When he learns his wife is planning to kill him, a rich man invites her secret lovers to a dinner party, and offers them each a fortune to kill her first.

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Solid idea for sure! Agree with DPG. There's a few options but they're all pretty strong so I'd stick with this one.

Thanks for the replies everyone.

DPG - Agreed. I think I need to outline perhaps. The key thing with this concept is to do a contained thriller - something in the style of ROPE and SLEUTH.

After he learns his unfaithful wife intends to kill him, a wealthy man offers a million dollars to her lover to kill her first. - this could work. Thank you. It would certainly keep things simple for the logline as I think perhaps the other characters turning up later on - would be a twist. We’ll see.

Your suggestions are interesting because I did loglines for each character to figure out who was the more pivotal character. Certainly it’s the kind of thing filled with a lot of mystery and a lot of twists.

My pivotal character was one of the lovers who has literally stumbled into this mess with the husband, the boyfriend/lover, a hitman/lover. He’s new to the club. He’s a drifter who needs the money.

Scott Danzig - all very good ideas. Certainly - the characters need to be different and have different agendas. I did consider AGENDA as a working title (a bit too on the nose.) The woman/femme fatale is very much using all of them (that much I know.) I want it to be the kind of thriller where the power dynamic is always changing.

YaelEinstein - Lets see. The husband knows about the lovers. The pivotal character/our protagonist has walked into this spider’s web - he’s new to the club. The femme fatale is using all of them - whether with sex, money, love, etc. She oscillates between victim to predator and back again. The conflict here is over who to trust and who’s working with who.

I need to outline.

Thanks everyone.

Personally, I think this logline has a very solid hook. The main thing I felt was lacking was "wife" and "rich man" seemed generic. I was thinking "cheating wife" or "adulterous wife", but I think dpg's "unfaithful" works better. If I were doing this as a short film, I'd definitely also take his advice to narrow it down to one lover, and the benefit of the wife trying to get her lovers to kill him help you avoid having throwaway characters. Having the lovers interact with the two sides gives you a lot more opportunity to show their personalities. The benefit of having more than one lover is that you can do different things with those personalities, and also contrast them. Maybe one prefers the woman and the other is bisexual and warms up to the man. Maybe one is a vet that actually is good at killing, and another one is a nerdy accountant.