Update on 2016 Film Screenplay Efforts

 Norma Jean's Sun, #TrueStory #Memoir Adaptation Script

#‎Film‬ ‪#‎Option‬ & ‪#‎Coverage‬ Update Information:

As I am committed in both spirit and mind to produce and or continue to push the efforts of finding a production avenue for this #film , the 2016 pdate to report is that through various solicitations and InkTip ‪#‎Screenplay‬ listing, the following Organizations and Production Companies have reviewed/read the current ‪#‎Logline‬ / ‪#‎Synopsis‬ and associated ‪#‎Script‬ information in the last 30 days.  I WILL Get this Film Developed!

Reverse Engineering Studios, The Artist's Den, Inc., Krannel Pictures, Oceanus Pictures, FilmStrategic, Massar Storyworks LLC, Blue Sun Pictures, Crossroads Productions Inc., Feisty Dame Productions Pty Ltd, Abbott Street Films, Sky House Pictures, Minds Eye Entertainment, DAVED Productions, FlickBag Inc, Rampage Productions, Tranquility Base, Southern Fried Films, 2hotfilms, FJ Productions, Arnold Leibovit Entertainment, Ideal Talent

Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir ( Based on a True Story )

"A Wonderful commentary on the very things that make us all human" "Brave honesty of confession, makes the book unique" "Touching story, full of hope" The story is not only convincingly true, but will rivet the reader with its genuine and unassuming pathos. It is this kind of brave honesty of confession and growing philosophy that makes the book unique.

Miraculous tale of how a boy, born into unimaginable physical and emotional pain and destined to be a misfit, finds his way in a world of "others." Few could survive so many torturous years of surgical intervention and a ensuing lifelong struggle with drugs and alcohol addiction and come out ahead. This moving tale reveals not only the struggle and heartrending elements of generational lives "gone wrong," but also the love and growth of a human being overcoming the odds and determined to find a way to live life to the fullest. Based on a true story, the author's unapologetic prose prompts enduring ethical questions and makes a gripping, personal read. Norma Jean's Sun is painfully reflective yet ultimately hopeful, a story told through the eyes of a boy who believes he has been mistakenly born into the world and a man who conquers physical and emotional injustice--and thrives. The reader will be challenged to answer the difficult questions of right and wrong as they may apply to his or her own life. It is clear that it is the hope of this author that the reader's conclusions will lead to a more fulfilled view of the "parallel beauty that lives just beneath the surface for us all."

Norma Day (True Story - Inspirational Family Drama) 

Logline:
Generational History results in double indemnity when Norma gives birth to a child with profound disabilitating birth defects and will follow a forbidden love on an incredible journey at the risk of losing her Only Son! A Powerful Leading Lady of Grace, Dignity & Inspiration travels to a translucent ending that will touch your core!

Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives beside us. Nor do we suspect the carrier.

For Additional Info & Script Option Listing:
http://www.kriscourtney.com/index_files/normajeansun.htm

Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir by Kris Courtney

Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir (Biographical Screenplay)

 LIGHTS - CAMERA - ACTION 

(True Story - Inspirational Family Drama)

 Norma comes into view from a family secret held by Matriarch's to give birth to a child with severe deformities only to struggle through her own identity crisis in raising and ultimately letting go of her only Son who will fight to find a common uniqueness prior to an emotional translucent ending.

'Norma Day' First Release Biographical Screenplay - Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir

(Non-Member) WGAE Registration #I267790

 As the Screenplay has now reached exposure level and the "Draft" first release is being explored and reviewed by production houses that Include 'Fox, Apple, Amazon, Check Entertainment and Silver Heart Productions' among many others, my prayers continue to be that the message of inspiration delivered to so many in the book will become visible in Film Soon !

As Described, The Terms of adaptation and understanding from Memoir to Biography are often interchanged and can blur the line between what a Film Script can represent.

A memoir is a sub-genre of the autobiography. As Wikipedia writes:

A memoir (from French: mémoire/ Latin: memoria, meaning memory, or reminiscence), is a literary genre, forming a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable.

The criteria for determining whether a work is a memoir include:

• They tend to encompass only time period of the author's life
• They tend to deal with one part of the author's life--say, his career
• They are generally written in first-person

A biography, on the other hand, is a broader category. From Wikipedia:

A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts (education, work, relationships, and death), biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents the subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.

Biographies tend to be about someone's entire life, although a memoir is still a type of biography. The library would shelve them together because of their shared overarching category.

 A biographical film, or biopic (/ˈbaɪɵpɪk/; abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character’s real name is used^.  They differ from films "based on a true story" or “historical films” in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person’s life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives.

Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir by Kris Courtney

Norma Day (Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir - True Story)

Norma Day - Screenplay Adapted (Based on Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir - True Story)

Logline: A Family History of Choices, Imposing Consequences and the People who Survive with Grace & Unparalleled Ability! Dramatic journey of secrets, the carrier unknown and the burden imposed, Norma will stride through the illumination of what is possible and the shadow of reality to raise a Child with Special Needs.

WGA East Registration number - I267790

Family history resulted in the bearing of a child with double the indemnity of passing on a flawed gene pool magnified in subsequent generations. And so Norma Jean gives birth to Kris, a child with multiple profound skeletal deformities and webbing of digits that required full body cast at birth (separating him from the succor of a mother's hands and causing a sense of shame to the father), a condition so severe that it took in excess of twenty surgeries in an attempt to correct the deformities.

This is not just a memoir, it’s a tale of courage, family failings and devotion & discovery. One man’s detached observation of his family, himself, and life ‘s twist turns and fate! It will leave you with much more of a willingness to accept life's insecure patterns with a zest for self discovery and adventure!


Opening Scene:
The morning opens and a mist of innocence appears across the countryside, telling us the day is new. The feeling of hope and love and the humble awareness of duty is clear, if only for a moment. It is that inspiration that follows us into a small town, where we are awakened by a cool frost to the laughter of children playing on this Sunday morning.

The broken glass that cloaks the upstairs window tells the story of an empty future, or a past that need not be spoken. Though the fence around the side yard still stands strong, it needs a painting, and the swing set is rusted with neglect. It speaks in the wind, claiming its independence and its loneliness.

This journey begins a tale from this same old house resting on the hill. It offers a view of the carnival that comes every year to this small town and sets up just across the tracks. The pallet is dry now; the colors are gone. The saga told only drawn darker as the years have passed, bitter days into bitter cold nights. All that comes now are glimpses of the faces that have graced my soul.

Here in this town the tracks that once haunted the family still brought on a moment of fear, one of doubt and confusion of the kind that flashes across one’s mind. In that flash of clarity, one finds oneself experiencing either a moment of relief—or of confinement. It was no different for these children except that they knew on which side of the tracks they belong, isolated. Time was empty; it paused unwittingly.

Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives beside us. Nor do we suspect the carrier.

Norma Jean’s Sun, True Story Memoir published in 2009 which has received International exposure and praise for Courtney’s accomplishments and continues to rank as a best seller on Amazon. The story is described by reviewers as “Eloquent, stirring and emotional, inspirational to the courageous” Publishers Weekly 2011: “Touching story, full of hope”

Most Memoirs will take a path of less traveled or still even more; will only show you the surface damage. That is not the case with this tale of patrons to a journey of emotional and moral challenge. The pages of which will show the struggle and parallel connection to an audience never before seen in both human spirit and tragedies of taboo behavior by choice or imposed.

Norma Jean’s Sun is a memoir that came from the depths of one man’s struggle to become a predefined member of a social mold which was never cast. A confinement that would later serve to encapsulate, isolate and establish a prototype of life not understood or sought by those watching. Blessing, punishment or choice is a position each is given and though not all will genesis into a full heart, most can adapt through perseverance. Yet in this episode, you will question on how or who provided the seed to a life of strife. Further, worth following…

Living with the knowledge that from the beginning as a known visual mistake. Each passing of a mirror brought continuous censor. Multiple attempts to ignore the obvious, always knowing the grotesque image was that of a failed attempt at Gods perfect world. Surrounded by a crowd of normal, that highlighted the intense despair, perversion and a soul sickness that only led to extinction. Yet the very energy of creation, hope and inspiration through subterranean gifts, gives rise to a strength each one of us may hope to summon in the face of turmoil and loss. Gathering precious glimpses that in all lives, our given energy & beauty can carry through…

American Artist Kris Courtney

www.kriscourtney.com

WGA East Registration number - I267790

Original Screenplay "Norma Day" by Kris Courtney

Norma Day - Treatment Page

Original Screenplay / Script - Author Kris Courtney

(Based on a True Story, Norma Jean's Sun by Kris Courtney)

ISBN-10: 0578020599 ISBN-13: 978-0578020594

American Artist Kris Courtney

WGA Registration number - I267790

Captured by circumstance of events rather than virtue of birth rights, a family is set upon a direction that will alter course to yield penalty. Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives beside us. Nor do we suspect the carrier.

John J.P., Hildreth and Daughter Norma: Flossie, Don Sr. & Son Donnie: Johnny: Kris

Act 1:

The morning opens and a mist of innocence appears across the countryside, telling us the day is new. The feeling of hope and love and the humble awareness of duty is clear, if only for a moment. It is that inspiration that follows us into a small town, where we are awakened by a cool frost to the laughter of children playing on this Sunday morning.

The broken glass that cloaks the upstairs window tells the story of an empty future, or a past that need not be spoken. Though the fence around the side yard still stands strong, it needs a painting, and the swing set is rusted with neglect. It speaks in the wind, claiming its independence and its loneliness.

This journey begins a tale from this same old house resting on the hill. It offers a view of the carnival that comes every year to this small town and sets up just across the tracks. The pallet is dry now; the colors are gone. The saga told only drawn darker as the years have passed, bitter days into bitter cold nights. All that comes now are glimpses of the faces that have graced my soul.

Act 2:

There was nothing that explained the attraction between them, whether by silence or sin by omission, each who willingly goes this way will pass the corpses of those whom he hurts. I believe that each sin carries a value and that its cost holds a judgment in purgatory.

To court a man’s daughter, one’s intent and implementation was critical. In this case, one daughter experienced only a modicum of oversight; the other was under lock and key. Nobody got close to Norma without J. P.’s knowledge and approval. But it didn’t take long before Johnny and Norma were falling in love. Norma was the prettiest girl in school and Johnny, the leatherneck, wielded an image to defend.

Soon Norma, fifteen, and Johnny, twenty, could regularly be found in the malt shop after class. Admiration or fascination, who could say, but their eyes and hearts connected. Norma was the envy of all as she rode in Johnny’s car, a rat rod that could win a race without spilling a drop of gas. Johnny resembled that little-known Cutter from Fairmont, James Dean. Life was easy.

Here in this town the tracks that once haunted the family still brought on a moment of fear, on of doubt and confusion of the kind that flashes across one’s mind. In that flash of clarity, one finds oneself experiencing either a moment of relief—or of confinement. It was no different for these children except that they knew on which side of the tracks they belong, isolated.

The summer sun was bravely harsh in August, 1958, burning the skin, searing the paint of a house, leaving nothing unseen and no place to hide. It seems life has a way of punishing some and this season was no exception. This year the county fair returned as usual, but circumstances were not the same. With graduation came the responsibility for finding work and defining the future. I suppose this challenge comes to everyone and this was the year for Norma. In high school, Norma excelled in accounting and typing. Therefore, it only seemed natural for her to take a job at the local drugstore, helping in the office, keeping records, and caring for the store. A good job for a fine young lady, you might say. The young woman who walked the boardwalk was tired after a day at work, but eager to gaze at the night lights and enjoy the Midway.

The young man at the fair stood away from the crowd for a moment to observe, the one who had stood boldly in the dim light of the railroad tracks and who had found his future defined in that moment, was the same man who now held tightly to the stature of the adult he had become. His father had long since gone, taking the boy’s childhood with him. Flossie was the family matriarch and provided deep roots of stability for an otherwise unstable family unit.

Act 3:

Norma began to weep; Norma’s voice trembled with anxiety. The ladies laughed and soon fears, replaced by the usual pre-wedding nerves, had been all but forgotten. The room filled once again with chatter and laughter. The players were ready to follow the script set before them.

The sounds of the hospital began to ring with an echo of detachment; God All Mighty himself had struck with his wrath and maleness. Faith and pride were being tested to a point of fracture. This family had never claimed freedom from strife and surpassing the point of pain had always been a fact of life. But this time, in their shame and guilt.

Norma turned to me; I heard her words as if we were in a play, rehearsing our lines. “Kris, do you hold anything against me, Son?” A casualty of circumstances once again, disconnected from any purpose or direction, without values, the stage was set … Time was empty; it paused unwittingly.

Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir by Kris Courtney