Major Project: Idea

So myself and Zarah have mutually decided that we will work together as producer and director, and have decided to make a modern adaption of: Of Mice and Men - but with a twist. Here is the brief that I have wrote for the idea:

Of mice and men adaptation – two brothers growing up living on a council estate/rough area one brother being very sharp, and the other being quite slow… in their early years they were kicked out by careless parents who didn’t want to look after the slow brother anymore because of divorce and drug use. They grow up together – the smarter brother looking after the slow one. It all results in the older brother going to a house party one night to let his hair down – the younger brother has to come along as he can’t fend for himself. After a while at the party the older brother goes off with a girl of interest. Being left on his own the younger brother takes time out in a room on his own. A random girl comes in and begins to mock him for his disability. To which the younger brother gets very angry and sees red, picks up a nearby object and hits her over with the head with it. She is clearly not breathing or active, and then the younger brother has realised what he has done. He runs to find his older brother and tells him what’s happened. The older brother knows the girl and knows that her boyfriend will kill him if he stays there much longer as he is in a gang. They run home and then hear the gang approaching their house. The older brother panics gets a gun from under his bed and shoots the younger brother and runs away from the chaos.

To mix up the story and give it a twist I have also made a conclusion to this story that may or not be used - that the two brothers will be one person with a split personality and may not realise it until the very end of the story and neither will it be revealed to the audience until the conclusion of the story.