The collaborative scriptwriting for “Salvation For April“ is going incredibly well, as we’re halfway through the 2nd script in less than a month.  It is proving more challenging this time as scenes with dramatic violence and carnage are much easier to write than moving ones with a positive message.

But why stop there? I went through some ideas and decided we need a series of 7. In the last few days, i’ve written up the next 3, one of which is a powerful love story. Needless to say, they’ve inspired and captivated more than they’ve offended, but i don’t know whether to take that as a good or bad thing.

One thing is beginning to become clear though - movies are WAY more fun than TV programs. I’m coming round to thinking that TV is for people who aren’t good enough to make films. You can get away with so much more in drama than you can in factual, and films are for people who think because their messages change lives, whereas TV is just a reflection of how things are for people who want childish entertainment

And so, without further ado, i give you movies 3, 4 and 5.

3. “AIDAN’S DARKEST SERMON”

A self-righteous judgemental middle class pastor who is told that his church-owned home is to be sold before the housing market suffers from the “credit crunch” loses control after falling off the wagon and drunkenly rapes a local prostitute whom he despises in a fit of rage. After she tries to blackmail him, his true murderous nature emerges as he finds a new chaotic way to preach his beliefs. A deadly game of cat and mouse begins as he tries to cover his tracks before the most consequential Sunday sermon of his life.

Download the summary/treatment for “Aidan’s Darkest Sermon” (Aidans.Darkest.Sermon.pdf)

4. “FORSAKING GRACE”

Under the threat of her department being shut down because of a chronic lack of government funding due to the “credit crunch”, a heartbroken loner forensic biologist hailed for her theories demonstrating love, attraction and emotion are just useless by-products of evolution is forced to confront her past when the love of her life who abandoned her turns up out of the blue on her doorstep the very same day as her boyfriend proposes to her, forcing her to re-think everything she knows as her ordered life is turned upside down.

Download the summary/treatment for “Forsaking Grace” (Forsaking.Grace.pdf)

5. “EMPIRE OF ASH”

Distraught with grief and desperate for vengeance, the workaholic owner of a chain of debt collection agencies booming from the surge in repayment problems due to the “credit crunch” orchestrates a mass execution of a local gang after his grandmother is killed in one of their botched hits. As he struggles to control the uncontrollable ripple effects of his campaign of violence, he is unwittingly thrust into a dark and twisted game of human chess played by wealthy evil men.

Download the summary/treatment for “Empire of Ash” (Empire.Of.Ash.pdf)