Tuesday, December 17, 2002
I've been brewing over this one story for a while now...
It's a play on a theme that I've explored before - reality as a dichotomy; the idea of parallel worlds of reality and dreams, of the ordinary and the magical. No, it's not the sequel to The Longest Journey, but, obviously, the two concepts aren't worlds apart (no pun intended). They're both about discovering there's more to the universe than expected, and they're both about young people who find that they possess powers and abilities they never knew they had.
This story, this universe, is called Flipside (for the time being), and it's more "kiddie-friendly" than TLJ - no cussing, no sex, and the protagonists (there are several) are much younger than April. I actually pitched the concept to Nickelodeon earlier this year - they were looking for a new contemporary fantasy property, something that might capture the imagination of the Harry Potter set, and they asked me to submit an idea. So I did. They loved the first pitch, but when I fleshed it out more, they felt it was too serious and too adult - they wanted something funnier, more irreverent, like Shrek - so they passed on it. Go figure. Still, it was good fun, and I'm left holding a pretty strong concept that could work well as a TV-show, movie, cartoon, comic-book, novel...
Lots of possibilities, and I'm just now trying to figure out what to do with it.
Earlier this afternoon, I walked around Oslo taking a few pictures with my - now apparently outdated, dammit! - digital camera. Here's one of 'em, scaled down to fit into my slim journal:
Snow, chilly air, and afternoon sunlight. Pretty.
More later.
It's a play on a theme that I've explored before - reality as a dichotomy; the idea of parallel worlds of reality and dreams, of the ordinary and the magical. No, it's not the sequel to The Longest Journey, but, obviously, the two concepts aren't worlds apart (no pun intended). They're both about discovering there's more to the universe than expected, and they're both about young people who find that they possess powers and abilities they never knew they had.
This story, this universe, is called Flipside (for the time being), and it's more "kiddie-friendly" than TLJ - no cussing, no sex, and the protagonists (there are several) are much younger than April. I actually pitched the concept to Nickelodeon earlier this year - they were looking for a new contemporary fantasy property, something that might capture the imagination of the Harry Potter set, and they asked me to submit an idea. So I did. They loved the first pitch, but when I fleshed it out more, they felt it was too serious and too adult - they wanted something funnier, more irreverent, like Shrek - so they passed on it. Go figure. Still, it was good fun, and I'm left holding a pretty strong concept that could work well as a TV-show, movie, cartoon, comic-book, novel...
Lots of possibilities, and I'm just now trying to figure out what to do with it.
Earlier this afternoon, I walked around Oslo taking a few pictures with my - now apparently outdated, dammit! - digital camera. Here's one of 'em, scaled down to fit into my slim journal:
Snow, chilly air, and afternoon sunlight. Pretty.
More later.
