Script History - part 5

In my final year of the course I had just one script to write, a feature film.

MY SISTER AND THE BASTARD PRINCE (120 mins)
Frank and Nancy are twins. After graduating they go travelling, and film a documentary of their adventure. Following a chance opportunity to meet an urban legend, crime-lord/Messiah ‘The Bastard Prince’, they’re accepted into his gang. Frank retains his journalistic objectivity, but Nancy is seduced by his power, charisma, and pseudo-religious message. As the sacrifices Nancy makes for the Prince grow, Frank’s horrified to find that he can’t stop watching.

Since graduating from Bournemouth with a 2.1 BA, I’ve been developing several new scripts. My first was a return to the short film.

KRAPP-SHAAG (8 mins)
A NHS announcement about a recently discovered sexually transmitted disease: Krapp-Shaag. Named after the Austrians who discovered its effects, Krapp-Shaag is a bacterium that lives in the testes and produces a neurotoxin which erodes the brains link between sex and imagination, making long-term sufferers utterly unimaginative in bed. They become crap shags.

I’m currently developing a new feature film concept.

SHIPPED WRECKS (working title, approx 100 mins)
Steam-punk fantasy dystopia. The magical mutation and merging of humans with animal or machine parts is common punishment for criminals. The cruel magical judges twist the human form into nightmare shapes, only limited by their macabre imagination. One such batch of remoulded wretches, called wrecks, is being shipped to a colony as slaves. The slaves get loose, the ship gets sunk, and a mixed lot of wrecks and sailors wash up on an island inhabited by fierce natives of a monstrous species.

And also another short script in the same mockumentary style as Krapp-Shaag.

25 LETTERS
About one man's crusade to have the letter Q removed from the alphabet. A mildly autistic man is fixated on the numbers 5 and 25. He finds the alphabet, extremely unpleasant because of the 26th letter. He's identified the letter Q as expendable, it's reliant on U for survival already and words using Q could replace it with K or Kw with no change in pronunciation. He takes his campaign to the streets and the British Library.

I have several more short film concepts under development and have also begun re-writing KVG as a novel.