The Screenplay is a thriller about Ed Noble who loses his family to a suicide bomber. Ed holds the bomber’s spiritual leader responsible for their death. His world is spiralling into deep depression and after numerous thwarted attempts to confront the spiritual leader to bring him to account, Ed resorts to desperate measures to bring him to account in a language he feels the spiritual leader will understand when he seizes a rural Mosque holding a group of 7 hostages.
During the course of the siege conflict abounds – the political backdrop, the police’s desire to resolve the siege peacefully together with the TV station that ran the human story of Ed the previous year, who now have a difficult, but very ratings friendly, story. Through the use of technology, Ed manipulates the media story to the international stage to bring the siege to a climax. Does the spiritual leader agree to having his world exposed ? For the sake of the hostages, lets hope so…