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T H E   S C R E E N P L A Y S
 
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The Revenge

 

screenplay

 

 

PERIOD THRILLER

 

THE FRENCH QUARTER, NEW ORLEANS c 1854

 

 

Adapted From the Novel

 

 My Journey to Lewaro:

 Stories Along the Way

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 B o r r o w e d   D r e a m s

s c r e e n p l a y

 

 

 

CHRISTIAN THEMES

 

 

 

 

AMERICAN PERIOD DRAMA

 

ADAPTED FROM THE AWARD-WINNING NOVEL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Slipping Away

 

screenplay 

 

 

psychological thriller

 

how could she have known the lengths

her mother would take to kill her?

 

 

 

 

 

 

There'll Come A Time

 

Charlie's Road To the American Dream Hit a Tragic Dead End

 

screenplay-in-progress

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I Love You

Dangerously

 

AND YOU WON'T LIVE TO REGRET IT!

 

 

THRILLER

screenplay-in-progress

 

 

 Getting It Wrong

 

 screenplay to novel

 

Peter loves Maggie. Maggie loves Peter.

 

Alice loves Peter, too.

 

Mary, Maggie's mum loves her daughter.

 

Maggie loves her mum and Louisa also

loves Maggie's mum.

 

And Brandon, he loves money even if it isn't his.

 

 

I t    g o t   t a n g l e d !

 

 

London, 1948. The city is putting itself together again after the Second World War, and people and families are trying to find a way forward. It's a struggle for all.

 

Peter is a young man who works at the library. He has hopes and dreams of one day being a novelist. His dreams and fantasies help him escape his day to day life where his somber habits inhabit his ways with women. But then he meets the woman with the bright red lips like a movie star.

 

Maggie is a young woman of prominent cheekbones and startling ambition, who wants to be a film star – or, failing that, a novelist. She's about as predictable as a thunderstorm.

 

Alice is the girl next door and works for a literary agent. She loves Peter's writing – and Peter too. But will she find the courage to tell him so?

 

In a slippery tale of stolen hearts and purloined novels, secret loves and hidden ambitions, these lives become irretrievably tangled.

 

Who will end up with whom? Who will end up rich and celebrated? And will art – and love – win out in the end?

 

 

'Dreams for You' is a cross between 'The Exorcist, 'Rosemary's Baby and 'The Sixth Sense'. This script combines the surreal and emotionally wrenching and psychologically terrifying elements culminating in an excellent climactic sequence.                            Peter Mellencamp
 
Pete Mellencamp, M.A.
Cinema Production and Screenwriting, USC
Story Analyst for MGM/UA, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Columbia, Warner Brothers, Universal and Disney
 
Teaches: "Story Analysis for Film and Television" AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE