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Gorger

An expert safe-cracker, TROY GLOVER, tries to keep his son, SPIDER, a promising boxer, from the clutches of Troy’s own criminal past and vengeful associate, JIMMY THE FIX.

Jimmy offers Troy what seems to be a simple deal: to chaperone Jimmy’s predatory son, LENNY, on his first heist. However, this heist goes terribly wrong, and Troy must kill Lenny to save himself and two innocent lives. Killing Lenny was the right thing to do, but of course Jimmy sees things differently, and vows violent retribution against Troy’s family.

Troy turns himself into the police, seeking a plea deal, and sacrifices his own freedom to protect his family from Jimmy’s wrath. However DCI FORDHAM, who is an old friend, is being blackmailed by Jimmy, and betrays Troy.

Falsely incarcerated, Troy is powerless as his son Spider pursues bare-knuckle glory and a budding romance with CASSIE, the daughter of the KING OF THE GYPSIES.

  • Paul G. Andrews
    Writer
    THE GREAT HUNGER
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Gangster, crime, revenge, thriller
  • Number of Pages:
    96
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Druk International Film Festival
    Punakha, Bhutan
    April 29, 2020
    Outstanding Achievement - Feature Script
Writer Biography - Paul G. Andrews

Paul is a Film Producer and Writer who lives in London and was brought up in Maidstone Kent. A huge film fan form a young child his goal is to make memorable films that are remembered in years to come.

In 2005 Paul established international television production
and media sales company GlobalWatch, working with a host of
multi-national companies at CEO level. He has interviewed and
collaborated with senior Government Officials such as Russian
Deputy Prime Igor Shuvalov, ex-Russian Finance Minister Mikhail
Zadornov, President of Ethiopia Girma Wolde-Giorgis, ex-President
of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo and the UK’s Minister for Trade &
Industry Lord Green.
An ex-junior table tennis international player, Paul sponsored and co-promoted with close friend Matthew Syed (author of ‘Bounce: How Champions Are Made’) three International table tennis events televised by the BBC including an Olympic special.
In 2011 Paul produced a documentary called ‘Russia Calling’ which looked at the changes from the old Soviet Union to the new Russia over the last twenty-five years.
Paul established GlobalWatch Films in 2013 to produce a slate of feature films, from lower budget comedies and psychological horror features to larger budget films aimed at the North American studio market. He has Exec produced two films, both award winning , Boogie Man(21 awards) and Juliana & the Medicine Fish and now has a slate of eleven high profile projects in development with including three projects with friend Tom Keneally, the famed author of novel Schindler's List (Ark). One of his own stories based on historical events during the Irish Famine and jointly written with Tom and his daughter Meg has already won some best screenplay awards.Apart from Gorger, a gangster/revenge crime drama, he is co writing two other screenplays based on his own stories, one an epic war love story based around true historical events during conflict in Cyprus. He is a keen writer also of events/stories that showcase gender and race inequality and corruption plus false media reporting and he works with a number of charities to try and help make change in the world.
Contact details pandrews@globalwatch.com

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Writer Statement

Gorger is a concept that I fell in love with when the idea for the project was brought to me by an ex gypsy bare knuckle fighter and bodyguard t Robert de Niro. The film centres around an anti-hero bank robber called Troy (The Gorger a gypsy term for a non-gypsy) who falls out with both the criminal underworld and the gypsy community. I felt the character was one that is likeable yet on the wrong side of the law and his life is a mess and his relationships a failure. It reminded me of the 'man with no name ' Clint Eastwood characters that has revenge as his saviour much like Gladiator. I also wanted to show that the world can be a complicated place and that a UK crime film does not need to centre on bad language and gratuitous violence and so have tried to build a story with twist ands turns and that is character driven which I feel is important.