The One-Page Screenplay: The Robotard 8000's Attempt #3
In The One-Page Screenplay. we approach screenwriters we like and ask them to compose a script that exists on a single page -- a sort of movieku. We then scan the page and share it with all of you. It's a pretty simple but challenging format (imagine asking P.T. Anderson to boil his vision down to one page), but it also offers limitless creative possibilities. And what better way to illustrate that than with the sprawling space opera Attempt #3, by the filthy and hilarious members of anonymous screenwriting collective The Robotard 8000?
The Background: The world may never learn the true identities of The Robotard 8000, a group of screenwriters allegedly repped by top agencies who wrote a spec "too incendiary and too awesome" to exist in traditional development streams. Passed surreptitiously from Hollywood-type to Hollywood-type in a grease-stained, brown paper bag, Balls Out soon developed a passionate and loyal following, its tale of a human doormat taking charge of his life after a near-death experience sending their peers scrambling for the right superlatives to describe it. ("Like watching children paint with shit," says Zodiac writer James Vanderbilt). If you'd like to read it, they've made it available for download at their official online headquarters.
The Official Bio:
The Robotard 8000 is what happens when some of the most writers combine with technology to form the greatest sentient being ever created in the history of fuck yeah. As a monotheistic screenwriting entity, they seek to produce quality. And have. And will. With their groundbreaking screenplay called "BALLS OUT", The Robotard 8000 achieved better than. But now they seek more. Wet more.
The One-Page Screenplay:
Comments
Reads like a summary of the entire series of LOST.
These people win the Internet. I can't see how Michael Bay isn't attached to this, he totally would have jumped at it back in the Propoganda days.
Just epic. EPIC!!
Can this be produced in time for this summer? 'Cause it's the only movie I want to see.
You laugh, but this is the type of shit that gets greenlit on a frighteningly regular basis.
I'm having Project Greenlight flashbacks. Make it stop!
Yeah.
We know.
You sound like somebody who wasn't that impressed with the Star Trek reboot.
Bravo, Tard.
Half of us wasn't.
The talented half.
oy.
Jeff Lowell just e-mailed us to tell us ours was the best.
As such, he joins the ranks of Rian Johnson, John Turman, Brandt and Haas and Orson Welles in proclaiming a similar sentiment.
Turman just changed this vote. Eat my dust.
BRRRRAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNDDDDT!!!!!
Seriously, that was pretty weak.
Shut the fuck up, Steve.
We're GENIUSES!
Dude.
You're re-running our groundbreaking entry?
What the fuck?
Does this mean we won this thing?
(Fuck YEAH we did...)