When Kids meet Reservoir Dogs

BUZZMEDIA NETWORK options classical gangland screenplay by maverick Brit writer at large in the USA.

(PRWEB) September 4, 2005 -- BUZZMEDIA NETWORK this week signed an option agreement on a New York gangland screenplay written by award-winning Hollywood-based British screenwriter Max Myers. The writer of the screenplay, which is provisionally titled 'Thugs, is also a Professor of Screenwriting at Columbia College, Los Angeles.

The film is to be directed by Netherlands-based director Heinrich Dahms who previously wrote and directed, among other things, the 1993 Miramax thriller, My Daughters Keeper.

The script, which Dahms describes as something of a 'Kids meets 'Reservoir Dogs" style gangster film, is a gritty look at a fateful day in the lives of a tightly knit family of misguided teen gangstas in New York City. Dahms immediately fell in love" with the inevitable structure and well-defined, sometimes deeply likeable characters portrayed in this tight gangland drama.

The inexorable vortex of violence is triggered when, under camouflage of Manhattans Halloween Night Parade, a teen gang robs a Hasidic diamond store of 3 million dollars in diamonds. The kids become fair game not only to a ruthless chapter of the Russian mafia, but also to a band of corrupt New York detectives blindly following the orders of a politically compromised chief of police. The result is a violent drama that closely resembles the glove-tight, terrifying inexorability of a classical Greek tragedy.

Start of production of the film, which is entirely set in New York City, is scheduled for early 2007.

About BUZZMEDIA NETWORK
BUZZMEDIA NETWORK BV (www.buzzmedia.net) is the Netherlands based film development company of Heinrich Dahms (www.dahms.com), director of feature films including MY DAUGHTERS KEEPER (Miramax 1993). Other BUZZMEDIA projects include award-winning scripts THE WONDER CHILD on Mozarts gifted sister Nannerl, and CLARA on musical prodigy, Clara Schumann (wife of Robert Schumann).

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