So far I have removed at least half of my twists, and I need the raising to happen a lot later in the movie, in the third act, and have a jump in the passing of time, so that the ship can be restored by the villain, as a ruse to keep the govt. (but not the charachters) from knowing his real intent. He's not a terrorist per se' he just wants an inordinate amount of money.
Not, just The fictional for the story 2 and half billion dollars worth of gold (in today's $ hidden in the ship's hull ) but ALL the gold in the Federal reserve as well!
I have written at least three treatments, that I have completed that don't have anything
to do with the new plot. But I am not to sold on the new plot since it sounds too much like "Die Hard sequals"
I have three approaches already
Approach, No. 1
Main Character is a master thief, (and gambler) who botched a heist, Her Client knows of her Plans to Recover $2 billion worth of gold that lies in the hull of the Britannic, she must organize and execute the heist in 2 or 3 months or get killed in a terrible way! She teams up with a professor and her college buddies and they Gamble away, in underground casinos all the while planning the operation!
Think Rounders meets the Italian job!
Approach 2.
A lot like a urban/countryfied bounty hunter story, with some steampunk stylisms, Main charachter has to stop the villain who tortured her from destroying Washington DC with the Victorian era weapon he recovered from the Britannic during a history festival. The ship is a ruse to distract the govt into thinking he's a good guy. The weapon his hidden in the ship.
Approach 3.
Main character is a passive aggressive, drone who gets her life transformed when she discovers she has the power to make guns levitate, catch bullets with her bare hands and fire bullets in impossible trajectories. She is recruited by a Mysterious man who is part of a cabal of supernatural assassins who gained their power through Supernatural experience.
A corrupt NSA agent who tried to develop his own supernatural hit man program is after an artifact that will make him the most powerful man in the world. Its in the hold of the Britannic and he will Never stop short of killing anyone who gets in his way to get it.
think wanted, meets Raiders of the lost ark.
I kind of love 1 & 3 Approach 1 since I get to make a 60's style hiest movie with some neat miniature effects and a well developed Usual suspects like story.
Number three, simply because I could try and reach above what I intend to get with crowd funding by making some neat effects with adobe After FX and miniatures, and I have some cool songs That I have written that would fit the movie not to mention it has the fastest pace pf all the ideas.
I plan on funding the movie through crowd funding so I need a worthy story to begin with. Part of the money will go into getting the gear, 2 DSLR's a TOTL laptop and all the software and stuff I need.