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Age of the Wicked
Thanks dpg and Nir as well as Rudger. I'm glad you see more than just the potential of the story to be a feature. A series is of course much more prestige. But the feature would of course make my day.
Agree with Nir Shelter that if the concept is for a feature film, than the focus may need to be narrowed, the narrative tightened. As I currently understand the concept, it seems to lend itself more to a series.
In any event, I think it's a viable concept. May the odds be in your favor.
Agree with Nir Shelter that if the concept is for a feature film, than the focus may need to be narrowed, the narrative tightened. As I currently understand the concept, it seems to lend itself more to a series.
In any event, I think it's a viable concept. May the odds be in your favor.
Good setting and great stakes but a few structural problems though.
"His motivation is revenge and getting his farm back?" = two goals.
"The bulk of the story is the suffering and surviving of the main character and then the embarrassment and the conviction of the accuser doing wrong?" = two act 2.
As there is an insistence on doubling up on the goals and main actions the MC will take in act 2, this reads to me more like a series than a film.
The forward motion drive that comes from a singularity is more powerful than that of a double goal in a film (did any one say legalist??). Most producers would be attracted to the power of such a pitch for a film.
However in a series you can have multiple goals and justify this by allowing the motivations to compound each other and subsequently grow as each goal is clarified over a longer period of screen time.
I suggest you re consider the format and structure this concept into a series it would have a greater likelihood of being picked up.
Hope this helps.
A minor. The logline doesn't tell he escaped; the first thing I would ask myself is "how? can someone who is imprisoned 'for live' (in the old days) return back home.
And does the logline without any doubt tell us 'where' he returns without using the word "home".
'After being forced to watch his lover's execution and( then) sentenced for life in prison for a crime he didn't commit,, a farmer in 16th century Iceland escapes and returns home to avenge her death and exonerate his name."
Maybe there is a shorter way to say "sentenced for life in prison"? Don't know...
That's just great ! - And I could shave 2 words off by taking "Twenty years" - then It's down to 36. And I agree - some things just can't be boiled down when the ingredient is complex has many alternatives.
Thanks !
