Not coming to a theater near you! Ever!

[squeequeg]

I tend to dream about movies before I've seen them -- before they come out, usually. This sometimes results in disappointment later on (I'm convinced the 5-minute dream clip I got of Attack of the Clones was just as good if not better than the real movie) or curiosity (I'm sure there wasn't a zombies-in-the-skyscraper scene in that one movie with Benicio del Toro) or, on occasion, a full half hour of lying in bed unable to distinguish between what I know of the movie and what I've just dreamed (Why the hell would Peter Jackson put a Hebrew-speaking dragon in The Two Towers? Oh, wait...he didn't.).

This time, however, it got caught in my usual delusions of grandeur. (Well, delusions, anyway.) I dreamed that I sat down to watch Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Davy Jones' Locker with some friends and said "I'm proud to have been a part of this. They used one of my stories as the basis for some of the plot, you know." This, of course, is not the case, but I was convinced of it in the dream.

Then I sat back, watched a bit, and wondered which idiot marketing executive insisted on the subplot with aliens and fashion designers. Because it took away from the Johnny Depp-Orlando Bloom fight scenes, dammit.

Comments

[farwing.livejournal.com]

That's an awesome dream. *gigglesnort* (Dude, you also need to write a story with a Hebrew-speaking dragon in. The people demand it.)

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

The dream did lend itself to the start of a story, but I haven't gotten much past the dragon and the end of the refugee camp. One of these days I'll figure out where it should go.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

A refugee camp for dragons or is this a Holocaust story?

[squirrelhaven.livejournal.com]

or is this a Holocaust story?

That would be totally awesome! The Ghetto Strikes Back.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Might be -- but I don't think I'm the one to write it. Consider the idea out for the taking.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Actually, neither -- the dragons were chasing the refugees. Everything got kind of garbled after a while. It was definitely high fantasy; big scarred guy with a sword and everything.