Just an interesting note (for a potentially interesting movie…): in an early draft of Groundhog Day the scenario Bill Murray finds himself in is caused by a jilted lover performing a weird voodoo like spell on him (involving a hat, a tarot card, and a watch stuck at 5:59am…all which subsequently cath on fire…)… Obviously this was eventually removed — to what we have today, an amazing magical movie, with no logical explanation as to HOW it occurs. There IS the massive snow storm…hmmm.. Interesting…. When Dorothy travels to Oz she gets there buy way of a tornado…. Hmmm… Anyway…

Also, ‘alternative universe’ would be a lot harder to write than setting it in THIS universe (for me, not necessarily for you…) where, by happenstance (say, after he’s nipped out on his date, who’s perhaps, a hard headed yet optimistic lass…) finds himself in the middle of a big storm on broadway… And when it’s over, the only way any New Yorkers can communicate is through song and dance…all but our stuck up/ narrow minded protagonist. I guess this would be like an alternative universe… It just conjures up strange imagery… I don’t know.

Regardless, I really like it — best if luck.