Another day, another idea springs forth from the well that seems to know no drought. In seventy-two hours a one page overview (and several pages of idea notes) has been transformed into the first 42 pages of my latest narrative creation - CONTAGION.
A political-thriller-cum-horror-SciFi story with reflections of 28 Days Later, Outbreak, The Island of Dr Moreau, Escape from New York, and Dawn of the Dead. It's a heady mix of political intrigue, and festering blood-soaked horror that spins a degree of filmic familiarity with the horrors of current affairs in the Middle East.
To that end it is anything but derivative. It is a science-fact led fiction, set in a modern era, with modern landmarks, modern characters, and just a shade of political underhandedness. All things audiences can easily identify, and identify-with. In a heroic charcter, the likes of which have not been seen in mainstream cinema, audiences will take a soul-searching and heart-rending journey in the quest to rescue those who mean most in the threat of the apocalypse; family. Even that family from whom the hero in us has been forcibly estranged.
Contagion is set to be an explosive, fast-paced, scary thrill ride to the apocalypse - one, that in the modern age is all too possible. Just keep telling yourself........
"It's only a movie. Only a movie. Only a movie".
Nick
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