Current event for script

[VidRo]

Movie??

Family going to grandmas house for Christmas. Grandma lives in Texas, roads are iced, and family gets stuck on the side of the road due to bad weather. “Who comes along?”, 7 escaped convicts.

Would it work?
or, Stick with the "Cabin in the woods"?

[Julian7]

There's something pathetic about a business that is willing to profit from crimes before they happen, and then pass judgement on the subjects of such speculation, as if your typical gang of killers were a stock offering instead of a tragedy waiting to happen. Of course, in today's terms, it's not a bad premise for a successful film. Maybe it's just unfortunate that what writers are willing to imagine the criminal population is capable of, is in fact less than half the story.

[GirlinGray]

From a purely practical standpoint? Unless it's a comedy I would take Christmas out. Christmas movies tend to be movies that can be shown every year with feel good endings and themes. And this does not sound to me like a happy movie stations would want to run every holiday season. It just sounds too grizzly. I could be wrong.

[Tom De]

I don't think you are.

BUT...

If you really really want to do the escaped convict thing, there was an incident where seven escaped convicts killed a Texas sheriff over this last Christmas.

[VidRo]

I feel the same way about the topic, morbid. I never planed on doing any writing on this thought. It’s just that I live in Texas, the 7 convicts really escape, they did kill a cop Christmas Eve, and no one knows where they are.
My family and I went to visit other family in a city south of Dallas for Christmas. (Dallas was where the policy officer was shoot)
The day after Christmas we were to go home but the roads got ice up from a winter storm.
We left a couple of days later, after the ice melted.
It just seem to me that with all the scenarios going on that a van getting stuck on the side of the road and 7 convicts trying to be obscure may not be just Hollywood.