(I did the first two days!) I remember a story about a woman who lived in a train because it was cheaper than having an apartment, that was the first thing this article made me think of: someone who was living in the plane. Maybe they lost their job and apartment and so on, went to fly out to meet their family or move in with their parents and decided to keep going. And it sure ain't a bad plane to live in, clearly. And it's Emirates, their in-flight video thing had Jennifer Aniston in it, I think, so you know there's all kinds of interesting famous people that the lead could hobknob with, get advice from, etc. He makes friends with a celeb on one leg of a flight, winds up attending a movie premiere in one country. Talks to a drug smuggler or something, winds up helping out with that. Obviously you want a romance in there somewhere. 11 stops means 11 chances for weird stories and encounters. All these exotic locales are expensive, and someone's gotta be footin' the bill. And you'd want the person to be poor to be relatable, but also to add to the stakes: if the scam is found out, they'd be stranded.

This is such a good idea, thank you for the challenge Scott! Got a small notebook for this and I'm looking forward to filling it. 3 ideas down, many more to go. Thanks again! For today, I scoped out a tiny town's crime blotter for ideas. Some wacky stuff!

Chris, so something like the movie "Terminal" only in the air. Just had this thought: What if a super rich guy is going to be busted for some outlandish crime, but as long as he stays airborne or at terminals in certain countries, they can't arrest him. But that loses the scamming the airline angle which I think is huge because I don't know ANYONE who likes the airline industry nowadays, so to have a story in which they get screwed, even just by one consumer, is probably a strong selling point.

supergloss, as I have said many times, we can underestimate the value of a strong story concept to a spec script. Because marketing a movie is such a huge part of the process, a script with a strong central idea makes that aspect of releasing a movie that much easier. So it behooves us to work with the very best story concepts when going to script.

Kevin Smith made a movie purely inspired by nonsensical "events" on the Vancouver police Scanner, Scan BC. And the police officer involved wound up being played by Johnny Depp! So anything is possible!

Yeah, sort of... except I want him to be able to leave so he can experience all these amazing locales otherwise it's interchangeable interiors and that's kind of boring. There's an issue, though, because while any airline would love the cross-promotion that a movie would allow (we just had Bruce Wayne doing ads for an airline I'd never even heard of), I don't think any of them would want to be shown being taken advantage of. But that means creating a fictional company, I love that! Immaculate Airlines instead of Emirites Airlines or something like that. I know a lot of people hate the airline industry, but honestly they just hate travelling cause "affordable" travel is awful. But I stumbled upon these videos of first class lounges from A380s and Korean Airlines and so on and it's night and day, this is the experience people don't have any idea is happening. To me, and I think to many of us, first class is the slightly wider seats on the back of the plane, because we've seen that, but first class internationally? Holy cow. It's like a luxury cruise. And I think that's kind of the fantasy of this story, like you got your hand stamped and snuck into an A-list party, so you want to be able to go where everyone else is going and do what they do. As for the rich guy about to get busted, this very day we had that leak of the Panama Papers, the tip of the iceberg into a world of money laundering and shadow corporations and scandals... it's not hard to imagine a lot of rich assholes... or their accountants... going down. And your comment immediately made me think of something like Con Air except all the inmates are bookish accountants, Niles Crane-esque millionaires, dim bulb athletes and so on who somehow took over their prison plane and are trying to escape. Maybe that's nothing, but Team America started as "just Armageddon with puppets," so it might evolve into something.