Writer’s Statement
Winner of 100 AWARDS, 8 HONORABLE MENTIONS, and with an additional 107 Nominations, Finalist, and Official Selection accolades (On FilmFreeway)— and counting, the unproduced feature film screenplay ‘The Four Of Us Are Dying’ is the 4th out of 4 screenplays in a Quadrilogy of unrelated stories I had originally outlined, all during a manic episode (at that time yet-to-be diagnosed Bipolar I).
The title, partially pays homage to both a classic Twilight Zone episode of the same name, and the title of an instrumental Nine Inch Nails track — while at the same time, having absolutely nothing to do with either.
Essentially, ‘The Four Of Us Are Dying’ is a hybrid of sorts: a quaint, desert-set, sexually-charged hostage road trip thriller that winds up at the mercy of an intellectual, polyamorous love story — disguised as a sexually-charged alien abduction thriller. ‘The Four Of Us Are Dying’ incorporates other audience-friendly motifs such as: human sacrifice, interspecies erotica, and a mainstream conspiracy theorist/supporting character that pays the ultimate price just for being inadvertently correct (although regrettably) about something “extraterrestrial…”
— Jesse Dorian
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Jesse Dorian
ADD/bipolar screenwriter/actor/editor/film director/songwriter/composer/musician, ex-drug dealer, community college dropout, with dumb little gothpop music project on the side; also (as of 2022) newly a small e-commerce business owner, and apparel designer (LostScorpion/LostScorpion Apparel).
Had one full-on manic episode/nervous breakdown in 2012… years later, came out on the other end with an unfinished, 95% completed feature film/directorial effort that never saw the light of day-- plus, 5 separate story ideas that in 2021, would be revised competently into 5 different, coherently-readable documents... er, better yet-- 5 professionally-organized feature-length film screenplays.
Endgame is to station in Los Angeles and focus on acting and music. Would also excel as a writer/actor, and would ideally fit in writing/producing/directing independent projects for distributors A24, NEON... with long-time mainstream prospects including creation of/writing/producing/directing franchise and world-building feature film projects for Universal Studios.
Has 2 rescue cats named Fred and Caramels.