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The GateGender bending sci-fi political black comedy
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Hitman of LlanfairPGYou can always teach an old dog new tricks
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Hobos FunniesFour lads from Liverpool change the course of the Second World War
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The Gate - by Michael Towner
Screenplay (120 pages)
©2021
In the near future, set against the backdrop of a second-term reelection campaign for an unpopular incumbent President, who was initially elected by default and who is now challenged by the daughter of his family’s political nemesis, a mysterious Gate transforms him from male to female while at a secret retreat at the Farm at Cape Kidnappers, in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
While jogging with his Secret Service agent, the President passes through a 'Gate' that suddenly appears. Both men disappear and one beautiful young woman materializes at the other side of the 'Gate'.
Meanwhile, 260 miles north at the Tamaki Innovation Campus of the University of Auckland, Philippe Boudreau and his beautiful Chinese girlfriend, Xi Shi are walking with their friends, Russell Harris, a postdoc physicist, and Don Wesley, an Australian Jock. Don walks through another mysterious 'Gate' and he disappears and comes out the other side immediately as a naked beautiful young woman, to his utter surprise and dismay.
Political intrigue, drama, comedy, this conceptual science fiction story combines the ultimate sexist commentary, surrounded by lots of beautiful, 'perfect' people being manipulated and harassed by political hacks.
Screenplay (120 pages)
©2021
In the near future, set against the backdrop of a second-term reelection campaign for an unpopular incumbent President, who was initially elected by default and who is now challenged by the daughter of his family’s political nemesis, a mysterious Gate transforms him from male to female while at a secret retreat at the Farm at Cape Kidnappers, in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
While jogging with his Secret Service agent, the President passes through a 'Gate' that suddenly appears. Both men disappear and one beautiful young woman materializes at the other side of the 'Gate'.
Meanwhile, 260 miles north at the Tamaki Innovation Campus of the University of Auckland, Philippe Boudreau and his beautiful Chinese girlfriend, Xi Shi are walking with their friends, Russell Harris, a postdoc physicist, and Don Wesley, an Australian Jock. Don walks through another mysterious 'Gate' and he disappears and comes out the other side immediately as a naked beautiful young woman, to his utter surprise and dismay.
Political intrigue, drama, comedy, this conceptual science fiction story combines the ultimate sexist commentary, surrounded by lots of beautiful, 'perfect' people being manipulated and harassed by political hacks.
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TriFectA - by Michael Towner
Screenplay (120 pages)
©2020
What happens when two wives and one fiancee are faced with financial and personal disaster due to their husbands’ criminal actions?
Three self-made and newly rich best friends and avid horse racing enthusiasts NIGEL (stockbroker), FRANK (club owner) and AL (lawyer) in three separate incidents, get busted by the SEC, FBI and INS respectively, in the midst of the height of the financial boom in the early 80’s.
Each cuts a secret deal to turn informant on the other, to mitigate their impending severe prison sentences and they embark on elaborate schemes involving drug trafficking, gun running and offshore money laundering to assist their ever-eager respective prosecuting agencies, who are each oblivious of the other agency’s involvement, focused only on building newsworthy cases against the others and anyone else they can catch in the net.
But, they completely underestimate the wives/fiancee.
TriFectA is a roller coaster ride of wealth, greed, bureaucratic incompetence, and the age old proverb that says that the fairer sex is always, and always will be, the most intelligent of the species. Can the girls' TriFectA bet come off?
If you can guess what happens in the end, chances are, you are a woman.
Screenplay (120 pages)
©2020
What happens when two wives and one fiancee are faced with financial and personal disaster due to their husbands’ criminal actions?
Three self-made and newly rich best friends and avid horse racing enthusiasts NIGEL (stockbroker), FRANK (club owner) and AL (lawyer) in three separate incidents, get busted by the SEC, FBI and INS respectively, in the midst of the height of the financial boom in the early 80’s.
Each cuts a secret deal to turn informant on the other, to mitigate their impending severe prison sentences and they embark on elaborate schemes involving drug trafficking, gun running and offshore money laundering to assist their ever-eager respective prosecuting agencies, who are each oblivious of the other agency’s involvement, focused only on building newsworthy cases against the others and anyone else they can catch in the net.
But, they completely underestimate the wives/fiancee.
TriFectA is a roller coaster ride of wealth, greed, bureaucratic incompetence, and the age old proverb that says that the fairer sex is always, and always will be, the most intelligent of the species. Can the girls' TriFectA bet come off?
If you can guess what happens in the end, chances are, you are a woman.
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‘Hitman of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch’ - by Michael Towner
Screenplay (117 pages) ©2022 Being born and raised in the small Welsh village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch might seem an unlikely origin for a hitman with over 50 kills to his credit. So when a jaded Owen Davies is advised he is going to die, he returns home and sees his beloved mother, Dwynwen ('Wyn') Davies, on her death bed, the cruel victim of a deliberate hit and run, she implores him as her last dying wish to stay and help his father, Rhys Davies, finish off the work that he had started two years earlier, when he apparently succumbed to dementia.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a small village and community on the island of Anglesey in Wales. For convenience sake it is known as 'Llanfair PG'. Rhys Davies, a combat-wounded highly decorated hero and retired miner, thinks that the Second World War is still raging in the rest of the country, even though it is 1999, and he has been trying to build an air raid shelter at the bottom of his property that would accommodate the 3,000 residents of Llanfair PG. The foundation is laid, but the workers cannot continue without facing stiff penalties imposed by an order from the Village Council to cease. |
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Rhys stands up to protracted litigation, numerous arrests by the Council controlled local constabulary and heated meetings with the seven-member Village Council, who have continuously denied his permit to finish the building, under the coercion of the Council’s chairman Oliver Bell, a pompous, rich English developer, who needs the property to complete another large shopping mall and hotel, which will also consume the local park and the last remaining historical monument. Bell fails in first attempt to kill the elderly Davies and brings in a lollipop sucking, Cowboy-loving, evil thug, Nick Ferry, from Birmingham along with his two Pakistani henchmen, Muhammed and Ali.
Owen Davies’ younger brother, Amlod Davies, a small-time failing developer, who was named after the grandfather of King Arthur, and changed his name by deed poll to Lancelot Davis ("with no 'e'"), preferring Lance Davis with his stunning, unfaithful, trophy Russian mail order wife, Inga (who has also changed her name by deed poll to Guinevere), and with full on posh English accent and dressed in his fox hunting garb, regardless of the time or occasion, has made a secret agreement with Oliver Bell to help get the property from his father, who he sees as a senile old man, in return for his help in completing his own development. Lance’s project is to demolish Sant Tysilio House, a long-standing assisted living and retirement home, which houses many of his father’s old army buddies, known as "The Dragon Boys". A former elite special forces division, but who are now in various stages of deteriorated physical health, although their minds are still as sharp and mischievous as ever.
The elderly veteran 'Dragon Boys' have a very interesting history. Bryn ‘Jack’ Jones, skinny, full of life, nicknamed because he is from Swansea (Swansea Jack) in southern Wales and because he loves to steal (‘jack’ ) fancy sports cars. Dafydd ‘Specs’ Yates, mechanical and technical genius and now a self-made whiz at computers, but riddled with arthritis. Identical twins Odgar ‘Match’ Thomas and Ofydd ‘Stick’ Thomas, both tall and skinny with red hair, like matchsticks, but they earned their nicknames because of their demolition expertise. They also finish each other’s sentences, all the time. Perceval ‘Pig’ Jones, formerly a handsome stud and well-known to be exceptionally well-endowed in the groin area - ‘Pigyn’ is Welsh for penis - fluent in 7 languages, including Russian, but Parkinson’s Disease is taking over.
They are all too willing to don battle dress, utilize their exceptional talents, and stand by their comrade Rhys in his hour of need. They are corralled in the home by nurse Bernadette ‘Busty’ O’Neill, a buxom, feisty Irish redhead who is joined by boyfriend Chief Inspector Owen ‘Piglet’ Jones, Pig’s son and currently working in Manchester. According to Busty, he is worthy of a bigger nickname than Piglet.
In the midst of a rekindled love for his childhood village and against the backdrop of beautiful north Wales, Owen Davies, rekindles his complete adoration and utter respect for his parents and their friends.
As the situation escalates and Rhys and Lance are taken captive, Oliver Bell brings in more hired guns for a final showdown.
Together with the Dragon Boys, and Jack’s acquisition of the million dollar Firearms Unit for Counter Terrorism (F.U.C.T for short) which he borrows from the Manchester Police Department, without their knowledge, Bell’s well-guarded mansion is stormed.
Can the Hitman of Llanfair PG save the day and, ultimately, find his own redemption?
They are all too willing to don battle dress, utilize their exceptional talents, and stand by their comrade Rhys in his hour of need. They are corralled in the home by nurse Bernadette ‘Busty’ O’Neill, a buxom, feisty Irish redhead who is joined by boyfriend Chief Inspector Owen ‘Piglet’ Jones, Pig’s son and currently working in Manchester. According to Busty, he is worthy of a bigger nickname than Piglet.
In the midst of a rekindled love for his childhood village and against the backdrop of beautiful north Wales, Owen Davies, rekindles his complete adoration and utter respect for his parents and their friends.
As the situation escalates and Rhys and Lance are taken captive, Oliver Bell brings in more hired guns for a final showdown.
Together with the Dragon Boys, and Jack’s acquisition of the million dollar Firearms Unit for Counter Terrorism (F.U.C.T for short) which he borrows from the Manchester Police Department, without their knowledge, Bell’s well-guarded mansion is stormed.
Can the Hitman of Llanfair PG save the day and, ultimately, find his own redemption?
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Hobo’s Funnies - by Michael Towner
Screenplay (115 pages) ©2022 How 4 (other) lads from Liverpool helped change the world - and end the Second World War. The story follows 4 lads from Liverpool whose factory is blown up in the Liverpool Blitz. They finagle their way into the Corp of Royal Engineers, despite their age (too young) and size (too short), and work alongside Major General ' Hobo' Hobart, who made the modified tanks for the D-Day landing. |
The modified tanks were called 'Hobo's Funnies', because they actually did look funny. Without them, D-Day would not have happened. If the Americans would have used them as well, they would have saved a third of the lives they lost.
It starts in 1961 at a Beatles concert in Aldershot where only 11 people showed up (true), then flashback to wartime Britain. It ends as they land on Juno Beach on D-Day.
Wartime British humor, ingenuity and resilience at its best. Including a Scouse rendition of a very famous Churchill speech and a cameo by the 'other' 4 lads from Liverpool.
Based on true events.
Wartime British humor, ingenuity and resilience at its best. Including a Scouse rendition of a very famous Churchill speech and a cameo by the 'other' 4 lads from Liverpool.
Based on true events.
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