Monday, September 03, 2007

Looking for a Science Fiction and/or TV writer to work on a project

OK, I'm going to throw this out here and see if anyone is interested. I have an idea for a Sci-Fi series or movie, but I don't have the patience to write it. If anyone out there is into writing SF, or has experience writing for TV, and wants to do this, get in touch with me. I'll consult if you like, but you can take it an run with it as long as I get credit for the idea.

The idea is to follow the history of the Bible from a sort of "Chariot of the Gods"/ Book of Enoch perspective : Yahweh is a captain of a ship of people called the Annunaki, angels are crew members, Jesus is one of them, and there are competing ships or races that become pantheons of other cultures - Isis leads one ship, her lover Osiris is murdered, etc. Moses is talking to a hologram, the ark of the convenant is a radio transmitter that allows the humans to communicate with the ship at great distances, Ezekial is taken aboard a ship he describes a a wheel, etc. We see the story from the perspective of the Annunaki, who are observing and interacting with primitive humans. Some, like Yahweh, intend to establish themselves as deities in the minds of the humans; others, like Isis and Jesus, are trying to help civilization develop along peaceful lines.

There are places on line you can read more about the Annunaki. The twist is to take the audience into the stories from the Annunaki perspective, rather than the perspective of the "patriarchs" that we get in the bible. The Annunaki would be more like modern humans watching a more primitive race, interacting with them and maybe even doing genetic experiments on them.

Speculative non-fiction books have been written about these ideas, but no one has put it into a dramatic format yet, though some series like the original Battlestar Galactica have hinted at it.

Any takers?

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2 Comments:

At 11:48 AM, Blogger Kadaeux said...

I would like to help you with it but my tastes tend to dip towards the more... standard science fiction lines (and i'm writing a book atm.)

But actually if you look deep into science fiction (We are talking real real deep) then you will find a lot closer connections with religion and sci-fi than many might expect, Heros in scifis can often be seen as a Jesus figure (or other placeholder messiah.)

If you want a good look at a science fiction with some very well masked but discoverable links to religion try Peter F Hamiltons: Nights Dawn trilogy.

Or (though fantasy it has elements of scifi) there is Robert Jordans wheel of time series. (In which the main character Rand Al'Thor goes so far as to actually have a crown of swords *thorns* and wounds on his hands as well as a spear thrust in the side.)

 
At 3:37 AM, Blogger leathermenace said...

I actually wanted to do something similar to this but with time travelers going back from our own future.

When they made that first test tube baby I was all over the idea. It took the "miracle" out of the virgin birth for me way back then, and I've always seen Ezekiel 1 as a UFO encounter. Even if he did get kinda stuck on the fact that with four faces "They turned not when they went." LOL

 

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