It's High Noon in outer space...

A writer hoping to interest a decision maker in the film, television, or publishing industries in his story faces a formidable challenge.

The target of his pitch is an extraordinarily busy person and will likely only be able to give the writer fifteen minutes of his or her time, tops. This person's job also requires that they listen to a large number of story ideas that are inappropriate and sometimes flat-out bad.

The writer must be able to sum up the whole essence of his story in a painfully short summary. The ideal is to be able to convey the entire concept in one short sentence.

Probably the more famous example of this was the pitch for the 1981 movie OUTLAND: "It's High Noon in outer space."

High concept indeed --- take a classic Western that almost everyone knows the story of even if they've never seen the movie (forsaken by the craven, cowardly townspeople, the sheriff of a Wild West town must stand alone in a showdown against the bad guys) and recycle it as a science-fiction movie.

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