3/16/09 - The Beginning.

I struggled for quite some time with the concept of a feature for John Abbott Mitchell, most everything I wrote (even scripts up to about 80 pages), turned into these predictable episodic stories, with a sequence that looked like this: find person-meet person-kill person, all with a slim string of a character arc to hold them together. I started to think about what would be a proper opposing force for JAM. I didn't want it to be a crime story, or for that matter, even want to write a "troubled cop catches killer" kind of script. The catalyst for this feature, was that the only thing that could even match John in scope ... was himself. Needless to say, the psychological element of the script is being enhanced.

3/10/09 - The Script.

I've started writing the script. It is an exciting and daunting task. Thematically, Narratively, and Visually, it will be much more dense than anything that I've attempted to write so far. But since we have such a solid outline, it's flowing much better than in the past. I am excited.