January 20, 2008

Can you make the guys any older?

Whoah!

I'm so stuck in the mud with this script I'm working on that my sudden burst of inspiration came as a surprise. Except it was for a whole other story.

I sat down, wrote biographical information for my two main characters, and got to work. I knew most of what had to happen in the first act in a matter of minutes.

This was a nugget I had a few months back after reading a quick mention about a group of people who form an unofficial club of sorts. When I first jotted the potential idea down the characters were in their 20s, still figuring out their lives, and trying to find out during a road trip.

All I had to do was change the age of the characters, and things started falling in place, like tumblers in a keylock.

Ideally, Johhny Depp and John Cusack would star in it. You never know...

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