Here is a brief slideshow taken from the video trailer for Tony's screenplay: ENTOMBED.
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(Photo Credits for this slideshow and the video: All original shots courtesy of Shutterstock, copyrights: Vietrov Dmytro; P.D.T.N.C.; Kees Zwanegburg; Kiselev Andrey Valerevich; LipowskiMilan; hector2; Denisenko; lekcej; LaurinRinder; Dundamin; popovich_vi, reproduced under licence).
FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAYS:
1. Entombed WGA# 1254381
Six men buried alive for over six years. How can they possibly survive?
(Inspired by a true story)
Six German soldiers led by Lieutenant Hans von Roth are accidentally buried alive in a vast subterranean storage bunker at the port of Gdynia, Poland, in 1945. At first they believe they will soon be rescued but as the hours drag into days, then weeks, months and finally years, it is appallingly clear that the men will almost certainly face a terrifying death in the grim darkness which surrounds them. They struggle desperately through the months and years to find a way out of their personal hell, but each fierce attempt leads only to failure and despair. The men face debilitating disease, violent death, and even madness as they attempt to understand the terrors of what lies ahead. Water is almost unobtainable and they are forced to live largely on the wine that is stored in the bunker. Their health breaks down, drunkenness becomes a problem for several of those trapped underground, and their limited store of candles, their only form of illumination, is running out. After six years has passed the survivors realise that the end is now very close. They are weak, ragged, emaciated, diseased, close to death.
Meanwhile, Erika von Roth, the wife of Hans von Roth, is desperately attempting to discover what had become of her husband in 1945. Her efforts lead her to a British Army officer in Berlin, Captain Benjamin Marlowe, and over the following years, as Erika continues to search for her missing husband, Marlowe and Erika fall almost reluctantly in love and Erika has eventually to come to the understanding that Hans von Roth is almost certainly dead and that she will never see him again.
By 1951 Marlowe and Erika are about to marry, little knowing that Hans von Roth is still alive, still struggling to gain his freedom from the grave which holds him trapped. However, it is only now that the truth is revealed. The surviving trapped men are discovered by Polish workers and the world learns the incredible truth that six men have been trapped underground for more than six agonising years.
Inspired by a true story.
Status: Script completed. Book to be published by Big Sky Publishers in January 2022. Option currently available.
Set and time: Germany and Poland, 1945-51.
2. Ghost River Station WGA# 1254371
Ethan, a moderately successful writer, has purchased a lovely old homestead, Ghost River Station in the Australian outback. Here he intends to spend the remainder of his life writing books and getting in touch with his beautiful surroundings.
While driving to take ownership of the property he experiences problems with his vehicle, has to abandon it, and following a painful fall arrives at the station somewhat bloodied. There he discovers that the two previous owners, Sahara and her husband, Jessie, are still in residence, and, experiencing legal problems, have been unable to leave the property. They befriend Ethan who agrees that they should stay for a while until their problems are resolved.
For a while all seems fine. Ethan, Sahara and Jessie get along well together, although there is an underlying emotional element. Jessie and Sahara appear to be in possession of some kind of precognitive knowledge of Ethan, and Sahara is unaccountably attracted to the new owner.
The secret of this attraction lies buried deeply in the past.
Ghost River Station hides an incredible and indelible series of secrets. More than a hundred years previously a bloody massacre had occurred at the station leaving hundreds of Aboriginal men, women and children lying brutally murdered in the bush. White colonial settlers had mercilessly killed the indigenous people — that is why the property is called: Ghost River Station.
Equally as deeply, many years later another terrible sequence of events had occurred at the property, and to reveal this tragedy it is necessary to travel to the years of the Second World War.
An Italian prisoner-of-war has escaped from a workers' camp deep in the forestry. He has killed a guard and, facing certain execution, nothing will prevent him from eluding capture. Starving, he comes upon the homestead of Ghost River Station. It is evening; a young couple are being married there. Guests are enjoying themselves; a band is playing. The sun lowers, the guests leave; the bride and groom are left alone. What happens next is a tragedy of unprecedented proportions. The Italian murders both the bride and groom. The prisoner flees, but following a manhunt he is soon captured and killed by angry neighbours. The body of the bride and groom are subsequently buried in the station's small cemetery.
Time passes. For years the station lies virtually abandoned. The graves succumb to the ravages of wind and weather. Massacre and murder are almost forgotten. The only people who now know of these events are Sahara and Jessie and they don't even want to think about them. They struggle to keep the dark past where it belongs — firmly entrenched in its own terrifying history.
Then Ethan arrives at Ghost River Station and for some inexplicable reason the terrible tragedies are suddenly reawakened. The homestead is subjected to a ghostly series of visitations and Ethan struggles to come to terms both with his increasing sexual attraction to Sahara and to the terrifying manifestations which are beginning to occur on an almost daily basis.
As the days pass, two levels of tension, sexual and psychic, mount exponentially. How can Jessie come to terms with seeing his wife in Ethan's bed? How can all three of them deal with the anger of whatever appears to be haunting the homestead? Will the dangers of the past revisit the present and wreak destruction on them all?
Elements of a potent psychic force have come from the past to create a powerful and terrifying influence in Ethan's life, but is it an evil force or does that force simply wish to exonerate or communicate?
Status:
Script completed.
Set and time:
Australian country area, (farming property with homestead) modern-day.
3. Cafe Puccini WGA# 1254377
The anguish of an Italian immigrant who has come to Australia after the Second World War leaving his wife in Italy until he can establish himself in his new country. Thirteen years are to pass before he is able to send for his wife — a long parting during which he continues to love and be faithful to her. However, when she arrives she brings with her a daughter, the child of another man.
Status:
Script completed. (Option currently available)
Set and time:
A small village in a wine-growing area of Australia, 1959.
3. The Secret of Corryvreckan WGA# 1424696
Corryvreckan Island on the south-west coast of Scotland, situated right in the heart of some of the most dangerous waters in the world, is about to be reopened by the British Government after more than sixty years. In 1943 the island had been closed and its inhabitants forcibly removed when the government of the day had turned it into a secret biological weapons testing site.
Now, however, the islanders are going back.
Dr David Craig, who had been taken from the island as a baby, now returns from Australia where he has lived for his entire adult life. He comes not only to reclaim his inheritance on the island but also to confront the islanders and their descendants who claim that they were forced from their homes because of the treasonable activities of David's father, trawlerman Dawlish Craig.
David encounters bitterness, hatred, fear and incredible hostility as he attempts to solve the mystery surrounding the activities of his father. His enquiries and a strange series of events and encounters lead him to the belief that his father has been wrongly accused and David is determined to prove Dawlish's innocence.
The island is subsequently reclaimed in the names of those who once lived there, and of their families, but waiting for them on that remote piece of sea-torn land is a horror of immense proportions.
As the islanders desperately attempt to come to terms with their new lives, David is forced to consider a number of puzzling questions:
Why was his father, a well-known and highly respected local trawlerman, accused of betraying his country to the Nazis?
Why did Dawlish Craig weld a massive piece of railway steel to the bows of his trawler, making it virtually unseaworthy?
Why did Dawlish go to sea that wild stormy day with only black hatred and a seething determination in his heart and why was he never seen again?
What happened to his boat and what became of his body?
Why did the authorities posthumously accuse him of treason before closing the island and turning it into a biological weapons establishment?
And lastly, what role did Dawlish's Spanish-born wife, Maria, play in the powerful series of events that ruined all their lives?
Now, more than sixty years later, David Craig battles the forces of nature and the bitterness of the Corryvreckan islanders themselves to delve deeply into the past. He is aided by Scottish journalist Johanna McLean who also believes in Dawlish's innocence. The trail leads them to Jimmy Wad, once Dawlish's deck-boy, who remembers some key events surrounding that terrible time, but not enough to unlock the elusive riddles.
As the weeks and months pass, the villagers slowly rebuild their shattered past. The old stone cottages of Corryvreckan village are repaired, but David is still faced with intense bitterness and hostility.
All this changes, however, when he succeeds in saving the life of one of the village children.
Finally, the mists which veil the past begin to clear, but when they do they reveal only more astonishing questions.
It is Johanna McLean who finally finds the first tentative key to unravel the mystery. This key lies in ancient documents hidden in the archives at Kew. There, Johanna discovers a portion of the truth and proves that Dawlish Craig could not have been blamed for the closure of the island. She also discovers that there is one man still alive who can, at last, unlock the secrets of the past and reveal the truth in all its terrifying detail. This is Dr Henry Mason, the director, during the war, of the Corryvreckan research establishment. Mason, now extremely elderly, lives in an Edinburgh retirement home. Yet, when confronted, he refuses to provide any information. As a signatory to the Official Secrets Act he is unable to divulge any details of how the government took over the island or what role Dawlish Craig played in that event.
Finally, a strange series of events lead to the truth — a truth that has remained buried on the island for the past six decades. Yet in the end, as the story comes to a gripping conclusion, the islanders discover that the real horror of Corryvreckan Island is a nightmare they could not have conceived, even in their worst dreams.
Status:
Feature screenplay completed: (Option currently available).
Set and time:
West coast of Scotland. 1990s.
TELEVISION DRAMA
1. The Sinning Surgeon
A light-hearted drama about a man who sets out to change his life, only to discover that life finally changes him. Doctor Frank Sharpe is sick of his life as a run-of-the-mill, only moderately successful forensic murder-writer and wants to abandon it all and change entirely, even if it means taking on a job as a factory-hand. However, he has no idea how dramatic those changes will eventually prove to be.
Episodes, 2 x 1 hour.
Status:
Both scripts completed: option available.
Set and time:
Any urban city. Modern-day.
2. Kipling
Episode 1 — 'Ghostboy', Part One
Episode 2 — 'Ghostboy', Part Two
One of the world's leading bankers has been kidnapped and is trapped in the sealed cellar of a deserted cottage with no earthly hope of rescue. Time is quickly running out; food and water are limited. Only one young boy can save the banker. And he is already dead!
Detective Inspector Rudyard Kipling (no relation — everyone asks!) a police officer of Indian background based at the Taunton C.I.B., is called to Buckland Manor, the scene of the banker's disappearance. Working with his associate, Sergeant Dave Trent, and several other leading key police officers, Kipling is faced with a mystery steeped inexorably both in the dark past and in a spectral world which exists beyond life and death as we know them to be.
Kipling (who lives in an refurfished railway carriage with his pet monkey, Rajah) is faced with a mystery which appears to have no resolution. How can he possibly find the banker and save him in time? Can he wade through the trail of clues and come to understand the potent psychic force which is attempting to contact him before the banker runs out of water and dies?
This is a desperate race against time. As the heart-pounding hours and minutes count down to the banker's impending death, it needs Kipling finally to understand the ethereal messages coming from beyond the grave or it will be too late
Episodes:
2 x 1 hour, expandable to continuous series.
Status:
Both initial scripts completed. Option available.
Set and time.
Taunton area, Somerset, but could be set in any country region. Modern-day.
3. Kandal's Canal
A light-hearted murder mystery series. Mitch Kandal is a amiable, slightly eccentric retired police officer who has spent years in the detective branch of Scotland Yard in London. He now lives quietly on a barge moored on the Grand Union Canal in Warwick, England. All he wants is a restful life without worry or concerns, a little fishing, a drink at the nearby pub, Sunday afternoons watching cricket at the county wicket. However, nothing could be farther from reality.
When murder occurs right on the banks of the canal, Mitch is thrown into a startling investigation — an investigation which is constantly being interrupted because his 'suddenly' pregnant daughter is about to marry an African prince and the prince's parents, the rulers of a small but politically important African kingdom, are due to arrive in England for a state visit. A bizarre combination of the funny and the fearful, of mirth and mystery.
Status.
Script for episode one completed. Synopsis for episode two completed: expandable to continuous series. Option available.
Set and time.
Warwick, England (or any region where there is a canal system) modern-day.
The Bloodwood Tree (Short Film)
After a lifetime of building beautiful wooden boats, Jimmy emigrates from Scotland to Australia, buys a block of land on the banks a river and works for weeks to construct an attractive log-cabin.
There is only one thing that annoys Jimmy — an old bloodwood tree in front of the verandah. It is his intention, during his retirement, to sit there with a whiskey enjoying the view. However, the tree is in the way.
But Jimmy loves wood and trees and cannot cut it down. He reads an article claiming that Pacific natives shout insults at trees and eventually they die.
The following morning Jimmy is shouting at the tree; 'Do y' not know yer spoiling ma view, yer wee beastie of a tree?'
That goes on for weeks and Jimmy, while shouting insults, watches for signs of its deterioration, but the tree looks as healthy as ever.
Jimmy increases his vitriol. He cups his hands to his mouth and, taking an enormous lungful of air, continues shouting.
Jimmy pauses, there is a crackle, wood is being splintered. Jimmy looks again at the tree — yes, that is a splintering noise!
What happens next will make you fall off your chair laughing!
Status:
Screenplay completed.
1. Entombed WGA# 1254381
Six men buried alive for over six years. How can they possibly survive?
(Inspired by a true story)
Six German soldiers led by Lieutenant Hans von Roth are accidentally buried alive in a vast subterranean storage bunker at the port of Gdynia, Poland, in 1945. At first they believe they will soon be rescued but as the hours drag into days, then weeks, months and finally years, it is appallingly clear that the men will almost certainly face a terrifying death in the grim darkness which surrounds them. They struggle desperately through the months and years to find a way out of their personal hell, but each fierce attempt leads only to failure and despair. The men face debilitating disease, violent death, and even madness as they attempt to understand the terrors of what lies ahead. Water is almost unobtainable and they are forced to live largely on the wine that is stored in the bunker. Their health breaks down, drunkenness becomes a problem for several of those trapped underground, and their limited store of candles, their only form of illumination, is running out. After six years has passed the survivors realise that the end is now very close. They are weak, ragged, emaciated, diseased, close to death.
Meanwhile, Erika von Roth, the wife of Hans von Roth, is desperately attempting to discover what had become of her husband in 1945. Her efforts lead her to a British Army officer in Berlin, Captain Benjamin Marlowe, and over the following years, as Erika continues to search for her missing husband, Marlowe and Erika fall almost reluctantly in love and Erika has eventually to come to the understanding that Hans von Roth is almost certainly dead and that she will never see him again.
By 1951 Marlowe and Erika are about to marry, little knowing that Hans von Roth is still alive, still struggling to gain his freedom from the grave which holds him trapped. However, it is only now that the truth is revealed. The surviving trapped men are discovered by Polish workers and the world learns the incredible truth that six men have been trapped underground for more than six agonising years.
Inspired by a true story.
Status: Script completed. Book to be published by Big Sky Publishers in January 2022. Option currently available.
Set and time: Germany and Poland, 1945-51.
2. Ghost River Station WGA# 1254371
Ethan, a moderately successful writer, has purchased a lovely old homestead, Ghost River Station in the Australian outback. Here he intends to spend the remainder of his life writing books and getting in touch with his beautiful surroundings.
While driving to take ownership of the property he experiences problems with his vehicle, has to abandon it, and following a painful fall arrives at the station somewhat bloodied. There he discovers that the two previous owners, Sahara and her husband, Jessie, are still in residence, and, experiencing legal problems, have been unable to leave the property. They befriend Ethan who agrees that they should stay for a while until their problems are resolved.
For a while all seems fine. Ethan, Sahara and Jessie get along well together, although there is an underlying emotional element. Jessie and Sahara appear to be in possession of some kind of precognitive knowledge of Ethan, and Sahara is unaccountably attracted to the new owner.
The secret of this attraction lies buried deeply in the past.
Ghost River Station hides an incredible and indelible series of secrets. More than a hundred years previously a bloody massacre had occurred at the station leaving hundreds of Aboriginal men, women and children lying brutally murdered in the bush. White colonial settlers had mercilessly killed the indigenous people — that is why the property is called: Ghost River Station.
Equally as deeply, many years later another terrible sequence of events had occurred at the property, and to reveal this tragedy it is necessary to travel to the years of the Second World War.
An Italian prisoner-of-war has escaped from a workers' camp deep in the forestry. He has killed a guard and, facing certain execution, nothing will prevent him from eluding capture. Starving, he comes upon the homestead of Ghost River Station. It is evening; a young couple are being married there. Guests are enjoying themselves; a band is playing. The sun lowers, the guests leave; the bride and groom are left alone. What happens next is a tragedy of unprecedented proportions. The Italian murders both the bride and groom. The prisoner flees, but following a manhunt he is soon captured and killed by angry neighbours. The body of the bride and groom are subsequently buried in the station's small cemetery.
Time passes. For years the station lies virtually abandoned. The graves succumb to the ravages of wind and weather. Massacre and murder are almost forgotten. The only people who now know of these events are Sahara and Jessie and they don't even want to think about them. They struggle to keep the dark past where it belongs — firmly entrenched in its own terrifying history.
Then Ethan arrives at Ghost River Station and for some inexplicable reason the terrible tragedies are suddenly reawakened. The homestead is subjected to a ghostly series of visitations and Ethan struggles to come to terms both with his increasing sexual attraction to Sahara and to the terrifying manifestations which are beginning to occur on an almost daily basis.
As the days pass, two levels of tension, sexual and psychic, mount exponentially. How can Jessie come to terms with seeing his wife in Ethan's bed? How can all three of them deal with the anger of whatever appears to be haunting the homestead? Will the dangers of the past revisit the present and wreak destruction on them all?
Elements of a potent psychic force have come from the past to create a powerful and terrifying influence in Ethan's life, but is it an evil force or does that force simply wish to exonerate or communicate?
Status:
Script completed.
Set and time:
Australian country area, (farming property with homestead) modern-day.
3. Cafe Puccini WGA# 1254377
The anguish of an Italian immigrant who has come to Australia after the Second World War leaving his wife in Italy until he can establish himself in his new country. Thirteen years are to pass before he is able to send for his wife — a long parting during which he continues to love and be faithful to her. However, when she arrives she brings with her a daughter, the child of another man.
Status:
Script completed. (Option currently available)
Set and time:
A small village in a wine-growing area of Australia, 1959.
3. The Secret of Corryvreckan WGA# 1424696
Corryvreckan Island on the south-west coast of Scotland, situated right in the heart of some of the most dangerous waters in the world, is about to be reopened by the British Government after more than sixty years. In 1943 the island had been closed and its inhabitants forcibly removed when the government of the day had turned it into a secret biological weapons testing site.
Now, however, the islanders are going back.
Dr David Craig, who had been taken from the island as a baby, now returns from Australia where he has lived for his entire adult life. He comes not only to reclaim his inheritance on the island but also to confront the islanders and their descendants who claim that they were forced from their homes because of the treasonable activities of David's father, trawlerman Dawlish Craig.
David encounters bitterness, hatred, fear and incredible hostility as he attempts to solve the mystery surrounding the activities of his father. His enquiries and a strange series of events and encounters lead him to the belief that his father has been wrongly accused and David is determined to prove Dawlish's innocence.
The island is subsequently reclaimed in the names of those who once lived there, and of their families, but waiting for them on that remote piece of sea-torn land is a horror of immense proportions.
As the islanders desperately attempt to come to terms with their new lives, David is forced to consider a number of puzzling questions:
Why was his father, a well-known and highly respected local trawlerman, accused of betraying his country to the Nazis?
Why did Dawlish Craig weld a massive piece of railway steel to the bows of his trawler, making it virtually unseaworthy?
Why did Dawlish go to sea that wild stormy day with only black hatred and a seething determination in his heart and why was he never seen again?
What happened to his boat and what became of his body?
Why did the authorities posthumously accuse him of treason before closing the island and turning it into a biological weapons establishment?
And lastly, what role did Dawlish's Spanish-born wife, Maria, play in the powerful series of events that ruined all their lives?
Now, more than sixty years later, David Craig battles the forces of nature and the bitterness of the Corryvreckan islanders themselves to delve deeply into the past. He is aided by Scottish journalist Johanna McLean who also believes in Dawlish's innocence. The trail leads them to Jimmy Wad, once Dawlish's deck-boy, who remembers some key events surrounding that terrible time, but not enough to unlock the elusive riddles.
As the weeks and months pass, the villagers slowly rebuild their shattered past. The old stone cottages of Corryvreckan village are repaired, but David is still faced with intense bitterness and hostility.
All this changes, however, when he succeeds in saving the life of one of the village children.
Finally, the mists which veil the past begin to clear, but when they do they reveal only more astonishing questions.
It is Johanna McLean who finally finds the first tentative key to unravel the mystery. This key lies in ancient documents hidden in the archives at Kew. There, Johanna discovers a portion of the truth and proves that Dawlish Craig could not have been blamed for the closure of the island. She also discovers that there is one man still alive who can, at last, unlock the secrets of the past and reveal the truth in all its terrifying detail. This is Dr Henry Mason, the director, during the war, of the Corryvreckan research establishment. Mason, now extremely elderly, lives in an Edinburgh retirement home. Yet, when confronted, he refuses to provide any information. As a signatory to the Official Secrets Act he is unable to divulge any details of how the government took over the island or what role Dawlish Craig played in that event.
Finally, a strange series of events lead to the truth — a truth that has remained buried on the island for the past six decades. Yet in the end, as the story comes to a gripping conclusion, the islanders discover that the real horror of Corryvreckan Island is a nightmare they could not have conceived, even in their worst dreams.
Status:
Feature screenplay completed: (Option currently available).
Set and time:
West coast of Scotland. 1990s.
TELEVISION DRAMA
1. The Sinning Surgeon
A light-hearted drama about a man who sets out to change his life, only to discover that life finally changes him. Doctor Frank Sharpe is sick of his life as a run-of-the-mill, only moderately successful forensic murder-writer and wants to abandon it all and change entirely, even if it means taking on a job as a factory-hand. However, he has no idea how dramatic those changes will eventually prove to be.
Episodes, 2 x 1 hour.
Status:
Both scripts completed: option available.
Set and time:
Any urban city. Modern-day.
2. Kipling
Episode 1 — 'Ghostboy', Part One
Episode 2 — 'Ghostboy', Part Two
One of the world's leading bankers has been kidnapped and is trapped in the sealed cellar of a deserted cottage with no earthly hope of rescue. Time is quickly running out; food and water are limited. Only one young boy can save the banker. And he is already dead!
Detective Inspector Rudyard Kipling (no relation — everyone asks!) a police officer of Indian background based at the Taunton C.I.B., is called to Buckland Manor, the scene of the banker's disappearance. Working with his associate, Sergeant Dave Trent, and several other leading key police officers, Kipling is faced with a mystery steeped inexorably both in the dark past and in a spectral world which exists beyond life and death as we know them to be.
Kipling (who lives in an refurfished railway carriage with his pet monkey, Rajah) is faced with a mystery which appears to have no resolution. How can he possibly find the banker and save him in time? Can he wade through the trail of clues and come to understand the potent psychic force which is attempting to contact him before the banker runs out of water and dies?
This is a desperate race against time. As the heart-pounding hours and minutes count down to the banker's impending death, it needs Kipling finally to understand the ethereal messages coming from beyond the grave or it will be too late
Episodes:
2 x 1 hour, expandable to continuous series.
Status:
Both initial scripts completed. Option available.
Set and time.
Taunton area, Somerset, but could be set in any country region. Modern-day.
3. Kandal's Canal
A light-hearted murder mystery series. Mitch Kandal is a amiable, slightly eccentric retired police officer who has spent years in the detective branch of Scotland Yard in London. He now lives quietly on a barge moored on the Grand Union Canal in Warwick, England. All he wants is a restful life without worry or concerns, a little fishing, a drink at the nearby pub, Sunday afternoons watching cricket at the county wicket. However, nothing could be farther from reality.
When murder occurs right on the banks of the canal, Mitch is thrown into a startling investigation — an investigation which is constantly being interrupted because his 'suddenly' pregnant daughter is about to marry an African prince and the prince's parents, the rulers of a small but politically important African kingdom, are due to arrive in England for a state visit. A bizarre combination of the funny and the fearful, of mirth and mystery.
Status.
Script for episode one completed. Synopsis for episode two completed: expandable to continuous series. Option available.
Set and time.
Warwick, England (or any region where there is a canal system) modern-day.
The Bloodwood Tree (Short Film)
After a lifetime of building beautiful wooden boats, Jimmy emigrates from Scotland to Australia, buys a block of land on the banks a river and works for weeks to construct an attractive log-cabin.
There is only one thing that annoys Jimmy — an old bloodwood tree in front of the verandah. It is his intention, during his retirement, to sit there with a whiskey enjoying the view. However, the tree is in the way.
But Jimmy loves wood and trees and cannot cut it down. He reads an article claiming that Pacific natives shout insults at trees and eventually they die.
The following morning Jimmy is shouting at the tree; 'Do y' not know yer spoiling ma view, yer wee beastie of a tree?'
That goes on for weeks and Jimmy, while shouting insults, watches for signs of its deterioration, but the tree looks as healthy as ever.
Jimmy increases his vitriol. He cups his hands to his mouth and, taking an enormous lungful of air, continues shouting.
Jimmy pauses, there is a crackle, wood is being splintered. Jimmy looks again at the tree — yes, that is a splintering noise!
What happens next will make you fall off your chair laughing!
Status:
Screenplay completed.