TITLE: SINKING JOE STONE
LOCATION: LOS ANGELES
TIME: MODERN DAY
TYPE: ROMANTIC COMEDY/THRILLER
LENGTH: 120 PAGES
LOG-LINE:
A struggling poet is seduced into the bright lights of show-business and the dark, violent world of the mob whilst risking the loss
of his true love, his real friends, his sanity, and his life.
LOGO: “He was destined for success, marked for death, out of his
depth, in love, and on drugs. And it was only Wednesday... SINKING JOE STONE."
“Sinking Joe Stone” is the story of Joe Stone,
a struggling poet and writer who, after a one-off journalistic assignment in a prison, finds himself summoned to the cell of an infamous
and notoriously silent mob-boss, who wants Joe to write his life story…
Joe’s best friend, a hard-nosed sports journalist, and
his best friend’s quiet, literary sister -- who is secretly in love with Joe -- are more aware of the potential dangers inherent to
this opportunity than is the starry-eyed writer, who jumps at the chance of overnight fame, money and glamour, putting his life on
the line in the process.
As Joe sinks into sleaze and drug-addiction at the hands of a manipulative lover and a calculating mobster,
the mob itself attempts to first discredit the writer, then kill him, as his one real friend and his one true love fight to bring
him back from the edge... before he goes under for good.