New Film Script in Progress (Updated)

Writing for "The Highway to Hull" film, is going well. (For those that don't know, Hull is a city in the North of England)

Have written most of the intro and first act + a bit of the second act.

Without giving too much away...

Intro:
The story is a mockumentry/comedy about a "spiritual life coach". Think Alan Partridge meets Rasputin, with surrealism and a bit of Bob Dylan's movie "don't look back" thrown in the mix… Partly filmed on the A1 motorway, in a Nissan Micra. His spiritual pretensions create delusion to those that follow him; aggression or bemusement in those that are "challenged" by him.

It's a film about how a lack of discernment and honesty, around a "personality", can get you tied in to something you regret. Not saying "what you mean" and then just being "nice", is a classic passive/aggressive cultural trait of the English. I wanted to use this, to illustrate how relationships without healthy boundaries, can become like a bus without brakes.

The bits written so far, (copyright 2013 David Robinson) are:

Act 1:

• "The MEN's BREAKFAST Show" TV cooking program - Eggs recipe
• Narrated Backstory - seed, water and tax
• The Self Pity-Party - "No one else, is invited"
• Attack of the drunken Richard Dawkins Fan
• The tomato soup incident
• An evening with a Suburban Cult
• Hooray, we're all going to the 'Coffee Castle'
• Interview with an Umpire
• T.V. chat - Moon Face
• Hattie Jakes couldn't climb Glastonbury Tor, like wot I am, (Ouch)
• Interviews replacing "Violent Hector", the slightly exasperated & sarcastic guardian angel
• It's a flipp'in invitation to be on Granada T.V.

*Act 2:

• Where's the flipp'in Granada T.V. Invitation gone?
• Getting "*******" packed
• Trip on the motorway, "Up North".
• Road Services' Toilet Noises
• The Parable of the really expensive Fruit Salad
• because Betty Batter Bought a Better Bit O Butter... erm, officer
• Here we are! ...Where are we?

*Act 3: is all about what happens, when they get "THERE".

• Spiritualising the Satnav
• Hey, Who's that Guy?
• Meeting Minty deWinter
• Regarding the plywood coconut tree on wheels
• Sign writing - you
• Mini-Gig, (The Gigarette)
• Back, for sunday lunch, in the nice new conservatory.
• Choosing a fancy conference name.
• Posing by a bloke's car
• I'm a Li - on
• Holy Shift
• The proper GIG
• James Brown and other techniques.
• Coming home via Scunthorpe

* About to be written

Stay tuned, hope to finish it all in the next few months and then start filming in the summer. Appreciate your interest. Thank you.

Cheers

Dave-id