Writting a philosophical sci-fi movie ...?

Question

For an epic-like movie script , that is about a quest of revealing life's secrets , with a sci-fi and philosophical and religious theme ,

a complete and full Fictional univurse with all its mythical history , characters , religions and life style like The LOTR Triology

a deep philosiphical and religious based on hints like The Matrix trilogy

a Symbolic-based and a quest for a truth hunt theme like the DaVinci code.

what elemnts could be missing ?

The plot is mainly about Killing god , discovering the reality and truth about our past , from where we came from , why are we really here ,

super her's powers in the last minutes.

and the ending should be a hint to our "human world" begening , showing the irnoy in all our now days beliefs as being false.

any ideas or inspirations ?

Answer 1

First of all, lotsa luck squeezing all that into ninety minutes, let alone getting a movie deal for three...especially when you're going to rain on everyone's faith at the end.

What I see you doing is making a laundry list of features that will be competing against each other as well as the clock, which is nice in a detergent -- but a formula for disaster (the bad kind of disaster) in a movie.  There's a very good reason why the Ring movies, the Matrix movies, and the The DaVinci code are seperate movies -- because no one movie can, or should, hold all that stuff at the same time as telling a really good story.

That's what you need to do -- tell a good story.  All the high-brow window dressing in the universe won't help if you can't spin a good yarn.  You can't just add features to make a bad story into a good one.

Want some inspiration?

Star Trek V: They kill a god, and almost killed the franchise in that one.

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin -- a story about playing God -- with unexpected results -- find the movie if you can, too.

Michael Moorcock, The Coming of Chaos -- the first three books concerning Corum, The Prince In The Scarlet Robe -- who takes on gods.  The whole Eternal Champion saga may be worth your time and trouble.