This screenplay was written for a school project for my Short Form Scriptwriting class in early 2011. It is currently undergoing a second rewrite and on its way to a third rewrite after which it will enter preproduction.
The script, as it is now, is approximately sixteen pages in length. With the new rewrite, it should be closer to twelve to make the story a little more concise. There are a few superfluous scenes and lines that can definitely get edited out.
The story is a satirical take on our views of the world as a collective. The story follows a living woman who is madly in love with and wants to marry her zombie.
However, in this fictional world there are two types of zombies. Reanimates are those zombies who have simply died and come back to life. They still retain most of their human aspects; speech, logic, motor skills, etc. The other type of zombie is called Decomps. These zombies are zombies who have died, decomposed and come back to life. They do not retain any humanistic traits after they are reanimated. They are the classic Romero zombies.
This story, obviously, focuses on a reanimate named Jeph. Spelled phonetically because the first sounds he made when he came back were juh eph.
This story is the first story I have written that has political and social commentary. While it does touch on the subject of homophobia and homosexual marriage, it is still a light hearted story meant to entertain and not to preach.
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