Horror TV Watch Party

You will spend the next thirty hours creating a horror-themed television series. The rules are simple. You will have until Saturday, October 16th at 7:00 PM EST to adapt a horror movie into a television series. You must provide the following information:

• Source Material: Provide the name of the movie that you are adapting into a television series.
• General Overview: Give a general idea of how the first season might go. List important plot lines, some key characters, and maybe give us a teaser of how the season finale may be.
• Future: Give us a general idea of what future seasons may explore. It’s important to generate a ton of hype and make people want more.

You will be graded on five criteria: originality, organization, hype, plausibility, and effort.

• Originality (1-10) You will be scored based on how original your television series is. Is this something unique, or is this something we see on television already?
• Organization (1-10) You will be scored based on how organized your pitch is. Is this easy to follow or do you have just a block of text for readers to read through?
• Hype (1-10) You will be scored based on how interesting your idea seems to the judges. Is this something that they want to watch and be excited for? Or does it seem like a flop idea?
• Plausibility (1-10) You will be scored based on how plausible your idea is. Can your source material actually be adapted into a television series the way you pitch it? Is your idea something that can be produced with a reasonable budget?
• Effort (1-10) You will be scored based on how much effort you put into this. Was this submitted right before the deadline or does it look like detail was put into this?

Your tribe may only submit once, so make sure everyone is pleased with your submission before you finalize it. In addition, your submission may NOT exceed a thousand words. Anything that exceeds this limit will NOT be counted. In the meantime, use this time to get to know your fellow tribemates. I will try to have results posted as soon as I can. I should have winners no later than 12:00 AM EST, but if I can get results in sooner, then I might post results early, so keep that in mind.

FINAL DESTINATION: A DEAL WITH DEATH

An Exorcist Production





THE PREMISE

Based on the hit movie franchise Final Destination, our serialized anthology series will kickstart with a fast-paced, high-stakes debut season that explores the curse of death that has befallen certain family members of all those who had premonitions from the movies: Alex Browning, Kimberly Corman, Wendy Christensen, Nick O'Bannon and Sam Lawton.

The number 180 has always been a recurring, ominous presence in the Final Destination series, usually marking death to be imminent. We want to make it an important part of the series, thus having Season 1 take place over 180 years.

Season 1 will consist of seven 43-minute episodes (60-minute episodes including ads).

THE EPISODES

Episode #1: ‘Gone With The Wind’
Our show begins with tragedy. We see the Great Natchez Tornado take place on May 7, 1840, resulting in over 300 casualties, before this scene is revealed to be a vision of Gretta Browning. Though the characters battle to save those they love, they cannot get to everyone and thus many perish in this horrible natural disaster by the end of the episode.



Episode #2: ‘Reduced to Ashes’
The eruption of Mount Pelée on April 23, 1902 will be the focus of our second episode, after it resulted in over 30,000 casualties. Here, we will learn a little more about the ancestors of the descendants we will meet in our final two episodes, with a primary focus on David Corman - the man who has the vision of the volcano erupting but, is confined to an asylum after voicing his concerns. We see him struggling to escape the straitjacket applied to him as the episode ends, he manages to escape, but he only manages to save a few people while so many loved ones perish in the devastation caused by the eruption.



Episode #3: ‘Sinking Ship’
The sinking of the Titanic on April 15th, 1912 resulted in over 1,500 casualties and, is one of the most historic tragedies in the world. This will be our big budget episode, where everything will be thrown in to ensure the audience keeps coming back for more. Elaina Christensen will be getting the vision and face a race against time to get as many people to safety as possible.



Episode #4: ‘When it Rains, it Pours’
In October 1944, the San Lucas Hurricane claimed 318 lives. Michelle O'Bannon actually manages to survive the hurricane after their vision in this episode and it actually appears to the viewer that she may make it, but we see the episode then end with death catching up to her - she is trampled to death by a group of horses, whose eyes are all jet black.



Episode #5: ‘Ready For Takeoff’
The Tenerife Airport Disaster resulted in 583 casualties in 1977, after two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport. Bryce Lawton, who works at the airport, is sent home for the day after seeing the tragedy in a vision, but refuses to leave and does all they can to ensure the planes never take off. Unfortunately they are unsuccessful in their attempts, and we see them take their own life at the end of the episode, jumping from one of the disconnected tunnels which are used to connect airports to airplanes. It is later revealed that their vision did save many who opted to listen and not board the forsaken plane.



Episode #6: ‘Breathe In’
The COVID-19 pandemic is something we could all do with forgetting, but unfortunately, it’s something we all now have to live with. As we move into the modern day and are introduced to the descendants of those ancestors we have watched in the five episodes before, we see them have a vision of this pandemic, but no one listens, so we see each of them deal with grief after losing family members to the coronavirus. One morning, they each receive a black letter via the postal service, inviting them to a private dinner party in memory of their loved ones.



Episode #7: ‘Dealing With Death’
Our big finale. Here, our descendants all meet one another for the first time and discover that they are all linked through their ancestry. Death - who is never embodied as an actual person or being, but instead is simply a presence - has invited them to make a deal. Over 180 years, their ancestors have been messing with death and its plan, too many have survived because of it. If they can all agree on sacrificing just one of themselves, they can stop the family curse.

THE CAST

Gretta/Alice Browning played by Madelaine Petsch


David/Dale Corman played by Logan Lerman


Elaina/Beatrice Christensen played by Maisie Williams


Michelle/Shauna O'Bannon played by Amandla Stenberg


Bryce/Lucas Lawton played by Daniel Kaluuya


SOUNDTRACK

Will feature;

Savage by Megan Thee Stallion
@ my worst by blackbear
Hope ur ok by Olivia Rodrigo
Everything Is Everything by Lauryn Hill
New Normal by Khalid

THE DVD RELEASE

Special features will be included in the first season home release, including interviews with the cast, bloopers, behind the scenes footage and an alternate ending where one of the survivors picks the other descendants off one by one, before looking into the camera and allowing a smile to slowly creep across their face, before the screen goes black and the season ends.

The DVD will also include a teaser for Season 2, which reveals a crossover with modern-day classic, The Cabin In The Woods - in which, spoiler alert, the film ends in survivors deciding humanity is not worth saving in exchange for human sacrifice.