"The Postman's Reign"
by Jan Wilson
Milo is your friendly neighborhood postman -- with an unhealthy interest in your mail...and your life.
Logline: A shy, overlooked postman manipulates his control over the mail to win the love of a woman on his route. Along the way he secretly distributes rewards and punishments to the neighborhood residents based on their behavior and his skewed sense of justice. Milo rules this kingdom of southeast London, and the residents are his unknowing subjects.
Logline: A shy, overlooked postman manipulates his control over the mail to win the love of a woman on his route. Along the way he secretly distributes rewards and punishments to the neighborhood residents based on their behavior and his skewed sense of justice. Milo rules this kingdom of southeast London, and the residents are his unknowing subjects.
Think of Milo as a darker cousin of Amelie crossed with Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver with a streak of a lovesick Romeo.
Darkly romantic psychological thriller feature script, 117 pages. Set in present day London.
Darkly romantic psychological thriller feature script, 117 pages. Set in present day London.
Summary
You ever stop to think about how much your postman really knows about you? Bills, love letters, legal notices, personal parcels...he has more control over your life than you think. Milo knows this...and he uses it.
Milo is a postman who delivers mail in a working-class suburb of London. No one really takes much notice of him each day as he goes along his route. To the residents of the neighborhood Milo is just “the postman.” And this anonymity suits Milo just fine.
Through his years of posting, Milo has learned everyone’s routines, the players in their lives, their habits and tendencies. He has constant and easy access to people’s mail. Bills, love letters, legal notices, personal parcels…he sees it all, and he has more control over their lives than they would ever imagine. It is like reading a novel and the residents of Milo’s postal district are the characters. He uncovers the personal details of their lives and revels in the secrets only he knows about. Milo wields a strange kind of power with this information.
Milo’s undercover trespasses stir up feeling inside of him. These are no longer just strangers on his route. He knows them now. Some of them he pities and wants to help. Others he despises and wants to destroy. This leads him to an even higher level of customer service. Milo gets involved. Really involved. Safe in his anonymity, Milo manipulates their lives. He metes out rewards and punishments based on his own skewed sense of justice. Sometimes with angelic grace, other times with severe force.
You ever stop to think about how much your postman really knows about you? Bills, love letters, legal notices, personal parcels...he has more control over your life than you think. Milo knows this...and he uses it.
Milo is a postman who delivers mail in a working-class suburb of London. No one really takes much notice of him each day as he goes along his route. To the residents of the neighborhood Milo is just “the postman.” And this anonymity suits Milo just fine.
Through his years of posting, Milo has learned everyone’s routines, the players in their lives, their habits and tendencies. He has constant and easy access to people’s mail. Bills, love letters, legal notices, personal parcels…he sees it all, and he has more control over their lives than they would ever imagine. It is like reading a novel and the residents of Milo’s postal district are the characters. He uncovers the personal details of their lives and revels in the secrets only he knows about. Milo wields a strange kind of power with this information.
Milo’s undercover trespasses stir up feeling inside of him. These are no longer just strangers on his route. He knows them now. Some of them he pities and wants to help. Others he despises and wants to destroy. This leads him to an even higher level of customer service. Milo gets involved. Really involved. Safe in his anonymity, Milo manipulates their lives. He metes out rewards and punishments based on his own skewed sense of justice. Sometimes with angelic grace, other times with severe force.
His anonymous manipulations become painfully personal when he falls in love with a woman on his route. She is his Juliet, but he is no Romeo. Milo takes the path of least humiliation and puts pen to paper, and woos her anonymously. On paper he is pretty damned charming...but in person he is a disaster.
But there is a point for Milo when the fear of rejection by her is outweighed by the pain and suffering he endures staying anonymous. His self-appointed role as judge and enforcer to the people on his route collides disastrously with his efforts to hold on to the love of his life.
But there is a point for Milo when the fear of rejection by her is outweighed by the pain and suffering he endures staying anonymous. His self-appointed role as judge and enforcer to the people on his route collides disastrously with his efforts to hold on to the love of his life.
Milo keeps tabs on the people on his route...a little too closely.