Schtonk 2: Selling Maybrick

[Lombro2]

This is a thread for a joint collaboration on a script for the Barrett Hoax. Anyone can contribute. I’ll start it off.


Schtonk 2

EXT. 12 Goldie St, Liverpool abt 1990

Mike: Hey Anne. I just finished reading Tales of Liverpool! It gave me a great idea.

Anne: Oh, no. Not again. I mean, That’s great!

Fade out and in

INT. Mike and Anne’s House

[Paddy Goose]

Liverpool abt 1990

Yes you could make a movie about it.

[Lombro2]

INT. Mike and Anne’s House

Mike hands Anne the book Tales of Liverpool.

Mike: Look at this! This book tells the story of Florence Maybrick who poisoned her husband. She killed him in 1889. The last chapter says her husband went to London to visit his doctor in 1889 before he died. That puts him in London and he died at the right time.

Anne: The right time for what?

Mike: The right time to be Jack the Ripper.

[Lombro2]

Montage of Mike and Anne doing research.

Anne researches Maybrick and Mike researches Jack the Ripper.

Fast Forward to March 28/29, 1992

INT Barrett House

Mike opens a package. He takes out a red diary that’s 2 inches by 4 inches.

Mike: Anne, the diary came in. Look, it’s perfect!

Anne (inspecting the diary): But it has 1891 printed in every page!

Mike: So what? It doesn’t have to be from 1888.

Anne: But James Maybrick died in 1889.

Mike: Eeeee! You’re right! What a divy I am!
We’re right gutted.

[Paddy Goose]

Mike:

I don't know who Mike is, but honestly my idea for a movie is better. Give it a whirl.

Here's the trailer:

Follow the adventures of the Surviving Diarists as they endlessly parse the momentous events of the 1990's.

Forget Dolly the Sheep, this is far more exciting.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Coming to a theatre near you.