Categories: Thriller
The reason I am struggling with setting is the technology. WW2 affords the luxury of no mobile phones, no internet. It is easier to keep him in the dark.
From McGuffin POV it might be possible (tricky but possible) to have the audience learn what he knows as he figures out what people are digging for.
Hello,
the concept is interesting but you have to make some creative decisions - is it ww2 or not? It's an important detail.
Then, find your true inciting event.
Since the movie begins when the man wakes up, this can't be the inciting event, this is the the initial situation, the set up. The first ten pages would be about a man waking up from coma with a peculiar amnesia, but then... what happens? What put the story in motion? That would be your true inciting incident.
Or you can start with the soldier in war, fighting hard and being touched by a bullet in the head. In this case the inciting event would be the waking up in amnesia.
Maybe the main character is a spy: this can suggest a 'scam' attitude, a world where things are rarely what they appears to be. He can wake up in a neutral territory, like Iran. In 1943 Theran was full of spys because of a very important conference. In this context an elaborate scam to get informations from a captured spy is perfectly believable. Or it's believable that a mentally ingjured spy can be extremely suspicious about everything around him.
Go write this movie!:)
Better if you were to clarify what is at stake, without the specifics of your story it sounds like a generic mind game movie.
For example, what if he was an ally soldier and knew the location of an A-bomb, he must tell someone where the bomb is but if he tells the wrong people it could spell disaster.
I.e:
After waking from a three year coma with acute amnesia, the only thing a paranoid soldier remembers is the secret location of an A-bomb, he must discern whether or not he is among enemies or friends.
Goal - disarm the bomb
Flaw - paranoia
Obstacle - amnesia
