Six Guns
After a young woman is kidnapped by a group of women traffickers, a mixed group of gunfighters, bounty hunters, a former Union Colonel and a sheriff go on her search. Things will complicate even more when they must decide what to do with the other victims of their cruel enemies.
"The Magnificent Seven" meet "The Searchers".
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Jerzy P. SuchockiWriter
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Project Type:Screenplay
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Genres:western, action, drama, adventure
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Number of Pages:116
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Country of Origin:Mexico
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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Tatras International Film FestivalVysoké Tatry, Prešovský kraj 059 60
February 1, 2024
Best Action Screenplay
Jerzy P. Suchocki is an award-winner screenwriter and director working on his first feature, a horror comedy called How to Expose Possible Vampires (And Not Get Killed in the Process).
A self-taught person, he has always been in love with films and is convinced that they are the best way to create communication and empathy among people.
Besides writing screenplays (often about delusional dreamers trying to find their place in the world), Jerzy is also a novelist and script consultant for different companies and contests.
The script received a "Consider" from Barnstorm.
Western is a timeless genre. Even though it doesn’t have the same strength as it once did, it remains one of the most engaging subgenres of action with a loyal, consistent audience not only in the United States but across the world. After all, even though Westerns are often set in America, many of its subjects are universal. Is man vs environment. Struggling to survive. Protecting the ones you love. Finding your way in a wild, dangerous land. We all can connect with that.
Southwest Quest is no exception. The story follows a young man who must search for the girl he loves after she is kidnapped by a gang of women traffickers. The system refuses to help him, so he has no choice but to hire a group of gunfighters and head on her search, on a hellish odyssey that will be full of enemies in a dangerous country. Much like the genre itself, this is a timeless concept simply because is something that keeps happening not only in the United States but in many other countries. Women, children, and even men are taken away from their homes by dangerous groups, and many times the system fails them. So, what else can they do, but fight on their own?
So, this is something a lot of people around the world can connect to… and the script sure offers enough action and tension to keep the audience intrigued. Especially because things get even more complicated after the group rescues the girl, and is faced with what to do with the other kidnapped women. They can’t leave them there. They need to take them to a safe place, even if that gets them into even more danger and many of the gunfighters end up paying the ultimate price for doing the right thing.
All of this then makes Southwest Quest the kind of badass Western adventure we haven’t seen in a while. As a kid, I loved films such as The Magnificent Seven, The Professionals, or The Searchers (not to mention all those “guys on a mission” war movies such as The Dirty Dozen or The Guns of Navarone), and I think it’s kind of a shame we haven’t seen a movie like that in quite some while. Other than Antoine Fuqua’s remake of The Magnificent Seven, I can’t think of any other big Western with an ensemble cast… and, who knows? Maybe with its colorful, complex cast of characters, Southwest Quest might be the one that brings it back.