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Sitting Ducks(Screenplay idea)

I. Story: A high-level wedding concentrates the wealthiest and most influential(fictional) characters, but this makes them the perfect targets. A former FBI agent, one of the guests, must fight against these attackers hell bent on collecting some money off the unsuspecting attenders. He and others help them organize a defense and fight for their lives.

II. Location(s): The wedding planner agency owns a private island, not far from the shore. On it, there is a kind of hotel and restaurant that costs a fortune. Except the main building, there isn't pretty much anything else on the island.

III. Pre-assault layout: The couple(individual names chosen later, will refeer to them as " bride" and " groom") contacts the agency and visits the island. A television offers them 20 million $ to set up a reality show that will feature everything related to the ceremony. For the event itself, the battle is fierce between multiple televisions. Security will be tight. The attackers can be a)outsiders, b)from one of the televisions or c) from the guest list itself. Their first obvious move is to silently cut all access with the shore.

IV. The Guest List: This features multiple celebrities and the top tier of movie, music and videogame industry, as well as businessmen, mobsters, but also normal people. I will write(and post here) a list of 200 persons (characters) and their jobs. I know this may seem futile, but maybe I can extract something useful for the story out of it, maybe even identify some potential attackers.
All comments, ideas and suggestions are more than welcomed!:) Thank you for reading this!
 
Seems like a pretty ambitious project, if it's something you're planning on shooting yourself.

The number of people on screen and their seemingly affluent lifestyles, aside from the locations and the whole gun play, explosions (I presume) etc.

You'd also need a pretty compelling reason why a TV would be willing to pay so much for a reality show about this specific wedding.

CraigL
 
I. Story: A high-level wedding concentrates the wealthiest and most influential(fictional) characters, but this makes them the perfect targets. A former FBI agent, one of the guests, must fight against these attackers hell bent on collecting some money off the unsuspecting attenders. He and others help them organize a defense and fight for their lives.

Is that really the easiest way to extort/steal loads of money? It's high risk/low chance of success. Not an attractive prospect to a would-be criminal mastermind.


II. Location(s): The wedding planner agency owns a private island, not far from the shore. On it, there is a kind of hotel and restaurant that costs a fortune. Except the main building, there isn't pretty much anything else on the island.

That part works. Plenty you can do with that. The guest are trapped in their predicament - essential to make this work.

III. Pre-assault layout: The couple(individual names chosen later, will refeer to them as " bride" and " groom") contacts the agency and visits the island. A television offers them 20 million $ to set up a reality show that will feature everything related to the ceremony. For the event itself, the battle is fierce between multiple televisions. Security will be tight. The attackers can be a)outsiders, b)from one of the televisions or c) from the guest list itself. Their first obvious move is to silently cut all access with the shore.

$20m is silly amount. TV shows like this rely on normal hard-up people looking to gain something they otherwise wouldn't be able to achieve/afford.

IV. The Guest List: This features multiple celebrities and the top tier of movie, music and videogame industry, as well as businessmen, mobsters, but also normal people. I will write(and post here) a list of 200 persons (characters) and their jobs. I know this may seem futile, but maybe I can extract something useful for the story out of it, maybe even identify some potential attackers.
All comments, ideas and suggestions are more than welcomed!:) Thank you for reading this!

200 guests? That's gonna take a LOT of crowd control! Just how many attackers are we talking about?

I'd shrink the guest list and make it more initmate.

Thing is, they'd either just pay up, or someone would call the authorities and have the bad guys nailed within hours, so you need some damage limitation plans in place for the baddies. How will you keep the baddies locked into their predicament too? What will keep them on the island long enough to allow the Bruce Willis of the film to actually kill all the baddies/save the guests? Where's the countdown/time limit going to come from?

I dunno, just a few pennies there for you. Might be of some use to you. :)
 
I, too, have a problem with the basic premise. The attackers are after money? Rich people never carry money. The attackers might get away with some fancy jewels and a few nice watches, but it's a big & risky operation for that. Seems to me the motivation of the attackers needs to be very different. A simple gung ho robbery seems a feeble idea & lacks depth. Just breaks down into one big firefight, which would be tedious very soon. You need a premise that can layer on mystery & complexity.
 
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