I was looking at the annual "Black List" of supposedly best unfilmed scripts for 2013 ( http://io9.com/the-best-unfilmed-scr...bla-1484610459 ) and realized how amazingly crappy they were. Heck I can do better than this! So while I won't say it's sufficiently creative to be in the creative thread, here I go.
A geneticist and a sociologist in the very near future are working on a research paper relating to the origins of evil. They make two discoveries. Firstly, there IS an actual evil gene. Not everyone who has it does evil but everyone who does real evil as in murder, rape, torture etc has it. Secondly this gene is triggered by environmental stress. This is the reason it doesn't always manifest. Basically they've got the common sense nature / nuture aspects figured out. Fearing the implications of the work, the sociologist is against publishing while the geneticist feels it's too important to hide whatever the consequences. Ultimately the sociologist murders the geneticist to keep it secret, whereupon we discover said sociologist has the gene.
That's about the same length as the pitches on the black list, so what do you think? Do I have it in me to be a hollywood mogul or what? :P
A geneticist and a sociologist in the very near future are working on a research paper relating to the origins of evil. They make two discoveries. Firstly, there IS an actual evil gene. Not everyone who has it does evil but everyone who does real evil as in murder, rape, torture etc has it. Secondly this gene is triggered by environmental stress. This is the reason it doesn't always manifest. Basically they've got the common sense nature / nuture aspects figured out. Fearing the implications of the work, the sociologist is against publishing while the geneticist feels it's too important to hide whatever the consequences. Ultimately the sociologist murders the geneticist to keep it secret, whereupon we discover said sociologist has the gene.
That's about the same length as the pitches on the black list, so what do you think? Do I have it in me to be a hollywood mogul or what? :P