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Logline: After killing each other in a muddy ravine on Guadalcanal, a Japanese soldier and an American Marine awaken as unwillingly tethered ghosts and spend decades protecting the grandson born from their families’ impossible union—bickering across wars, cultures, and generations as they search for redemption and peace. Genre: Primary: Historical Fantasy Drama Secondary: War Drama / Supernatural Family Saga
This is a fresh and highly dramatic premise. Excellent! The two protagonists makes it complex, but not impossible. The structure works: two protagonists, a catalyst, an action, a conflict, a theme. But "unwillingly tethered" is a little clunky as an adverb-plus-adjective pair; "tethered against theiRead more
This is a fresh and highly dramatic premise. Excellent! The two protagonists makes it complex, but not impossible.
The structure works: two protagonists, a catalyst, an action, a conflict, a theme. But “unwillingly tethered” is a little clunky as an adverb-plus-adjective pair; “tethered against their will” or just “tethered” reads cleaner.
“Search for redemption and peace” is the theme rather than something we can watch; if both ghosts are chasing an internal state, we don’t get a visible goal to follow.
The character descriptions tell us their armies but nothing about who these men are; what kind of soldier each one was would tell us how the bickering plays.
The genre stack reads overdetermined (primary and secondary, three or four labels), and a single tonal cue inside the logline would do the work without needing the disclaimer below.
But the story is genuinely fresh: enemy soldiers who killed each other on Guadalcanal becoming tethered ghosts to a shared bloodline they didn’t know they’d share is a strong premise, and the bickering across decades has real comedy potential alongside the drama. What’s missing is the specific stake. Why are they bound to him? What happens if they fail? And what makes the union “impossible”? A concrete stake and a concrete reason would replace the abstract “search for redemption” with something we can watch.
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I think it is a promising premise, but it needs a tighter focus and more specificity. For example, she volunteers for an anti-aging *drug* trial. Also, a logline should begin where the plot begins, to wit, with the inciting incident. What kick starts the plot? When she enters a retirement community?Read more
I think it is a promising premise, but it needs a tighter focus and more specificity.
For example, she volunteers for an anti-aging *drug* trial.
Also, a logline should begin where the plot begins, to wit, with the inciting incident. What kick starts the plot? When she enters a retirement community? I don’t think so. That’s setup, but I suggest it isn’t the inciting incident. The inciting incident is when the drug trial works. Complications ensue.
Also, the logline should state the objective goal the protagonist has a result of the inciting incident. So, what becomes her specific objective goal as a result of the results of taking the anti-aging drug? What is the specific problem/challenge/ complication she faces? Again, be specific,
Hope this helps.
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Didn’t this script receive a mention on the Black List? Love how you took the premise and distilled everything down! 🙂
Didn’t this script receive a mention on the Black List? Love how you took the premise and distilled everything down! 🙂
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