UNTITLED SOCIAL DRAMA:

“12 Angry Men” for the millennial age explores how far (or how little) we’ve come.

Racism, inequality, and prejudice – still rampant.

It seems only the woman and the everyman want to save this transgender woman.

Characters:

1. A rock bottom singer – weathered by a misogynistic industry.
Her 15 minutes are over.
A singer who is desperate to make a difference – but is it for her career or for the world?

2. A wealthy entrepreneur/businessman. Racist? Benign? All powerful?
And it turns out the uncaring, unsympathetic entrepreneur has valid reasons to hate this transgender woman???

3. A simple hothead mechanic. – He’d have reasons to feel dislike.
A hothead who needs the money – and is bribed.
Does he still have integrity?
A man who doesn’t care about politics or even the trial – he only cares about cars. He slowly grows a heart.

4. A stuttering soft spoken everyman – from Midwest. He reveals himself to have a brain.
The honest Joe boyscout. A self righteous do gooder striving to protect this transgender woman.
Decent and honourable yet ultimately no one is listening to him.

5. A wealthy politician recovering from a health scare.
A once vain Golden boy. Healed. Found God.
Trying to figure out the man he’s going to be in phase 2 of his life. He is caught between old and new.

They are defending a transgender black woman who killed a demented (yet mentally ill) young man who raped and murdered a woman.

The mentally ill murderer is a millennial gone mad – desperate for attention, desensitised to what’s real and what he can get away with. He professes he did it for instagram/Facebook likes and is a self professed “artist”.

The transgender black woman avenged her friend’s death.

It should explore how the media manipulates and ultimately controls the trial.

Explores: celebrity culture, media manipulation, politics, racism, prejudice, class divide, inequality, toxic masculinity.