Davie's Movie Pitch #1: Dinosaurs in the City

Maybe "Dinosaurs in the City" is a crappy article, but that's not the point.

Okay, picture this.

The movie starts off in a normal office building. People are mulling around, working, minding their own business. The camera is panning up, floor after floor after floor, following an elevator in the background. Floor after floor after floor of the same old thing: people standing at a photocopier, sitting in cubicles, typing away, chatting at the water fountain. Finally, the elevator stops, and the camera zooms in, past all the people, focusing on the elevator door. The doors slowly creep open, and inside... are velociraptors.

For the next ten minutes the dinosaurs tear into everybody! Cubicles get knocked over, blood splatters everywhere, total chaos. There would be dinosaurs chasing people through stairwells, people trying to fight back by swinging their keyboards around, whatever, but they inevitably become dinosaur food. Basically it would be the sweetest thing anybody has ever seen. Ever. Finally the dinosaur chases somebody toward a window, and the guy leaps. The camera follows him down, down, down as he plummets and splats against the ground. The camera zooms out to show similar carnage in the streets!

Triceratops are ramming into cars, sending them flying, T-Rexes are stomping around, leaving chaos in and destruction in their wake.

The scene eventually segues with a man running into a subway to escape, just to find a derailed subway car littered with corpses and more dinosaurs!

The movie would progress as such, until the audience gets a good idea of what is happening: dinosaurs are everywhere!

How did they get there? Who knows!

Will they be stopped? Who cares! Probably not!

Eventually the police arrive in full force, and then the army, each time failing miserably to stop the dinosaur massacre.

After... let's say two hours of this (even though I personally would watch this movie for at least three days straight if it were that long), once the audience fully understands that the dinosaur menace has overtaken the city, the movie ends. Fade to black, roll credits.

And what would be the best part of this movie? The fact that it would be so cheap to make! You wouldn't need any big Hollywood actors, first of all. That could knock anywhere from 15 to 40 million off the budget. You wouldn't need any writers, as the dialogue would be mostly screams and growls! You could just not have any music in it, also. I'd be fine with that.

Think of this, before you tell me how awful this idea is: Jurassic Park was awesome, right? Of course. Jurassic Park: The Lost World? It kind of sucked, but it DID have that awesome scene where the T-Rex was attacking San Diego. That twenty minute scene saved the film! So just imagine that twenty minute scene, take out Jeff Goldblum (boring) and Julianne Moore (hot, but old), and you have an awesome movie.

Pros: Cheap to make, totally awesome concept.

Cons: No roles for Samuel L. Jackson. Maybe in the sequel?

Hollywood, capitalize on this idea!