“Hello, we hope this email finds you well.
We’re searching for a new car for our antagonist role in our short film about a long journey that follows our main protagonist. Please see the attachments for more details.”
Attachment: Rule set
Rules
Our movie takes place in 1995, so any models up to 1995 car should fit well. (Family is open, but model should be 1995)
No body type restrictions, we do have preferences for big and menacing looks, more on that later.
We need 4 seats as the antagonist team has 3 members and at one point they capture someone to take with them.
Our maximum budget is 45,000, but we would like to keep the car under 35,000.
2 Aero features and maximum on each side.
Premium unleaded gas is what we have on site, please tune the engine accordingly.
No race or billet parts, also no semi slick tires.
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No negative quality
Attachment: Priority list
Priority list
No star system, we’re scaling from more important to less.
Looks: The car must look evil. It should come to picture and steal the show by eating away all hope. Interiors can give a bonus, but not required.
Service costs: This can vary because how ever much cheaper the car be, we can overlook this.
Performance: While our hero car is meant to be an underdog, we wish to make the villain look like an actual threat and have a believable performance. (this is calculated with Top speed, 0-60mph, and cornering G, we’ll use a control car as a base and your relative performance against it)
Safety: While most of the movie would be using special effects, we’d rather keep our stunt team alive.
Comfort: Really low priority, we’d rather have our long hours cramped in a car with a bunch of cameras not be harsh on our actors.
Inspirations
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We give you full liberty to go in any direction you want. The execution is key (and really dependent on our director), Black not mandatory.
Planning to open on 10th. but can be sooner if no objections to the rules are made.
I do consider billet parts as race but carbon bodywork is fair game, if you can fit it in the budget.
I wanted to keep max quality open, but if people wish for a limit, I’ll add one
No, tried to keep it focused on the looks since it’s meant to be a movie car and it’s more about the looks.
Interiors are not required but I always reward people with interiors with a few points (think if I give design a 50 point limit, I’ll add a 5 point bonus for interior design)
At any rate, with having 4 seats as an explicit requirement, I’d expect the main antagonist to order a whole fleet of whatever car is chosen, for himself and his henchmen. And I’d expect those 4 seats to also be full-sized, arranged in two rows of two seats each.
However, $35k-$45k seems like it might not be enough for something befitting of a film villain and his henchmen - a fixed price cap of around $50k would make more sense.
It’s a short film meant to use one vehicle. Not a big budget Hollywood movie. If others also agree to a higher price, I can raise it, but I managed to make a decent chassis as a test bed with 30k ish.
Sure, the plot is, the hero, being a failing delivery guy and his small car, is tasked to deliver a package from a city to another while the villain and his men are trying to steal the package. Reason I left this open, was to allow people to expand their vision so to not limit that here are the possible ways to go.
couple of farm boys that took their dad’s truck to steal the package thinking the package is worth a ton and they’re trying to save their farm from the bank
A low level mafia/triad/yakuza friend trio that got tasked to steal the package by their boss
A spy and connects trying to steal the package believing it’s a secret code he has to intercept
and etc…
Does the car have to be something that’d likely be mass-produced, or could we make something that’d have very low production numbers or be modified [Like a movie car]?
Not necessarily, it can be an old car that has modern upgrades (for 1995 to meet safety and etc), be a one of one car made for the movie (less realistic but i’ll allow it) or all the other possibilities.
