# I found a script **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2018, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-script/814492 "2018-05-20T04:04:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-script/814492/1 "2018-05-20T04:04:23Z")
Apparently, I wrote a script in 1997. I found it while cleaning out some storage today. It has ‘An original screenplay by [me]’, © by [me], and a Writers Guild of America West number on it. It’s 30 pages. The first 28 pages are in script format. The last two pages are the rest of the story, single-spaced. The story is about a hapless girl whose dreams, while she is dreaming them, become reality. She is lured into a secret government project that is trying to enhance people’s psychic abilities so that they can carry out espionage and assassinations _in corpus_, while the dreamer is safely locked away in a research facility. (IOW, the dreamer is in two places at once.) There’s a guy who breaks into a secure data library to steal information on the project. (In a previous life, I worked for a government contractor so I knew the kind of security involved in… certain projects.) The guy sells information to a hacker whose mission is to expose secret government projects he finds immoral. It would be nice if I had written the rest of the script, the description of which is on the last two pages. But the story is there, anyway. Since I have no idea how to sell it, get an agent, or any of that, and since it’s not the kind of film my friends would make, I guess it will wind up back in a box. Too bad I didn’t do anything with it 20 years ago. ISTR there’s a recent movie where agents get into people’s dreams, and the Hacker With A Mission sounds a bit like Wikileaks. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-script/814492/2 "2018-05-20T10:43:03Z")
I dunno man, sounds pretty current. Just call it The Chelsea Manning Story. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-script/814492/3 "2018-05-20T14:55:49Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I dunno man, sounds pretty current. That’s the problem. In 1997 it would have been interesting. Now it’s just current events. (Well, except for the astral projection part.) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-script/814492/4 "2018-05-20T15:14:44Z")
Take comfort in that most scripts don’t get finished, most scripts that do get finished don’t get made, and most scripts that do get made don’t make any money. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-script/814492/5 "2018-05-20T17:01:38Z")
Sorry, even in 1997 it would have looked like a rip-off of [Dreamscape](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamscape_(1984_film)). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-script/814492/6 "2018-05-20T22:19:25Z")
And, well before that, _The Lathe of Heaven_.