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Three werewolf movie ideas:

Lycanthropy as metaphor for menopause instead of puberty. Not sure where to go with this, just tired of people wolfing out in their teen years. Yes, scary body changes, lots of hair, we get it.

A global conspiracy of werewolves who are shaping military policy to develop weaponry which could blow up the moon. They want to create a ring for the Earth so that they can stay in wolf form permanently, see.

A form of lycanthropy where lots of people have the potential, but it would take far more moonlight than even the brightest full moon could provide. Which has no impact, until astronauts start landing on the moon and being exposed to thousands of times more moonlight than normal.

Comments

[caladri.livejournal.com]

Werewolves on the Moon!

[ionan.livejournal.com]

Gods, yes.

...Only as I see it, things are really intense for a short period while they go through the change, but then the spacesuit rips due to stresses it wasn't designed for and the new werewolf immediately dies of explosive decompression.
Which, you know, could be fun too.

[caladri.livejournal.com]

Perhaps being a Werewolf is really wonderful but they don't realize it at the time so they have to figure out a way to get back to Earth but for some reason Werewolves can't leave the Moon easily, so they have to go through some ridiculously arcane rituals and processes, all the while in a race against time as NASA and the ESA are planning to send a nuke to the Moon to kill them. And so they get back to Earth but then they have to find a way to get back to the Moon. And then they get there and it's a space dance-off with the Vampies of Cruithne. Also there's a crazy-talking stowaway played by Tracy Morgan.

[caladri.livejournal.com]

You can combine it with #2 even, in that NASA and the ESA and RAND CORPORATION eventually succeed in blowing up the Moon and so everyone on Earth becomes a Werewolf anyway.

[ionan.livejournal.com]

"Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Sorry, everyone else uses it and I never get to. I saw my chance and took it.

[ionan.livejournal.com]

Ok, so we finally set out to build a base on the moon, and we send up some astronauts to take up semi-to-permanent residence. But living on the moon turns them into werewolves, and everyone in the moonbase is slowly growing fur and developing a serious craving for mutton. Jokes are made about sniffing butts and marking territory.

BUT THEN

The whole thing turns into a big 60's psychedelic freakout with wolves in zoot suits howling at antennaed space babes who pop over from the dark side of the moon, which turns out to be a galactic infra-red light district. The entire party is MC'd by Howlin' Wolf and at some point shows werewolves seated at a table playing space poker. There's a chase scene with the former-astronauts-turned-Dogs In Space (driving the original moon rover, natch) being pursued by Amazon Women of the Moon(carrying spears), which ends once the "Blacks in Space"-style funk ship crash-lands on the surface and Bootsy Collins steps out followed by George Clinton who then declare the entire thing to be "Far out."

What were we talking about, again?

[caladri.livejournal.com]

I dunno, man, but have you ever really looked at your hands? They should do a whole movie about that. Or a sandwich. Imagine it, man, a sandwich for your hands.

[ionan.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HAU7Yn18LU#t=07m28s

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THER AR AR AR AR AR AR

[solarbird]

MOON ROVER GET IT?!

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Oh, Fishy, Hollywood would be a better place if you ran it.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, ilmarinen and I talk about what constitutes a silver weapon: sterling silver? A lead bullet that's been silver-plated? A lead bullet with a hole drilled down the center a la a dumdum and a silver wire in? A 50/50 silver/copper alloy?
So imprecise, these old legends.

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

Think of it as a toxin: you just need to administer a sufficient dose.

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

So then one has to wonder how many of these you'd have to fire to have the desired effect:

http://www.laser-cast.com/AboutTrueShot.html

Or these:

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=846143

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

Oh and casting silver bullets? Pain-In-The-Ass:

http://www.patriciabriggs.com/books/silver/silverbullets.shtml

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I've done a fair bit of investment-casting of silver: not too bad. That was actually what ilmarinen and I were on about because he thought it'd be funny to actually have some silver bullets. Way slower than standard lead-bullet-casting, but significantly easier than copper-jacketed bullets, for what that's worth.

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

So, what would happen if an unwitting human-shaped lycanthrope started taking colloidal silver?

Maybe it would be like Kryptonite, you could use silver in small enough quantities to keep a 'thrope under control, not enough to kill it.

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

I suspect that a lead bullet would kill a werewolf just fine, if it could score a hit. But only silver bullets are magical enough to fire true.

A really sophisticated system might use conventional ammo, but the gun itself would be silver. Just wave it in the general direction, and any shot fired would hit for effect.

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

Silver tampon...

[ivy]

I would totally read any of those books. Movies, maaaaybe, it would depend on the rendering. But I like the ideas!

[beaq.livejournal.com]

I like the moon one!

I had a series of dreams once of being a werewolf that I think were about bipolar disorder.

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

How much energy would one need to blow up the moon?

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

Maybe of the order of its mass times the square of its escape velocity? Around 10^29 joules, an amount of energy that has a relativistic mass of about 10^12 kg.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

The was an SF novel involving a bunch of werewolves who ran a hotel as a cover for their monthly "activities". They hosted an SF convention that got NASA to loan them an exhibit of a piece of Moon-rock...

[maribou]

I like the menopausal one. Plus I suspect it would Stir Up Controversy.

Lagrange point 3

[bigbumble.livejournal.com]

You could include a jail break from the secret werewolf prison at L-3, the Lagrange point opposite the moon in earth orbit. For purposes of the movie the L could stand for Lycanthropy instead of Lagrange.

[keystricken.livejournal.com]

It's impossible for me to hear new ideas for werewolves without recommending this comic (http://www.lutherlevy.com/?page_id=152). There will supposedly be werewolves in it, eventually. And besides, it's brilliant.

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

o/~ We're werewolves on the moon / We carry a harpoon / but there ain't no.. o/~ wait, that doesn't work anymore.

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

Only very tangentially, I recommend reading/listening to How We Lost the Moon by Paul J. Mcauley.

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

Hmm, not sure how the menopause metaphor'd work, unless the lack of monthly flow would be replaced by a transition to werewolf-ness. Must somehow get the timing right ahead of time though so the periods match. Silver nitrate explosion...dunno. Interesting concept.

[pielology.livejournal.com]

Instead of being rabid, your wolf-self is wise, calm, compelled to tell stories and snuggle grandbabies?