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FIPO

An archive of pitches for bad science-fiction films that were never made — but should have been.

Bad cinema is not noise. It is a small, structured region of movie-space: the space of pitches somebody thought would sell, filtered through a producer’s greed and a decade’s anxieties. Zardoz, Starcrash, Turkish Star Wars — you can always reconstruct what they were trying to be. That legibility is the whole game.

The genome comes first, because the title is derived — from the gimmick, the hero, the causal order of production — never authored. AIP tested titles before commissioning pictures; Cannon sold posters at Cannes before scripts existed. The badness differs by birth order, and the birth order is in the genome.

PHASE 01 /pitch — the genome
One seed, one specimen: production context, causal order, derivation, novum, dramatis, the geometry of stakes, the commitment, the soul, and the failure modes flagged with reasons. Deterministic; a seed is a permalink.
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PHASE 02 the judge
What makes one specimen intriguingly bad and another merely dull. Pairwise, not scalar; genome-in-context (coherence + sincerity). Badness is a vector.
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PHASE 03 the projection
The one-sheet a producer would have made: a versioned prompt template whose every slot traces to the genome, flaws sampled as configurations (never adjectives), the brief’s fidelity sampled (faithful / genre-confused / spoils-the-twist / a different movie), and a fully deterministic typography pass. Paintings render in Actions; the card is on /pitch.
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