by Mark Neiser (aka
nouseforaname)
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Well hi my name is Mark and first of all thanks to Jen
for posting this on her site and thanks to you for taking the time to
read it. Well I'm a huge movie fan as a lot of us are and every once in
a while a movie comes along that inspires us in different ways. I'm a
huge Star Wars fan and it has inspired me to become a collector and
because of those films I have enough stuff to fill a large room. Star
Wars has been the most influential to me but other movies have also had
profound effects on me, most recently it was of course Equilibrium. In
a year coming off Episode 2, Fellowship of the Ring, and the fantastic
Minority Report there was this film I first read about at Chud.com. I
saw it opening weekend and it completely blew me away. The film stayed
with me for days and unfortunately I never got back to the theaters to
see it but we all know whose fault that was (Dimension!!). Then Jen put
up this awesome web site for the film and she put out a call for fan
fiction. I though "yeah I can do this". I've never done anything like
this before but I've always liked to write so I figured I'd give it a
try.
I based the story I figured
about 12 years before the film if you assume his boy was about that age
in the movie. John has just graduated from his training in the
Grammaton Cleric academy and this tells the tale of his first couple of
outings. I wanted to show how John started, totally uncompromised, but
yet I threw in hints to his inner thought that even early on he may
have had different "feelings" if you dare to say. I also have him
partnered up with Partridge (Sean Bean from the film) right away and
throw hints at his future too with some lines that he says. I also
figured that the Clerics we're also somewhat of military type leaders
so I have John giving orders in one instance as I could see them doing
if need be. Since according to the film Preston had never had an
encounter with Vice Council DuPont (Angus MacFayden) until the movie I
instead gave the Clerics a Commander to answer to. Since the Clerics
are in a way a military unit why can't they have commanders.
Overall the story is short and simple but I
really put some work and thought into it and I hope you like it. It's
my first shot ever at something like this so go easy on me but yet
feedback is most welcome. Either leave it at the message boards here or you can email
me at darthvedder@hotmail.com. Thanks!
Trivia
Just a couple of quick little trivia comments about my story
and hope all of you that read it enjoyed it:
The bad guys is named after two of my friends one with hte first name
Sean and the other with the last name Davidson.
District 1138 is a direct nod to Star Wars when Han says "We are
transporting the prisoner to Cell Block 1138" in the original film.
I know some people may say the sword fight at the end is like the film
itself but I'm a huge Highlander fan which has lots of sword fighting
of course so it was my nod not only back to the Kurt Wimmer's film
itself but also to one of my other favorite franchises.
Thanks again!
