What I need to get this presentation going:
Images:
I need to get the title image done.
Oliver & Monsterbutt.
Video Game influences with cartridge based game.
Pixel-y looking, Fantasy.
A glimpse of the meteor to help explain the world.
What Oliver looks like.
A little boy with short scruffy brown hair and blue eyes hidden behind big glasses. He wears a dark blue and white striped shirt with blue pants.
In the video game he represents himself but as a character in the game he's different. He's got simple clothing on. A simple tunic and nice boots, a simple sword and shield. He isn't about style, it's about function.
What Oliver's Mom and Dad look like.
What Monsterbutt looks like.
What Celeste looks like.
What Sohn looks like.
What DD looks like.
What the King looks like.
What the Evil King looks like.
What the Shadow Warriors look like.
What the kingdom looks like.
Step 1 /
Concept:
Never Ending Story meets Video Games. (I can't remember how else I described it)
The show will prove with the power of friendship, opening up about trauma, using your imagination, and standing up for what's right in the face of what's wrong is possible.
It's about having to be more mature then you understand. He can't be a kid, because his dad beats him into being an adult, so he never really had the chance to be a kid.
(I need to work the taglines down better)
Oliver is a young boy who struggles with friendships in school. He is shown as lonely and his only escape from the troubles at home and at school is video games.
Oliver suffers a harsh abuse session with his step dad because he's late. His mom is oblivious to the abuse but see's that Oliver needs a pick me up. She sends him into a 2nd hand store to pick out something he really likes and finds a mysterious video game cartridge.
His mother also buys him this strange stuffed toy. Oliver spends time playing the video game, where he disassociates from the troubles of real life and becomes a hero of the realm.
Oliver's step dad punishes him again, and in the game suddenly something happens!
The realm is being overtaken by a group of shadow warriors, they descend from portals that look like visual glitches. The warriors fight with a ferocity like none other. They are fighting to reset the game and delete all the world knows. The king goes missing and Oliver and friends find a way to save the world.
The things that happen in the game give him courage for things in real life. Oliver finds a friend in the game, a creature called Monsterbutt, and Oliver discovers what it's like to have someone in his life that cares. The things that happen in the game help him address big things like having an imaginary friend, talking to his crush at school, having a real best friend, and in the finale, standing up to his abusive father who is the representation of the evil corruption in the video game.
Main Character:
What Oliver looks like -
A little boy with short scruffy brown hair and blue eyes hidden behind big glasses. He wears a dark blue and white striped shirt with blue pants.
In the video game he represents himself but as a character in the game he's different. He's got simple clothing on. A simple tunic and nice boots, a simple sword and shield. He isn't about style, it's about function.
Who is Oliver? What does he stand for?
In the real world he's a timid boy who struggles with himself due to abuse. He's unsure of himself.
In the video game he's a hero, he does what's right with a high moral obligation to uphold justice. He is everything he wishes he could be in real life. He doesn't realize it, but he really is those things he wants to be. He just needs the game, Monsterbutt and friends to help him realize it.
World:
Oliver lives in the real world. He lives in a poor part of town and he doesn't really have a lot going for him. He goes to school like any other kid his age and struggles with how to be a kid and make friends.
As Oliver gets into the game, his real life gets worse, causing him to want to disassociate more.
Most of the TV-Series takes place in the land of Gizwald. It's a video game realm where a corruption is spreading and Oliver does everything he can to stop it.
Gizwald is a fantasy video game realm ruled by a king. There are knights, and monsters, armies and wizards. It's a parody of video games in the genre.
Gizwald is a large kingdom built around a fallen meteor. The meteor yielded resources for the realm making it fantastical with awesome weaponry. It's a source of currency and the realms residents live around the kingdom as a whole to progress and work towards a united society. Before the meteor the realm was ruled by huge beasts and monsters, which a hero Desmond Destoldt helped keep at bay with his group of hunters. The fallen meteor attracted all walks, scientists, scholars, soldiers, to group up and eventually the kingdom built up around it. Everyone joining together for the greater good. All of this changes when Oliver gets settled in the realm and saves a local village from a giant beast and meets his new friend Monsterbutt.
Shadow Warriors descend from glitch portals and begin to corrupt the realm and the local beasts and monsters. They are fighting unified to "reset" the game.
Side Characters:
Monsterbutt:
Celeste, she's a trickster type character. She lies and manipulates to get what she wants. She doesn't do it on purpose, she thinks she's doing the right thing. She doesn't reveal any info until it's too late.
Celeste is a few years older, and a little taller than Oliver. She's a bit pudgy, not fat but thick. She's got long golden hair, but she hides it with her clothing. She's hooded, or masked because she doesn't want people to see who she is. She's hiding herself because she's the princess. She likes the color dark green, and black. She's roguish, she uses twin daggers. She's clumsy, so she's prone to falling, tripping, or causing a ruckus unintentionally.
She tricks Oliver and Monsterbutt to help her on a quest to save someone close to her who's sick. She uses their needs to get her ahead. She learns through eavesdropping that they are looking for some one and she uses that information to trick them into taking her somewhere completely different.
Which wastes their time, but in that they gain her as an ally.
As the series progresses we find out she's the princess. Her father, the king, is sick and being corrupted by this strange glitch.
Celeste looks like a girl in school that Oliver has a crush on. In the game, she likes Oliver and he discovers how to talk to girls in real life.
Sohn, is a strong silent type character.
He is tall and skinny. Short buzzed black hair. He's lanky like a bean pole. He's like a member of the Nights Watch from GoT. Black garb, cool black leather armor. He's a warrior type. Like a berserker. He doesn't fight, until later. He's a bit broken because of being tortured by the shadow warriors general. Sohn in deep and enlightened. He helps Oliver realize his true self.
He is alone, and Oliver helps him talk about what he's going through because they relate to each other due to the abuse and trauma. Oliver learns he's able to be open about what happened to him and Sohn shows him he's not useless or less of a person because of what happened.
Sohn learns that his family, his Mom, and older brother were killed by the Shadow Warriors and all that was left was his brother's great sword, which he will use to avenge their deaths. This sparks a bit of conflict because Oliver doesn't think vengeance will solve anything. Causing a bit of a rift in their friendship. But in the end, Sohn has to work side by side Oliver to help bring down the evil, the great sword is the only thing that will hurt the evil king enough to stop him.
Desmond Destoldt, he's the realms iconic hero.
He's old and tired, medium length silver hair, large scar over his white eye, big armor and a huge massive sword that just doesn't make sense on how he uses it. He's big and blocky just a giant of a person. All this ancient monster fighting really bulked him up. He's got a great smile and he's charismatic. He's like a paladin type. He's got an aura around him that just makes it better.
He's an NPC so he's not exactly someone or something that acts on emotion. He's scripted and robotic. But very powerful and a guardian type character. He is the King's guardian, but when Oliver finds him the king is no where to be found. He helps Oliver build confidence early on. Oliver uses DD to exploit things in the game to get further, because Oliver is a long time gamer, he knows how to manipulate the AI to do things. Eventually DD get's corrupted by the evil king and Oliver, MB, Celeste and Sohn have to team up and fight him to win a tournament set up by the evil king, like Mortal Kombat.
The King, he's just a typical king looking guy, kept the realm together like a king would. He's Celete's father, and he loves her dearly. He's fat, big bearded. Like Zelda's father in Breath of the Wild.
The Evil King, will do anything to corrupt the realm and have it reset. The evil king represents Oliver's step father in real life. He will impede Oliver every step of the way, even going as far as to kidnap DD and corrupt him, making them fight.
Generals,
Shadow Warriors are energy wrapped in bits of armor. They have angry glowing eyes. the engery is red and yellow, their armor is unique and ancient. Like the armor in Legend of Zelda, Windwaker.
Step 2 /
Storylines:
Oliver being the hero and saving the kingdom. A corruption spreads as the King is missing. The world falls into decay as glitches and evil warriors draw and quarter villages. Crazy monsters and beasts roam and threaten. Oliver has to collect items to help build his confidence to stand up to this evil. It's symbolism stands for how he wants to stand up to his abusive stepdad. (main)
Oliver and friends need to defeat the corruptions evil generals to help stop the world from being reset, the generals have unique items that help Oliver overcome challenges. These things gained in the game help Oliver build confidence in real life. (major)
This branches to Oliver needing a true friend to rely: Monsterbutt.
Monsterbutt finding a true friend in Oliver. (early and minor)
It branches out to him helping people like Celeste and Sohn.
Celeste finding a cure for her father, the king. (major sub plot)
Sohn dealing with his trauma of being tortured by the Shadow Warriors. How Oliver opens up to him about how his dad abuses him. Sohn opens up and they create a strong bond together. (strong growth sub plot)
Flash backs to why Oliver thinks DD is a hero DD is a regional hero of the game and is an ICON. Oliver looks up to him as a role model. So fighting him in the mid season finale is super important because Oliver will always do what's right, no matter what. (major / Half)
DD's betrayal, As an NPC DD became corrupted and turns on Oliver and MB. (major sub plot)
Sohn overcoming the loss of his family, learning that these guys are his family. (strong growth and major sub plot)
Celeste falling for Oliver. (minor)
The fight against the Evil King.
Step 3 /
Design:
Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends meets Hilda?
Platforms:
Netflix Hulu other streaming sites.
Budget+Planning:
Team:
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