Friday, June 02, 2006

The Bad and the Beautiful

Feeling very low now. "Killer Weed" is gone. I'm alone.

One would think that after two years of slaving away, with all but the DVD release behind us, I might be happy. I am not. I've lost a huge part of what defined me, and as KW fast becomes a memory I find myself scraping at the crumbs.

Day-dreaming I drift to that place we-swore-we'd-not-go, to that parallel world where "Killer Weed 3" is more than mere abstract impossibility...

RIDICULOUS PLOT IDEAS FOR "KILLER WEED 3"
  • "Killer Weed: Three's Company" - 30 years after the events of KW1 and 10 years after the events of KW2, old 8-Toe'd Joe and his son Luke have settled down in rural America, seemingly far from the massacre in Vil City. But the shenanigans begin anew with the arrival of an elderly 8-Toe'd Joe, having traveled back in time to warn his younger self and son about an impending doobie drought. And guess what he's brought with him...
  • "KW3: Beyond Thunder-Bong" - 8-Toe'd Joe is unfrozen in a post-apocalyptic future where the only tradeable currency is movable type. 8-Toes founds a society based on zombie equality.
  • "KW3: Back to the Past and Back" - Trapped 20 years in the past and visibly dissolving due to a divergence in space/time, Pope must ensure his parents' coupling while retrieving an almanac from the future elderly 8-Toe'd Joe while incidentally inventing rock-n-roll.
  • "KW3: Bride of 8-Toe'd Joe" - 8-Toes decides Luke needs a mother-figure; besides which, he's horny. So 8-Toes seeks love the old fashioned way: he infects his bride-to-be with trace amounts of killer weed, enough to make her quasi-ghoul same as him. When an out of control Bride makes a meal out of Luke's girlfriend, it's go-time on Mommy Dearest.
  • "KW3: Dream Warriors" - Zoey and Luke find themselves haunted by dreams of 8-Toe'd Joe, and don't find peace until they team up with Chloe from KW1, whereupon they confront 8-Toes in the dream world using special dream powers!
  • "KW3: The Shirleys" - Half-siblings Zoey and Luke track down their common parent, their mom, and reunite her with 8-Toe'd Joe. The old love birds remarry, and all four become a sensation when MTV makes it into a reality show.
  • "KW3: Dial Z for Zombie" - 8-Toes has become a smash success with his new line of exercise videos, featuring zombies doing rigorous cardio-glandular workouts. When a member of his trusted ghoul-troupe gets murdered he has to single out the killer in a thrilling whodunnit!
  • "KW3: Escape From the Planet of the Zombies" - Pope's spacecraft crashes down on a planet run by intelligent zombies. They try him in a kangaroo court as a threat to their established lore, but Pope escapes to the Forbidden Zone, er, uh, Frowned-Upon Region, with the help of two sympathetic, ahem, zombies.
Scott and I often throw these around for "fun," but in a very real way we're torturing ourselves.

Matt