There ya go, I just came up with the premise for your new genre script. After all, Hollywood released The Day After Tomorrow, but I have a feeling The Day after Friday the 13th would do a lot better at the box office. And you wouldn’t need the estimated $125 million budget The Day After Tomorrow had.
I think you should have your protagonist (let’s call him Freddy for fun) go through a role reversal. It’s about a guy down on his luck. He got fired, lost his girlfriend and his house burnt to the ground all on Friday the 13th.
Something strange happens to Freddy in the middle of the night. It must be the blood moon. A magic in the spark of the night sky.
The Day After Friday the 13th, Freddy is having the best day of his life.
But of course Freddy starts to get cocky and arrogant. He forgets about the nice fortune that he stumbled upon.
He’s on the cusp of losing his good fortune, and has to go through some extreme circumstances if he doesn’t want his bad luck to loiter around him for eternity…
Anyways you get the gist of what I was going for. It’s always fun to keep the creative juices flowing and see what kind of ideas you can come up with for stories.
I think a premise like The Day After Friday the 13th can be pretty decent. It plays with a life theme (Friday the 13th) audiences can relate to. Right there we know it can be marketable.
As a result, I think producers and studios would bite at a script like this.
Speaking of Friday the 13th, as previously mentioned, Victor Miller, the writer of the original Friday the 13th is a speaker at Genre Summit.
Victor shares his writing process and where you can pull inspiration for ideas. He goes into full detail of what makes a film a cult classic.
Victor is a very humble man who didn’t get his big break for Friday the 13th until he was 39. He had the perseverance to keep writing until opportunity came knocking.
Genre Summit is the first event of its kind connecting world-class writers and directors to you. We don’t want you to have to wait 10+ years to get your big break.
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Shant Y.
P.S. If you do write The Day After Friday the 13th, will you at least give me “Story by” credit?!
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