I need a "Screenplay Disease." LOL. Any FReeper doctors available?

self | 12-7-03 | geedee

[geedee]

I need a disease where a dying female offspring requires a bone marrow transplant where a parent, preferably the father, is the ideal donor. Or some disease with a similar type procedure -- the key is the father MUST be able to donate what's required and remain conscious.

In my nearly-finished screenplay the father is the boogie man and the mother is the heroine and the father blackmails the mother to do as he wishes AND in return he promises to be the donor. I've found a gazillion "potentially fatal" diseases with "relatively" simple procedures required but most aren't geared towards the parents being the donors. And I haven't found one where the father is the ideal donor for a female child. So I decided if I could fine one where the parents were ideal donors then I could eliminate the mother for some valid reason and that would leave the father.

If it's believable, experimental diseases are okay. LOL.

Right now, I have the daughter dying of leukemia and the father supplying the bone marrow -- with the proviso that it has to be "experimentally" modified by genetic engineering. Kinda lame, huh?

Well . . . that's why I'm asking for your help! So if anyone can help this writer-wannabe -- it is a helluva story by the way -- I sure need it. This is all I need before I can call the screenplay complete and join the gazillion other dreamers pitching their naive ideas to a shark-dominated Hollyweird.

My heroine has DEFINITE conservative streak in her . . . so it's damn sure unique! LOL.

[PoorMuttly]

Got a hideous one for you:

..............Journalism

[Dick Vomer]

Aw c'mon.... I want to be a champ.

I think the male/female thing is good. Kinda like "The Crying Game" meets "Steel Magnolias".

It could be the "Steel Game" or "the Crying Magnolias". Or put a whole other meaning on the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. (gee I crack myself up)... sorry. Too much caffeine.

[Dick Vomer]

By the way what are you using to screen write.. which program?

[geedee]

Final Draft 6.0.6.0. Is it a good one?

[MHGinTN]

Why have the father 'donating' marrow? ... Why not have the father (or the mother; it will work for either) try isolating the daughter's own MAPCs (pronounced map seas), then injecting them back into her after her body is assaulted with massive radiation to kill the disease (which kills the immune system, also). The MAPCs revitalize her immune system and she is disease free. The father is responsible for saving his daughter through his research.

[international american]

This I like! Could be an intesting, gripping drama.

[international american]

interesting, that is:)

[MHGinTN]

MAPCs are the Promethean stem cell, found in everyone's body ... adult stem cell that is. (MAPCs = multipotent adult progenitor cells; a most recent discovery which those pushing for cannibalizing embryos for stem cells don't want the public to become aware of)

[international american]

Good luck on your script. By the way,are you writing this for a general release, or to sell direct to cable, or a network?
Just curious,
IA

[international american]

I my opinion, you just made the idea more marketable.
Best, IA

[Sabertooth]

It has to be something the father can do and remain conscious AND remain in control of the situation.

Blood transfusion with a rare, double-recessive blood type. The father's got the type, so does the daughter. The mother's a recessive carrier.

The mother could also have a blood disease which would make her an unsuitable donor.

I'll want points.

[international american]

Ahem, I seem to have a rare form of typing disease.
"Illiterus Profusi":)

[MHGinTN]

Is that related to mine ... lotta erata?

[MississippiMan]

Add another writer to the mix. I write primarily novels, but am also working on my second screenplay right now. BTW, not to be discouraging, for we always have to believe we can beat the odds, but did you know that for published novelists, it's on average the fourth novel that gets deemed publishable by the powers that be? For screenwriters, that number zips up to the 10-12 mark according to a number of pros. Writing is definitely a marathon, not a sprint. I'm there for the long haul!

MM

[geedee]

Good luck on your script. By the way,are you writing this for a general release, or to sell direct to cable, or a network? Just curious, IA

A close and rich friend and I will try to produce the movie ourselves for theater release. We're also wanting to turn it into a network series.

When dreaming one might as well dream big, huh? LOL.

Everyone knows the story of Robert Rodriguez, right? The guy who produced his first movie for seven bucks? LOL. Okay, okay, it was more like seven thousand dollars . . . or some such nonsense like that. Yes, I understand most people will consider me naive and crazy . . . but I don't care. At 50, I'm too damned old to worry about what others think and I'd rather have my destiny in my own hands than leave it to Hollyweird.

Besides, it's our money, my time, and the only way conservatives will ever defeat the Hollyweird leftists is to stop playing THEIR game by THEIR rules.

We have the money, we have enough contacts to get it off the ground, and all it takes after that is hard work -- something us conservatives profess to believe in.

We'll see.

[geedee]

Great, great idea! Thanks.

[ChadGore]

Testicular transplant ?

Can the offspring be a boy instead ?

[MHGinTN]

You are welcome ... and in good company; L&W SVU has used my ideas, so why not you and your friend? Good luck ... I love it when conservatives win in Hollywood.

[international american]

You have FReepmail!

[international american]

ROTF...