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In 1977, a reformed ex-con, desperate to pay for his mother?s hospital bill, returns to his old life of drug dealing but soon learns the game has changed and the players are more ruthless than before.
We start five days before and then continue a few days after. In the original script, my teaser began during the Blackout and then in Act One we go to five days before.Hmm. Do you think the hook for a lot of mine could be the setting/background/event?Night: Set against the backdrop of 1977 NYC BlackRead more
We start five days before and then continue a few days after. In the original script, my teaser began during the Blackout and then in Act One we go to five days before.
Hmm. Do you think the hook for a lot of mine could be the setting/background/event?
Night: Set against the backdrop of 1977 NYC Blackout.
Frontiersman: Set against the backdrop of 1887 Great Die-Up.
Masquerade: Set against the backdrop of swanky 60s French Riviera.
Restless: Set against the backdrop of sun-kissed, superficial LA.
Thanks again for all the help.
See lessIn 1977, a reformed ex-con, desperate to pay for his mother?s hospital bill, returns to his old life of drug dealing but soon learns the game has changed and the players are more ruthless than before.
The hook? Hmm. I?ll have to think about this. Do you have any great examples of brilliant hooks? Well apart from 70s New York, the complex friendship that pulls an ex-con back into his old life. I honestly thought my big hook would be the Blackout. However, I?m rewriting the script to get rid of itRead more
The hook? Hmm. I?ll have to think about this. Do you have any great examples of brilliant hooks?
Well apart from 70s New York, the complex friendship that pulls an ex-con back into his old life. I honestly thought my big hook would be the Blackout. However, I?m rewriting the script to get rid of it from the pilot. Does the hook always involve the main character?
Dpg – I?ve certainly learned a lot about these two kinds of loglines. Next time I?m starting a script – I?m starting with a truly solid, strong logline with hook/premise/that great idea. With querying, it truly is ALL about that logline. (Before I started the scripts, I had malleable loglines. I wanted to be able to change things. Writing is an act of discovery after all). It’s been a learning experience.
Robb Ross –?
Yeah. I?ve done a bible with where it?s going and future seasons. I?m malleable.
With my experience with film producers, they often want you to change things. That?s why I said ?hoping?.
The mother?s bill is a catalyst. But one thing leads to another. He becomes accustomed to that much money. That lifestyle. The power it gives him. The respect. And before he knows it, he?s become everything he hates.
He spends his childhood dreaming of going to Manhattan and becoming a somebody.?Years later, when he?s surrounded by the cream of New York?s somebodies (notably Studio 54), he finds himself disillusioned. It doesn?t bring him happiness.
Okay. Cheers guys. I need to have another think.
See lessA reformed sex addict, suffering intimacy problems with a woman who offers him stability, returns to his former psychiatrist, a twisted and manipulative woman for whom he might still be madly in love with.
What?s wrong with a schmuck as a protagonist? Ha.Well - he?s a rich, playboy plastic surgeon in the Patrick Bateman and Christian Troy vein. He?s a smug yuppie type - with OCD levels of perfectionism. He?s supposed to be pathetic and ridiculous.?There?s even a scene where (in a nod to Close EncounteRead more
What?s wrong with a schmuck as a protagonist? Ha.
Well – he?s a rich, playboy plastic surgeon in the Patrick Bateman and Christian Troy vein. He?s a smug yuppie type – with OCD levels of perfectionism. He?s supposed to be pathetic and ridiculous.?There?s even a scene where (in a nod to Close Encounters) he starts carving a naked women into his mashed potatoes. He?s obsessed.
In a lot of ways he can go head-to-head with the psychiatrist, who is (you guessed it, also a former sex addict). What they have together is unique – they get and understand each other. They can only be vulnerable with each other (which is oddly corny for such a black premise).
What?s interesting and dangerous about them having an affair – is that it?s illegal and unethical to do that with your patient. But yeah – I mostly imagined two beautiful people with huge egos going head to head in a game of constantly shifting power fuelled somewhat by sexual jealousy. The ending for it being – these two cruel, narcissistic people do very much belong to each other. There is someone out there for everyone ha.
Okay. Cheers everyone.
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