#Maximum Ride rewrite

[fly-with-the-flock]

if i ever became a billionaire, the first thing I'd do is buy the rights to Maximum Ride from James Patterson, then finish my rewrite and release it as a canon reboot of the series.

[foxqlove-draws]

First 3 down! For my maximum ride rewrite. If you’ve noticed that “hey those are weird bird wings” you’d be correct because their wings are in fact NOT bird wings in my rewrite! They’re bird-like wings of aliens that have ascended to the 4th dimension! They’re based off of butterflies, moths, and medieval angel art

[junpeijackflash]

Small update on my Maximum Ride rewrite? Maybe?? Perhaps??

I really didn’t want to, but for the sake of pacing I’m bringing in the increased healing. Otherwise there’s going to be a timeskip during the Martinez chapters I cannot justify.

I’ll probably tweak it, see how much I can make it work so injuries still have stakes and all that.

Also, general chapter update, I’m current fixing Chapter 11 rn. Don’t remember what I was on when I gave my last update. It’s been a bit rocky irl and I haven’t been working super consistently, sorry.

[fortheflock]

Can someone doing a Maxim Ride rewrite make it that when they do their New York makeover challenge ( which if you're not including that, that seems like a sin because it is one of my favorite scenes in the first book cuz , it's just so fucking goofy)

Have Max dye her hair from brown to blonde.

This is mostly because of the hair controversy with the inconsistency of whether James Patterson wrote her with brown hair or blonde hair (or red???). I remember in the fandoms it was always such a talked about thing. In the book she had brown hair or brown with blonde streaks but on the cover she always had very blonde hair. The manga came out and she had blonde hair.

Movie and Marvel comic also fucked it up but I don't want to talk about it right now. But another cool concept to add to that would be having Max be very paranoid about her being chased and have her dye her hair a lot.

End game would be that she gets sick of it and shaves it out for Hawk

[kisses4butterflies]

Boosting my silly Maximum Ride rewrite now that ao3 is back 🤭

[fly-with-the-flock]

look sometimes I'm type one, other times I'm type two. Like I know that some of the things in my rewrite (like the shapeshifting their wings away thing) don't make any sense, but I don't care that it makes no sense.

But at the same time I'm finding myself researching the most ridiculous things for my rewrite, even if they have little to no actual importance to the actual story. Like looking at real estate listing for Arizona to see what kinds of houses are common there. Or reading about the climate and fauna and flora of the mountains in Colorado. Or looking up the distance between different places in the US so I can better calculate how long it would take the Flock to fly between them.

There are two types of writers:

1. 'It's fiction, it doesn't need to make sense!'

2. 'I didn't account for the rotation of the planet and how that affects the constalations while my characters stargazed at different times of year, I have failed as a writer, and this entire thing is trash'

[holymolyineedtherapy]

What if I fall back into maximum ride and rewrite the entire series to make it good

Is that normal

Is that neurotypical

I know don't answer that question I'm thinking here

[maxtothemax]

btw thank you to everyone who's read Heat Death so far and said so many kind things about it 💕💕💕 i feel like all my writing studies for the past few years have led up to that and i'm so glad you guys liked it 🥺

[fly-with-the-flock]

lmaooooooo i got 'fix-it'

like dude, im literally rewriting an entire book rn hahaha this is so relevant

spin this wheel of fanfic tags. this will be the theme of your day tomorrow.

[fly-with-the-flock]

anyway got bored and made my Flock using Sangled's Picrew

[junpeijackflash]

Happy Pride Month, lovers and haters of Maximum Ride!

I promised I'd talk a bit more about my rewrite by revealing which members of the flock are LGBTQ+, and now that I've finally finished fixed Chapter 7, now's as good a time as any.

This will be spoilers for stuff I've planned further into the future (as in: most of this is only really relevant from book 2 onwards). This also isn't all the LGBTQ+ characters I have. There's a couple of OCs (and a handful of stolen James Patterson characters). Might talk about them later, might not. Who knows.

Characters are below the cut!

Alright, we're all clear on spoilers? (though I guess it doesn't matter in the case of a rewrite with no confirmed release date lol)

Then, in a semi-particular order, let's start with...

Nudge!

Using a new picrew for all of these. Link can be found here: https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/626197

Nudge is pansexual, which tbh is the headcanon I've had for her for years now, so this doesn't feel like much of a change. I should note here that she - along with the other members of the flock, minus one exception - don't technically use the terms I'm using here to describe their sexuality, for one reason or another.

For Nudge, it's because she doesn't discover any words for describing her experience other than "gay" for a while, and she doesn't really like calling herself "gay" since she doesn't feel like the term fits her.

She doesn't have any romantic relationships, but she does have a crush, and gets incredibly shy and embarrassed about it.

Iggy!

Iggy is, by definition, gay. However, Iggy doesn't particularly like the term "gay". He usually either uses "queer" or just goes unlabeled.

Iggy is also the only character that I have a planned romantic relationship, and it's with a stolen James Patterson character! Place your bets everyone! It's not gonna be who you think it is!

Both Iggy and Nudge are already out by the time book 1 starts. These next two come out after a bit of self-discovery during book 2.

Max!

Maximum Ride is aromantic, realizing this after 14 years of living when she's finally confronted with other people her age and realizes that dating and romance are in fact real things people want to do and not something made up for television.

I haven't decided whether or not she's asexual as well. Feel free to headcanon that, or whatever you want. I'm leaving it up to interpretation.

Of course, Max isn't going to be having any romance, considering she is the last person in the flock who'd want that.

And finally, the last member of the flock, and the only trans member......

...oh come on, like you don't know who I'm talking about.

Fang!

So yeah, I've fallen victim to the nonbinary/trans Fang agenda, and I'm here to make all of you join as well.

To keep things simple, and not spoil all of my Fang Development Plans, here's a basic summary of Fang's pronouns book-by-book.

Book 1: he/him

Book 2: he/they

Book 3: they/he, but in the "Only people very close to me get to call me 'he', everyone else has to use 'they' or I'll kill them" sort of way

Should also note: the flock as a whole is not even aware of the concept of being trans or the fact that people can be something other than male or female until book 2. Finding out helps Fang start questioning their gender.

That about wraps it up. Sorry if this is underwhelming, I never know what I do or don't want to say regarding spoilers. The only two flock members who aren't included on this list are Gazzy and Angel, but that's really just because they're very tiny children and I was thinking less about who they might have a crush on and more about the brand new childhood trauma they'll be getting and living with for a very long time.

[definitely-not-a-wasp]

It’s completely understandable why young adults tend to play teenagers from a logistical standpoint (and ethically I think it’s a good route to go, too), I just also thought that if this were to become a multi-movie series it might cause complications down the line. However. Teo Briones of Chucky Fame is too good to pass up, and also makes Fang two inches shorter than Max. And let’s face it: Maximum Ride 2025 dir. Justin Benson probably won’t get a sequel.

PLEASE make your own 2025 fancast I want to see it, especially since you have experience in a casting company. And also it’s fun.

Max Ride Fancasts

Someone mentioned the Max Ride movie and I, who has not yet watched it, have decided rather than doing that, am going to make a Fancast using modern actors. While I am objectively correct about all of my choices, if you disagree with me, you should make your own fancast (this is blatant baiting into getting more fancasts. I want to see everyone's opinions about who should play these characters. Pretty Please <3)

To set the scene: the year is 2025. James Patterson has announced that he's been working with another studio for a Maximum Ride movie. Fans despair everywhere, but we all know we're going to watch it.

"What's the cast list?" we ask. "Are we going to get another blond buzzcut man for Fang?" we ask.

Before we learn any of that, we learn that it's directed by Justin Benson, and Michael Giacchino is doing the soundtrack, because this seems like the most important piece of information for them to give you, and since it's MY fantasy Maximum Ride movie, I get to choose who's doing the soundtrack.

It takes much longer for them to release the cast list, because we already have the most important part (Michael Giacchino) covered.

Maximum Ride: Dior Goodjohn

First: look at her. She could totally lead a pack of feral teenagers in the woods. And, in contrast to the canon movie, she has some solidness to her limbs that look like she'd actually do damage if she hit someone, which I find important for Max— she's strong. She needs to look it. Second: her performance in the Percy Jackson Series shows that she can 100% play a suave, sarcastic, quippy character who solves her problems with punching, while her role in Are You Afraid of the Dark shows a much more emotive role, and I think the combination of these two roles showcase a really good vibe for Max's smarmy teenager who also wears her heart on her sleeve and is in over her head.

Fang: Teo Briones

Is 20 perhaps skirting the edge of playing a teenager territory? Yes, but since JP established that the flock looks older than they are, and the last guy to play Fang was over 20, I'm allowing it. From an aesthetic perspective, Briones has both the generally youthful look while still being angular, which I feel is really good for someone playing Fang. And he's made a lot of his films in the thriller/horror genre that emphasize his ability to do micro expressions, which would translate really well to a character who doesn't emote very much.

Iggy: Mason Thames

In a perfect world I think a blind actor would be best for this role, but that being said, this is a fancast, so I'm using celebrities. I think the general gangliness fits Iggy well, there's a smarminess to him (look at the smirks), and his performance in Black Phone shows that he can also play up intense emotions, which would be good for a character like Iggy who switches from laid back/carefree to really intense and angry fairly quickly.

Nudge: Madison Curry

Gonna be honest, the younger the actors get the less I'm looking at their film history and the more I'm going off vibes, and Madison Curry looks like a really good Nudge to me. She looks so nice and happy to be alive, in contrast to all of the older kids. Also, she was really good in Us 2019, which proves her ability to work in a darker genre.

Gazzy: Jackson Scott

If the Maximum Ride Movie was allowed to cast a 12-year-old to play a six-year-old, I'm allowed to do this. He'd blond, he looks rambunctious, and the exact type of person to blow things up for fun.

Angel: Charlotte Ann Tucker

Okay but think about how much sadder all of Angel's scenes would be if she actually looked like a chubby-cheeked six-year-old. Put THAT into the horrors and we'll all forgive her for what she did in the late series (become annoying).

Ari Batchelder: David Mattle

Since Ari is seven, but looks twenty, but acts twelve, I think there's a lot of directions his actor to go in, but I'm choosing David Mattle because, like Angel, think about how much sadder all of his scenes are if he looks like a kid. David Mattle also has a more angular face, giving him a slightly more serious appearance despite being young that would lend well to Ari, and his role from There's Something Wrong With the Children makes me feel like he could play a good antagonist, leaning more into a creepy/sadistic child in a horror movie rather than a military man that kills for the lulz and is also seven.

Jeb Batchelder: Ethan Hawke

Not only does Ethan Hawke look like a tired and slightly bedraggled full-time scientist, part-time father (about to get fired from that job), but his recent work in Moon Knight and Black Phone really display someone who is surface level very calm and reasonable while he does absolutely heinous things, which is a good thing to bring into Jeb's character. We need someone who displays the cognitive dissonance to behave like he's the normal one in the situation that he's directly causing and making worse, with the charimsa to have him getting away with it.

Valencia Martinez: Lupita Nyong'o

Now you see why I casted Max the way I did. Not only is Lupita Mexican, but I'm citing her performance in Us 2019 for this one, she can 100% play frazzled mother weighed down by the guilt of her actions and enduring the Horrors caused by them, because (again) Us 2019. Look at her. Look at her. Tell me she wouldn't make the best Dr. Martinez.

In conclusion: We would all watch this movie, even if it had the exact same cgi wing budget. also I think all that this proves is that my movie watching history contains mostly horror.

[mirrorofliterature]

the temptation to rewrite the australian total drama world tour episode is strong

add alenoah for flavour (keep the aleheather rivalry and alecourtney friendship, they're cool)

MAKE IT FUCKING GEOGRAPHICALLY ACCURATE -

From the wiki: 'Chris states that Hanging Rock is in the Blue Mountains of Australia, but Hanging Rock is located in the Australian state of Victoria, while the Blue Mountains are in New South Wales, near Sydney.'

And Hanging Rock doesn't look like that, neither does the Blue Mountains!

So I would do this by:

Making London a reward challenge w/ Team Chris winning (as they truly deserve) so Noah is safe. Team Chris gains Duncan as there 'reward'. The Gwuncan kiss doesn't happen because I don't like it.

Team Chris wins in Greece as Noah volunteers and crushes the boar challenge (canonically good with animals). Team Amazon votes off Sierra because she made them lose - Courtney is annoyed at her for beating her up, Cody always votes for her, and Heather also votes for her.

In X-Files, Team Chris still lose and Tyler gets medically evacuated (RIP) (he's alive but ouch).

Then I would keep the challenge (but remove the emu riding part because you do not fuck with emus like that or ride them - we lost a war to them), but make it so that each team is split into two, tossed somewhere in Melbourne and has to find their way via public transport to Hanging Rock.

The teams:

Gwen and Courtney

Heather and Cody

Alejandro and Noah (for maximum drama), and

Owen and Duncan

Shenanigans ensue.

[fortheflock]

A list of things to correctly make a maximum ride series into a visual media (movie) 2024 edition

- make it a series ( a three season series)

Some of the chapters are such " fade to black moments and the plot of the first book is very split up for most of it, a movie would be harder to get to know the characters and the plot.

Also with a series they can grow the backstories of the flock and rewrite / expand on the books ideas in a way a movie couldn't .

- take it seriously but it's also okay if it's camp.

A huge problem I had with the original movie was lack of care that felt like went into it.

I would absolutely love a max ride show like the 100 or really any out there supernatural show ( like supernatural) . They have wings for fucksake it's going to be a little silly. Lean into that Sci-fi shit . The more similar to X-Men /stranger things the BETTER.

- Call it something other then "Maximum ride". No offense to my beloved main character but it's a bad name that kinda sounds like a porno and make me embarrassed to say the name out loud.

"The angel experiment" on the other hand is something that could hold a wider interest.

Their are a couple series that change their titles for their series ,( shadow hunter and his dark materials) it's been done before and it's not hard .

- change the fucking stupid ending.

If Game of thrones can do it (poorly but it at least finished) sure as shit this little series could..

Or alternatively just do the first three books as God intended there to be .

- on-top of that getting rid of /adding characters that suit the overall story. No Total you don't get to come along. But the Director should come in earlier and just be the final big bad.

- the Voice!!! Make that a consistent character. Make it Jeb or angel or Maya for fuck sake. The voice is such a present cool concept that just gets steam rolled every book.

I still feel like this after over ten years story deserves more and that it could be really fun to see brought to life . I'll be adding more ideas as I think of them.

I went to bed thinking about it and haven't stopped all day .

Someone hire me to make this

[sleepyiswhumping]

10, 11, 19, 20 for the ask game :)

10. Ooh, this one's hard. While I'm not satisfied with most of what I've written and plan on rewriting a lot of my work, I'd be lying if I said I didn't have favorites. My current favorite piece is untitled, and is the aftermath of Theo, our poor whumpee, being released back into the world by his whumper, Z, and the trauma he's suffering from after the 2 years of abuse, manipulation and pain Z forced him to undergo, and his recovery, with the help of his boyfriend, Lynn, who's been searching for him ceaselessly since he disappeared. I'm actually currently working on a rewrite for a part of this that I may share soon!

11. Agh. There's not really anything I'm comfortable sharing, but this'll have to do. It's not great, but one of the few scenes that's more than a sentence or two that I think is okay.

Z ran his hands across Theo’s hips, up his stomach, his fingers playing across the scars and fresh wounds on his chest, before coming to rest on Theo’s neck. Theo gasped as Z wrapped his fingers around his throat, struggling to get one final breath in as his hands closed tight, crushing his windpipe. Theo’s hands flew to his neck, scrabbling at Z’s, trying to pry them off, but found no purchase. As panic began to set in, Theo hammered and scratched at Z’s chest, but his efforts grew weaker as his vision faded, his mind going blank, running out of oxygen. The last thing Theo saw before he blacked out was Z’s hungry, intense smile, looming over him.

19. Funnily enough, I started writing whump last February, so I haven't been part of the community for very long at all. Despite how fresh I am, however, I've fallen in love with both the community and my writings, even though most of them are pretty bad lol.

20. I actually haven't written whump for any fandom yet. So far, I've written exclusively about OCs. While OCs are, in my eyes, tougher to start with, due to having to construct a character from scratch, I prefer the versatility and freedom you have with an OC compared to a pre-existing, developed character. I have much less obligations and pre-existing tropes and characteristics to follow with characters of my own creation, making the process easier for me. That being said, I have been considering writing about some specific characters in some fandoms. I'd probably write about R. Daneel Olivaw, from part of the Lije Bailey series by Isaac Asimov. From the first story I read about him, I was in love with a robot so complex as he was, to be essentially human, and I've recently been thinking about all of the whump you can do there. I've also been considering whumping Erasmus from the Dune prequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson, but I think that's just due to my obsession with his character as a whole. Lastly, there are so many characters in the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson that are ripe for whumping, and considering this was the series that spawned my love for wing whump before I ever knew what whump was, it'd be remiss if I didn't whump at least one character from the series.

Thanks for the ask, @stalecabbage! <3

[tricobicofriend]

I found it!! Thank you definitely-not-a-wasp for telling me who the post was from!

does anyone have that maximum ride post where someone talked about initially reading the books they thought the flock had bird feet/talons bc of the scenes where they were high up in trees or did i like imagine that