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An Attempt by Steven Wood - Short, Drama - After learning of his own assassination attempt, he just devise a plan of counter attack. 6 pages - pdf, format
The Log line needs a bit of work - grammar issues.
The dialogue was not great - Too on the nose in some parts and too stereotypical in others. Work on being a little more creative here.
SPOILER ALERT
In terms of the story - not sure I get it. We are familiar with Malcom X, how he died, etc. So if Malcom shoots his own body double at a place where Malcom was not actually shot it means???? Is this meant to be an alternative reality - i.e., kind of like Inglorious Bastards?
Looks like the wrong draft was uploaded. I changed the ending to him just preventing his would be killers from succeeding, and the double just being used as bait.
It ended with Malcolm meeting up with his double and assistant, then escaping. Malcolm suggests to go meet up with MLK and discuss what he had just done and possibly help him. We all know MLKs eventual fate.
So yea, this is an alternate reality. Think The Watchmen.
Looks like the wrong draft was uploaded. I changed the ending to him just preventing his would be killers from succeeding, and the double just being used as bait.
It ended with Malcolm meeting up with his double and assistant, then escaping. Malcolm suggests to go meet up with MLK and discuss what he had just done and possibly help him. We all know MLKs eventual fate.
So yea, this is an alternate reality. Think The Watchmen.
Well thanks. I kind of hurried through it so the idea was still there. I'd like to get the dialogue a bit better and maybe more into the selection process of the double.