Pitch

Pitch Sheet

Title: Working Title

Genre: Thriller/Action

Time Period: Contemporary

Location(s): London City

Budget: Low

Target Market/Demographic Focus: Male 18+

LOGLINE:

London, 2013, Richard Smith is a business man who works for a big investment company but little does he know that his boss has done illegal things to other companies. Richard is on his way home from a meeting with another company who is interested in the firm and suddenly he is grabbed and thrown into a car. The kidnappers want Richard to either frame his boss or give his boss to these people. Richards has no choice or say in this matter. If Richard slips it won’t be just his life that’s in danger.

TREATMENT:

Richard Smith is a hard working, businessman who has taken a long time to get to where he is with a lot of hard work and preservation. His boss is a man who has done a lot of illegal dealings to make his business successful and Richard is his assistant but, Richard has never seen or taught of his boss doing illegal dealings to get the business to where it is now. One afternoon, after a meeting with the members of a firm interesting in investing into the business, he is then taken.

Richard Smith is left tied up to a chair in a dark room with one door and no windows. Richards’s boss finds that Richard hasn’t been at work for a couple of days and starts getting worried. His boss wants to help find Richard and uses a very close friend to find Richard. His friend is an assassin/Hitman used to protect him.  A sequence of fighting and searching leads to Richards’s boss’s close associate finds Richard but a final twist happens during this moment.

Richard goes through a tough life and doesn’t even know who his father was, yet he finds himself at gun point. His father is hinted at the end of the film.