When a geek loner forms an unlikely friendship with the bad boy new kid, they set out to help each other get their dream date for prom – the two most popular girls in school.

Hey darkhorse,

glad to read a logline of you here again!

I like your idea. In fact, I would love to see this movie in the theater.

The concept is really good: you have irony in here with two totally different characters (as your description implies): one geek, one bad guy. That’s some real trouble for both of them. Then you have a clear goal (get their dream date) and some urgency (prom) as a ticking time bomb. Great!

The only thing that keeps bothering me is: how are you going to contrast their two totally different character traits and how are you going to build conflict into your story?

Don’t get me wrong: trying to convince these two popular girls to go to the prom with them is fun stuff, but they both are trying to attract a different girl, so there is not enough conflict between those two main characters in my opinion to sustain a whole film plot. I get what you are trying to do here: two totally different characters try to help each other get their dream date. But why do they even team up in the first place? What event/reason is causing them to team up?

For example, and this is a totally different story concept, the geek helps the bad guy, but then falls in love with the girl, too. This is only an example, but I hope you get what I’m trying to say.

Think about the reason why they team up in the first place and also how you can build tension between these two main characters to make a whole story out of it.

They should stand in the way of each other. That is fun to watch!

Hope this helps!

Btw: I love high school rom-coms. Would love to read your script someday!