm not going to vote myself, but please get people to participate!

The winner gets to pick the cast for the next Logline Challenge.

VOTE AWAY IN THE SIDEBAR!!

This is Your LAST CHANCE!

Hey peeps, I just want to remind you that today and tomorrow are your last chances to enter my Fantasy Logline Challenge! I mayyyy extend the deadline to next wednesday if I don't get enough submissions, but I'd prefer for you all to send them in tomorrow. Even if your logline is a remake of Twilight, please enter! The more entries the better it will be. :)

Thanks a ton!

Fantasy Logline Challenge No. 1!

I'm going to try something new, fun, and potentially exciting right here on the ol' blog! It's a way to get my readers' and fellow bloggers' creative juices flowing, and it should be a lot of fun.

I like to call it...the Fantasy Logline Challenge!!!!

Each time that we play this little game, I'll give you a few actors that are to be in your cast, along with a couple of other guidelines. Then you, the reader, formulate a logline for an "upcoming film" to be made according to these parameters.

The logline for your movie can be as detailed or as vague as you like, as long as it identifies the roles of each of the featured actors and gives some idea as to plot. If you want, feel free to say who you want to direct the movie, score the movie...go crazy! Anything goes, really.

The main point is: FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES! You HAVE to talk about all of the provided actors. Be sure to also give your movie a title. The rest is up to you!!!

Then, after a week, we'll put up the submissions and let you guys vote for who you think came up with the best idea.

So let's get started.

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Here's your cast...

Michael Caine

Maggie Smith
Carey Mulligan

Ok-Bin Kim

One Wild Card: in case there's any actor you really need to make it work

Alright...have fun everybody, and GO CRAZY!