"Behind Suburbia"

Well, it's finally finished and has a title. It's been a few months, one of which was sitting around coming up with terrible titles, but it's done. Today I registered "Behind Suburbia" with the WGAw and the Library of Congress, meaning that the script is now ready for the world.

I came up with this title because of its dual meaning, one of which becomes apparent after the reading (or hopefully someday viewing). The literal sense of course is that the story takes place behind suburbia, so it works regardless. A few people don't like it, a few people do, but I really like it and I think it's a strong title. I remember the struggle I had coming up with the title for Vengeance, which ultimately became "perfect ending" ... it's just not easy for me for some reason.

At any rate, tomorrow I'll be submitting the screenplay to Script P.I.M.P. for their development service. Hopefully they like it and can provide me with a little insight into some improvements. Either that or they're going to hate it and I'm going to feel bad and have to make major changes. Maybe change the killer could be an escaped hippo in heat, that always sells well in the mid-west.

At any rate, if anyone is interested in reading "Behind Suburbia" and hopefully offering to option it, just shoot me an e-mail and I'll send a handy-dandy pdf of the script. I'm pretty confident in the story I tell as well as the characters I developed. I tried to go for the difficult goal of having a full character arc told within a slasher movie and I think I've done just that. I've had about fifteen people read the script and they all liked it, so that's a good sign. Then again maybe they're just humoring me... but we'll see next week. Stay tuned!