As soon as I began working on my new script people started asking me what it was about.
"It's about a modern day superhero with social anxiety disorder who must overcome his fear to save the world from an evil queen."
To which everyone immediately said, "That sounds funny!"
Yeah that's pretty close to high concept right there. You can start thinking of ideas immediately, doncha think? Hilarious ideas?
Except it's not a comedy. In fact this is possibly the bleakest thing I've ever written. Everybody betrays you in the end. No matter who's in charge, we're all screwed. Nobody is who they say they are. Well, all except that one guy, he's pretty cool.
That doesn't mean there won't be funny moments but all in all it's not a funny story. Except that my logline give you a pretty obviously funny setup.
I can either change the story to fit the logline or change the logline to fit the story. Since I'm not much of a comedy writer I have to say goodbye to my perfect little logline. The story is only slightly altered here to prevent thievery, but the gist is there.
But the tone is all wrong and I can't have some executive going Oooooh this will be funny! then reading it and sinking slowly into depression.
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