Logline Freebies: “Dumb Day Afternoon”
By Burbanked on Mar 23, 2006 in Logline Freebies, Screenwriting | 1,047 views |
Now there have got to be at least two or three truly desperate screenwriters out there, cracking open the day’s third pack of cigarettes while contemplating the late rent check and the grumbling of their empty bellies who would not be above the blatant stealing of someone else’s ready-made screenplay ideas.
What, was the alcoholic-finds-redemption-on-an-island premise too highbrow for you? Or you didn’t feel moved by the righteous newlywed who fights the system for the right to cuddle? Clearly we need to step up our game a bit.
Here’s another Freebie, served up hot and fresh, and - we add with no small amount of pride - Ripped! From! The headlines!
In a world searching for answers, a down-on-his-luck maintenance man brings an entire city to the brink of tragedy when one of his daily assignments is mistaken for an act of desperation and violence.
Tell you what, we’ll even throw in some one-sheet taglines, just because we can:
- “He was searching for pigeons. He found himself.”
(Oscar-baiting, Billy Bob Thornton-starring) - “A building. A rifle. And a big, big mistake.”
(wacky comedy of errors withCarrey.Ferrell.Okay, Steve Carell.) - “Another tall building. Another city under siege. Just another day for John McCLane”
(retooled story for stuck-in-development-hell Die Hard 4)
We’re just not sure how much easier we can make it for you, people. Has the Hollywood screenwriting community been suddenly plagued by rampant morality or something?
Dedicated screenwriting 101 here: From an interview with Harrison Ford on the MTV Movies Blog in which the inevitability of another Indiana Jones movie is mentioned:
How do I get out of this? I love going to the movies with my boys, opening up their minds to the great pleasures of cinema and all that, but this is a hard one. Please help me: do I suck it up and just go, or can anyone out there provide me with a plausible, kind-hearted, permanent way out? (
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