I've had bits and pieces for two screenplays floating around in my head for the past two years, and I recently wrote out the opening montage for one of them. I was pretty pleased with it, but I had a nervous feeling that a similar scene already existed. So after some research tonight, I realized I had basically just recreated a pivotal scene from Elizabethtown. Heartbreak.
It's an interesting feeling to have your mind craft a story you feel you need to tell, but you don't really know how it begins or ends. You also have no idea if anyone would care enough to read a book or see a movie about it.
I need some inspiration, and I would like for that to come in the form of a dinner with Aaron Sorkin and Diablo Cody. So if you're looking ahead and trying to figure out what to get me for my 30th birthday, please try to go ahead and hook that up.
