The popular website Reddit.com can now has another major claim to fame. Variety reports that Warner Bros. has picked up the pitch Rome, Sweet Rome from author and two-time Jeopardy! champ James Erwin. The plot came about when Erwin asked the online community, “What if a unit of current U.S. Marines are suddenly transported back to ancient Rome and forced to do battle with the Roman legions?” Having effectively crowd-sourced his plot and now making money off other people’s ideas, Erwin’s story “will follow the Marines as they’re flung into the past where they encounter one of the world’s most legendary villains and disrupt history. To return home, they have to set history back on the track they altered.” I hope it takes a Back to the Future route where the soldiers have to help Brutus stab Caesar in the back at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.
Madhouse Entertainment’s Adam Kolbrenner spotted Erwin’s posts on Reddit, contacted the writer, and the two began developing the concept. Kolbrenner brought it to Chris Gary at Warner Bros. and that’s how movies are made in the 21st century.
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Couple of corrections.
1) Someone else asked the question. My story was a reply to that.
2) There is no Enchantment Under the Sea Dance in this movie, largely because it would be construed as blasphemy against Neptune.
OH SNAP!! Didn’t see THAT coming, did you Goldberg???!
APRIL FOOLS!!!
…oh, what month is it?
YAY! More reasons to hate everything that is Matt Goldberg!!!!
-Pointless dig at writer for “stealing other people’s ideas,” when in the REAL WORLD he masterfully expanded a genuinely good idea in the form of a sentence that the OP asked to be turned into a story, into a full-blown, gripping, amazingly realized flash fiction epic.
-Stupid Back to the Future joke
-Just has an awful, awful personality
I laughed.
(At his comment, not yours. You’re just an angry person.)
As long as this ends with a rousing rendition of Johnny B. Goode I’ll be happy.