A bullied teenage boy from Dallas reluctantly agrees to a camping trip with his estranged father in West Texas and is magically transported back to the 1890s, where he meets his great great grandfather and helps protect his family farm from murderous cowboys.

If you look at the title, (Wild Wild Wes) it's clear, this is a story about a young boy who's transported to the wild west and through his experiences, learns to deal with his bullies.

I'm not saying a story about a boy who goes on a camping trip with his father and grows isn't a good story; it simply is a different story.

Personally, I like the hook. A modern kid transported to the wild west, through which learns to stand up for himself.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court but set in the Wild West.

>>that's still to be decided.

A big problem then.

Relationships are two way streets. The idea is that the boy doesn't want to repair the relationship. He's pissed and resentful (and a teenager) and he just wants to get through the camping weekend as fast as possible so he can get his father out of his life. But through the adventures in the past, the boy returns with a new perspective, ready to "put the past behind him" and repair the relationship with his dad. So it's really about the boy's character development, not the father's, which is why I want the father to stay behind.

As far as how the time travel/magic works, that's still to be decided. But from the father's perspective, the boy would only have been gone for a few hours, but from the boy's perspective it's more like a couple days.