THE SPY WHO LOATHED ME – Chris Westphal (Launch Pad)
0| The Launch Pad Manuscript Competition Presents… | |
| Title: | THE SPY WHO LOATHED ME |
| Logline: | A Russian spy enlists the help of an amateur screenwriter to produce a script on the leader of the Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev, all while being monitored by an FBI agent who is madly in love with her. |
| Pitch: | HAIL, CAESAR! meets THE AMERICANS |
| Writer: | Chris Westphal |
| Genre: | GENRE |
| Why to Read: | A postmodern farce in the style of Thomas Pynchon or David Foster Wallace, this manuscript deftly combines Cold War anxieties and Hollywood satire into a truly wild and unpredictable narrative. The writing is very strong, and the writer has a subtle and detached voice that ends up providing hilarious commentary on international relations, the entertainment industry, and much more. The trio of main characters each have intricately drawn backstories which enrich and inform who they are in the present, preventing this from sliding so far into the comedic as to lose sight of the emotional core. |
| Request: | CLICK HERE TO REQUEST THE MANUSCRIPT |
