Friday, January 28, 2011

Pre-production- Synopsis

We have developed a basic plot and synopsis of the opening scene, detailed character profiles to follow:

Set:
New York City, 1952
The film is set in 1952, three years after Esmeé Amé-Libre, a French born American 27 year old notoriously shot the Mayor Jack Manning of New York City- the most famous and beloved Mayor New York ever had.
Esmeé was Jack’s mistress, and so never in the public eye. The court case was held in private, and the Police managed to cover up the case through the widespread anger and grief at Manning’s murder.

Esmeé gave no explanation as to why she did killed Mayor Manning- or rather the Police never allowed an explanation as to why she did it. The real reason for her lack of explanation is because she escaped the Police on arrest, and has been on the run ever since.

The woman put on trial was in fact Manning’s black maid Angela Watson found at the scene by the police.  The evidence was pushed through by the corrupt heads of the NYPD (Detective John Reilly and Detective Dwight Donovan), without proper investigation, the maid was wrongly sentenced to death- the case closed.

Our story begins when Detective John Reilly comes to question Hunter Phoenix, an English writer from London, on his new book, which is a detailed investigation into the case. Of course, at this point, no one but the NYPD knows the truth of the real Esmeé’s escape, and the wrongly executed maid Angela Watson.

The film follows Hunter as he delves deeper into the case, spurred on by Reilly’s visit at the beginning of the film, and helped along by the conflicted but almost omniscient Jessica Reilly.

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