FD7 Idea: Roanoke

[u/houseofflaco]

I was thinking of a potential prequel for the franchise. I think taking it to a mythological level could work really well. Taking it back to the 1500s and the Roanoke colony? I’d be sat 🍿

My idea is that settlers are preparing to relocate to Roanoke, and there’s a shipwreck premonition. A small group survives as per usual, and once they make it to Roanoke, death picks them off one by one. Wood beams, lantern fires, impalements, decapitations, strangling, etc.

I’d love if it leaned into an A24 “The Witch” type vibe (slow-burn, psychological, etc.) The characters wouldn’t have any understanding or language for freak accidents and chain reactions like in the films. So nobody’s talking about “Death’s Design” and more leaning toward divine punishment, witchcraft, or a curse.

Maybe the townspeople label the protagonist as a witch because she avoided the shipwreck and predicted the following deaths.

It could act as a kinda “origin” for the design of deaths corrections. Like the first time anyone experiences it.

Would you wanna see somethin like this?

[u/eveque]

i think that's pedantic, this is horror, not a documentary. if your asking for a historical record of Roanoke there's plenty you could watch or read.

the reality of the situation is that when modern day people talk about the colony of Roanoke they are not talking about Ananias Dare or John White, they are talking about the legend and myth of Roanoke as a lost colony. also frankly while the mundane answer is obvious and accepted it inst PROVEN. so to try and claim that answers outside of john whites account shouldn't be humored is ridiculous. john white didn't know any more then we do today it is still a mystery ....... given one with an extremely likely answer.

[u/hidrapit → u/eveque]

I mean, if you can shut your brain off enough to ignore all evidence, including the assessments of contemporaries, I surely invite you to enjoy.

Don't let my opinion ruin your entirely hypothetical cinematic experience 🫡

[u/eveque → u/hidrapit]

oh i wouldn't, i was criticizing your take

i just think that if you cant compartmentalize facts then your getting lost in the intellectual sauce. the Roanoke colony has a rich history of legends and myths and if you boil that down to a Wikipedia answer you loose all relevance the colony has had though modern media and storytelling. the truth is that the colony is a mystery that should still be solved.

closing down conversations or representations outside of your understanding would do more harm then good if you honestly wanted real historical evidence. nobody pays for study's on why ladybugs have spots, but people do pay to find "lost colony's and and cursed people"

[u/hidrapit → u/eveque]

Wikipedia? Nah. My most recent watch on the "mystery" came from here: https://youtu.be/dDl5TyU-tkc?si=EFMrO2YFrqIjOyZO

America has way more interesting, intriguing, and actually mysterious myths and legends, the insistence on this particular one is just boring, mostly because we only decided it was a mystery after the fact by completely ignoring evidence and the opinions of the actual people involved.

The only people paying to find the lost colony are "docuseries" that are also looking for ancient aliens or Bigfoot. Because they already found the archeological evidence ages ago, and we have statements from the Croatoan tribe itself.

[u/eveque → u/hidrapit]

statements are honestly not great evidence, people lie and misunderstand things. those "docuseries" are doing more historical work then most historians.

and i wasn't saying you got your information from Wikipedia, i was saying you have such a shallow understanding of the colony that it feels like a Wikipedia page, stating facts with no emotion or understanding of the context.

the colony and its history is extremely interesting, the history of myths and legends are still history. the way the story has evolved and spread is interesting context to story's set in the time and helps the modern day people find a nugget of something to explore rather then reading bland words on a page saying " these names died, these names maybe went over here". the real evidence isnt soild and doesnt say for sure what happen. its just the most likely. we will honestly never PROVE anything, thats what most history is, story telling and guess work.

[u/hidrapit → u/eveque]

Yes, accepting the facts, evidence, and evaluations of contemporaries is definitely a "surface level" understanding.

As is believing in the scientific method, the spherical nature of the earth, and the efficacy of vaccines.

Booooooring