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You can write anything you want; you just can't sell it if someone else has the copyright on it.
Given that you can write anything you like, why write someone else's story. Create your own. If you want it to be in the same vein as this video game, go ahead, but why copy it?
I just really like the idea. I don't think I really elaborated to well on what I was asking. I want to take my own ideas and implement them into the script while still keeping the same main idea that's presented. Basically, a morphed version of the game.
Thats what Phil is pretty much saying. You can write it, just don't sell it.
Another point made by Phil is create your own story based off the game. In other words, keep it seperate from the game but use it as a source.
But I think your leaning more towards the first one, so...don't sell it. It will be more of a fanfiction script.
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I wouldn't read it personally, but it is not IMPOSSIBLE to sell a script based on other peoples characters. You can feasibly sell it to the company that owns the copyright.
I wouldn't have thought Dead Rising is a popular enough franchise though to make a feature from. Plus the Zombie market is saturated.
Fan Fiction of this type is something I'd personally shy away from, but I could see how it could be a good learning exercise.
I liked that game, it was fun and had a lot of "extra" storylines which let you decide if you wanted to save people. Well you're supposed to save them before a certain time but the game was too fun to take detours.
If you use what's in the mall like the game it will be funny and decent unlike the films which tend to take themselves too serious.
Just think about the endless possibilities of what you could do making it a little different from the game. The game just touches what it could be if they ever made a sequel.
I think that's what has me interested in writing this.
The game has 6 different endings that are possible... Or is it 7? I'm not sure, but there's so much I could do to it. Maybe I should write a sequel with my own ideas but use the same characters. There's around 50 other survivors other than the five main characters that I could use.