new storyline

Two days prior to the shoot, we realised that it would be impossible to get the Russians, James Hartman and Ted Jackson for our thriller as all of our actors had pulled out of the shoot. We went back to the drawing board and decided to come up with a more realistic and 'belivable' storyline, while still following the basic principals of our original idea. After much deliberation, we decided to do a more politically based film. Many of the concepts are simmilar between our two ideas, there is an 'ambush' in which we used the same car and the same guns, however we changed the army uniforms with police ones. The police uniforms were inspired by a recent news article which states that the police are using private contracters; mercenary police officers. Instead of having mercenary soldiers ambushing a car with Ted and James in, we had two hired guns posing as officers flag down and intercept a car containing Simon (as some kind of political figure), Maggie (as his daughter) and Georgia (as his step daughter). We also have changed the location of the shoot from the woods to Cornhill, as this kind of estate looks like the kind of property a government minister might own. Shane and Myself played the intercepting officers and Greg directed much of the shoot and made an appearence as the sniper who takes out Georgia. In our new idea, the officars intercept the car, and Simon and Maggie are instructed to get out. Simon is handed a cell phone by one of the officers, with the man who employed the mercenaries on the other end of the line supposedly giving him some kind of ultimatum. In the meantime, Maggie is told to face the car, then restrained and dragged off by the second officer. Simon is then pistol whipped in the face and the phone is left in his pocket as he lies there unconsious. Georgia, who is left behind, attempts to escape and moves to exit the vehicle, but is shot and killed by the sniper as she is a witness. The reason for her death is that the hitmen want to make a point by killing someone close to Simon, but not someone who they feel is a necessary bargain chip, someone who is both invaluable and expendable at the same time, his step daughter.