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BIG EXPECTATIONS

BIG EXPECTATIONS
By Martin McDonald

GENRE: Sports, Sci-fi
LOGLINE:

A rising Football (Soccer) superstar becomes a quadriplegic after a horrific car accident.

His only hope to get back in the game lies with one man, a former vivisectionist who gives him the chance of mobility and World Cup glory.

SYNOPSIS:

MARCUS GIBBS a handsome 20-year-old rising Football (Soccer) superstar playing for Aston Villa in England becomes a quadriplegic after a horrific car accident.

After the accident, Marcus’s Football career is over.

His beautiful sweet blonde girlfriend JACINTA JESSE who work for a media company convinces Marcus to hold a press conference in hope that someone may have a solution to give him back some type of mobility.

Arthur Guy left his practice to work with a science team to encapsulate and preserve human bodies.

After this success, he then befriends 2 zookeepers to help him in his new experiments, to test and transferring different chimpanzees’ heads to other chimp bodies.

After a hugely successful transition with minimal scaring showing on the animals, Dr Arthur Guy is looking to bring his son back from the dead.

Dr Arthur Guy watches a press conference of Marcus Gibbs begging the international community to help him in his plight to get back some type of mobility so that he can touch and feel once again.

Dr Arthur Guy then contacts Marcus to offers him the once in a lifetime chance, to get back in the game and onto World Cup history. The offer of transferring his head onto his deceased son's body.

After so much frustration and failure of not being able to get any movement back to his body, Jacinta asked for Marcus’s consent to take a DNA sample and travel to visit the doctor to find out if the option of the operation is viable.

After a successful trip to Germany to visit the Doctor and see the happiness of the Chimpanzees at the zoo, she returns to convince Marcus to take up the doctor offer and have a head transfer.

Marcus travels to the Doctors laboratory and after a successful transition finds that in Dylan’s Tri-Athletic body he has more ability and agility.

During his rehabilitation, he conjures up new and creative skills with a football.

After returning to England Marcus hold another press conference to state that he is back.

With the minimal scarring of the body transfer, Marcus keeps it to himself how he has his mobility back. Impressing in the English Premier League he gets a call up to play in Malta for the national team to qualify for the World Cup.

Playing well to qualify for the next round against Paraguay when all of sudden Marcus is maliciously tackled by a callus player breaking Marcus' arm. Marcus is stretchered off and taken to the hospital where it is treated and wrapped in plaster. Marcus returns to the team and is told that FIFA will not allow him to continue in the competition. Devastated and is asked to pack his bags to be sent home the following day.

The National Physiotherapist KAYCEE SIMONE finds Marcus to stop him from leaving. She has found and successfully convinced FIFA for Marcus to play with this new sports armband.

England wins the game and Marcus is holding the World Cup above his head facing the crowd when spots Dr Arthur Guy sitting next to Jacinta in the crowd.

He throws the World Cup hurdles the barriers pushing through the crowd and embraces Dr Arthur Guy who gave him the opportunity to make his dreams come true.

BIG EXPECTATIONS

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Tasha Lewis

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