You've heard about it, you know it's well-made, excellent, and profound. You're sure that if you watched it, it would be worthwhile in the end.

But you can't.

What's that movie for you?

For me, it's Room. I'm sure it's great, but I do not have the heart to watch it. I'm hyper-sensitive to that kind of story, and I don't think I ever want to see it, however good it may be.

Just copying the conversation for posterity and accountability. We can post the images here as we work through them.

[Teague Edit: Colors and stuff. Read it from the bottom up.]

Saniss: I see a Sharknado-style movie.
BigDamnArtist: The thing I love about that is it could be a war movie, or it could be a sitcom.
BigDamnArtist: "They outlasted the dinosaurs. But can they outlast each other?"
Writhyn: Although I guess it's not really about humans. Oh well.
Writhyn: "They outlasted Dinosaurs. What chance does humanity have?"
Writhyn: Another tagline:
Saniss: I love that first sentence.
Teague: point being, "super-duper-thumbs-up," but. first way is funnier.
Teague: this sentence is fun for me in its impenetrability.
Teague: I am all the fuck thumbs over here.
Saniss: Just wait till Teague reads all this.
BigDamnArtist: I fukin love this forum.
Saniss: (When I say I can it'll probably be next week)
Saniss: I can work on a quick draft to have the main elements and text in place and we'll review it together.
Saniss: Sure. Thanks.
Writhyn: btw I'd be happy to help with background stuff (moon, stars, typography) or whatever if you've got a lot on your plate. I'm not much of an artist but I can definitely do that kinda stuff
Writhyn: because that shit is brilliant
Writhyn: And depending on how you like the process, you really should just make a second poster for Croconauts VS Astrogators 2: Tipping the Scales
Writhyn: or Asylum, at least
Writhyn: gains traction, hollywood contacts you with a movie deal
Writhyn: I'll bet if you made it available to buy from a print-on-demand, people would totally dig it
Saniss: I like it.
Writhyn: poetic ambiguity ftw
Writhyn: or "Whichever wins this race, ours is doomed"
Saniss: Heh
Writhyn: "Whoever wins the race, our race is doomed"
Saniss: This is happening. It might take a while, but I'm on board.
Writhyn: *moved to tears* It's beautiful
Saniss: With the moon in the background.
Writhyn: freaking yes
Writhyn: yes
Saniss: Possibly with lasers.
Saniss: What I'd love is an Apollo and a Soyuz spacecraft going at each other.
Saniss: Maybe.
Writhyn: Maybe just mirror this on the left with an alligator holding an "american" flag?
Writhyn: I see it. But I do think we should get an alligator in there, too. Cause of the VS part.
Saniss: With red eyes and sharp teeth
Saniss: Change the stars in the background with crocodile heads
Writhyn: That's awesome.
Saniss: Oh. Now this has got some potential.
Writhyn: and the only obvious differences between the two are: alligators have smoother snouts and concealed teeth.
Saniss: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73 … b968db.jpg
Saniss: Think I can find one with more style
Saniss: http://www.madrimasd.org/blogs/Cienciay … onaut1.jpg
Saniss: There are several
Writhyn: hm...what's the gagarin painting?
Saniss: Wait, no, crocodile. Alligators are USA.
Saniss: Writhyn> I know I'm gonna take the popular drawing of Gagarin in his spacesuit and replace his head with that of an alligator.
Saniss: Yup, that's clever.
Saniss: Didn't know about the original expression.
Saniss: Holy shit.
BigDamnArtist: *bows*
Writhyn: you win the internet today
Writhyn: plus 5000 for "tipping the scales"
Writhyn: oh. OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH
Writhyn: with reptilian jaws framing it
Writhyn: ok. A bipedal Alligator and Croc, standing back to back with their muscled arms crossed, with two rockets rising in the background, and the moon at the top...
BigDamnArtist: Croconauts VS Astrogators 6: Tipping The Scales.
Writhyn: so I think we're good
Writhyn: which, to be fair, was brilliant
Writhyn: and USA/USSR
Writhyn: Yeah. I think we kinda exhausted it with the poster ideas
Saniss: (my reptilian lexical field is very limited)
Saniss: Croconauts VS Astrogators 5: "Houston, we have a reptile"
Writhyn: Crocon4uts VS Astrog4tors
Saniss: "Fight the Rebel scum!"
Writhyn: in '50s style
Writhyn: I've been alternating between "The Empire needs you!" and "Join the Rebel Alliance" posters on my PC for awhile
Saniss: Croconauts VS Astrogators 3: Colder Blood
Writhyn: Croconauts VS Astrogators 2: The people they killed...are back for revenge.
Saniss: That kinda stuff. Cracks me up.
Saniss: http://www.2tout2rien.fr/wp-content/upl … ace-11.jpg
Saniss: I'll think about the poster thing. I'd love to study the 1950s propaganda style.
Saniss: Makes me think of a zombie version. "From their graves, they shall rise... And they shall rise high."
Writhyn: "From the swamps of Everglades, and the mists of the Nile, they will rise"
Saniss: I also like the cold blood thing.
Saniss: Cool, that.
Writhyn: Croconauts VS Astrogators: Whichever wins, mankind loses
Writhyn: eh. Yeah. I'll think about it at work, but I'm serious. Make it, I'll buy it from a poster print place.
Writhyn: "Their blood is colder than Space"
Saniss: We need to work on a cool caption. Something along these lines but with a better payoff.
Saniss: "Whoever gets to the Moon first... Mankind is doomed!"
Writhyn: Do it. Please. If you make a sick as poster for a reptilian space race, I will pay to have it printed. One for you and one for me
Saniss: You know, in a 1950s propaganda style.
Saniss: I kinda want to make a poster for this now...
Saniss: caiman. Goddammit, why can't I write.
Saniss: Holy camian, Batman!
Writhyn: IT WRITES ITSELF!
Writhyn: United States of Alligators
Writhyn: Holy carp, that sounds badass
Writhyn: Union of Soviet Socialist Reptiles
Saniss: "Ever wondered what the R in USSR stood for? That's right. REPTILIAN."
Saniss: Oh man, totally.
Writhyn: I'd watch that
Writhyn: It's basically a violent version of the space race, where US and USSR has become anthropomorphized alligators and crocodiles
Writhyn: Fair enough
Saniss: Yes but the caption will sell better.
Writhyn: Isn't space inherently in their names?
Saniss: (in theaters near you soon)
Saniss: In space.
Writhyn: Astrogators VS Croconauts!
Saniss: I DON'T CARE
Saniss: Spacegator should be the name for a bigass mothership.
Writhyn: Since crocs and gators are different species...
Saniss: Croconauts sorta has a ring to it.
Saniss: Yeah.
Writhyn: That's just a mouthful
Saniss: Cosmoreptiles.
Writhyn: Astrodiles.
Writhyn: Astrocrocs?
Saniss: *Croconauts
Saniss: Corconauts.
Saniss: Spacegators.
Saniss: Send them to space.
Writhyn: http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/22/11735 … ator-study
Writhyn: And now its alligators are being replaced with NILE CROCODILES.
Writhyn: lol but yes, florida is a hellpit.

A few days back, I brainstormed an idea to make a sort of story out of nothing but the radio transmissions of a crew working on something in space.
A found-transmission story, if you will. So I wrote a short intro script, and made a recording out of me, me, me, and me, to get a feel for the idea

I welcome, welcome, welcome any ideas you can throw at me. Let me know what you think could make it better. I'd like for this to really be interesting. Audio, dialogue, or character-wise.

Also, anyone who's interested (I know a few of you mentioned it), tell me if you'd be interested in recording dialogue for the full story (or maybe the first episode;)

Here's the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B34wSs … sp=sharing