Initial Ideas

INITIAL IDEAS...

Film title: 48

Characters: Jason (a drug dealer), Lucy (Jason’s daughter), four Kidnappers

Plot: Jason is a lower class man who is struggling with money so he deals drugs to make some extra income on the side. He gets in trouble with money with a cartel who used to be his supplier and they kidnap his daughter. They tell Jason they have 48 hours to get the £200,000 he owes them; otherwise they will kill his daughter. This is an obviously impossible so Jason decides to take matters into his own hands and sets out to kill the kidnappers and rescue his daughter. The opening ends with Jason retrieving and loading a gun.

Further detail: In the kidnapping you see Lucy being closely followed by a van. She realizes that she is being followed and turns down an alleyway but is followed by one of the kidnappers on foot. He chases her and another kidnapper appears, grabs Lucy, and the other duct tapes her mouth. She is dragged back to the van and the scene ends with the closing of the van door.

When first meeting Jason he is working in a shop and gets a text from someone wanting drugs. He does the deal before going home and doing cocaine himself. He falls asleep only to be awoken by a phone call that appears to be from Lucy. When answering he finds out it is one of the kidnappers who tells Jason they have his daughter and they want the money in 48 hours or she will be killed. There is a conversation before one of the kidnappers hits Lucy around the head with a baseball bat and the phone call is ended. Jason, clearly in shock from what he has heard, stops to think for a second before running over to a secret cupboard and retrieving his gun. He cocks the gun and the film cuts to black and the title (48) appears and music starts playing. That is the end of the opening.