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Some of the best, most original screenplays in the last decade have been set in hotels. Think Lost In Translation (and by the same token Somewhere), Hotel Rwanda, and of course, a pioneer in the genre, Home Alone 2: Lost In New York.
Critically acclaimed director, screenwriter and producer Roman Coppola has had a hand in at least two of those two brilliant hotel-based films (Lost In Translation and Home Alone 2: Lost In New York Somewhere) and now he wants to have a hand in yours.
Coppola and his production company, The Directors Bureau, have partnered with Intel and W Hotels to launch an innovative world-wide, user-generated film series dubbed Four Stories, and are looking for fresh Australian screenwriting talent to contribute an original screenplay. Aspiring Coppolas will have the chance to have their script reviewed by a panel of international industry heavyweights like Roman, including swoon-worthy style icons and actors of considerable note (and pout) Chloë Sevigny, Michael Pitt and PJ Ransone, screenwriter Jeff Baena (I Heart Huckabees) and Eddy Moretti, creative director of VICE.
Australia is one of the four international contenders invited to submit one of the titular four stories, which will then be reviewed, curated, developed and transformed by Coppola into a 10 minute short to be filmed at one of the W Hotel’s 42 hotels, which you’ll get to fly to (so pick somewhere real fancy). As a condition of entry, scripts must be set in a W Hotel and the Intel-inspired Ultrabook must play a key role in the screenplay. For purposes of inspiration, here’s PJ Ransone (How To Make It In America, Generation Kill) reclining at a W Hotel with an Ultrabook:
Looks easy enough. Play your cards right and this could be one hotel room service you won’t want to turn down. Not that you’d refuse a turn down or room service, though, right?
For more information head to Four Stories website.
