It's a funny old world.

[davywavy]

A few years - about 4 or 5 - ago I had yet another one of my immensely brilliant ideas. I have a lot of these, which range from rubbish to scatalogical to childish to sublime, and as I have no quality control whatsoever so I'm never sure if any of my ideas will ever amount to anything or not.
This idea was a deliberate attempt to create a pitch for a cult film; it was called "Panda Master" and featured a Panda who was wise in the ways of the martial arts played as a comedy action/adventure. I rather liked it as a concept and went so far as to sketch out a few scenes - a training sequence on the side of one of those snowy, pine-covered mountains that litters China in kung-fu movies, and a martial arts fight scene on a frozen lake.
It didn't go all that far and as an idea it got put aside as yet more ideas sleeted into my brain. After all, I thought. What are the odds that a bigshot Hollywood producer would pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for a spec action comedy script about a Kung-Fu Panda?




Oh, Bollocks.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What are the chances of that eh? It's about as likely as a screwball romantic comedy about a millionaire serial widow marrying serial millionaire widower on holiday and between assassination attempts they find themselves actually falling for one another ... I assume you haven't done anything about the intellectual copyright on that one either.

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[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Not much point now you've put it in the public domain. Tsk!

[(Anonymous)]

Copyright is in the expression, not the idea.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

No, it's just one of those ideas that gets bounced round between sister and I and then discarded. Our house is like Pope's salon, only wittier and with better central heating.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

to me there'll only ever be one Kug-Fu Panda: ergo SAOTOME GENMA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genma_Saotome), Ranma's father. "Very tragic accident happen in this spring, Panda one day fall in and drown! Whoever fall in this spring be possessed by spirit of Panda!" AIEEEEEEE etc etc with hilarious consequences.

I wouldn't mind betting that the new Kung Fu Panda may find his parentage lies that way somewhat.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I got about 20 words into the wiki article before my eyes glazed over. I suspect this is why I never got into manga...

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

yeah any article on manga is teh suck.
but i don't "like manga" and i think Ranma 1/2 is the best thing EVER

but anyway, he's THE Kung Fu Panda, don't care what anyone says, AND he was born in the 80s

[ddraiggwyrdd.livejournal.com]

When I was about 11 I entered a Blue Peter competition to design a new game. I called it the Game of Life and you ad to go through life passing exams buying insurance getting married - all the gumph goverend by cards. I got a blue peter badge.
Some years later I was surprised to see my game in a catalogue.
I often wonder how many other kids got ripped off in the same way.

[ddraiggwyrdd.livejournal.com]

What sort of conspiracy theorist would believe that?