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PROJECT SUBMISSION PACK FILM: A Guide to Second Date Sex DATE: August 2017 1. Submission Form p2-3 2. Information Pack p4-8 3. Sales Estimates p9 4. Script Report p10-11 5. Script p12-116 F I L M S U B M I S S I O N F O R M ! PROJECT A GUIDE TO SECOND DATE DATE: 29/06/2017 TITLE: SEX APPLICANT DETAILS APPLICANT CONTACT DETAILS NAME: ADAM ROLSTON ADDRESS: APT 26 ROTHSCHILD HOUSE, 8 KEW BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON, POSITION: EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TW8 0HR COMPANY SHOOTING SCRIPT FILMS TEL: 07734380818 EMAIL: [email protected] PROJECT DETAILS PRODUCER/S Adam Rolston (A Street Cat BUDGET: £1.1m and CREDITS Named Bob), Paul Raphael (Anita & Me) PRODUCTION Starfield Productions (UK) COMPANIES & Shooting Script Films (UK) WRITER: Rachel hirons NATIONALITY: GENRE: Romantic Comedy NAME CREDITS (1 or 2) Approached Confirmed DIRECTOR Rachel Hirons Powder Room x CAST 1 Alexandra Roach The Iron Lady/ One Chance x CAST 2 George Mckay Captain Fantastic x CAST 3 CAST 4 SHOOTING SCHEDULE – Prep, Principal, Post, delivery SHORT SYNOPSIS / LOGLINE prep - Q3 2017 Six outfits, one hour of make-up, one push-up bra and principal - Q4 2017 eight cigs. She's ready. Six press ups, twenty minutes Post & Delivery - Q1/2 2017 cleaning, three beers and a pube trim. He's ready. Hear their thoughts and feel their pain as you witness the rawest most hilarious portrayal of male and female attitudes, anxieties and agonisingly familiar sex tricks as Ryan and Laura meet for their second date. A true story based on your sex life. Whether male, female, single, married or divorced, here is everything you need to know... and loads you don't. A Guide to Second Date Sex was first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and later transferred to the Soho Theatre in March 2013 FINANCE DETAILS FINANCIER NATURE OF INVESTMENT AMOUNT £ % BUDGET Proposed Approached Confirmed Film Constellation Sales Agent MG 15% £150000 X F I L M S U B M I S S I O N F O R M ! UK Tax Credit Cashflow 20% £220,000 X Creative Media Equity £330,000 30% Finance X % Premiere Stakeholder Corridor 1st Collection Agent TBC Proposed recoupment 2nd Sales Agent commissions, BOND Film Finances schedule expenses and MG for all financiers: 3rd Equity & Premiums AUDITOR NLP 4th Any deferments 5th Profit Share SALES INFORMATION SALES AGENT: Film Constellation SALES ESTIMATES CONTACT: Fabien Westerhoff LOW: $1,370,000 TEL: MEDIUM: $2,175,000 EMAIL: [email protected] HIGH: $3,485,000 TERRITORY DISTRIBUTOR MG RIGHTS TBC COPRODUCTIONS COUNTRY % SPEND DETAILS N/A F E B 2 0 1 7 A GUIDE TO SECOND DATE SEX S Y N O P S I S LAURA Today was Laura’s wedding day... ‘was’, because it stopped being so six months ago when her fiancé professed to a last minute 'change of sexual orientation’… his term for what was actually a lifelong sexual preference of which seemingly everyone was aware except Laura. Funny thing, hindsight. RYAN Having walked in on his girlfriend and best friend together, Ryan was left heartbroken, betrayed and facing years of unanswered calls, a stream of ignored texts, habitual Facebook stalking and three failed attempts to talk to women he finds attractive. Throw in some habitual masturbation to rose-tinted memories of that time she went down on him in a cinema toilet, and you have a pretty accurate understanding of what Ryan’s life has since become. THE FIRST DATE Last week, Laura met Ryan in a bar and, due to their immediate commonalities (both drunk, both in a bar) the pair shared an impromptu, Tia Maria fuelled night that lasted longer than either could have predicted. Somehow, Ryan's attempts at jokes worked that night and actually made her laugh. Likewise, Laura’s drunken inability to walk in her heels / a straight line / ultimately at all, proved quite... charming. In fact, so unprecedentedly enjoyable did this date transpire to be, they ended the night exchanging numbers, shaking hands and declaring they would DEFINITELY meet again. Because that’s what drunk people do. F E B 2 0 1 7 THE SECOND DATE And that’s how we got here: 7pm on Friday night, Laura squeezing herself into too-small jeans and a push- up bra that worked a treat when she was 17 while resolutely deciding against shaving her bush in order to appear ‘mysteriously aloof’ to a man whose face she can’t quite remember. At the same time, Ryan, following the ‘fool-proof’ wisdom of his womanising brother Dan, is using a shower-head to wash parts of himself no man has washed before, arranging novels that he studied for English GCSE on his bedside table (to appear ‘intellectual') and strategically positioning dumbells he has never lifted in the middle of his room. Tonight is their one chance to impress. And the stakes are too high to disappoint. Tonight, Laura and Ryan are determined to be their best selves, by being anyone but themselves... Tonight is the make or break second date. But this is not merely any couple on any second date: their palpable insecurities, familiar subtext-heavy conversations, countless high-stakes scenarios, missed connections and misjudged behaviours conflate to make this date one we all recognise from our own early experiences of any romantic relationship. Played out in real time and within the confines of his house, Ryan and Laura put into motion the advice of countless guides, gurus, how to’s, buzz feed articles, conservative parents and promiscuous friends which conflate to make this date a propulsive, exciting and relatable ride that smashes through stereotypical ‘on- screen-fire-works sex’ and convenient, inevitable relationships, to depict an altogether more authentic, poignant and thoroughly modern comedy. Just when it seems our misguided couple have surmounted the trials and tribulations we are all familiar with, the shock appearance of Ryan’s ex-girlfriend – who happens to be a close work colleague of Laura – exposes the couple’s facades and fabrications. Only when forced to face the pathetic, sordid elements of their past and present are Ryan and Laura finally able to find the courage and freedom to be themselves, for better or for worse. F E B 2 0 1 7 A GUIDE TO SECOND DATE SEX M E E T T H E C A S T GEORGE MACKAY AS RYAN ALEXANDRA ROACH AS LAURA GEORGE MACKAY George MacKay is considered one of the UKs most exciting young acting talents, crafting a career across film, television and theatre. George's film career began at the age of 10 years old, playing the role of ‘Cury’ in P J Hogan’s Peter Pan. He has since starred in a number of critically acclaimed productions; winning a ‘Best Actor’ Scottish BAFTA for Paul Wright’s For Those in Peril, ‘British Breakthrough' Award at Richard Attenborough Film Awards and nominated for a BAFTA ‘Rising Star’, 'Most Promising British Newcomer' BIFA and 'Young British Performer of The Year' at the Critics Circle Awards. He also received nominations for ‘Young British Performer of the Year’ at the London Critics’ Circle Awards, ‘Best Male Newcomer’ at the Jameson Empire Awards, was selected as one of the ten best European actors for the Berlinale 2014 Shooting Stars and a 2012 Screen International Star of Tomorrow. George was recently seen in cinemas the Cannes ‘Un Certain Regard’ winner Captain Fantastic, starring alongside Viggo Mortensen, Kathryn Hahn and Steve Zahn. The film received its World Premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was recently nominated for ‘Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture’ at this year’s SAG Awards. In 2016, George shot Marrowbone - Sergio G Sanchez’s directorial debut after writing the acclaimed and award winning screenplay for ‘The Orphanage’ and gaining best original screenplay nominations for ‘The Impossible’ and ‘The End’ at the Goya Awards. George also recently wrapped on Amma Asante’s next film, Where Hands Touch, starring with Abbie Cornish, Amandla Stenberg, and Christopher Eccleston. As well as these productions, last year saw him return to the stage at The Old Vic in Matthew Warchus’ production of Pinter’s The Caretaker, starring alongside Timothy Spall and Daniel Mays. In 2015 George lit up our screens in original Hulu miniseries 11.22.63, with a cast lead by James Franco, and executive produced by J.J. Abrams. He also led an episode of Sky Arts series Likely Stories; stared in BBC One’s The Outcast; and played the central role in Bypass, the latest film from Duane Hopkins ('Better Things'). The previous year, George had starred in BAFTA nominated Pride. The critically acclaimed film featured an array of British talent that includes Bill Nighy, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton and Paddy Considine to name a few. Other film credits include Sunshine on Leith, How I Live Now, Private Peaceful (alongside Alexandra Roach and Jack O’Connell), Hunky Dory and Breakfast with Jonny Wilkinson. On TV he has been seen in Best of Men, The Old Curiousity Shop, the BBC's two-time nominated Tsunami: The Aftermath and Johnny and The Bomb. On stage George made his theatre debut in early 2014 in Ian McEwan’s The Cement Garden, as part of the second incarnation of The Vault Festival. P A G E 2 ALEXANDRA ROACH A regular on Welsh TV soap Pobol Y Cwm from the age of 11 to 18, Alexandra Roach graduated from RADA in 2010, and immediately found herself in high demand, landing roles in The IT Crowd, Being Human, New Tricks and The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher with Paddy Considine and Peter Capaldi.