Remaking The Wogglebug Movie - In which kiwis weaponise their autism to piss Cynthia off.

So I took the the three outlines as well as the other ideas and wrote the script for a potential teaser trailer. I do apologize for the formatting be a bit off (I'm more of a novel guy than a screenwriter) but hopefully it reflects what everyone wants. If not I'm sure we can come up with something even better.
FADE IN:

EXT. KIWI FARMS MOOR-MORNING

Under a gloomy sky SYLVIE quietly walks to the deserted Royal Academy of Sciences.

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INTERCUT Scenes

Sylvie and HER DAD entering Butterfly ranch

Wogglebug mowing down bad guys with an M60

TIN GOLLYWOG confronted by WHEELERS

Sylvia being dragged through an open window

Butterflys flying around Wogglebug and Cynthia in the moonlight

Different colored ELVES charging towards incoming land ironclads

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INT. Royal Academy of Sciences-Library-Day

Sylvia enters the Royal Academy of Sciences Library. As she looks around, she hears a CRUNCH behind her.

WOGGLEBUG

Hello to you, my dear young friend.It's so nice to see you again​

End​
Update: Today I had some freetime so I scribbled out a possible opening for the movie. Due to the shortness of time I decided to just write it out like a story instead of writing it like a movie script. I will make changes to it if we decide to proceed with this route or if we decide to do something else.
With the wind howling like a lost soul and thunder rumbling on the wrong side of Mount Calvin, Little Sylvie made her way across the Kiwi Moors towards the decrepit ruins that were what remained of the Royal College of Athletic Sciences. As she approached a bolt of red lightning flashed across the sky, momentarily illuminating the dark countryside. This is scary, Sylvie thought.

As she began to reconsider her journey, she saw something creeping around the yard of the school. Plucking up her courage, Sylvie continued onward. A few minutes later she had descended the hill and was approaching the rusted gate. She quickly gave it a push and with a loud squeeaaak the gate opened.

Feeling a mixture of brave and nervous Sylvie quickened her pace into the library. She had to find the entrance if she were to protect the butterflies. If she didn’t her mission would be a failure and mean old Mr. Damon would finally get closer to building another weapons factory.

Sylvie entered the library and began to look around. As she tried to find the book, she heard a crunch behind her. This was followed by a goofy voice saying “Hello to you, my dear young friend! It's so nice to see you again!”

Sylvie turned and saw Wogglebug standing at the door. “Go away Wogglebug,” she said. “I don’t want to talk to you.”

“But why not?” asked Wogglebug.

“Because you’re the reason the butterfly farm is going to wind up in the hands of Mr. Damon,” said Sylvie.

“Well I can’t really help that can I?” asked Wogglebug. “Now why don’t you come over here and give your good friend Wogglebug a nice hug?”

“No!” yelled Sylvie.

She quickly turned and ran up the spiral staircase. As she did, she heard Wogglebug running over. “Yuk Yuk I’m only going to hug you harder if you don’t come over here and love me!”

Sylvie made it to the second floor and quickly climbed onto the ladder. Down below she could hear Wogglebug swearing as he had gotten caught on the spiral staircase. Serves him right, she thought.

After running around the second floor Sylvie made her way over to the Mirror Door. As she approached, she heard Wogglebug running towards her. “I hope you’re ready for a good hug from your friend Wogglebug!” he yelled.

Without a moment’s hesitation Sylvie jumped through the mirror door. As she did, she heard the sound of Wogglebug angrily banging his fists against the glass. She smiled as being an animal Wogglebug could only exit through the mirror door into the school. If he wanted to go back into Oz, he would have to go through the official entrance which was currently blocked due to both Ozma and Princess Dorothy being done putting up with Wogglebug’s nonsense
 
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AbraCadaver said:
I want there to be a tin woodsman-like character who is ostensibly a sidekick for Sylvie, but every time they face a trial or danger, he tells her he can save everyone but he needs 300$ to “get supplies” and when she gives it to him, he fucks off.
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Or you could even have it like the original story. He keeps getting parts hacked off and needs $300 to buy tin replacements each time, until he's all metal and rusts into immobility.

Here's an idea for the Wogglebug movie: what if Oz is sort of like "Pleasure Island" from Pinocchio and it's where the bad kids go? Sylvie is a jerk of a kid (but a redeemable one) who runs away from the orphanage over some petty slight, and takes that one magical wrong turn and ends up in Oz. There, she's assigned Wogglebug as her "spirit guide" and they have a few adventures going around Oz and Wogglebug generally making an ass of himself wogsplaining things to people.
They get it into their heads that as the most Thoroughly Educated brains in the land, they should go to the castle and crown themselves kings. They are granted an audience with King Antibo and his consort, who agree to give up their crowns to Sylvie and Wogglebug if they complete a certain quest.
Along the way on the quest (details to be worked out) Sylvie actually reluctantly learns and grows up a bit, whereas Wogglebug remains his jackass self. They retrieve the MacGuffin and are headed back to the castle, but Sylvie realizes that she doesn't want to be queen of Oz, she needs to go back home where she belongs. Wogglebug is enraged by the prospect of being denied his crown, and grows to a height of 50 feet, breathing fire. But the friends she made along the way (as well as some grudgingly respectful enemies like Dr. Mantis) band together to subdue the Wogglebug and save the day. King Antibo comes out and congratulates Sylvie and the others on a job well done. She tells him how she can't accept the throne, and the king says "Very well, but please wear the crown just for a moment." He puts it on her head, and in a flash of light she awakens back in the real world. Was it all a dream? Either way, she realizes that she's been acting like a petulant child by running away, and heads back to patch things up.
 
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Kosher Dill said:
Here's an idea for the Wogglebug movie: what if Oz is sort of like "Pleasure Island" from Pinocchio and it's where the bad kids go? Sylvie is a jerk of a kid (but a redeemable one) who runs away from the orphanage over some petty slight, and takes that one magical wrong turn and ends up in Oz. There, she's assigned Wogglebug as her "spirit guide" and they have a few adventures going around Oz and Wogglebug generally making an ass of himself wogsplaining things to people.
They get it into their heads that as the most Thoroughly Educated brains in the land, they should go to the castle and crown themselves kings. They are granted an audience with King Antibo and his consort, who agree to give up their crowns to Sylvie and Wogglebug if they complete a certain quest.
Along the way on the quest (details to be worked out) Sylvie actually reluctantly learns and grows up a bit, whereas Wogglebug remains his jackass self. They retrieve the MacGuffin and are headed back to the castle, but Sylvie realizes that she doesn't want to be queen of Oz, she needs to go back home where she belongs. Wogglebug is enraged by the prospect of being denied his crown, and grows to a height of 50 feet, breathing fire. But the friends she made along the way (as well as some grudgingly respectful enemies like Dr. Mantis) band together to subdue the Wogglebug and save the day. King Antibo comes out and congratulates Sylvie and the others on a job well done. She tells him how she can't accept the throne, and the king says "Very well, but please wear the crown just for a moment." He puts it on her head, and in a flash of light she awakens back in the real world. Was it all a dream? Either way, she realizes that she's been acting like a petulant child by running away, and heads back to patch things up.
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I like this idea - I've always been fond of the too good to be true sort of stories and can kind of see the Wogglebug as something akin to the Other Mother from Coraline and Sylvie having to learn to take responsibility for her actions and become a better person is interesting. That does leave the question of what happens to the other bad kids who end up in Oz, though.
 
Kosher Dill said:
Here's an idea for the Wogglebug movie: what if Oz is sort of like "Pleasure Island" from Pinocchio and it's where the bad kids go?
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Haha that part of the Disney film gave me hella nightmares when i was 6. I think that's why to this day I dont smoke...
 
Kosher Dill said:
They become wogglebugs :lol:
I guess it also raises the question of why there's anyone good in Oz if it's a place for bad kids though. That idea might just need to be scrapped.
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On the contrary there’s plenty of reasons good people who could be there. They could have been told they were going to help the kids instead of not being able to or you could have kids who were sent there for doing bad crimes but for good reasons (like a kid disobeying their parents because the parents want them to stay with an abusive relative
 
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Kosher Dill said:
They become wogglebugs :lol:
I guess it also raises the question of why there's anyone good in Oz if it's a place for bad kids though. That idea might just need to be scrapped.
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The good people have reformed but still have to wait a certain time until they can try and redeem other kids who show up. Once they hit a certain number, they can leave.

Sort of like in the end of the original little mermaid, where she has to go from house to house as a spirit and witness a certain number of children being good and pious, before she can earn a human soul for herself.
 
AbraCadaver said:
Sort of like in the end of the original little mermaid, where she has to go from house to house as a spirit and witness a certain number of children being good and pious, before she can earn a human soul for herself.
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I like this idea, but I feel like actually putting all this into the movie might load it down with too much lore - and lore makes movies autistic.
It might be better just to keep Oz as a magical land where Sylvie magically goes to learn a few life lessons.
Either that, or bring the Pleasure Island aspect front-and-center and make the movie specifically about that.
 
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Kosher Dill said:
I like this idea, but I feel like actually putting all this into the movie might load it down with too much lore - and lore makes movies autistic.
It might be better just to keep Oz as a magical land where Sylvie magically goes to learn a few life lessons.
Either that, or bring the Pleasure Island aspect front-and-center and make the movie specifically about that.
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I like the idea of slyvie reading about dorothy’s adventures in Oz at the beginning and wanting to go there, and when she magically is transported there, it’s nothing like how she read it and is a total dark nightmare, with the Wogglebug trying to pass himself off as a jolly wise guide but being as much a monster as anything else. Antibo and others are in a resistance to save Oz from how far it’s fallen because they’re the only ones willing to look at what’s wrong instead of pretending everything is fine, but wogglebug has blinders on to it and insists everything is great and magical and charming l and he’s the smartest guy there, even as the world falls apart. He’s playing the part of genial fun tour guide to a magical world, much like a regular story about “kid falls into magical land,” but everything he shows her is horrible, even as he insists its fine.

Sylvie eventually sees through his cowardly cognitive dissonance and decides to join the others to help save the world.

The lesson sylvie learns is to face hard truths in life and take the hard-work path, instead of being blind to what others are telling you, even if it’s not what you want to hear. Maybe a certain someone can learn from that.
 
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AbraCadaver said:
I like the idea of slyvie reading about dorothy’s adventures in Oz at the beginning and wanting to go there, and when she magically is transported there, it’s nothing like how she read it and is a total dark nightmare, with the Wogglebug trying to pass himself off as a jolly wise guide but being as much a monster as anything else. Antibo and others are in a resistance to save Oz from how far it’s fallen because they’re the only ones willing to look at what’s wrong instead of pretending everything is fine, but wogglebug has blinders on to it and insists everything is great and magical and charming l and he’s the smartest guy there, even as the world falls apart. He’s playing the part of genial fun tour guide to a magical world, much like a regular story about “kid falls into magical land,” but everything he shows her is horrible, even as he insists its fine.

Sylvie eventually sees through his cowardly cognitive dissonance and decides to join the others to help save the world.

The lesson sylvie learns is to face hard truths in life and take the hard-work path, instead of being blind to what others are telling you, even if it’s not what you want to hear. Maybe a certain someone can learn from that.
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To tie it into Oz Lore Wogglebug could always be wearing rose colored glasses and in the penultimate scene Sylvie smashes/shatters them showing wogglebug the true horrors of the realm
 
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Okay so after trawling through Cynthia's reviews for the books and seeing how much she hates the Tin Woodsman I suggest that perhaps it would be better to show the Tin Woodsman as everything she thinks the Wogglebug is - like kind, polite, chivalrous. Even better if he's the one who deals the killing blow to the Wogglebug by chopping his head off with his axe (as a nod to her review where she gets pissy that the Tin Woodsman would think about chopping someone's head off at all), or being the one to smash his rose-tinted glasses depending on what we decide to do.
 
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Coelacanth said:
Okay so after trawling through Cynthia's reviews for the books and seeing how much she hates the Tin Woodsman I suggest that perhaps it would be better to show the Tin Woodsman as everything she thinks the Wogglebug is - like kind, polite, chivalrous. Even better if he's the one who deals the killing blow to the Wogglebug by chopping his head off with his axe (as a nod to her review where she gets pissy that the Tin Woodsman would think about chopping someone's head off at all), or being the one to smash his rose-tinted glasses depending on what we decide to do.
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We could do both: Have Sylvie smash his glasses and upon Wogglebug seeing that things aren't as rosey as they appear have him fly into a rage where he threatens to destroy everything but before he can do it the Tin Woodsman cuts his head off preventing him from causing destruction. As an added bonus, Antibo and the others could use Wogglebug's severed head like Hermes used the head of the Gorgon to take on another foe

Update: I took some time to write another sketch showing how the end of Wogglebug might go.
“That does it!” yelled Sylvie. “It’s time to the face the music Wogglebug!”

With that she picked up the die-stone and threw it at Wogglebug. The die-stone slammed into the glasses shattering the lenses. “No!” yelled Wogglebug. “It’s all ugly!”

“Yes it is,” said Sylvie. “Antibo, the Tin Woodsman and the others want to repair Oz from the damage the Armored Wheelers have caused. You are being a roadblock standing in their way and I am not going to have it anymore! From this point forth you’re either going to help us out or you’re going to stand aside!”

Wogglebug hissed and prepared to burn Sylvie. However the Tin Woodsman jumped into the air and yelled “Eat Ax, Bedbug!”

With that he brought the ax crashing down on Wogglebug, killing him. “I’m sorry you had to see that Sylv,” said the Tin Woodsman. “But I couldn’t let a nasty creature like that hurt you.”

“So what now?” asked Jack Pumpkinhead.

“We cut out the flame nodules and then we charge up the mountain and give the remaining Armored Wheelers the whatfor!” yelled the Tin Woodsman.
 
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Kosher Dill said:
It might be better just to keep Oz as a magical land where Sylvie magically goes to learn a few life lessons.
Either that, or bring the Pleasure Island aspect front-and-center and make the movie specifically about that.
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Why not both? If we can pull off a two-parter, do something like Ocarina of Time / Majora's Mask.
Part 1, she visits a magical land of wonder and learning and has an amazing experience.
Part 2, return to the magical land that's suddenly horrible and twisted and grimdark with humor. Everything you know is wrong. All your friends are fucked up. Let's get creepy.
 
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snailshell said:
Why not both? If we can pull off a two-parter, do something like Ocarina of Time / Majora's Mask.
Part 1, she visits a magical land of wonder and learning and has an amazing experience.
Part 2, return to the magical land that's suddenly horrible and twisted and grimdark with humor. Everything you know is wrong. All your friends are fucked up. Let's get creepy.
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I'm not sure about a two parter (besides Disney pulled that off with Return to Oz as a sequel to the first Oz movie), but I'm definitely behind the idea of it being like the movie adaptation of Coraline where everything seems okay during her first few visits (with subtle foreshadowing of the Other Mother's true nature and what the Other World really is), but becomes a twisted nightmare where everything is terrible upon the last visit.

AbraCadaver said:
I want his neck stump to spew out a giant pillar of fire.
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I'd be down for that too. Hell, if we're really going to go with him being fire breathing, why not give the Wogglebug patches of glowing skin like the Grey Children in the Silent Hill movie? Here's a pic to show what I mean.
 
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