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A NASA astronaut visits a moon in our solar system.

Conspiracy theorists believe it is an artificial moon, built by aliens. In his compulsory 3-month isolation, he starts to get paranoid, from all he reads online. And someone offers him an out.

The returned astronaut escapes from isolation, intending to defect to Russia, because allegedly they are willing to tell the world the truth about what he may have found.

NASA publicly wants him dead, because of the disease risk to the public.
Conspiracy theorists want to help him
Russia might have been wanting his evidence and to kill him and keep it all secret
His family…
And he starts to feel ill.

(from a dream…)

(Set in Australia)

Young radicals want to end pokies so they build their own EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) device.
They park it outside a pokie venue, turn it on, and lights out.

What follows is a series of targets they knock out (with philosophical reasons) and the ingenuity of getting their device within range.With the cops after them, of course.

It starts with them attacking a venue with sledgehammers…

(Breathe as in paper bag and panic attacks, but also fresh air)

The protagonist can have unspecified maladies, but think agoraphobia and paranoia. They live in an ordinary suburban house – I’m think UK. They think the world is out to get them, but all the viewers see is the ordinary world, nothing scary.

The themes are privacy and permission. The idea that someone can enter your property to deliver mail, despite your wishes. TV detector vans (look it up).

(I have lived this, briefly, long ago. I think I can make it real in a screenplay).

The running out of tinned food, or toilet paper, versus venturing out.

Phone calls and letters requiring you to act. An electricity company requiring you to call and update your bonus plan (or whatever). Spam phone calls, repeatedly.

Family, well-meaning, trying to visit.

All of this is the first act, setting the state of mind, the lack of coping. And then the big one – an eviction or the house being demolished? No, too boring. Something big and small at the same time, like The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind. Yes, maybe something natural… Maybe an End of the World scenario? The power is off, he copes for a few days, then pokes his head outside and realises that everyone has left. And within that he has freedom. Ventures out…Sorry, not he, they.

After avoiding humans their whole life, they venture out and, after hiding safe in a home, confront nature. Dogs, magpies, mosquitoes, floods, heat from the Sun… And finds love and affection from dogs, cats, curious fantails, babbling brooks and swaying branches.

Third act is of course people again, both good and bad. And being part of a group (a little society) to survive. Agoraphobia can be the new Asperger’s.

Think Chopper the Aussie prison movie (brilliant).

But the inmates are fictional versions (names are changed, that’s all) of real life comedians, some of whom are in prison, and some could be, for #metwo or tax fraud or whatever:

Bill Cosby
Eddie Murphy
Aziz Ansari
Jerry Seinfeld
Louis C.K.

Could be anyone, the idea is they are the odd couple x5, a bunch of famous people with big personalities who used to make people laugh, and are now all sad f%^cks who are stuck with each other in a special famous people cell block.

Throw in some non-comedians as well, like Trump.

Think Krusty the Clown.

Desperately sad, with traces of humour.

William Shakespeare was two people in one:

• a wealthy grain merchant who did nothing else of importance in Stratford-upon-Avon, with a modest education
• an impoverished playwright and actor in London

This has caused many to presume the actual author was someone else.

A problem with history is that we take everything as being fact. For example, Plato’s description of Atlantis is clearly no place on Earth, yet he seemed convinced. No Atlantis-hunters (except for me) have suggested that the Atlanteans lied about their home so their real home could stay a secret.

Graham Phillips and Martin Keatman suggest that the truth was hidden because Shakespeare was actually a spy for Queen Elizabeth.  He associated with others who were spies… Christopher Marlow was thought to be a spy. You really need to read the book by Phillips and Keatman. The point being – it would make an amazing movie.

We start with the stupidest man ever (D Trump) who said that chicken isn’t real meat.. see elsewhere…

That causes the end of the human species…

We then see three flashbacks:

Who made me? We see the human as a baby, with two parents being parental nearby them

Why made me? We see them when they met/courted

Why did they exist? With some it is just a shrug, no reason!. For others we see the good skill or lucky accident that kept them alive

Selected ancestors, going back in time, 1-3 of those above.

We learn that our personal selves are a lucky accident of fitness and lucky accidents.

Strongest in a fight / everyone else dies in an avalanche

Right back to when a monkey made a proto-human.

So, yeah, more than one avalanche? Throw in some tortured humour?

Trumph is the president.

This is satire, so you can say what you want.

Enlist the Cloud Atlas guy to write it, with input, and make it harsh and hilarious

I can’t write drama, on the page. I’m especially bad at dialogue. But a crazy synopsis I can do, and I have completed a script. If I can pull this off, it could be the most complex and topical script ever, while being fun.

The first ever digital marketing thriller! And ticks many topical boxes:

• Autistic heroes
• Data privacy
• The 1%

Autistic criminals hack the FaceBook database and use it to determine who are good burglary targets:

• job type
• car makes they like (sports cars)
• overseas holidays
• vote conservative
• own lap dogs
• have gym memberships they don’t use
• watch The Crown

And then when said people are posting selfies from overseas, they burgle them. But it turns out there isn’t much to steal these days, not like the jewellery and big screen TVs of the past. Flashback to them hefting a heavy telly.

Then, taking it a few steps further, they start kidnapping the family members. There are moral dilemmas involved, including whether they should steal from them and kidnap.

Baz, a digital marketing expert, seeing the news reports, figures there is a pattern, and figures they are getting data from FaceBook. Because he is autistic, he see the patterns in things. And he is especially good at seeing patterns of behaviour from people who are good at patterns. He likes fractals. And he lives online, because that levels the playing field for him. Real world, not so good.

He then (with the help of someone who could be a side plot), hacks FaceBook, applies the same criteria, and makes a shortlist of the next target.

MEANWHILE

One of the victims is also a crime boss, who spots some clues and hunts down the criminals

MEANWHILE

Some other amateur sleuths create an online persona who the criminals are certain to target. They are vigilantes but not geeks.

COPS

In all three instances, the cops get involved and play the would be targets, in order to catch the criminals. They have to act as the sad rich stereotypes who are targeted (humour)

BUT

The crime boss has orchestrated the entire thing, and is paying the amateur sleuths, (and the cops??) and the criminals, to play their parts.

Why would he do that? Well, he is an artificial intelligence, who has time travelled back from the future.

And he pays them with the prospect of time travel (after proving he is from the future)

I’m not sure about the above. There needs to be an AI from the future, on a Terminator mission, but not necessarily the crime boss.

SUBPLOT

Luddites. They are ineffectual in general, but manage to interfere with this story. We get to see a presentation they make about the technological “progress” of the last 200 years. They may just win somehow…

SUBPLOT

Romance between a hacker and a Luddite. They are probably both gender fluid. And had only met online.

DEMOGRAPHICS

I forgot to say that the hackers are elderly. Elderly women. It is just a given, internal logic, that all hackers are.

CONCLUSION IS A MEXICAN STANDOFF

But digital. Everyone can screw everyone with the touch of a button, and they meet in a VR world.

The AI crime boss knows how the future will turn out, which he uses as leverage. But he wants to change one thing, and that is a some rich evil person dies during the kidnap or before the ransom is paid. An evil person who would use time travel for his own gains. And just happened to send Baz back in time, but Baz is unaware.

NO BAD GUYS

Everyone is on a righteous mission. Ultimately is becomes the “would I go back in time and kill Hitler?” That could be a fantasy subplot as well 🙂

But the Luddites accidentally cause everyone to have a happy resolution.

I might need to make some flow charts…

“Lady Luck” is the world’s highest paid prostitute. Operating where it is legal of course.

She works in a large, cubic, windowless building called the Black Box, which includes a brothel and various professional businesses like accountants and consultants. There are no CCTV cameras that can catch who comes in or out. Mobile phones do not work inside the building, and there is no internet.

She is paid a lot for her “encounters” with clients, because she is legendary for bring them good luck in their personal and professional lives.

She is also famous for her extravagant spending. Including a large number of bodyguards who get paid a small fortune for short assignments.

The “accountants and consultants” are all also well regarded and highly paid.

Yes, this is in-your-face money laundering, fencing and assassin hire.

Actual story can be anything. Maybe an undercover Russian spy infiltrates them, posing as a young prostitute. Male/gay?