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Screenplays by Gregory

By admin | Published 09/01/2011
  • INSIDE THE GAME
  • EARTH ABOVE, SKY BELOW
  • LOW-BUDGET ANGELS
  • BUT HE’S SUCH SWEET TWEEN SERIAL KILLER
  • NOT FROM AROUND HERE
  • GREASE MONKEYS
  • KILLER ART
  • ETERNAL CHAINS

 

INSIDE THE GAME

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This feature screenplay, INSIDE THE GAME, is a comedic adventure fantasy infused with magic, heart and damn scary thrills.

After being sucked inside a kid’s computer game, a family can only return home if they win the game–which entails outwitting classic fairy tale characters, fighting killer beasts, and the wicked fairy they’re playing against–all before the laptop’s battery dies and they perish along with it.

 

 

INSIDE THE GAME takes place in a computer game called Fairy Tale Land and is a comedic adventure fantasy infused with magic, heart and damn scary thrills. What, you don’t think fairy tales are scary? They’re sissy baby stuff?

Hah! Let’s see if you make it out alive when you’re trapped in a small cottage with three hungry and very pissed off bears who want to rip you a new one for eating their porridge and busting up their fine furniture. Oh, and you’re also trapped in a ludicrous too tight dress with Goldilocks’ curls fused to your skull. This is the family’s first game challenge in the deep dark scary forest and dad bravely, kinda, faces it.

And it only gets worse. Much worse. Can you say man-eating ogre and fire breathing dragon? But that ain’t all. Besides the bizarre killer creatures trying to annihilate them, the poor family must also play against their opponent, Vileena, the most wicked, disgusting and vile fairy in the history of history. Hell, she would send Darth Vader screaming into the night.

But it isn’t all brave heroic feats of derring-do you have to do. Nope. You gotta have brains and be clever with ‘em. Besides the role playing tasks, you score points in this wacked out game by outwitting and out guessing what the eccentric fairy tale characters are going to do before they do it. Or you have to figure out what objects they’re going to want to trade for. There’s no money involved, just crazy trades, favors and plots.

Perhaps the Three Little Pigs demand something in Little Red Riding Hood’s cottage. This, of course, means dealing with that killer Wolf. There’s actually a logic to everything, but it’s a twisted kaleidoscopic logic that’s a challenge to decipher and changes from one fairy tale to another and in different sections of Fairy Tale Land and I’m getting a headache just thinking about it. Let’s just say it ain’t predictable and it’ll twist your brain with a corkscrew and keep you guessing and on your toes.

But the heart at the heart of this story isn’t found in the exciting game–it’s found in the family. A frayed and fractured modern family who are at the breaking point just before they get zapped inside. Thusly, we have a couple of the most compelling themes in story telling unfolding here: the classic journey back home, and a family’s rediscovery of their love for each other, as they learn to work together again as a caring team. There are also morals and wisdoms hidden amongst the fun, but don’t tell anyone. Hmm, kinda like they do in fairy tales, now that I think about it…. (synopsis continued in Scribd doc above)

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EARTH ABOVE, SKY BELOW

 

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ETERNAL CHAINS

 

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GREASE MONKEYS

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BUT HE’S SUCH A SWEET TWEEN SERIAL KILLER

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NOT FROM AROUND HERE

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LOW-BUDGET ANGELS

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 KILLER ART

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 los angeles writer, la screenwriter

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