Aug 6, 2023
Gentlemen—drastic times call for drastic measures.
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Gentlemen—drastic times call for drastic measures.
DRASTIC TIMES.
“It wasn’t the city who was poisoning her after all. It was me.”
SYNOPSIS.
Detective KASPER MONTE makes a mad dash out of Los Angeles after pulling his sister out of the muck. Again. BLAIR MONTE, an infamous criminal, unfortunately can’t talk her way out of this one. The twins must drive across the country to a safe haven in the American Southwest, confront the dynamic they share, face their own identities, and find their place in the world.
States away in a holy rolling town in Missouri, DELIA WRIGHT struggles to break out of her shell and make the hardest decision of her life: run away for her and her daughter’s safety and threaten her tense relationship with God, or appease her abusive husband and keep up her good Christian lifestyle for everyone’s sake.
Right on Kasper’s trail, Detective REX slowly unravels the twists and turns that is his friend’s past. Along the way, Rex encounters an orphan girl who’s seen more than she should, and as she tags along he must figure out what it means to have a family of his own, and if his mission is really worth it.
In this nonlinear NEO-NOIR film, one must either live with the consequences or learn to take some drastic measures.
NOTES.
Started: September 2022
Format: screenplay
Word/page count: 160 pages
Genre: neo-noir crime drama
Themes: identity, family, morality, the cycle of violence, love, hope
Content warnings: child abuse & domestic abuse (implied and on screen), transphobia & homophobia, gun violence & death surrounding guns, stranglation, child endangerment, on screen car accident
CHARACTERS.
Kasper Monte (he/him): The classic hard-boiled detective minus the attraction to women. Very overprotective of his sister and has at least two friends.
Blair Monte (she/her): The femme fatale that has so much guilt. She’s like Cain if he was a woman and also slayed so fucking hard.
Delia Wright (she/her): The housewife, Kasper’s parallel and Blair’s love interest. She’s like Carrie if she loved to be in her late 20s.
Detective Rex (he/him): Kasper’s foil who’s also a little in love with him. He’s a good person but not a good cop, but not for the reason you think.
Thelma Bell (she/her): A preteen in desperate need of a father figure. She’s like Ellie TLOU if she were mixed.
Addison Wright (she/her): Literally just a baby who loves her mama. Number one Tupac stan, she doesn’t mind that he swears.
FURTHERMORE…
This post is very unserious but this script is so unhinged I really can’t take it too seriously or else I will lose my mind /pos, the script is basically done. All I’m doing now is adding scenes and fixing typos. If anyone wants to read the script hmu…join me in the madness /hj
Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20EdHFqCd3UNkVCuMbLFy0?si=6e25dbe1c2234afa
Pinterest board: https://pin.it/24p3vhA0o
Tags: #drastic times
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maybe having fantasies about verbally telling off my coworkers/bosses and dramatically quitting my job is a bad sign lol
OC: ADDISON WRIGHT [DRASTIC TIMES]
“I'm not four. I'm just small.”
Species: human
Race, ethnicity & nationality: biracial (mixed white and black)
Pronouns: she/her
Gender & Sexuality: little girl, straight
Age: 7
Fun fact: she’s autistic and she’s BIG into birds, she knows a lot about them and she can and will talk about them all day any day
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OC: THELMA BELL [DRASTIC TIMES]
“If it makes you feel any better, I still think you're cool.”
Species: human
Race, ethnicity & nationality: black and asian-american (mixed)
Pronouns: she/her but I’m a she/they Thelma truther when she gets older
Gender & Sexuality: nonbinary lesbian (highschool Thelma is in for a wild surprise)
Age: 12
Fun fact: despite her hating school and not paying attention, her grades are immaculate enough to skip 8th grade
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OC: DELIA WRIGHT [DRASTIC TIMES]
“Suffering is all I've known, Lord, and the alternative is sin. I want something soft.”
Species: human
Race, ethnicity & nationality: black-american (she’s lightskinned)
Pronouns: she/her
Gender & Sexuality: lesbian cis woman
Age: 29
Fun fact: she’s got that autism/CPTSD combo and she’s really into horror media, specifically Stephen King’s “Carrie”
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OC: DETECTIVE REX [DRASTIC TIMES]
“Orange you glad I didn't say banana?”
Species: human
Race, ethnicity & nationality: asian-american
Pronouns: he/him
Gender & Sexuality: gay cis man
Age: 32
Fun fact: his relationship with his sister has been strained since he was outed, he only sees his nieces and nephews during the holidays
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OC: BLAIR MONTE [DRASTIC TIMES]
“You know damn well we can't, she's gonna get us caught. Or worse, try to kill us herself with that pathetic ass gun.”
Species: human
Race, ethnicity & nationality: african-american
Pronouns: she/her
Gender & Sexuality: bisexual trans woman
Age: 29
Fun fact: was on the JV football team for two semesters in highschool
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