The Pool…

I’m ridiculously excited!For the first time since graduating, I have finished a script.

Well, that’s not technically true – I did the script for Mobius, our entry to the Bloodshots 48 Hour Horror Film Competition that we won second place for…

But, that was something I wrote in like 2 hours, and it was definitely a rush job, working around the crew/props/locations we had. It was true to itself, but it had boundaries that I knew I couldn’t move beyond, even if I wanted to.

And while I’ve been working on a number of scripts (Blossom, Devotion, Sons of Gods) on the side, seeing which feature would come to me first, I haven’t completed another script since before June 2007. That was a spec script for an episode of Monk. Pretty good, actually.

Anyway, The Pool is going to be part of the Live Zombys series that we refuse to let die. Especially in light of our being selected into the Dismember the Alamo competition that’s going on in a few weeks. We’d like to have three really good stories – representing the beginning (The Pool), the middle (The Judgement or Family Man) and the end (The Farm) of what its like to live in a world of the Live Zomby’s universe.

The Pool takes place at the beginning of the plague, before anyone is really aware of what’s happening. It’s written in a very specific way, one that I think totally misleads the audience, and for that, I’m excited. It’s just in a first draft (though my first drafts are pretty tight), but when it’s production worthy I’ll post it here for everyone to read.