Decameron: Quick Bites of Vengeance [VIII/7]
From: giovanni@decameronproductions.com
To: beth@quibi.com; john@quibi.com; steph@decameronproductions.com
Subject: re: Changes to shooting script per state social distancing guidelines
Date: 7/2/20, 8:30 am
Body:
Hey Team!
Super thrilled to hear that we have the green light from Georgia to start shooting, I know how pressed for time we are when it comes to the tax incentives so me and the room spent all weekend rewriting the script to jive with the new scene-by-scene social distancing requirements that came down from company brass. I still think that it works.
Just to recap, here’s the synopsis of the episode per our previous discussion:
An intimate, disastrous story of love spurned and vengeance. Rinieri, a student, pines for Elena. After a chance encounter on a cruise ship, Elena agrees to meet Rinieri at a bar, a packed hole-in-the-wall full of spring breakers. But Elena isn’t coming; she ditched for casual sex with a person she just met. Humiliated, Rineri spends all night ruminating, and then returns back to college in a different country. After several years of in-person study, he returns home and meets Elena in an airport, where she asks for help in winning over a guy she likes; he instead sabotages her, and ruins her life by convincing her to go first to Walt Disney World, and then locking her away in her apartment alone for the period of two days, a miserable expanse of solitude.
So, we have a lot to work with here, and need only a few small tweaks in order to make this possible to shoot under current guidelines. Here’s the plan:
They meet in a park several yards away from eachother.
Rineri has to spend the night outside in the cold, and has to be chilly for a few hours. That’s the inciting incident now.
Sex is merely implied by tastefully panning to the window.
He’s taking Coursera classes online.
They later meet again, online, talking over gchat.
Scrap the Disneyland thing, she goes to a remote farm upstate with her maid, who has been living with her for 14 days.
The big confrontation — which takes place in the middle of Epcot in the recent draft — takes place at a remote watchtower in the middle of the forest
She is high on the watchtower roughly 40 feet up, he is on the ground and roughly 20 feet from the tower.
She gets a sunburn. That’s the consequence.
Like I said, works easily.
-g
From: beth@quibi.com
To: giovanni@decameronproductions.com; john@quibi.com; steph@decameronproductions.com
Subject: re: re: Changes to shooting script per state social distancing guidelines
Date: 7/2/20, 9:57 am
Body:
We kind of liked the R-Rating on this one, any way to get us back to that?
From: giovanni@decameronproductions.com
To: beth@quibi.com; john@quibi.com; steph@decameronproductions.com
Subject: re: Changes to shooting script per state social distancing guidelines
Date: 7/2/20, 4:12 pm
Body:
We talked it over and she can be nude on the watchtower.
-g
From: john@quibi.com;
To: giovanni@decameronproductions.com, beth@quibi.com; steph@decameronproductions.com
Date: 8/9/20, 8:30 am
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