Champ, once again you have proven to be one of my board muses-this has given me a brilliant idea for a movie.
It?s about an astronaut, George Taylor-I think I?ll use the English actor Jack Huston for some reason-who goes on a long journey into deep space.
In the opening scene Taylor is doing a captains log and giving us a little backstory-traveling near the speed of light which they are, the theory is that while the astronauts have aged just six months, 700 years has passed on earth. Taylor is giving himself a drug to render himself unconscious to continue on to the end of the journey, and wonders if 700 years evolved, has mankind overcome it?s foibles-war, starvation etc.-and is the world a better place?
Taylor wakes up on a strange planet that is fully engulfed in water and only inhabited by sea animals. The ruling animals on the planet are talking sea monkeys. The sea monkeys encounter Taylor and find him intriguing, curious and frightening. The sea monkeys take Taylor into captivity and are astonished when they discover he can speak-his first words are ?take your fins off of me, you damn slimy sea monkeys!?
Various and sundry events happen as the movie goes on, some of the sea monkeys have some sympathy for Taylor, and ultimately help him escape capture-but I want to move onto the genius ending.
As Taylor rides away from his previously captor sea monkeys on a seahorse along with a hot mute chick-because every great movie needs a hot chick, and I prefer my chicks to be mute-he sees and comes upon it- the tip of the Washington Monument, rising out of the surface of the water and comes to the realization that he has returned home to earth where humankind has destroyed itself via a self inflicted wounds.
Taylor falls off of the seahorse and goes into a profane rage, cursing his deceased fellow man and wishing them damned to hell. The mute chick looks on silently and the movie comes to an end.
