Pieces of Time

As some of you know I am trying to write a feature-length screenplay in about 3 weeks. I have a title, synopsis and characters done, as well as a treatment. Right now I am working on the long outline. Here is some info about my story.

PIECES OF TIME

A busy music industry executive in Los Angeles never seems to have enough time. He finds a magical pocket watch at an antique store that gives him thirteen hours instead of twelve. The antique store owner tells him about more watches that have more hours, these watches are scattered throughout the world. They begin a journey to find more magical watches but are constantly followed by an evil collector that is bent on stopping them.

Characters:
Jim Sherman
(Jeremy Piven)
A very busy and very important executive at a recording company. He has his entire life scheduled and timed. He never takes time to deviate from his schedule, not even for his family and friends.
After he discovers the watch he is able to have extra time with his two daughters and his wife Lynn, but he soon starts to become obsessed with finding more watches.

Harlan Macavoy
(Morgan Freeman)
Owner of the antique shop where Jim finds the watch. Ever since he found the 14-hour watch in a foxhole during the Vietnam war he has been searching the world to know if there are any other watches. He has found several clues as to where the other watches are and has even discovered more watches. He had put away the thought of finding any more until Jim happened upon the 13-hour watch in his store. With Jim's encouragement, he takes up the search again.


Lynn Sherman
(Jennifer Connelly)
Jim's wife Lynn is very sweet and understanding, but this watch obsession is just too much. She affords Jim the opportunity to search a little bit for the watches and work on his hobby (even if she doesn't understand it). She also likes how he suddenly is able to have more time for her and the kids. When Jim's obsession for finding more watches overtakes his entire life and threatens his job she draws the line and pleads with him to give up the search.



Sir Walter Connegan
(Christopher Lee)
Our villain of the story, Sir Connegan has also been seeking the watches. His entire family down to his great, great, great, great grandfather has been seeking the watches. Sir Connegan is very rich and powerful and has many resources that Jim and Harlan don't have. He also has a great deal of artifacts and clues about the watches that they don't have. In the late 70's Harlan had been working with Sir Connegan to find the watches, but after a bitter fued over the 18-hour watch, Harlan broke up the friendship.


FYI: Don't even think about stealing my ideas, I know how to copyright and register with the WGA and I have a paper trail of all my ideas. Just be cool, keep your hands off.