Eyes of the Snake Screenplay Intro

“This is a delicate premise that could have gone awry but was held in balance by the excellent execution. This storyline (Eyes of the Snake) has no holes that I can see. I never asked why a character did what they did. It all fell into place with a pace and tension that kept me involved. The set up, follow through and resolution were all well handled. Great story.”

Reader’s Report, Festival Films Ltd,. Vancouver, Canada.

Logline: Two Los Angeles newspaper reporters—he with a past; she with a future—team up with an enigmatic psychic on the trail of a pornographic serial killer.

Synopsis:
Harry Doyle is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, whose teenage daughter was kidnapped and murdered three years ago. He is left an empty, bitter drunk, whose wife has left him, while he struggles to keep his job at a Los Angeles newspaper, where he has been demoted from hard news to the societal confines of the Style Department. But when a local schoolgirl becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, Harry finagles his way onto the story, much to the chagrin of Sydney Olsen, the beautiful, cosmopolitan, and newly- hired hard news reporter. Teamed with an enigmatic psychic, who claims the power to find missing children, the oddball trio seeks to succeed where the police have failed—to find the missing teenager before she becomes the latest victim of a psychopath. The trail leads them out of L.A., into the desert sands, and finally to Las Vegas for adult entertainment’s version of the Oscars—the Fannie Awards.

Why make this movie?
Polly Klaas , Elizabeth Smart, Danielle van Dam, Samantha Runnion . . .

Years ago, I was hired to produce subliminal videotapes for a self-described psychic who purported to find missing children. I was skeptical of any telepathic powers this man claimed to have. But I was certain he wanted to help. And as it turned out, whenever we worked together on a case, I, too, found myself hoping he--we--could help find these abducted children and teens. Unfortunately, we never did.

More than once while editing videotape for my client, I caught myself plotting hypothetical courses of action: What if we really did catch one of these sick bastards? What would I do if given the opportunity to levy vengeance on someone so heinous? Would I use it? Or wait for the cops and lawyers to arrive? Allowing the snake a chance to slither through a legal loophole in our judicial system--to kill again. Of course, I was never in a position to find out. But in Eyes of the Snake, I gave Harry Doyle that opportunity.
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