PACIFIC WAR STORY SCRIPT

The Pacific War, or War In The Pacific, started before Pearl Harbor.

Japan warmed up ahead of time in China, Singapore, the Philippines.

They already had an awful record of War Crimes before launching against Hawaii.

My story begins with the Tizard Mission in 1940.

The hero of my story is a football player at MIT.

He’s busy getting crushed in football practice in the opening scene.

The field is next to a construction site filled with building materials.

His teammates kid around about smashing the hero who keeps getting up and keeps going.

After practice, my hero dresses up in nice clothes and attends a funding event for a rich man.

He’s in the crowd until it’s over and he approaches his father, the rich industrialist with the check.

The money will go to a new lab for his son, who is an under the radar electrical genius, an unassuming guy with a gift.

When the Tizard Mission shows up, he’s one of the few people meeting with them because he understands the new technology better than anyone.

After Pearl Harbor, my hero implores is father to step up production with the new tech.

Dad says the market will tell them when to step up.

“You do the lab work, I’ll do the business.”

With that, my hero disappears into the rush to enlist and finds a mentor in an old sergeant who helps him avoid detection when Dad sends people out to find him.

 

On The Road

The old sergeant hides the hero in his network of favors and friends.

Along the way he meets the famous figures in the Pacific War, island hopping on aircraft carriers and adding some of the new tech to the attack planes.

He and his old sergeant link up on the Northern Mariannas, on Tinian, where they work to support the B29 fire bombing of Japan.

He flew with them over the Tokyo firebombing that killed over 100,000.

One day my hero finds someone in his tent robbing him, only to discover it’s a woman hiding in the jungle with her students and their families.

He gives her food, they become friends, and she takes him on a rescue mission one night where they talk people out of caves, and discovers the horrible fate her students faced from Japanese Army renegades.

 

The Big Bomb

Work and solo research continues for my hero.

One day brand new bombers land.

He meets the pilots and crews and flies with them over two cities as their lucky charm and emergency fixer.

Back in his tent his old sergeant gathers up the heroes papers and departs, planning on using them as an introduction to the heroes father for a post-war job.

By the time my hero arrives back home he is surprised to find he’s been replaced.

His father uses the papers the sergeant showed him to produce better equipment.

Except my guy included fatal flaws in his design work in case they were stolen.

He shows his dad, but to no avail.

With the war ending, the Cold War began, and my hero is in danger of industrial espionage from his dad’s competitors.

He packs up, and like he did at the beginning of WWII, he finds a place where his work will matter most.

 

The Pacific War Didn’t End With Nagasaki

The ghosts of these two men haunt the world ever since they let the atomic genie out of the bottle.

Great discoveries have occurred since, but all under the shadow of nuclear arms.

It took men like my hero to stand up for what’s right, and it’s more than might.

Where are similar men and women today?

They’re here, they’re doing the work, but don’t want the attention.

Neither did these guys.

If you know important people in Hollywood, send them a link.

This is the story with a complete feature length screenplay, the result of writing classes and professional notes.

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