The Birmingham church bombing, The Six Day War and a family of 19th serial killers. These are events and real people that inspired me to write a screenplay.
What historical event inspired you to write a feature or television script?
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I haven't wrote a historical screenplay yet, but I do have a outline for a screenplay called Dunmail. It's a very interesting period in UK history. I'm also inspired by an Elephant I know but I'm keeping that under my belt :)
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I guess my horror screenplay I'm working on now can be said to be from historical events. It's inspired from a particular folk tale passed down from generations in my country. My father actually shared an experience him and a group of friends actually had with reference to said folk tale.
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The overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1891 ('The Stolen Kingdom'). The Senate race of 1924 in Ohio, under the watchful eyes of the KKK ('The Hooded Summer').The tale of a German Army conscript to protect, hide and save his Jewish wife and infant in a Catholic Church in Poland at the end of WWII ('Faithfully Executed'). Other than those - not much.
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0, not my genre but I want to write a biopic about a celebrity birthday party, kinda like "Almost Famous" meets "The Hangover". Drugs, Booze, sex, super models, ballers, rappers, Internet billionaires...
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my retro horror action is set against backdrop of the 1983 KAL-007 shootdown.
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Phillip, the 2-3-1959 Clear Lake, IA plane crash that claimed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson was the catalyst for "Jingle Belles."
Jim Boston. I'd love to read your script. That crash site is less than 10 miles from my boyhood home and as a life long rock n roll fan it something that interests me greatly.
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A box of family keepsakes and wartime correspondence (some from grandma to grandpa during WW2 and some from my uncle to my dad during Vietnam).
Noah's Flood
John Perkins vs State of Mississippi law case
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Travis, "Jingle Belles" is right here on Stage 32. In the "Search People, Education, and more" box, type in "Jim Boston," and my profile- and all my loglines- should come up. (Or to cut right to the chase, type "Jingle Belles" in the same box and it'll get you access to the logline, synopsis, and screenplay itself.)
Travis, thanks for posting! And welcome to Stage 32!
Travis, "Rivertown Rock!" is also set in Northwest Iowa, and is also right here on Stage 32...and as a matter of fact, its impetus is another historical event: The Beatles' 2-9-1964 appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." (And if you'd like to read that script, too, you're more than welcome.)
Another shortcut: You can also click "Jim Boston" right here on this post, and it'll get you to all my loglines...and the screenplays I've turned in to Stage 32.
Thanks for everything, Travis!
This looks like good fodder for a tale or two... https://www.kcra.com/article/1980-harveys-hotel-bombing-look-at-infamous...