Children's
The Prince of Never Say Never
Genre: Children's, Action/Adventure
Logline: A young boy is kidnapped and taken to a bizarre magical kingdom where he’s forced to befriend its tyrannical teenage ruler.
Synopsis: Ed is twelve years old, and his life is spinning out of control. With his parents heading for divorce court, and his brother and sister openly hating him, Ed runs away only to find himself kidnapped by two misshapen creatures who take him back to the magical kingdom of Never Say Never.
Never Say Never is a land ruled over by a teenage Prince, a physically grotesque young man who, with the help of some magic ‘jawbreakers’, is in complete control of the kingdom. These candies allow the “sucker” to have anything they want. Ed is offered a place of honor and absolute power if he will do just one thing - be the Prince’s friend.
Ed is enthralled with his new home: using magic guns to shoot bullies in a schoolyard, playing with remote controlled people, being waited on hand and foot. It’s all very exciting until spies from the Prince’s arch enemies, “The Tricksters” reveal to Ed what lies beneath the veneer of magic, a Kingdom full of misery and paralyzed by the Prince’s childish whims.
In a daring escape, Ed leaves Never Say Never and seeks refuge with the Trickster King, a kindly old man who rules over an army of mechanical illusions and protects other children from Ed’s world who also escaped the Prince’s “friendship.”
Ed’s betrayal sends the Prince into a homicidal rage; he orders his deadly Skeleton Army to invade the Trickster kingdom and destroy everyone there. By a twist of fate, Ed finds himself in the terrifying position of being the only person who can actually stop the Prince. In a dramatic showdown, Ed battles the Prince for the last remaining jawbreaker. Ed is victorious and restores the kingdom to its rightful rulers, the Prince’s parents. Offered a home and place of honor in Never Say Never, Ed realizes it’s time to return to his own home and start to face the challenges there.
Author Info: ROB THOMPSON has been writing, directing and producing film and video projects for over fifteen years. As a founding member of the award winning company Winter Films he has worked on a wide variety of projects. Two of his best known productions include, Wire, an event where he offered two people $5,000 to live in a chicken cage for one week, and Journey to Little Rock, a documentary that looks at the life of Minnie Jean Brown, one of the famous Little Rock Nine.
ROB THOMPSON, Writer
winter@cyberus.ca
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