{"id":486,"date":"2021-11-11T17:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T01:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnworsley.name\/?page_id=486"},"modified":"2021-11-11T17:18:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T01:18:55","slug":"writing-and-film-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/?page_id=486","title":{"rendered":"Current Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My Heart Has No Home: A Grief Journal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Non-fiction book<\/li><li><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Death\/loss\/grief<\/li><li><strong>Description<\/strong>: When my wife died, I began to post on Facebook about what I was going through in grieving her.&nbsp; The book compiles those posts along with reflections as I look back at them.<\/li><li><strong>Status<\/strong>: Text complete, working on pre-publication details<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Red Devils<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Feature screenplay<\/li><li><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Monster-in-the-water horror thriller<\/li><li><strong>Logline<\/strong>: Two families vacationing on a yacht must survive an attack by hordes of ravenous jumbo squid while an old secret comes to light that turns them against each other.<\/li><li><strong>Status<\/strong>: Completed, listed on blcklst.com<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Confession<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Short film<\/li><li><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Hitchcock-style drama adaptation of a scene from Richard III<\/li><li><strong>Logline<\/strong>: A ruthless CEO, having schemed his way to the top of his family&#8217;s company, faces the specters of all those he&#8217;s squashed and eliminated to achieve his success \u2013 before everyone comes after him.<\/li><li><strong>Status<\/strong>: Development<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Monkey Puzzle<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Feature screenplay<\/li><li><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Supernatural thriller<\/li><li><strong>Logline<\/strong>: When an obsessive young woman loses her job, her new preoccupation with an elusive botanical society uncovers a terrible occult plot.<\/li><li><strong>Status<\/strong>: Second draft, rewrite in progress<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What It&#8217;s All About<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Short film<\/li><li><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Supernatural drama comedy<\/li><li><strong>Logline<\/strong>: When a young woman struggling with her grandfather&#8217;s death finds herself trapped in the apartment next door with two strangers, she must overcome her anger to work with them and get out.<\/li><li><strong>Status<\/strong>: Development<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Murphy&#8217;s Slaw<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Short story<\/li><li><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Supernatural humor<\/li><li><strong>Logline<\/strong>: Fiona Murphy tells the story of her complex and contentious relationship with coleslaw and its interaction with Murphy&#8217;s Law.<\/li><li><strong>Status<\/strong>: Seeking publication<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nevermore<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Graphic novel adaptation of a parody of Poe&#8217;s &#8220;The Raven&#8221;<\/li><li><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Parody<\/li><li><strong>Logline<\/strong>: The raven spills the beans on what really happened that dreary December night.<\/li><li><strong>Status<\/strong>: Fundraising for art<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rubbish<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Feature Script<\/li><li><strong>Genre:<\/strong> Family sci-fi comedy<\/li><li><strong>Logline: <\/strong>Two teen siblings, one a slacker, the other an overachiever, must overcome parental misunderstanding and their own conflicts to prevent aliens from using Earth as a garbage dump.<\/li><li><strong>Status:<\/strong> Third draft, rewrite in progress<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reversing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Feature script<\/li><li><strong>Genre:<\/strong> Family drama<\/li><li><strong>Logline:<\/strong> In the face of her failing marriage, a retired woman sets out to discover what happened to her older sister, who died at age 3 \u2013 and uncovers a terrible tragedy buried in the past.<\/li><li><strong>Status:<\/strong> Script preparation<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Voices from the Void<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Graphic novel sequel to H.P. 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