Film Treatment 3 - The Final Product

Film Treatment 3 – Final Product

Working Title –Red Tape, Absolute Advantage, ROI, Capital Gains, Ghosting, Ghost Trader, Laisse-Faire, FT-100, Opportunity, The Opportunity Project

Writers name and contact information – Ben Young, benjaminyoung9@gmail.com

Logline – “No digital honour amongst digital thieves”

Characters

Prisoner 241-10

The Opportunity Project Members:

Brice Greene

Michael Kovic

Elyse Ramsey

Gavin Burns

Grif Simmons

The Agency:

Detective Free

Detective Galloway

Director Hendricks

Who, What, When, Why and Where:

A group of stockbrokers plan to make billions off the banks in the stock market and distribute the wealth amongst the public. They find a hidden secret backdoor in the market that if publicised would bring about the end of the corruption and trillion dollar making schemes of governments and banks. It is set in 2011 during a stock market that the public and the media were not even aware of because it was covered up by the Agency. The stockbrokers discover the secret and attempt to make it public by finding the USB stick in which the evidence for the backdoor exists. The Agency is alerted to the broker’s quest and begin to try and divert them and distract them. When one broker threatens to go public with the information they have another broker sides with the agency and helps to track down the remaining brokers and eventually torturing ad killing them. When there is only one broker left to find the Agency kill the broker on their side and focus their efforts on finding the last one. After a high speed chase in which the broker evades the agency but accidentally kills one the agency members, who turns out to be the director in disguise. When the broker searches the director for a gun so he can defend himself he finds the fabled USB. The Agency decide to send him to prison for murder than to reveal their existence by killing him.  A journalist finds out that there is a high profile stock broker in a maximum security prison and arranges a meeting. Prisoner 241-10 tells the journalist the whole story and this film is from the narrative point of 241-10. In the final act 241-10 finishes his tale and the journalist is warned to leave the prison quickly and make himself safe and publish the story. He is told of the location of the hidden USB. 241-10 is then escorted back to a cell then taken down a different path by different guards, the path to death row. The journalist gets in his car and makes for a Mexican border town. The final shot is a series of blacked out SUV’s setting off after him a few minutes after.