LUCYPALOOZA
TITLE: PENNY DREADFUL
GENRE: HORROR
PITCH:
A grieving prostitute turns killer in Victorian London. When her trail of blood implicates the Prince of Wales, the establishment sets out to destroy her.
SYNOPSIS:
Revolution ferments in Victorian London. The starving poor are kept in check by fear of the Ripper. PENNY, a young prostitute, grieves for her murdered baby.
Penny kills her pimp when he is released early for the drowning of her child. Then she slaughters an innocent palace maid who gets in her way. She pretends to be the maid and tricks her old client, the PRINCE OF WALES into bed, determined to get pregnant again. Disguised as a gentleman, she infiltrates a brothel, kills her best friend, MARY and implicates the Prince as Jack the Ripper.
As the East End riots, QUEEN VICTORIA acts to save the monarchy. She blackmails Penny to wait out the pregnancy abroad. There, Penny learns that another old client, INSPECTOR CLEMENT has cut off all avenues of escape. Penny must wield her knife one final time and become her own woman…
GENRE: HORROR
PITCH:
A grieving prostitute turns killer in Victorian London. When her trail of blood implicates the Prince of Wales, the establishment sets out to destroy her.
SYNOPSIS:
Revolution ferments in Victorian London. The starving poor are kept in check by fear of the Ripper. PENNY, a young prostitute, grieves for her murdered baby.
Penny kills her pimp when he is released early for the drowning of her child. Then she slaughters an innocent palace maid who gets in her way. She pretends to be the maid and tricks her old client, the PRINCE OF WALES into bed, determined to get pregnant again. Disguised as a gentleman, she infiltrates a brothel, kills her best friend, MARY and implicates the Prince as Jack the Ripper.
As the East End riots, QUEEN VICTORIA acts to save the monarchy. She blackmails Penny to wait out the pregnancy abroad. There, Penny learns that another old client, INSPECTOR CLEMENT has cut off all avenues of escape. Penny must wield her knife one final time and become her own woman…
Comments
This is a compelling story. I'm giving it my vote on Lucypalooza. We're about due another good Jack the Ripper movie, has there been one since 'from Hell'?
Looks like this story has plenty of intrigue, but who will Penny slash in the end...?
You've got a lot of interesting elements here. I'd see this movie.
Good luck with it. :-)
Thank you kindly Lara.
Case Closed by P. Cornwell 1p on Amazon. Result!
This however is much better and reckon it'll be WELL GOOD MAN - tho interesting what Robin K says considering our convo re: this very issue on our last editing sesh for Metlab don't you think?! ; )
What I find interesting is the fact that the hero of this story is also the murderer, with real emotions setting her onto her killing spree. As she murders friends, foes and innocents, I'm intrigued to see how the script will make an audience want her to "win" in the end. (Or do you want them to want her to lose?)
Liked it a lot :)
She is a very strong woman - and that's very, very good indeed!
Tough, too. I like that she gets away with it, but I still want to know how it ends, too...but I won't ask ;-)
Penny fetches up in the South of France where she discovers that she's not pregnant after all. She is pursued there by the newly knighted Inspector Clement who thinks he has a chance of winning her love now that he's elevated to the peerage. Alas not so, for the hapless Inspector reveals to Penny that it was he who released Penny's pimp from jail early. Clement mistakenly believed that this act would drive Penny into his arms seeking protection but what it actually does is inspire Penny's first murder. Obviously he has to go.