Does anybody else think Sci-Fi channel just goes through the D&D Monster Manual

[Insight]

I read a great article once about the business plan behind these made for sci-fi movies. They actually make them quite a bit of money. It's all filmed in Bulgaria, and usually more than one movie is filmed back to back. "Feedback" had a lot of interesting stories about his appearance in once of those movies, and I am sure "The Defuser" will as well.

It used to be (and I don't know if this is the case anymore) that production folks came up with the ideas for these movies and wrote them without benefit of a WGA screenwriter. That would certainly explain the "quality" of these films.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

It used to be (and I don't know if this is the case anymore) that production folks came up with the ideas for these movies and wrote them without benefit of a WGA screenwriter. That would certainly explain the "quality" of these films.

I thought the quality was because they locked a dozen monkeys in a room with typewriters. Of course 2-3 times a year they take the saving of useing monkeys and accidently hire an up and coming writer who will shortly be too expensive to hire again as soon as someone at another network notices they have talent.

 

[Umbran]

When we see "Meepo" or "Minion Badger" in the list, then we'll know you're on to something.

Or if a "Mansquito" appears in an official monster book...

 

[Brown Jenkin]

The Monster Manual doesn't have nearly enough giant snakes either.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

You make it sound like SCI-FI is hiring D&D players as screenwriters.

Make a bad name for the rest of us.

No...they're hiring bad D&D players as screenwriters. Not that outsiders would realize there is a difference.

Think of it like Chris Rock's routine about what happens to blacks when a "n-<edit>-r" gets a job in the same business.

 

[Richards]

"Feedback" had a lot of interesting stories about his appearance in once of those movies, and I am sure "The Defuser" will as well.

Have we heard what movie the Defuser will appear in yet?

Johnathan