I've got this idea for a film screenplay, titled 'BackStory' with a tagline of: 'They haven't lost the plot. They just wanna be part of it'.
But it can't be a screenplay until I write it as a short story so I can make sense of it.
Whenever I get a role of some substance, sometimes I get a little Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. I like to write or create a backstory for my character - where he was born, what his personality was like, who his is married to, how he met his wife etc.
It occurred to me I was creating these characters that would never get expressed anywhere except in my head. And then be discarded.
On an existential level, it seemed like a fun idea to imagine what it would be like to be one of these characters - always playing second fiddle to the main characters they served yet never getting a chance to actually do their thing or strut their stuff.
So 'BackStory' took hold as as idea for a story in the 'heist' genre.
Four to five characters - peeved at always being secondary to the main story - decide they have had enough. They want to be in the main plot and decide to hijack their way into the main story and demand some sort of ransom for it.
The ending at this stage I see as them getting to the 'payoff' and then they find there is nothing there.
Think this idea has legs? I do.
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