The Cell

It’s a television script (yet to be picked up by any network).
I think it’s pretty amusing, NYT did a story about the two writers last year.
The Link below has the entire Script (via PDF). :slight_smile:

**The Setup
**Homeland Security has little to fear from this terrorist cell in Chicago. Yes, its leader Abu hates “the depraved” American pop culture and plans to “teach the western dogs a lesson,” but he?s also helplessly devoted to a local bowling team. While “gathering information,” Musab Khadjimuirbaradi has fallen under TV?s spell, discovering that “Judge Judy is stern but fair,” and unable to resist impulse buying or binge eating. Salar, the star pupil in a Managerial Accounting community college course, “wows” the professor with voluntary presentations in Theory and Methodology. And Ahmed boasts, “They want us to blend in, we blend in”?falling for an American girl as well as the Chicago Cubs. These mujahideen whine and moan about their victimization: “This country, it makes you weak. It hypnotizes you with the signs and the slogans … the super sizes and the sexy coeds and the double coupons.” Now their worst fear is about to materialize: The dangerous Haseb has arrived at O?Hare Airport, sent by the international terrorist organization to investigate their cell?and he could order a return to their homeland.

http://www.wga.org/uploadedFiles/cell.pdf

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This is such a copy of a script I had written earlier about 4 pals who come to US to study and go their own paths, and their paths cross again when a common friend from highschool also moves to Chicago 4 years later, and the paths of these guys cross again.

sadly the ppl who were backing it are not organized enough to arrange a tea party let alone handle a pilot. The producer dude who had ben here went back to pak after going thru a nasty divorce and all..I should go through my stuff and find the original script I had written back in 1999-2000 time frame.

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Sounds like it could be interesting, throw it up on the gup Fraudia.

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I don't think that story will be picked up, but seeing all the crap on tv, you never know.

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utd, its on a disk somewhere in some box in my house. have moved 3 times since 99, so may take me a few days to find the thing.

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they're using guppie's names! :o :o