I own up. I have an ulterior motive for this blog.
I read last week that many bloggers have had their blogs turned into books, so I am going to use this site to shamelessly plug my screenplays.
So, for all you Hollywood producers out there, here is my first outline of a potential rip-roaring blockbuster.
Forget the cud, we want blood
There have been many zombie movies made down the years, with most revolving around the few remaining humans fighting off the hordes. Never, though, has anyone made a film revolving around an already sinister and zombie-like animal: the cow.
Picture this: The film starts in an abbatoir, with a huge line of cows waiting to be stunned. One cow is particularly feisty, snarling (can cows snarl? – they can in this film) at the apron-wearing, bloody-knife wielding workers. The cow makes a lunge for a worker, grabs his arm in its mouth and masticates on it for a while. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but the bizarre disease infecting the cow (probably from some kind of meteor shower or some such trumped-up idea) has turned its saliva to ACID! OH NO! The unfortunate man finds his arm dissolving into a bloody stump.
The other workers rush to his aid and hack the cow to death. Blood sprays everywhere, and the other cows standing in line become infected. Soon there is mayhem, with lowing zombie-cows shambling everywhere. Even the bone saw isn’t enough to stave off the hordes, and they finish off the employees.
The cows break out onto the street, setting off a chain-reaction that sees the whole of humanity pitted against the once-docile animals that it has so happily-slaughtered. The army gets involved, but the cows brains are so small that it is hard to take them down with the normal zombie-head shot.
Soon only a few hardy survivors remain: vegans who have been living in a commune eating only tofu, grain and parsnips. Can these survivors overcome their love for the doe-eyed zombies and cut a bloody swathe through the herds wandering the empty London streets, or will the cow’s suppressed bloodlust prove too much for them?
Find out in the stunning new film from the brain of one of Budapest’s VII district’s finest Scottish-born, ginger-haired, bespectacled writers.
Should any producers or directors wish to purchase this script, I will accept payment in jelly babies or mars bars.
I should also give some credit for this film to Wayne and Esther, but frankly I’m far too selfish and plan to claim all of the profit and credit for myself.