This is my original idea for a movie. It's called "Pinstripe."
Basically, here's the plot:
A comic book writer, named Walter Hughes, who in the 70's created the
iconic supehero comic "Night Man", is having a mid-life crisis. His
comic is failing, his creative block won't go away, and his comic's
sales have been dwindling. So he decides to re-kindle the spark, so
to speak, by bringing back a villain he hasn't used in years,
"Pinstripe." He's a psychopath who has vertical scars that go down
his face that resemble the stripes on a Pinstripe suit that is
obsessed with things being in symmetrical patterns. As he writes the
new issue, we fade into the comic book world, which is animated, where
Pinstripe is frustrated that his latest plan failed. "IT SHOULDN'T
HAVE FAILED," he vents to his cellmate, "I HAD EVERY LITTLE DETAIL
PLANNED OUT!! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!" He feels like something
strange is going on, and slowly figures out that he IS just a comic
book character, and that everything he and everyone else in that world
does is written to be as it is. But as he figures that out, he is
able to gradually bend the rules of that world to his will. He starts
to win the battles he fights, and as this happens, the comic book in
the real world starts to change without Walter's input and he's
starting to get freaked out. But the readers like the change in the
comic, and Walter decides to ride the gravy train as long as he can,
since his comics are literally writing themselves now. But
eventually, Pinstripe breaks through the barrier between te two worlds
and tries to kill his creator, bitter about all the times he's written
him to fail in the past. But Pinstripe realizes that he cannot live
without Walter, as whatever he does to him, happens to himself. So
makes a deal with Walter: since Pinstripe is still linked to Walter's
subconscious, (he at this time would be animated in a live-action
setting,) he wants Walter to 'cut the umbilical cord,' so to speak, by
setting him free as a truly real, breathing, 3-D person. In return,
he will let Walter live. Walter agrees, and upon shaking hands,
Pinstripe slowly turns into a real person (maybe a big name actor like
Christian Bale or someone like that, that's who I've always imagined
would play him.) He then goes out to wreak havoc on this world around
him, to enjoy the pleasures of the real world that he's never gotten
to have. Walter only looks in horror on the news every night as he
sees Pinstripe's horrible crimes escalate more and more. Eventually,
he gets an idea to contact the hero from his story, Nightman, via
writing to him in his word processor.
"Nightman? Are you there?" he types. Eventually, in the animated
comic-world, Nightman, who meanwhile has been in kind of a slump
himself since he feels as if he's failed in his war on crime or
something like that, hears Walter's voice telepathically. He answers,
"Who's there?!" And on the word processor in Walter's computer, the
words type themselves out. Walter explains who he is, his situation,
and begs him to help him stop Pinstripe. Nightman agrees immediately,
telling him the only way to stop Pinstripe is to re-connect the link
between them, and destroy him. And the only way to do THAT, he says,
is to remember what originally led to his creation in the first place,
and re-connect with that memory. Walter cannot remember, but does a
bit of soul searching to find out. Meanwhile, Pinstripe's doing a
whole bunch of horrible crimes and eventually gets his hand on a lot
of bombs which he plans to use on the White House or some important
location. With time running out, Walter goes back to his childhood
home. He realizes that the reason he made Pinstripe in the first
place was to deal with the anger he felt from being abused by his
father as a child. His father, of course, was a tailor in a failing
clothing store who was obsessed with him being 'perfect.' When he
realizes this, he learns to forgive his long deceased father, going to
his grave, saying something like, "You hurt me, dad, you really did.
But I've finally realized that all that's been over for a long time
now.....and the only pain that I'm feeling anymore are just
memories....ghosts.....things I've created and won't let go. I
forgive you dad, because you were in more pain than I was....and I
realize now that's why you did what you did. You were a good
man.....deep down, anyways......and so am I." With that, he burns the
original drawing he drew as a child due to sheer frustration. And
then, Pinstripe starts to turn back into a cartoon character again,
and Walter is able to see and feel what he is doing all over again.
But this time, he is able to control him, and sucks him back into his
imagination. But the final bat
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