I have started reading the Sid Field “Screenplay” The foundations of Screnwrtiging again. I was working every day on scripts until someone in the industry that is cinematography who has shot a lot of well-known works said he didn’t like my idea. He said people would figure out what was going to happen and actually that was partly my plan is that people would experience the historical events through the eyes of the characters but it shot me down and I stopped working on scripts. I am going to finish that one and work on the others and see what other people think. Has anyone written a screenplay that revolves around historical elements that people know will impact the story?
If people may guess what happens in your script because it’s based on historical events, maybe try the Quentin Tarantino approach which is to deliver an alternate history, as he has done in several of his movies. For example, a Civil War film where Abraham Lincoln survives the theatre.
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