Scripts
Planet Robinson (full movie-length
pilot)
Three hundred thirty-seven colonists on their way to a life
of adventure in the New Hawaii colonies are attacked half-way out by space
pirates and forced down onto a moon orbiting a giant gas planet. Having fought
off the pirates, the are now marooned on a remote planet known only to marauding
pirates, mercenaries, and other unsavories. Besides such cutt-throats, they
must survive jungle hazards, volcanic disturbances, and who-knows-what.
In the six acts of the pilot movie, you will find:
8 quicksand scenes
6 snake scenes
1 dunking into a nest of insects
4 spider scene
1 tight crawl through a mud-filled cave
1 impaling
1 sex scene (very mild)
1 mauling by big cats
3 characters hit by arrows
1 near hanging
1 appearance by Tarzan
1 sword fight
2 inside jokes for the for the QS fans
Acts I
[One mud scene with submergence but no QS; a large spider, a fencing
without armor scene]
Act II
[A battle in space]
Act III
[Abandon ship]
Act IV
[Crash landing, exploring the jungle, volcanic threats, a murky-water
wade, frightening creatures, a waist-deep mud scene, giant five-legged
spider, submergence in a nest of cockroaches, six-legged crocodile, giant
snake swallows six-legged crocodile, twenty-foot Komodo dragon, Tarzan, chest-deep
mucky wade, quicksand avoided, giant spider, crocodile, fight between spider
and crocodile, captured by pirates]
Act V
[Quicksand scene with triple submergence with single rescue, person
shot with arrow, second quicksand scene with double submergence and single
rescue, big snake, pirate shot with arrow, Skylar and Synda Greystoke, volcanic
eruption, tsunami, pyroclastic flow, lahar (volcanic mud flow)]
Act VI
[Weapons acquired, a long chase, a long swim in a dark cave, snakes
in a cave, a tight crawl through deep mud in a cave with a low ceiling, pirate
mauled to death by large cats, more still being written, eventual rescue
and conclusion.]
Episodes
The following files contain episode fragments: ideas really. They are here
to inspire. You are invited to write all or part of the remainder of one
of these. Write just a few scenes or a lot. Finish the story or leave it
advanced, but still incomplete, for someone else to finish. If you want,
submit a new episode fragment. Submit what you have by email to FRED588@GO.COM
Episode 1 - Untitled
Episode 2 - Fuel
Episode 3 - The Ancient Ones
Episode 4 - The Canyon
Other Files
Character Biographies
Facts
Rules
Episode Suggestions
How to Write and Submit a Script
First, decide if you want to write it by yourself or work
with others. If you want to work by yourself, just write a script following
the few rules given in the "Rules" file above. You may use any of the characters
already established as long as you do not kill them off or change their general
character. You may not, for example, write an episode in which the Captain
turns into a traitor, although you certainly can do one in which he appears
to do so for a while.You may invent characters of your own, in which case,
you may do as you please with them in your episode or any subsequent episode
you write. When it is done, send it by email to: Fred588@GO.COM. Be sure
to place your copyright notice on your manuscript, using your real name or
a pseudonym.
Episodes may be written for ANY length. Remember, we are
calling individual stories episodes, but this is not television. We are not
constained by any need to make stories fit a 22 minute format or anything
of the sort.
Finally, lets all keep our feet on the ground. Although
there is a remote chance that some movie producer might discover our stories
and offer to produce them [and, I think we DO HAVE a unique idea here] the
probability of that happening is roughly the same as playing small-stakes
roulette for five days in Las Vegas and going home with more money that you
started with. Its possible but not exactly likely. [Trust me, I teach statistics,
among other things.]