A disillusioned real estate developer vows to protect the residents of Almiiitey who believe they will be saved from his company?s plans for their future by a spirit from their past.

Maybe it is better like that. Please excuse my english mistakes. :-)

"A skeptical attorney, trying to protect against his company?s plans the Almiiitey community, is brought to work with a spirit from its past which needs to wreak revenge on the company owners?
(33words)

Hi Almiiitey,

Congratulations!

These are main elements of your story, as they define the environment in which your hero must reach its goal (genre, atmosphere, challenges, question marks, help ...)

Your logline would be better if these were given or suggested I think. And you can be more concise for the rest.

According with my upper ideas, it could be something like that:
"A skeptical attorney, trying to protect from his company?s plans the Almiiitey community, is brought to work with a spirit from its past who needs to avenge this company's owners"
(30 words)

Thank you for your comments Jean-Marie Mazaleyrat. I have actually written this screenplay and it does include many of your excellent suggestions. I hope that means I am moving in the right direction with the logline.

Hi Almiiitey,

This is very interesting because it can give substance and a fantastical dimension to your story. There are many good things to enrich it:
- The attorney must gradually discover this legend/story parallel to the course of the events
- That spirit is real and intervenes in history despite the incredulity of the attorney (initially it will be an obstacle, then it will become help while remaining eerie until resolution)
- The villains are descendants of this man by another line (children born from a subsequent marriage or avanture)
- The baby survived his mother, then has himself descendants who also become protagonists.
...
You can develop one or two subplot about the past to increase mystery and unease.

At this point, nothing is written. If you feel that you can, write it. If you're not interested, tell me. I'll write it. If it interests you but you cannot do it, we can develop together.

There is something smelling like "Sleepy Hollow" which is fascinating and could be placed today.

Maine has many small, isolated towns and the winters are long so there is a tradition of storytelling, including ghost stories. There is a legend from the 1800's about a famous man who gets a woman pregnant and abandons her. She dies in childbirth and vows revenge with her last dying breath. When the famous man dies, a dark mark appears on his tombstone in the seductive shape of a woman's leg. The tombstone has been replaced many times and the mark always returns. My mother showed me the tombstone when I was a child. So, yes, I think it would be realistic to think a Maine town might have a legend about a past ancestor who will return to save the town in the future.

Is there any community in the Maine which can think it can be save by a spirit from its past?

Thanks nicholasandrewhalls.
It's clear now

It means the attorney thinks that the firm he worked for killed people so that they could scare other people to sell up their land. (I assume).

Hi almiiitey,

I'm sorry, English is not my native language.
Can you explicite "when he suspects it sanctioned murder " just for me please ?

Thanks