Depending on your viewpoint on marriage this is either sadly or hilariously inspired by true events. Either way, this is an ensemble comedy through and through. Here are some titles I’m toying with (some good, some bad, some awful): ‘The Wedding Party’, ‘Save the Date’, ‘Nearly Wed’, ‘The Lincoln Wedding Party Massacre’.
An entire wedding party is at odds trying to figure out who?s more to blame for the wedding they just ruined and how to salvage their nearly-wed friends? relationship.
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I would like to see this… if only you could identify one or two characters.
I don’t believe in ensemble drama as 1) I’ve never seen any done well other than by people with years and years of television experience and 2) even those have limited appeal at the box office, so any producer will think twice before buying your scripts. I know you will quote The Big Chill and Crash, but how many years apart were those films? Big exceptions…
So SOMEONE in your cast of characters will have to figure out who is to blame at the wedding and (this same) SOMEONE is going to have to salvage it.
This will make your story stronger, as whoever will be the protagonist will be the character most invested in keeping the couple together.
?The Lincoln Wedding Party Massacre? – No doubt about it! LOL
Happy loglining!
Thanks, Karel! I completely agree about ensemble dramas being hard to pull off and I won’t even try to come up with any more examples than what you did. I’m definitely aiming for a comedy where it’s easier or more expected to bounce around the plot lines and as long as it’s funny people will be entertained (a hard enough feat in of itself!). However, I should NOT discount a main protagonist who the audience will relate to and expect to follow. I guess I was trying to keep the word count down and not go into too much detail but the main character would be the best man who isn’t completely innocent himself. It’d be up to him to right the many wrongs while pulling everyone together to help reconcile the couple so their day is saved.
Don’t worry too much about the word count at this stage. I usually write a logline that contains all it needs and then I start shaving words off it.
Great that you have the Best Man as the protagonist! I was a bit concerned there… LOL
But even when you build subplots, make sure they do in some way or other connect with the main plot. If you can excise a plotline without affecting the main story, you should…