Five Screenwriters Questions I'm Badly Able to Answer

Hello,

It's been a tiring day so I will apologize in advance for this short and uninspiring blog. I have completed a short fairytale. It is about the Giant's Causeway. It is titled Gerry's Causeway. It's about the giant Gerry, who details his account of why he ran from a fight against a smaller human and why he broke apart the Giant's Causeway.

It's a comedy. It features a lot of cursing, which is a departure from my regular style. Which I guess was part of the point in doing this 55 shorts challenge. Anyway, onto my next genre. Historical Event.

It's a pity I can't use Ferocia for this. That short was about Augustus meeting his grandson. Or the Jeronimus Verdict. That was another short based on a true story. Oh well, I have 10 days to come up with another story.

Today's blog is a very short answer of some questions I googled. These are 5 questions screenwriters should be able to answer. Let's see how I do with no thought put into it and a very tired mind.

"So, can you tell me a little about yourself?"

Oh. OK. I'm Kevin. Hello. I'm from Ireland. I write a lot. I've placed in some contests. Won one or two. I'm confident but not comfortable bragging or talking myself up. I just don't feel a need to. I'm very funny. I'm very smart. I'm very aware anyone could say those things and it's better to show how I'm funny and smart and not tell that I mean. Check out my blog to see all the different genres I write. I'm really productive about it too. I work full time in a boring job. I'm good with kids, animals and the elderly. I'm not good with racists, sexists, homophobes and transphobes.

Oh and some things I'm into are: Roman history, Lord of the Rings, soccer, Formula 1, AEW wrestling. Animals, Travel and of course Movies and TV shows. My highest achievement would be to make spoof movies like Airplane, Naked Gun, Hot Shots popular again.

"We love the script. So where did the idea come from?"

Oh, let's say it's my animated fantasy comedy. Five Orcs. It's Oceans 11 meets LOTR. I had written a fantasy series as my first steps into screenwriting that involved a scene where two characters mapped out an assassination plot. I misremembered it as a scene detailing a heist. So I thought a heist movie would be fun to write. I thought about what came to mind first when I think of Heist movie and then looked in the opposite direction. So Heist movies are usually in the present, real world. So I went for fantasy. I think of fantasy, I think of LOTR. Heists are usually carried out on banks, casinos, big business. In LOTR that would be Sauron's fortress, Barad-dûr. It seemed obvious that the "good" side would carry out the heist. Elves or wizards or dwarves. So I thought it would be more interesting if we took orcs, the hapless, nameless cannon fodder, and made them have to carry out the heist.

"Do you live in L.A.?" or "Are you willing to relocate?"

Nope I don't live there. I'd commute! It's only a10 hour flight. How long do you need me around there for? Plus in Ireland, I've got great internet connection for zoom and just let me know a time and I'll hop on for a talk. I've a wedding I'm planning here and 4 pets I'm not leaving to live in L.A full time. Sorry.

"What type of scripts do you want to write in your career?"

Uh, have you seen my shorts challenge. All of them! I will settle for comedy though. At least for now. I want to find new challenges in each script.

"What else do you have?"

A spoof rom-com about lumberjacks, sentient killer daffodils and terrible painting skills. I have a historical fantasy series pilot that is certainly not a comedy and set at the end of the Roman Empire. I also have the gift of the gab (the great eloquence or skill at flattery kind, not the alt-right and extremist haven kind) and a winning smile.

Thanks for reading

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