A ruined indie scriptwriter decides to crash in a plane against the Hollywood sign. At the last moment he repents and jumps out of the plane. He falls into the pool of a mansion and inside discovers a famous writer of commercial success dead, he immediately decides to take advantage of his name
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A ruined indie scriptwriter decides to crash in a plane against the Hollywood sign. At the last moment he repents and jumps out of the plane. He falls into the pool of a mansion and inside discovers a famous writer of commercial success dead, he immediately decides to take advantage of his name
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>>>he immediately decides to take advantage of his name
How? If the deceased was famous it doesn’t seem possible the failed writer could get away with impersonating him.? So what’s his game plan, his objective goal?
You have given us the set-up, The logline is about the story.
I believe you could get around dpg’s valid point if the famous writer was reclusive and did everything by internet instead of face to face…
The irony could be that even after the lead ‘becomes’ the famous?writer, still nobody wants his script because it turns out he is just a bad writer.
>>> if the famous writer was reclusive
Except the wannabe writer has to deal with the deceased writer’s literary agent.? You can’t become a famous writer without having an agent.? And it’s high improbably the two have never seen each other face to face.? That’s not how the business works.
Just saying.
>>>>?I have to know more about the business in Hollywood before trying to write something like this,
Write it after you sell your script about the kid who forms the club to get revenge? on the bullies.? Then you’ll be on the inside, know how the business operates.
>>The agent could be the one who has the idea of impersonating his dead client.
Because the deceased recluse writer was the agent’s meal ticket, the only money making client he had.? The agent is a failure, too.? Which makes him desperate enough to go along with the ruse.
fwiw