PINOCCHIO STORY ORIGINAL SCRIPT SERIAL

Of course, the second ingredient to this meal is that you have to love these kinds of stories. Obviously, I’m making this sound a little easier than it is, but I bet if you spent an entire week trying to come up with a fun fresh take on a fairy tale, you could. Or maybe we tell the story on a planet inhabited by beasts, and the girl is the only “human” and therefore a “beast” to them. We could make the girl the “beast” instead of the guy. We could set the story in modern times? That could make it fresh. Now look for a new angle to tell the story from. Pick a well-known fairy tale that’s in the public domain. But the evil Edmund will do his best to stop it, in a last ditch attempt to destroy the couple’s life forever. The couple will have to come up with another solution, a solution I’m pretty sure you can figure out. But then Edmund has a witch put a spell on the two, making it impossible for them to have children. (spoilers) Geppetto succeeds in the knick of time, and ends up marrying Julia. When Geppetto finds this out, it’s a race to get back in time to stop the wedding and be with Julia once more. She refuses to marry him, but when word comes back, erroneously, that Geppetto has died, she has no choice. When Geppetto is later sent off to the war, he hears that Edmund has moved in on Julia. He starts by trapping Geppetto’s parents on a train crossing, watching gleefully as the train hits and kills them. Edmund hates Geppetto and his perfect life and will do anything to destroy it. This is when we first meet Geppetto’s evil nemesis, Edmund Vile (pronounced “Vee-lay!” he tells everyone). The two know they’re spending the rest of their lives together, but before that can happen, the Depression hits and Geppetto’s family loses everything. Their love for one another is so powerful, you get the sense they fell in love BEFORE first sight. But Geppetto can only think of one thing – the beautiful Julia Moon. The Three Misfortunes of Geppetto places us squarely in the year 1919 where we meet Geppetto, an optimistic enthusiastic young man with his whole life ahead of him. In addition to Shakespeare adaptations, they’re one of the most bankable script approaches out there.

So studios are always all over these scripts. There’s a comfort level there, like having your favorite coffee in the morning or turning on your favorite sit-com after a long day of work. You say, “Snow White” and people immediately know who that is. With these kinds of screenplays, the marketing is always done for you. But usually, there’s a tipping point – and it’s not very far down the line – where if the marketing is too tricky, they don’t bite. Will the marketing be easy or difficult? The more difficult it is, the more stellar the other components of the screenplay have to be. When a studio looks at a project, the first thing they do is ask how it can be marketed.

Hollywood goes nuts over this stuff.Īnd it’s not hard to imagine why. I’ve read 20 other spec sales in the past five years that have also succeeded with this formula.

PINOCCHIO STORY ORIGINAL SCRIPT SERIAL

Whether it be the recent Malificent, about one of the most famous fairy tale villains in history, the edgy take on Snow White that was Snow White and the Huntsman, the dark spec sale from a couple of years ago, “Pan,” that reimagines Peter Pan as a serial killer. The formula? You find a fairy tale, then find a new angle to tell the story from. There is no other type of script that has done better in the market over the last ten years. To highlight the most spec-sale friendly of all the types of scripts out there. I decided to review this script today for one reason. Shawn Levy, the director of the Night at the Museum movies and, more recently, “This is Where I Leave You,” is attached to direct. The Three Misfortunes of Geppetto was a 2011 Black List script. He has another project with Peter Dinklage attached called, “Rememory” about a professor who can record memories. Vukadinovich began his career as a playwright (his most celebrated work being, “Trog and Clay (An Imagined History of the Electric Chair)” before moving into screenwriting. Premise: The heretofore unknown tale of Pinocchio’s famous father, Geppetto.Ībout: Michael Vukadinovich’s script hit the spec market in 2011 and was snatched up immediately by 20th Century Fox for mid six figures.

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