Thursday, November 8, 2007

WHEN REALITY MEETS FICTION

The idea of this Blog is to write about screenplays and the film industry, not about politics, but, like some comedians use to say “something funny happened when I was…”

I’ve been following the news about the increasing tensions between USA and Iran.

While doing that I was thinking “Man, this looks almost exactly as one of the scripts that I wrote and now I’m in the process of making corrections, etc.”

I started that screenplay over a year ago.

Here is a brief of my story, an Action one (first draft is already copyrighted, so don’t try to steal it):

As the US Republican government watches the next elections coming and their mess in Iraq is one of their main weaknesses to get votes, a GOP hardcore faction starts to develop a plot of “tensions” between the US and Iran in order to distract the attention of the citizens (voters) from Iraq. (Sounds familiar?)

The plot start to work, the distraction, even between their opponents (Democrats) Iran turns to be the main focus of attention over foreign policies. However, the Democrats finally start to reply to that maneuver, so the hardcore faction needs something stronger, decisive, to keep the distraction: the imminent possibility of a war or even go to war.

That’s the point where the main Action of my screenplay starts: when a plot to make look that the Iranian government has attacked the US is activated.

I have heard and even discussed many times that life tends to imitate art. But hey, this is getting scary: the events that I’ve been watching looks like following my screenplay and even copy some of my dialogues.

Somebody interested in buying an action-packed and nice screenplay before it turns into reality, and I really mean, REALITY?