My brother had the bright idea a while back for a double-sequel disaster movie called Armageddon 2: Deeper Impact: The Moon. I personally think it should be made, since all the intellectual properties (that’s industry talk for “ideas”) seem to have run dry. Also it allows for the filming of this small segment of script, all I really remember from the idea.
(A man exits a bar into an eerily lit night, the camera swoops in from above and slowly zooms on him)
Man: Oh my god! Oh my GOD! (Runs ten feet to the left, reacts in horror. Runs ten feet back to the right, reacts similarly. Close up on face, a white light reflecting in his eyes.) The moon! It’s getting bigger!
(Cut to shot of a moon looming high above various landmarks. The Hollywood sign, Washington Monument, and of course, the Eiffel Tower. It’s not a disaster movie if you don’t blow up or at least threaten Paris)
It makes perfect Hollywood sense to me. Then you send Ben Affleck to blow up the moon or something. Attach a rocket, invent some sort of enormous gyroscopic mounting arm that screws into the north pole so the moon can rotate around the earth like in a model of the solar system.
Someone work up a budget on this thing, I’ll flesh out the script.
RJC
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