I'm writing a movie - help!

[king]

Hi. I'm writing a screenplay that is basically a Zombie movie that also has Sasquatch in it. I know, ridiculous. But it will be awesome.

The reason I'm here is because I think I could utilize some kind of logging facility as a great action set piece where humans are fighting zombies, setting up a defenses, etc. Certainly lots of ways to get hurt in this environment. I'm imagining a truck load of logs being dropped down an embankment toward an oncoming horde. You get the picture.

I know very little about these places other than a little research on the internet and some pictures of trucks carrying logs. So I'm here to see if anyone can offer me anything that can help.

I'm looking for interesting stories, facts, descriptions, ideas, websites I should visit, crazy people you have known, etc. Just need to get the creative juices flowing.

Thanks for the help!

Michael
Los Angeles

 

[andosca]

my suggestion would be don't film that scene from the bottom of the hill

 

[TreePointer]

Need chainsaw and shotgun props? Shop smart, shop S-Mart. Ask for "Ash."

 

[king]

Ha ha ha!

Thx for the shooting tip.

 

[Raymond]

One touch of a piece of material, say a bra will stop a running chainsaw RIGHT NOW!

Just a suggestion. Some zombie character looking at a plugged up saw with a goofy
zombie look. With a dingy patient topless hottie, waiting wondering what to do next.

 

[dingeryote]

New guy on Logging crew from the big city, shows up with a neon green chineese made junk chainsaw. It never starts untill ya fuss with it too long, so the rest of the crew calls him "Wild thang". He gets eaten while trying to start his saw to save the gal running around topless.

Sasquatch swinging a 10' stub by a choker cable would mow down some zombies!!!

LOL!!!! How about a Zombie getting diced up by a harvester!

Gotta involve some felling humor as well. The old timer can drop a tree on a cig pack every time, so why not a Zombie, or a dozen.

Good luck!!

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[windthrown]

Zombies & sasquatch... :monkey:

I think that dingeryote has it right.

...and the winner of the Academy Award for best screen writer is:

dingeryote !!!!!

 

[TreePointer]

Build up the plot line until there seems to be no hope for escape from the brain craving zombie hoard. Suddenly we hear something in the distance, getting closer and louder:

(A boat engine backfires and then chuffs along.)

":censored:, James! Get that :censored::censored: choker :censored: hooked up! :censored::censored: boy, what the :censored:! Zombies, James, on your left, on your :censored: left!...."

(Our hero has arrived.)

 

[king]

Dingeryote, right on.

What is a harvester?
Please describe a 10'stub and chocker cable. It sounds like a badass thing to cut down zombies. Cable with some metal thing on the end?

"wild thang" WILL be a character. So will neon chinese chainsaw junk.

Who wants to see a zombie Sasquatch?

Too much jack daniels tonight!

 

[slowp]

I'd have the zombies declared an endangered species, so yet another restriction on the months one can log is added to the logging contract. No zombies may be killed until a thourogh survey is done to find out what the effects of killing a few might be. No trees may be removed until the zombie survey --NEPA process has been completed.

No explosions in the woods, you'll disturb the nesting owls/eagles/elk. Except in August. Then you may blow up a zombie but only if the industrial fire precaution level is at a one. Or if at a two, before 1:00 PM.

Come October, the wet season hits and once again Zombies will be free from being disturbed because doing so might make the streams muddy.

All of the above would make for a more believable Zombie In The Woods movie.

 

[Billy_Bob]

Of course you would want a lot of sex, violence, blood/guts, etc.

And nothing to do with reality, so make everything up!

Then sources of blood/guts could be large sawmill saw blades, large sawmill "band" blades, tree harvesters, and long chainsaws (can be 48 inches long!).

Perhaps a bunch of high school kids could be having a beer party at a closed sawmill, making out behind the logs :censored:, etc. Little do they know that zombies are near! :help:

For the sawmill blade, there could be a large electrical box with a big red button which says "Saw Blade Release". Then you press this button and the spinning blade comes flying off and flying down hill! (Nothing to do with reality.)

Here is a big blade which could come flying off and head for a pack of high school kids...

Here is a large sawmill "band blade", this could come flying off as well...

Here is a video of a tree harvester. I can imagine a zombie taking control of this and heading for town! (But at the last second, some high school kids find some dynamite (for breaking up log jambs in the river) and blow up the harvester and zombie...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3043829711888168428

Here are pictures of a steam powered mill...
(Between Eugene and Corvallis Oregon)
http://www.garymkatz.com/OnTheRoad/hull_oaks.html

Here is a preview of the above Hull Oaks steam powered saw mill...

 

[howellhandmade]

Hmm. I think the hero has to drive the feller/buncher. One with the big rotary blade would mow down more zombies, the hydraulic chainsaw has to have something grasped in the grapple arms. The rotary blade you could just swing around waist-high for X zombies divided by two.

I'd need to have it explained where all the zombies came from. Is there a graveyard nearby? Maybe it's on the site of an 19th-century logging camp that was zombified, and the zombies know a thing or two about logging.

Jack

 

[TimberFaller660]

Build up the plot line until there seems to be no hope for escape from the brain craving zombie hoard. Suddenly we hear something in the distance, getting closer and louder:

(A boat engine backfires and then chuffs along.)

":censored:, James! Get that :censored: choker :censored: hooked up! :censored::censored: boy, what the :censored:! Zombies, James, on your left, on your :censored: left!...."

(Our hero has arrived.)

lol.

 

[oldirty]

you need head shots for the zombies man. you cut them in half and you got a zombie crawling on the ground that you cant see. an ankle biter if you will.


get jps to play sasquatch. throw a monkey suit on him, he got the height for the role. lol.

let me get some camera time on this project. i gotta see if my dueling 200t's would be able to do the job in close quartered combat.

 

[smithie55]

Build up the plot line until there seems to be no hope for escape from the brain craving zombie hoard. Suddenly we hear something in the distance, getting closer and louder:

(A boat engine backfires and then chuffs along.)

", James! Get that choker hooked up! boy, what the ! Zombies, James, on your left, on your left!...."

(Our hero has arrived.)

Oh my gosh, I almost fell out of my chair.

That thers funny I don't care who you are LOL!!!!!!:greenchainsaw:

I can hear him now.

 

[dingeryote]

Dingeryote, right on.

What is a harvester?
Please describe a 10'stub and chocker cable. It sounds like a badass thing to cut down zombies. Cable with some metal thing on the end?

"wild thang" WILL be a character. So will neon chinese chainsaw junk.

Who wants to see a zombie Sasquatch?

Too much jack daniels tonight!

10' stub or log. Choker cable= cable about 25' long used to skid logs.
For bigfoot it would be akin to swinging a stick around tied to a string.

Idea for ya. Zombies are infected Hippies that came up the mountain to protest the logging in an area near the habitat of some critter or another.
One of the Hippies is the girlfriend of a recently returned Iraq vet that spent his 2 tours looking for WMD's and only found stuff marked for medical use...but was really evil biological warfare stuff developed in WWII by Hitlers gang and it was secreted off by the CIA after exposing the trooper.
So now he's discharged and on the hill with his GF, and all the hippies, when it finally is triggered by some bad mushrooms....LOL.

Bigfoot LOL!!!

Ya gotta do something with Bigfoot messing with the loggers untill the zombies chase bigfoot into camp, where the loggers and bigfoot stomp some azz together...then it's back to the old games like crapping in helmets and rigging leaners LOL!!!

You serious about this project? LOL!!!

It's been a hella long time since Hollywood put out a decent zombie flick...
ya might have a winner with the concept.

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[slowp]

Yes, make the loggers the good guys for once. That would be different from the usual Hollywood stereotype. I have thought that a feller buncher or processor plus a stroke boom delimber would be good for those dead teenager horror movies. A nice yarder might add some color too.

Would Zombies know the correct whistles to use? Would they get cited by the OSHA or State Safety people?

 

[Ske-bum]

Need chainsaw and shotgun props? Shop smart, shop S-Mart. Ask for "Ash."

Yep, you need chainsaws and shotguns, those zoombies aren't going to kill themselves.

 

[bullbuck]

that was some funny #### treepointer!maybe you should look into directing,lol:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[yooper]

yer gonna need to have a whole tree chipper so at the end of the movie you can have the star grappling zombies into it and spraying the blood into the back of a semi chip van.!
Even perhaps a Timco grabbing them and cutting them in half with the hot saw or bar saw. .. a good shot with a few in the accumulator arm squezing there guts out would be cool too!:chainsawguy: