It was recently pointed out to me that an awful lot of my writing is a little on the dark side. Nonsense! Whilst I admit it is not normally of a sunny disposition I do think that it is definitely not so dark as to not be able to see what is going on.
Here then is Exhibit A, a hastily assembled summary list of my recent output:
- Complete planet wide genocide
- A Samaritans hit squad, followed by the faked suicide of our protagonist
- The killing of an innocent man as part of the rites of passage of a child
- A man who murders suicidal people who can afford it, in order to leave a heap of bother/or insurance payout for their loved ones
- A grieving widow who is slowly dying from plutonium buried in his garden by previous occupants
- A serial killer who dies of a faked suicide at the hands of a man who kills serial killers to save the families from pain
- A man whose body lives in a different reality to his mind, who has to cut his eyes out in order to become whole again
- A man who clones himself for body parts
- A man who, when he comes across the car crash of a road rager, kills him and the two police who come to attend the scene
- An accidentally created time machine that brings about an infinite loop of piling up bodies from it’s creator killing himself
Ahem. Point taken. Expect a rom-com next.
Or maybe just more of the same.
FILMTVGAMES 
Pitch: “Okay, so it’s a rom com. Hugh Grant. Emily Blunt. Possibly Kate Winslet and Jude Law. Picture this… Boy meets girl. There’s some hilarious misunderstandings. Possibly some time in jail due to mistaken identity. Whilst in jail the girl gets all the inmates re-enacting a scene from Grease. Girl gets out but nearly ends up with wrong boy then sees the error of her ways just in time and rushes to the airport to meet the boy and stop him boarding the plane that he is catching, as a heartbroken loser, to start his new life across the Atlantic… she gets there just too late. She sees the plane leave and, crying brokenly, turns around… to find him standing behind her. It’s all okay. Everyone is happy. He didn’t get on the plane because he realised he had to give it another go with her, despite her predilection for old John Travolta movies. Then into the big tearjearking finish as Hugh/Jude turns out to be a zombie and eats Kate/Emily’s face before going on a gore-streaked killing spree”.
Instant. Hit.
Sounds awesome. The second act seems to drag a bit. Could we maybe have a prison riot/warden hostage execution set-piece which is defused by the girl getting all the inmates to put on a stage show of Grease? Might redress that balance a bit.
and instead of being a zombie, could they both maybe go and buy a puppy?
That bites them, turning them into zombies?