Necessary Sin
ACTION DRAMA RELIGIOUS ADVENTURE DRAMA CRIME RELIGIOUS MYSTERY
Contemporary
Brian W. Casey
Logline
Necessary Sin is the story of August Hawk, a Marine Chaplain torn from his obligations as a priest and forced to live a lie to avoid committing a necessary sin.
Genre
Action, Drama, Religious, Adventure,,Drama,Crime,Religious,Mystery
Short Summary
A couple, working as Peace Corps volunteers in the Amazon jungle, are murdered by a drug dealer believing them to U.S. drug agents. Years later their son returns to the same village as a Jesuit Marine Chaplain. He comes to face to face with his parents killer, but fails to avenge their deaths.
Years of living a secret life in witness protection is brought to the present on a rain soaked rural highway. What August failed to do thirty years ago, still haunts him. The final confrontation is with his past and his own personal demon more than his enemies.
Setting
Amazon jungle/Rural America
Based on a True Story
No
Plot - Premise
,Overcoming Monster/Villain
Plot - Other Elements
Twist,,Philosophical Questions
Mature Audience Themes
Extreme Violence
Main Character Details
Name: August Hawk
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Role: Protagonist
Key Traits: Confident, Educated, Engaging, Adventurous, Blunt, Empathetic, Honorable, Masculine, Secretive, Faithful, Patriotic, Complex, Lone Wolf, Religious,Complex,Faithful,Lone Wolf,Masculine,Strong Moral Code,Religious,Honorable
Additional Character Details
Name: Michelle Heights
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Role: Emotional
Key Traits: Adventurous, Beautiful, Educated, Faithful, Romantic, Sexy, Strong Moral Code, Aggressive, Blunt,Badass,Outspoken,Patriotic,Strong Moral Code,Confident,Romantic
Additional Character Details
Name: Angelina Fuentes
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Role: antagonist
Key Traits: Confident, Criminal, Greedy, Power-hungry, Villainous, Beautiful, Aggressive, Badass, Blunt, Skillful, Adventurous,Badass,Aggressive,Criminal,Greedy,Villainous,Sexy,Power Hungry,Outspoken,Skillful,Manipulative
Additional Character Details
Name: Balifour
Age: eternal
Gender: Other
Role: antagonist
Key Traits: Aggressive,Narcisstic,Greedy,Power Hungry,Secretive,Villainous,Skillful,Seductive,Unapologetic,Masculine
Development Pitch
This story is not the "The Thorn Birds" revisited. Rather, what if Sheriff Andy Griffith's secret troubled past followed him to Mayberry R.FD. "Necessary Sin" is a story that digs into a life shaped by religious obedience, family obligations, denial of natural feelings and a violation of sacred vows. In the end, a confrontation brought about by outside forces from the past demand a choice, one that may cause an unintended but necessary sin. The story of "Necessary Sin" could find a home as a film exploring those decisions we are forced to make, the ones when we are in them, we can't tell right from wrong. We are pulled in one direction, but obligations take us on different path. Our past, no matter how much we want to talk about reinventing ourselves, even the notion of reinventing, is shaped by our past actions and decisions. "Necessary Sin" asks, do we ever really escape? Book #2 is on pace to answers that question.