Challenge: Create a trailer for an AH film!

(Space. We see a rock flying through Space, towards something we slowly begin to recognizes as Earth. Camera pans back and we see that it is a whole swarm of rocks, just as they begin to enter the Atmosphere, and soon we see the impacts.)
Flash
(We see the camera slowly descending through thick cloud cover. We are over London, a London that is definitely covered in Ice. The Camera rolls through the streets and we see that this is a rather old and chaotic London. Dead Bodies lie on the street. We go towards Parliament and see writing in the centre of the picture.)

1878​

[The camera flashes moves again, this time down the Thames, and as we go by we see British Soldiers wearing Red Uniforms under their thick coats blasting holes in the Ice, and the Camera Flashes again. We see a dock in some coastal City. There are more Victorian Soldiers standing there, firing volleys into some sort of crazed mob, while in the background ship after ship is leaving.]

Disaster sends the world into turmoil.​

[The Camera cuts to more southernly and definitely warmer regions. We see a city somewhere in India, with the Union Flag over it all. It cuts again and we see Cavalry charging over open ground.]

Generations later, the humanity is looking forward again.​

[GIANT AIRSHIP!]

Peshawar Lancers
 
Based on Shared Worlds....

(Map of Nazi Germany in 1944.)
Announcer: As a nation collpases...
(Seens of Nazi siilders falling back, Stalingrad, and D-Day.)
Announcer:Despreate measures are taken...
(Woods in Germany, sveral SS Guards around a pot, chanting.)
SS:(Chants)
(Flask of light, scenes as the Grim Reaper kills every one in ten people on Earth.)
Announcer:And desperation comes to Earth.
(Surrvivors living in settlemants, the camera zooms out, eventually showing the Earth, then fades to black.)
Annoucer:Now, 65 years later, the world comes back to life.
(Flags raised, map of world as nations grow.)
Announcer:The world faces many anew threats as life rebuilds.
(Vampires attacking and looting, giant spiders prwing India.)
Announcer:Come see this world of terror and intruige in
Rise of the Mage
in theaters this Fall.
 
Blank screen

Announcer: In 1983 World War Three was only just aborted

Cuts to a clip of Petrov looking at some blips on a radar screen

Blank Screen

Announcer: But what if World War Three had...

Cuts to a clip of Yuri Andropov with his finger hovering over a button

Announcer: Happened

Cuts to clip of Yuri Andropov pressing the button

Silence as a ICBM flies through the air aimed at DC

Screen flashes black then cuts to a picture of a nuclear explosion.

Loads of clips with people in barracks with guns and nukes going of everywhere and then the screen goes blank again, and there is silence except for a little girl screaming which is silenced.

Announcer: World War Three coming this fall
 

Hashasheen

Banned
In 1900, the world undertook a change.

Fades into a man riding a camel into the night.

A man promised power, immortality and fame

Two men arguing before the embrace and agree.

Prepare yourself (V.o)

Still Black, a laud scream in the background

Cuts to a battlefield in the desert, dark-skinned soldiers firing at one another.

Cuts to a small city where an elderly man is making a speech.

Suddenly

ALLAH HU AKBAR!

Cheering, and then silence.

A vassal wages war against his overlord

Cuts to a number British officers training the previous men in the use of armored cars.

Cuts to two different flags, that of the Ottoman Empire and of the Sharifian.

Empires will rise and fall

Cuts to an Japanese flag being raised over Beijing, and a riot in India

Morality and Humanity will be stretched to their limits

Cut to Killing Fields in China.

Cut to a nuke being detonated

FIND OUT 6.5.10

RISE OF THE HASHEMITE CALIPHATE
 
Fade in:
Scenes of attack, of airplanes bombing ships, strafing buildings . . .
V.O.: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 --- a date which will live in infamy --- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan . . .

Cut to:
USS Walker, a decrepit flush-decker destroyer, shabby and battered.

V.O.: "After Pearl Harbor, a handful of rickety old ships, abandoned, broken, tried to hold the line against the might of Imperial Japan on the march."

Pan in on the bridge: COMMANDER REDDY is staring into the sunlight. He looks utterly exhausted, absolutely worn-out.

REDDY: "Seen anything since that storm, Mr. Garrett?"

LIEUTENANT GARRETT: "There's a couple of guys there. Pick them up?"

REDDY nods.

Cut to
Two men on a wrecked boat.

COMMANDER REDDY is looking down on them with LIEUTENANT MALLORY of the Army Air Force and MR BRADFORD, a civilian.

MALLORY: "He won't be rescued but he says we can pick up his officer."

REDDY nods again.

Sailors lower a rope and begin to pull the unconscious Japanese officer up.

BRADFORD: "Goodness gracious!"

A big ugly scaly thing rears up out of the sea and swallows the boat and its passenger whole.

V.O. "They had escaped the Japanese Navy. But their escape was to another world, a world of dinosaurs and perils, of cat-people and a war even more dire than the one they had left."

The heaving waves die down and the screen fades to black.

DESTROYERMEN: INTO THE STORM
Coming soon to a theater near you.
 
Found this on deviantart, thought you guys would like it.

http://nightlink.deviantart.com/art/Give-Em-Hell-Lincoln-121763896
Give___Em_Hell_Lincoln_by_nightlink.jpg
 
[A man on a horse riding. Should be in Mongol dress, as his horse gallops through the steppes of Hungary]​


[Title Card Shows: 1405 AD, which then morphs into: 738 After Hegira, the third year of the Yongli Empire]​

[The Horse Rider aproaches an abandoned villages. Corpses litter the streets and his disgust is obvious. Nothing is living in the village. A few seconds of Silence as he looks around and begins to climb a hill. As he approaches the top he sees a man. The mongol looks at him and points to a dead body and the empty houses. All sounds should be muted]
Mongol (In Mongolian): Where are they?
Romanian man (In Romanian): Dead. All dead.
[He points away from the hill and the camera turns revealing an abandoned valley, where ruined farms and fields lie. The Burned remnants of a wont can be seen. Cut to Black]​

Announcer: Christendom is dead
[Cut to major European cities of the Early 1400s, Paris, Constantinople, Florence. Emphasize major landmarks. All Abandoned and decayed. Chinese and Arabian music plays in the background, pace should get increasingly rapid.]
Announcer (cont'd): And in its place
[Cut to images of Islamic settlers on the Rhine doing the morning prayers, Chinese junks on the shores of America]
Narrator (cont'd): Others shall rise,
[Rapid cuts to an Islamic man performing experiments in Samarqand, Chinese explorers landing on the Coast of mexico to an Aztec Host, Iroquois armed with rifles marching, Indian Railroads and Zeppelins destroying a Muslim Occupied constantinople]
Narrator (cont'd): and fall.
[Show images of WWI era weapons and a few tanks as they rush across a gray and muddy battlefield. In the background the Taj Mahal can be seen, then rapidly other images of the long war, Iroquois guerrillas ambushing an islamic patrol, aerial dogfights above Russia. Sudden Cut to Black]
Narrator (Cont'd): These are...
[Dramatic Blocky lettering in culturally influenced fonts:

Kim Stanley Robinson's: The Years of Rice and Salt

I think this will be an excelent film, trilogy or miniseries
 
Wow, thanks guys. I'm glad you like it. The Years of Rice and Salt is definately my favorite published AH. However I think its to philosophical for it to be adapted to the Screen in any realistic universe. I mean i can just see the screenwriter/suit conversation right now:

Suit: So, let me get this straight. Its a back with no white characters, about a group of people who are reborn with lots of allusions to Buddhist thought?
Screenwriter: Yeah, exactly!
Suit: ... I know of some really cheap flights to Mumbai...
 
Fade in skyline of a ruined New York City and cue voice-over...

October,1972.Ten years have passed since a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba escalated into full-scale nuclear war and left America's greatest metropolis a radioactive wasteland...

Fade to mastheads for the Boston Globe and the London Times...

Now a pair of journalists with unconventional backgrounds will attempt to piece together the truth behind the events that led to the darkest day in human history....

Cut to special effects shots of the White House,the Kremlin,and the Hollywood sign being vaporized by nuclear fireballs...

...and learn the motives behind a rebellion brewing in the back alleys of some of America's most famous cities...

Fade to crowd shots of protestors marching through Boston,San Francisco,and Chicago...

Resurrection Day.Directed by Jerry Bruckheimer.Based on the novel by Brendan DuBois.

Cut to title card:"Resurrection Day is June 1st,2007".Then roll main credits and fade out.
I'd like this one... :)
*Wolf whistle*

[Image of a Lizard in smeared body paint shaking]

{Steel Drum music starts}

"They're back again! Those wild Lizards..and now the ginger is really flowing!

"It's Lizards Gone Wild XII, Lizards in Paradise!"

[Image of a Lizard Male, head scales starting to rise and being hidden by superimposed DVD cover]

"You won't believe what these Horny Home Honeys will do for a lick of the brown stuff!"

[Lizard female bends over, DVD cover strategically superimposed]

"But things really get crazy when Shiplord Straha shows up!"

[Straha, mouth open in humor as two Lizard females lick ginger off of his neck]

"But wait...order now and get Donald's Ginger Diaries absolutely free! That's a double-lick: four gingerific hours of lusty Lizard action for one low price!"

[Donald in Tux bodypaint, eye-turrets googling, mouth open with humor, thumbs-up, big bag of ginger in hand]

"Call now!!!!"

"See more action at lizardsgonewild.com!"




Ok...I've scared myself now.:eek:
:D
In 1491 Chinese astronomers observed a comet.

[Image of some chinese astronomers pointing at a comet in the sky]

It was the closest one in historical times. But what if...

[Images of an asteroid falling in a frozen landscape]

What if the second Flood fell on earth...

[Images of the sky darkening with clouds and intense rain falling in a medieval village; images of water covering XV century Venice, London, Seville and Antwep]

What if a new world emerged from the waters...

[images of Rome with channels, of a town being built by the sea, of a sea port by the pyramids of Gizah]

A new world with old conflicts and grudges...

[Images of a galleon firing on a galley with a crescent in the middle of a massive naval battle]
[Images of a beautiful red haired woman dancing in front of an slavic attired as an ottoman officer]
[Images of a man being tortured in a dark cellar]
[Images of spanish tercio troopers fighting by Petra's ruins]
[Images of an old spanish officer drawing a sword and pointing to a huge ottoman army]

The Road to Mount Abarim.

The Crusade after the Second Flood begins

[Images of a man attired as a mayan warrior but with a huge steel saber killing a dark skinned warrior with a turban]

[In black]
Soon on your theater

What's this based on?

v.o.(offscreen)-We never saw it coming.

[images of nineteenth century people going about their lives. Children laughing, people talking, etc.]

v.o-We believed that the era of war and suffering was over.

[images of soldiers putting down their weapons, peace treaties being signed, etc.]

v.o.-All of that changed, when they came...

[camera shows a massive field of slaughtered bodies in the Russian snow, a lone soldier trys to crawl away, fear and agony twisting his face, when a hoof crashes into the ground in front of him. He looks up in terror and screams before there is the sound of a sword swinging down.]

v.o.-The Fae...

[camera zooms in on the mad grin of the beautiful woman with elfin ears atop a horse that is chewing on the severed arm of the man from earlier.

v.o.-We never stood a chance.

[images of soldiers fighting desperate battles against the fae, cities burning, people screaming and running in fear, the fae hunting down survivors. Interspersed between these images is the picture of the world map, slowly being swallowed by the color red until only a few nations remain uncovered.]

v.o.-But now, we may have found a solution.

[image of a mushroom cloud spreading over the Florida swampland]

v.o.-Now, we begin our counterattack.

[images of soldiers under American flags as they traverse the Rockies, Turkish soldiers valiantly defending the Antaolian line as a swarm of Fae approaches, European soldiers capturing the first Fae city, dogfights between fireball-throwing fae and human pilots]

v.o.-I only pray it will be enough...

[image of the Fae superweapon, a mass of sentient vines grabbing soldiers and tearing them apart.]

Radio voice(offscreen)-Avenge the dead, protect the living.



Return of Magic, an RCTFI film, coming this summer.

Not all fairy tales have a happy ending.

It'd be far more interesting than yet another vampire movie, that's for certain...

(Space. We see a rock flying through Space, towards something we slowly begin to recognizes as Earth. Camera pans back and we see that it is a whole swarm of rocks, just as they begin to enter the Atmosphere, and soon we see the impacts.)
Flash
(We see the camera slowly descending through thick cloud cover. We are over London, a London that is definitely covered in Ice. The Camera rolls through the streets and we see that this is a rather old and chaotic London. Dead Bodies lie on the street. We go towards Parliament and see writing in the centre of the picture.)

1878​


[The camera flashes moves again, this time down the Thames, and as we go by we see British Soldiers wearing Red Uniforms under their thick coats blasting holes in the Ice, and the Camera Flashes again. We see a dock in some coastal City. There are more Victorian Soldiers standing there, firing volleys into some sort of crazed mob, while in the background ship after ship is leaving.]

Disaster sends the world into turmoil.​


[The Camera cuts to more southernly and definitely warmer regions. We see a city somewhere in India, with the Union Flag over it all. It cuts again and we see Cavalry charging over open ground.]

Generations later, the humanity is looking forward again.​

[GIANT AIRSHIP!]

Peshawar Lancers

Cool. One tiny point, though - London at the time was a "coastal city", i.e. the docks were still in use.
 
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We cut to a view of a village in the European countryside, with smoke rising and tanks firing, as a famous speech plays.

Winston Churchill (VO): We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans....

We zoom out to a bird's eye view, with famous aircraft, like Spitfires or Messerschmitts clashing in the sky against something unseen.

Winston Churchill: We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be...

We zoom out further, to show a Europe peppered with oversized smokestacks.

Winston Churchill: We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender!

Zoom out into orbit. Giant ships hang over Earth, unleashing waves of fighters and landing craft.

Title: WORLDWAR.

COMING SOON.
 
World War Teaser

(Dark Brass Music quietly plays in the background. The classic coloured photograph of the Yalta fades into reality showing Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin sat down in their seats)

Text: The Second World War 1939-1942

(The Photograph pulls back to show Hitler and Tōjō sitting either side of the Big Three. Volume of the music increases)

Voiceover (rasping, hissing voice): If anyone told you the Second World War ended, it didn’t.

(Map of the World Shows the progression of World War Two through splashes of colour, Axis in Black, Allies in Blue, Soviets in Red, and neutral countries in white. There are brief quotes from history’s leaders heard. Progress continues as normal until 1942 with streaks of orange crossing the map overhead.)

Voiceover : The sides just changed.

(A wave of orange descends from the over the map, simulating the invasion of Earth, where the splashed meets several locations several brief 5 second faded clips play. British and German planes being shot down over Berlin. Soviet and German troops are seen marching together in Poland. American troops are seen battling an unseen enemy in a ruined city in the middle of winter. Japanese and Chinese soldiers fighting side by side in a village.)

Voiceover: Are you ready for a true World War?

(A Moscow covered in snow is seen for a brief moment, the Kremlin is shown the closest. Then a nuclear explosion rips through the southern half of the city, destroy almost everything in sight, the snow evapourates. A mushroom cloud is seen looming over the Kremlin.)

Title: WorldWar (The lower half of the text is engulfed in an orange flood.)

Text: Coming Soon. (A hissing is heard as the trailer ends)
 
( Black screen)
(American voiceover)They say that One man can drasticly change the future
(American tanks rolling over desert land)
But what if We don't want to change it
( Middle eastern People running, screaming, getting shot at)
What if we want it back to the way it was
(American soldiers fighting in a desert battlefield against unseen enemy)
TEAM YANKEE
coming soon
For part two
(Black screen)
(Russian voiceover) They tell my We fight for freedom
(Soviet Jets Flying over Tehran)
That what we do is just and for the common good
(Tanks being blown up on desert battlefield)
Good or not, I know one thing for sure
(Soviet troops in firefight with americans)
They will die, and I shall live
THE SWORDPOINT
coming soon
or for something a little more out there
(Air raid siren over london, people running shouting chaos someone looks up, and there is a space age Chimera Airship)
(Several voices bellow)
WE MUST RESIST!
Resistance the fall of man
coming soon
and now for my personal favorit
(Close up of a japanese soldiers face lying in the ground eyes closed)
(Japanese voiceover)you think you are superior,
(american soldiers walk by)
But I am smater,faster, and braver in defending my home
(Tank rolls by)
and if I am going to die
(Soldiers stop and talk)
then I will take you with me!
(Soldiers eyes open)
(Fast cuts of battle scenes, air raids, ships blowing up and finished with the shot of a nuclear bomb going of)
1945
In theaters This summer
 
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{Show Kennedy speech at the university, commiting us to the moon, puncuated with applause}

Kennedy: We choose to go to the moon! We choose to go to the moon! We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard!

Narrator: So the epic began...

{Footage of Armstrong bouncing on the moon}

Narrator: ...and ended.

{Show video clips of Kennedy funeral, Saturn V being mounted as lawn ornament in front of JSC, stock footage of the construction of the Space Shuttle}

But...

{Moonlab in Lunar Orbit clip}

Narrator: What...

{Apollo-N disaster clip}

Narrator: If...

{Ares assembly in Low Earth Orbit}

Narrator: It didn't?

{Natalie York's first steps on Mars}

Narrator: Voyage. Coming soon to a theater near you
 
*Dark Note, followed by dark ambient music*
A camera pans up from darkness to show men in khaki firing out from trenches
1915. The world is at war.
Cut to shot of two biplanes dog fighting in sky
But that's all about to change, because..
*huge roar like a jet engine*
The dogfight is interrupted as a gigantic meteor flies through the sky between the planes and smashes into no-mans-land
*music stops*
A small golden beetle crawls out of the crater left by the rock. The camera follows it as it scurries under barbed wire to a trench, where it bites a Tommy. He screams and then flattens it with a shovel, sending purple everywhere.
Tommy 1: What the bloody 'ell was that?
Tommy 2: I'm not so sure, though I'm not feeling so good...
*screech*
Cut to image of a strange human-bug hybrid leaping 20 feet, landing on a soldier in grey and starting to eat him
*dramatic string music starts up)
(black screen, writing)
Nothing
*screaming*
A massive swarm of flying bugs with claws and disfigured faces rampaging through an Japanese city
(Black screen, writing)
Will
*
sounds of battle and some abnormal screeching above it*
A huge beetle as big as a house with a cannon attached to it walks across dark ground, with numerous machine guns and tanks firing at it. Its cannon fires, blowing up a tank
(black screen, writing)
Be
(Civilians flee up a San Fransisco street, with numerous men behind a barricade shooting at bugs advancing on them)
(black screen, writing)
The
A zeppelin, with a huge battleship gun attached to its gondola, fires on a swarm of bugs of all shapes and sizes below as infantry flee for their lives
(black screen, writing)
*music climaxes, then cuts out*
Same
*silence except for breathing and light crunching of boots on snow*
Three soldiers creep through the snow in heavy clothing, rifles at the ready. Camera zooms to front man, who jumps as a branch falls to ground in front of him. He screams and fires of a shot.
Soldier 1: Wow! That scared the shit out of me! You guys ok?
Soldier turns around to find blood all over snow and a human-bug hybrid staring him in the face, a crooked creepy smile in its face, blood and bits of flesh and cloth still on its face/teeth.
*screech again, screaming*
Swarm on the Somme
Coming to Theaters near you as soon as Hollywood gets its head out of its ass.
 
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