Dois ponto Um

That’s the provisional name for a screenplay I intend to write. It’s somewhat of a rip off of British zombie flick 28 Days Later (shhh… don’t tell that to the producers). However, my movie will be based in metropolitan Atlanta. Instead of killer zombies my movie will feature impotent politicians and evil engineers loosely associated with the military. At the risk of giving away major plot details I should tell you that the big twist in this story is the fact that the politicians as well as the army engineers are actually zombie like puppets who are being controlled by the vicious and ever scheming endangered mussels based in a neighboring state.

I haven’t made up my mind the exact neighboring state I’ll set them in. Although undecided, I have narrowed it down to either Florida or Texas. I like Texas because lately so many evil things have come out of there that it just seems like a natural locale as the home base for a bunch of slimy creatures bent on world domination by stealing natural resources from other sovereign states. But then again there’s Florida, with its palm trees, never ending supply of Latinos (damn Brazilian people), beaches, and Miami. I think of those things and can’t avoid the uneasy feeling that there’s something rotten in the state of Florida.

Anyhow, back to the plot. So at this point you’re probably asking yourself, “Really, how evil can these sentient, evil, mussels truly be? And how can a bunch of slugs threaten a major US city?” Well, I don’t mean to give away too much. But let’s just say these evil mussels intend to steal all the drinkable water in Georgia by having the army engineers empty the lake reserves allowing all the water to flow into their native state of Texarida (ummm... yeah… still undecided here.)

The movie will take place over 90 days and will follow the progress of our heroes in fighting the evil doers next door who hate us for our freedom to take as many baths a day as we care to. It will culminate on the 90th day with a grand showdown between an unlikely hero and the mussel warlord known only as Sonny.

I still have a lot of minor story details to work out, such as who eventually will win this struggle between good and evil. The optimistic side of me thinks the good guys should win. If that’s the case the movie will conclude with a ticker tape parade through downtown Atlanta where the heroes are greeted with rose petals, the sound of machine guns being fired into the air, and cheers from a grateful crowd.

The pessimistic side of me thinks the mussels will win and leave the beaten and parched heroes to aimlessly wander the dry bed of Lake Lanier only to find the head of the Statue of liberty partly buried in the dirt.

Either way I should have the screenplay finished in about 90 days. So stay tuned...


http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/20/georgia.drought/

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2007/10/22/watered_1022.html