SYNOPSIS: After dying a million times playing the same classic video game, a young boy knows that he will always live, but this time it's different. This time it's raining outside and TIMMY has been in an auto accident. He's home alone and injured and his time is up. The MESSENGER OF DEATH (MOD) comes knocking on the front door to collect the injured boy. TIMMY slowly realizes he will die if he cannot keep the MOD out of his house until the day is over. THE MIGHTY OX, a wrestler and larger-than-life 'star' of video games unexpectedly comes to life. He possesses an extraordinary game-winning 'secret' weapon. Time and time again he proves to be a guardian angel, refusing to let anyone in the house and keeping the boy safe by fighting off the hench-men of the MOD. After using every trick in the book, the MOD realizes he has one last chance to get the boy. He tricks the boy's crafty wrestler by proposing a final old-fashioned, do-or-die, no-holds-barred wrestling match with the boy as the prize. Timmy is nervous. He knows he will make it through the day and live to grow up but when all the chips are down and when the day is almost over, the 'unimaginable' happens. The Mighty Ox's potent and unique game-winning 'secret' weapon turns out to be nothing of consequence.
I wrote THE MIGHTY OX and also the screenplay using Sally Merlin Jones as my screenplay consultant. Sally worked for me on and off for a decade and a half. I never realized she started and co-owned SCR(I)PT Magazine and always had her article on the last page. I never knew she worked as screenplay consultant to Steven Spielberg for two decades. I did learn that she was without any question, one of the best script consultants I could ever have hired and she taught me just about everything you can imagine developing a project to the point where it stood the highest possibility to take in the
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