White Line Fever: Psychological Thriller on the open HighWay

Development has begun with Palimdrome Productions with writer Jess Nakaska.

Written By: Jess Nakaska

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Production is ON HOLD.

White Line Fever is currently in Development with Palindrome Productions (Jess Nakaska).

Logline:

Sometimes the scariest person in the world is the one you are sitting next to. White Line Fever... Catching it could kill you.

Synopsis:

The flashing of a warning light. The opening of a car trunk. It is amazing how the little things can destroy your future completely. An abandoned road. An empty car. A precious discovery. What you do if this opportunity presented itself to you? If this is just the beginning of the story, how does it end?

TREVOR PAPE and DUNCAN MAXWELL will learn that lesson the hard way when head out West after a long three weeks down East. Best friends for years, the tension is already thick as personal pressures and responsibilities loom large on the horizon. As different as night and day, they know each others’ strengths and even more troublingly, their weaknesses. Trevor is the best friend we all wish we had. Fun, flippant, and loyal, hes always got your back. Until your success exceeds his own. And then his victories become your defeats. Duncan is the bookish introvert we all were. Good at school, not good with girls. Decent at a lot of things, not great at any one of them. It will take them six days to drive back home. But on the fourth day their lives will change forever.

For Trevor, losing to a stoplight camera is unacceptable, so when they are cut off on their road trip by a mysterious SEPCTRE CAR, he has just one thing on his mind: revenge. Day two. It is petty and unnecessary, but that is beside the point. Despite the fact that the Specter Car will lead them through speed traps and around dangerous curves, Trevor cuts it off at a near-fatal moment. They speed off into the night as it spins off into the darkness. Duncan is worried, Trevor laughs him off. Their differences have never been so apparent.

As the road becomes ever longer, and white line fever sets in, the dark side of both men comes to the surface. Trevors consequence free lifestyle is seductive, made all the more dangerous by the fact that Duncan secretly admires this about him. He likes being the smart-ass, likes the feeling of power and self-destructiveness. Duncan secretly admires this, craves it even. Day three. At Trevors urges and taunts, Duncan drives more recklessly, speeds, and taunts picking up a hitchhiker. He knows it is not him, but does it anyway. Hates himself for it, hates Trevor even more. Things in the car have never been so bad. Duncan hates Trevor for being so incisive; Trevor resents his resistance. They would come to blows but that never been their way.

Day four. That night they make a mistake that will change both of their lives forever. The Specter Car waits expectantly in the middle of the road, doors open, abandoned. Trevor wants to check things out. Duncan wants to cut and run. In the snow bank, signs of a struggle or just blowing snow? They open the trunk. Trevor finds the money, a little over ten thousand dollars in crumpled, used and dirty bills. Duncan sees the box, an opportunity to make good on all the potential everyone tells he has. They take it. Trevor has never been so sure; Duncan has never been so wrong.

Day five. Duncan is already at full worry. Trevor sees only the freedom. Now their unfocused anger and pent-up rage has a focal point. With the bills in their hands, it is no longer a question of taking the money for Trevor but of keeping it. This is his last chance, his only way out. He is twenty-three and already too cynical. He will notlet anyone stand in his way, not the Specter Car, not even Duncan . And when Duncan comes between Trevor and keeping the money…A drained battery, a concerned motorist. One wrong move and Trevor might just kill him. Duncan is surprised and shocked, especially when it is turned toward him. The moment violence enters their world, nothing will veer be the same.

Day six only makes things worse. The money sits between them, always at Trevors side, lest he lose his new best friend. Duncan was worried before, now he is downright paranoid -- about the Specter Car he thinks keeps following them to Trevors sudden dark turn. Duncans more than simply trying to appease his conscious; he is trying to placate a man obsessed. That night he has a revelation. If only he could go back in time and make a very different decision.

The end in sight, they finally make it home. The car on its last legs. The friendship long since perished. Trevor was right, it was all paranoia, and there are no final consequences. Duncan knows different. Leaves Trevor alone in the dark. Accidentally took the keys with him. Trevor follows, finds his door open, keys in the lock. Closes it, closing that chapter of his life. Returns to the car when he looks up and --

The Specter Car sits ominously down the block, spewing fumes into the night. Sometimes the scariest person in the world is the one you are sitting next to. White Line Fever…Catching it could kill you.

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