The original post: /r/movies by /u/TheLastUltimatum06 on 2024-12-29 18:23:49.
So, I have the broad strokes of a story idea, but I am by no means a writer, as you will see. But I wanted to put it here so I can know how corny it actually is (most of the stuff I write is usually pretty corny), and (after watching the video by Daniel Thrasher a month ago) I want to know if this is already a movie. I came up with this a while ago while listening to Trope Talks by Overly Sarcastic Productions, so I’m putting it here so maybe I can move on and think of something else 😅
DnD Honor Among Theives kinda environment Opens with a guy with the looks of a comic book superhero (minus the elaborate costume) fighting his way through a group of people with a dagger or short sword or something in each hand. He is an excellent fighter and is absolutely demolishing everyone there, Legolas style. A voiceover comes on as he’s fighting and says something along the lines of, “So, where to begin? My name is _, and that’s me. Oh, did I mention that I’m the “Chosen One”? I was picked out at a young age and have been training all my life to “Save the World”. I didn’t really care for it at first, but, frankly, I am awesome at this.” (As he does a dramatic looking double kill) “This is my team” (as the camera pans to a rag-tag team Honor Among Thieves or Guardians of the Galaxy Style as he goes by and saves their lives one by one really leaning into the epic chosen one look) “they’re only together because of me and I’m the only thing holding them together, who knew I’d have to save my friend group while saving the literal universe? I’ve found that one of those is significantly easier than the other, go figure. And right now I’m on my way to finish the task and stop _*” (Insert world ending catastrophe) “but first-“ (as he’s dramatically walking through the mostly empty battlefield a fallen enemy laying on the ground suddenly stands and stabs him in the back through the heart and out his chest) “WAIT WHAT?!” (As he falls to the ground) “HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?! No No No NO!!! This isn’t supposed to go like this! I Can’t DIE, I’M THE ONLY ONE PREVENTING THE DESTRUCTION OF EVERYTHING!!!” His friends rush over to find him dead. “It’s fine, It’s fine. They know what to do when I die” His friends fight, but finally decide to do what he told them to in the event that he dies. They begin to take him to the resurrection pit (creative name, right🙃) that is great enough to raise up someone as powerful as the Chosen One. The Chosen One is occasionally still giving some monologue and talking to the viewers on the way. His Team have to get through some obstacles and travel a good way to give character growth and define their personalities and abilities. When they get to the pit they try to resurrect him but something goes wrong and it doesn’t work. The Chosen One is telling them what they’re doing wrong and shouting at them about the end of the world and to figure it out, but, obviously, they can’t hear him. He eventually says something along the lines of “This isn’t what’s supposed to happen! It’s supposed to all end happily ever after, not they failed and earth burned. I’m going to go talk to someone here about resurrecting myself, surely they’ll make an exception for me. You, stick with them and make sure they don’t do something stupid.” After camping for the night, his team decides that raising him from the dead is a lost cause, they assume he must have been dead for too long or he’s too powerful for the pit to work, and decide to take on the world ending threat by themselves. They take it on and succeed - barely. We find out that, though no one knew it, the Chosen One’s really purpose was to assemble a team that has all of his attributes but is more than one person that can take the evil on. And the Chosen One’s monologue, when he comes back, shows that, while he’s happy they took out the threat, he’s a little upset that he didn’t get to do it. (Maybe a sequel can come with him as the Bad Guy jealous and bitter that he didn’t save the world and get the credit ¯*(ツ)_/¯)