The Lost Angels
OK, my film initially started as a web series spoofing cop shows. There were two major problems however. The first is that I'm a lazy bastard and probably would never get around to ever doing anything with the script I wrote. The second issue, which I often used as an excuse to cover up my inactivity on the project, was that
the opening scene features a somewhat dated and already done-to-death spoof of David Caruso and his sunglasses in the first webisode. I just didn't think I'd be able to get people interested in the series if my first webisode was already kind of played out.
Because of that, the screenplay (or is it a webplay?) gathered dust. Then I saw the preview for a new film starring Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear. The film is called "Ghost Town" and it features the tried and true storyline of a guy seeing dead people and having to do something to help get the dead people to where they need to be.
The storyline has been done a million times before and this film doesn't really seem to add anything new. Then I started to think, how could you make it fresh? I came up with a line for a film trailer that I liked...
"What if you could see dead people...
And they were a bunch of assholes."
I then imagined a film in which a guy can see dead people and they fuck with him all the time, kind of like a reverse Christmas Carol with a bunch of Scrooge-like ghosts making fun of Bob Cratchit and his cripple of a son. I couldn't see myself fashioning an entire film out of that so I decided to add it to The Lost Angels and building the short (30 or so pages) in to a feature length script (90 or so pages).
So that's what I'm going to attempt to do. My script is about cop who can see dead people (and wants to get rid of them) and his renegade partner (who has just found out he has a little kid ala The Game Plan, Three Men and a Baby, etc.). I haven't come up with the exact logline but this film is pretty free form right now so we'll deal with that later.
Anyway, that's the plan (or the closest thing that I have to an actual plan). Let's see how it goes. Hopefully this will last longer than my superhero page which bit the dust after a month of laziness.
