Hooray!

Ladies and Gentlemen, we're celebrating.

Two weeks beyond the deadline I set for myself, the rough draft for THIS IS YOUR EDUCATION is finished.  As promised, I will reveal my logline:

In a dark future, a teenager fights back against his fascist high-school administration.

For some reason, the stories that seem most obvious to me take the longest to write.  Perhaps I mentioned this before, but the same thing happened with Digit.  Maybe the surprises are in the details with a story like this, and to find those details I need to take my time.

What high-school kid doesn't think of their school as some totalitarian freakshow?  More to the point even, has anyone noticed that all the kids are on Prozac and that the schools all have razorwire?  Right now, people love making movies like Starship Troopers, The Matrix, Resident Evil, Doomsday, and V for Vendetta.  The technology is there, the audience is there, and the people who go, generally, are teenagers.  How am I the first guy to see this?  Come on!

Now that it's written and protected, I can breathe again.  I'll show my draft to a handful of folks and start getting notes for the next run.  In the meantime I'll make my way back into Receiver, do some SkyChasers, and catch up on a few films.  Tonight, I'm watching Aaron's copy (which I stole) of The Man Who Would Be King.  Sean Connery and Michael Caine - that's kicking back.

You know this movie writes it's own taglines, too!

ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY.

Seriously.