A 60 page Comedy -Drama film I wote for my dissertation in 2013 about a rock star, Mick Munro who goes back to Ballynahinch, the Northern Irish town he grew up in following a volatile conflict with his bandmates. Whilst there he forms a tumultuous yet intimate friendship with Gary Howland, the old musician who inspired Mick to get into music as a child and guitarist of eighties rock band Cavalier. Once a local legend Gary is now a decrepit old man who has exiled himself to his old family home on the hill just outside town, spending his days digging up the surrounding fields, obsessively searching for something from his past. For Mick and Gary, the past and present intertwine as Mick revisits the people he left behind for fame, his estranged sister and best friends, all affected in some way by his departure. With the paparazzi on his heels and a career boosting album in the pipelines Mick must face the demons accompanying fame and its pressures whilst discovering the harrowing truth about his childhood hero.
Hiatus received a first for my sixty page Dissertation. I am currently aiming to expand the 60 page Script into either feature film length or into a long running television programme using the current draft as a pilot or first draft of a feature. I would like to focus on expanding the subplots as well as colouring in the back stories of the protagonists with focus on really definining the pieces genre and its structure. The Celtic Myth of "The Hound of Ireland" or "Cu'chalain" on whom the opening song is based is also an aspect I would like to explore in terms of the films themes of return and the mythologisation and idolisation of celebrities.
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