PARALLEL
Predestination paradox
A short film treatment
A boy chooses to do something. But then someone dies. He tries to go back in time and change it. But then he contributes to the actual death. The he must go back in time once again to stop himself from even contributing to the future
A man is shifting in and out of conscienceless he sees a watch... He cant believe what he sees
The same man is sitting on the ground in his garage. His friends are around him asking Jim, that is his name, if he was ok. They said that they only wanted to play around but they didn't mean for him to fall.
Jim Buscher lives a simple life. It is the near future and the “Time Age” is dawning. College graduates are making portable low power time machine-devices in their garages. The US government has already started making some, but they are large and unwieldy and have been restricted and classified until about 4 years prior. Parts for their time machine are abundant, such as the Krasnikov tube and the Tipler cylinder, along with new advances such as the Dyson Sphere Emulator. Carl Sagan and the late Steven Hawking agree that with these innovations, time travel is not only feasible, can be even proven on a large scale.
In his garage, Jim creates a portable time machine with his two exceptional nerd friends, Thomas and Ridley. They are so excited, that they device to test it out, not thinking that it may be fatal. Excited, they decide that Thomas should go in. When he does, he return in a dying state and looking older, almost instantly. He says that he tried to transport himself to the time before they invented it, but he miscalculated and ended up right after he left. He is also missing his Time Watch. Jim and Ridley are in shock. They don't know what to do. They have to shut the temporal portal to the past, the only way is return to the place where Thomas entered and stop him from ever opening it. If they try to call for help, the portal might open further and suck in the entire house. Eventually they argue over what they should do, but then they are both sucked in and sent into the temporal portal.
They they awake on a beach. A distant noise can be heard, but they pay no attention to it. In the distance, they can see a slight shine: The Watch.
They begin to fight over the watch.
During the fight, Thomas is mortally wounded and falls into the portal. Ridley and Jim realize what they have done.
In shock, they cant believe what has just happened. They decide that they must go back and stop them from ever creating the time machine.
Ridely goes to the present, while Jim goes to the past.
Everything begins to reverse, and after a series of cool fx shots, Jim is confronted with a test, give himself up for his friend or save himself. He ponders on his situation.
Finally, Jim decides. He throws the Time Watch into the portal as it closes, and he is thrown back and knocked out.
He awakes on the floor. His friends are crowding around him. We didn't mean to hurt you Jim. We were only playing a joke. We didn't mean for you to fall. It is then he realizes: He looks into his hand, and he sees the time watch still in his grasp.
Predestination paradox
A short film treatment
A boy chooses to do something. But then someone dies. He tries to go back in time and change it. But then he contributes to the actual death. The he must go back in time once again to stop himself from even contributing to the future
A man is shifting in and out of conscienceless he sees a watch... He cant believe what he sees
The same man is sitting on the ground in his garage. His friends are around him asking Jim, that is his name, if he was ok. They said that they only wanted to play around but they didn't mean for him to fall.
Jim Buscher lives a simple life. It is the near future and the “Time Age” is dawning. College graduates are making portable low power time machine-devices in their garages. The US government has already started making some, but they are large and unwieldy and have been restricted and classified until about 4 years prior. Parts for their time machine are abundant, such as the Krasnikov tube and the Tipler cylinder, along with new advances such as the Dyson Sphere Emulator. Carl Sagan and the late Steven Hawking agree that with these innovations, time travel is not only feasible, can be even proven on a large scale.
In his garage, Jim creates a portable time machine with his two exceptional nerd friends, Thomas and Ridley. They are so excited, that they device to test it out, not thinking that it may be fatal. Excited, they decide that Thomas should go in. When he does, he return in a dying state and looking older, almost instantly. He says that he tried to transport himself to the time before they invented it, but he miscalculated and ended up right after he left. He is also missing his Time Watch. Jim and Ridley are in shock. They don't know what to do. They have to shut the temporal portal to the past, the only way is return to the place where Thomas entered and stop him from ever opening it. If they try to call for help, the portal might open further and suck in the entire house. Eventually they argue over what they should do, but then they are both sucked in and sent into the temporal portal.
They they awake on a beach. A distant noise can be heard, but they pay no attention to it. In the distance, they can see a slight shine: The Watch.
They begin to fight over the watch.
During the fight, Thomas is mortally wounded and falls into the portal. Ridley and Jim realize what they have done.
In shock, they cant believe what has just happened. They decide that they must go back and stop them from ever creating the time machine.
Ridely goes to the present, while Jim goes to the past.
Everything begins to reverse, and after a series of cool fx shots, Jim is confronted with a test, give himself up for his friend or save himself. He ponders on his situation.
Finally, Jim decides. He throws the Time Watch into the portal as it closes, and he is thrown back and knocked out.
He awakes on the floor. His friends are crowding around him. We didn't mean to hurt you Jim. We were only playing a joke. We didn't mean for you to fall. It is then he realizes: He looks into his hand, and he sees the time watch still in his grasp.
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