A group of down on their luck writers in the 1600s plot to kill William Shakespeare at the premiere of Macbeth after he continuously steals their ideas.
I know it needs more expansion and a fork in the road for the heroes, but as a basic premise how does it sound?
Posted Dec 13, 2019, 6:21 PM UTC
Sounds good. I had a similarish premise a while back only the concept was that Shakespeare had died and the aides at his house were trying to pull a con that he was still alive and writing a new play to profit off it. It was a farce lots of moving about of Shakespeare’s corpse.
I think the fun of any idea like this is to play with Shakespearean conventions for comedic effect. Like adding in gender swaps and mistaken identity maybe even at least part of the play in iambic pentameter?
If it’s got a lot of farce in it then it could work
I like it.
Personally, I see loads of comedic potential. Sounds darkly hilarious.
You've already got one leg up on all those writers who insist on writing scripts about screenwriters.
Ever hear of Something Rotten ?
To be fair, Something Rotten was down on their luck writers trying to become better than Shakespeare - somewhat of the same premise but both ideas are good.
Sounds like Something Rotten meets Horrible Bosses and I totally dig it! Would watch it in theaters!
I can already imagine your Act 2 "trailer moments" and I want to watch this today!
Damn good. Reading Horrible Bosses might give you some additional subplot ideas.