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"Rum Runners"
A modern day action thriller - smugglers using huricanes as cover | |
I was thinking about this during the new casts for Katrina, a story of smugglers following in the wake of a hurricane (or even in the eye), flying small craft, or speed boats... using the aftermath of a hurricane as a diversion. The story would probably involve a DEA investigation, where the smugglers
following in the wake of the hurricane would be the final hook... I suppose terrorism or similar infiltration might also be a rather "timely", but my original idea involved drug smugglers
"Rum Runners" were blockade runners during the civil war that smuggled rum (and food, pretty much anything) into teh south. I thought it would be a fitting title as the smugglers would likely be coming into the gulf coast.
Query letters that I love...
http://queryletters.blogspot.com/ [normzone, Sep 01 2005]
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Perhaps if the smugglers had some way of *causing* hurricanes (which would presumably make them Bond villains). Otherwise, our fascination with bad weather doesn't seem to need spicing up with our fascination with drugs. |
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I imagine their hair would be all in bee nests sticking up in odd angles from being in tornadoes all the time. |
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I thought prohibition was the time of the Rum Runners. |
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If they used sailboats and used the hurricaine force winds to evade the authorities, that would be a better story. It could actually be set in the Old South, and they could be running technologically advanced rum which is 100000 proof. They could fire cannonballs into tornadoes and have them curve around and hit the gestapo ships from behind! Only when General Sherman invents the atomic bomb is their evil plot foiled! |
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And they could find another category other than other:general sherman |
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I think General Sherman would be
a great category name. |
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Bungston, have you ever watched Will Smith's "Wild Wild West"? |
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The exports must first be smuggled to Bermuda or Cuba, since hurricanes dont travel from Columbia or Afghanistan to the US. |
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/"Wild Wild West"?/ - that is right along the lines I was thinking: sort of a Steampunk thriller, with soft-porn overtones of the Animaniacs or classic Daffy Duck. Kato Kaelin would play General Sherman. |
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//100000 proof// --[bungston] |
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And how, pray tell, to you make alcohol that is 500% pure? |
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You will have to wait for [bigattichouse]'s movie to be released, [5th]. I believe that he actually also plays the part of the boss RumRunner, Captain Cold Swirly. |
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- Boring. Weeks of planning, coded communication, a stray hottie picked up in haste on a island, and a great high-five ending couldn't redeem this bomb. |
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Reminds me of the current series where an alien invasion follows a hurricane's path. |
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/a stray hottie picked up in haste on a island/ - That's great! Are you in the business, [reensure]? |
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Firstly, Wild Wild West is a great film, if you haven't watched it, do. |
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Secondly, I thought that rum-runners were prohibition as well and 'ran' from canade or mexico to the US. After all, alcohol wasn't illegal in the civil war. |
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But I'm fishboning it for the third reason: |
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Even if this did work, they would have to know where the huricanes were going to be to prepare, but also restrict their illegal acts to about 20 times a year. "Sorry mate no more cocaine for a few months hurricane seasons over". Not too practical. [-] |
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Ooh, submit that to the site in the link... |
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You may, if you wish, as I have no idea how to. |
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