The Vice President gets framed for the assassination of the sitting President (who is his childhood friend) as part of a coup by extremists. He must prove his innocence, as he struggles to hold  the nation from chaos and violence.  

Previously optioned 

Finalist - Hollywood Black Film Festival , 2nd Rounder - Austin Film Fest

Letter of recommendation from the NAACP on this script

Comparison : Murder at 1600, Clear and Present Danger, In the Line of Fire

SYNOPSIS:

Frank Williams and Lincoln Jones are friends who played together in a local Soul band in the Seventies that specialized in music by the group WAR. After their music teacher/ business manger gets killed by police, the friends go separate ways. Williams becomes a Secret Service agent and Jones becomes a Congressman.

Williams takes a bullet and saves a President's life from a skinhead assassin. Soon, Williams's humor-filled outspokenness helps him become a political celebrity. He is drafted to become the Presidential nominee for the Independent Party. Amid scandals in the two main parties, Williams is elected and makes his buddy, Congressman Jones, the Vice President. During the inauguration, Williams is shot at, but still delivers the speech.

The egotistical, right-wing, Speaker of the House hates both Williams and Jones. He plots to destroy them and take over the presidency. He secretly backs the Aryan Nation who also wants to destroy Williams and Jones.

Williams and Jones have great wives who help them try to make things better in the country, especially with racial issues, specifically the topic of reparations. They are loved by the populace.

Williams is assassinated while on vacation and the evil Speaker of the House tries to get murder charges and impeachment proceedings brought against Jones. The nation's second Black President must trust a suicidal call girl to clear his name while trying hold the country together and fending off the alt right Speaker of the House's, power grab.

CONCEITS - Assassination attempt at the Inauguration, debate about the Reparations issue and a hooker saving the president.