My crime drama film will be a neo – noir that is like Blade Runner. The film will be stylized in a way that is reminiscent of the 1940’s. 

• Catharine Johnson is the granddaughter of a wealthy man called Lenard Johnson and she is going to visit him, but when she arrives, she finds that he has died under suspicious circumstances.
• The police are called, and Catharine is named as a suspect, even though she had arrived after the death of her grandfather, since she was left a lot of money in her grandfather’s will. Catharine loved her grandfather and recalls fond memories from her childhood when he took her in after her parents died. He has left her a plain wooden box in his will, and he left her a letter which says that the contents are “very important” and that she must only open it in the most “dire of circumstances” 
• The police suspect Catherine of murdering her grandfather and Henry Hornby, the police chief is particularly quick to accuse her, and this seems suspicious to Catherine, so she looks in the box that her grandfather gave her, and she discovers that Hornby used to be Lenard Johnson’s business partner but he tried to swindle her grandfather out of his earnings and her grandfather cut him out of the business. This revelation causes Catharine to realize that it was Hornby that murdered her grandfather. Hornby enters and tells her that her assumptions are correct and that he killed her parents as well, he attempts to kill her to cover up his crimes, but she escapes, and Hornby is arrested for his crimes and as he is dragged out of the building , he swears that he’ll get his revenge.

I have decided not to show Catherine’s grandfather in order to create an enigma around him , we will only hear about him from the other characters.

The cinematography will be shot in black and white in homage to classic film noir, particularly films like The Maltese Falcon and it will help to establish it in the film noir genre, and I want the audience to feel like they are watching something that they are familiar with. 

I will also use 1940’s era terms in my writing to help give the film the feeling that it is set in the past but some of the visuals will hint that the film could be set in the modern day , my inspiration for this is the TV series Riverdale , which looks like it is set in the 1950’s but the characters have access to modern technology.