Stories by @sofly

The First Wives Club

Despondent over the marriage of her ex-husband to a younger woman, a middle-aged divorcée plunges to her death from her penthouse. At the woman's funeral, her former college friends Annie, Elise, and Brenda reunite for the first time in nearly 30 years. When the three discover the reason for their friend's suicide, they realize that all of their ex-husbands have taken them for granted -- and deciding it's time for revenge, they make a pact to get back at their exes.

Bioshock: Infinite

The year is 1912, deep in debt, ex-Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt is sent to the mysterious flying city of Columbia to find and retrieve a young woman imprisoned in a tower since birth - Elizabeth and to "Bring us the girl and wipe away the debt". However, almost as soon as Booker arrives, he finds that Columbia and its people are not quite what they seem, and all too soon science, religion, morality, family and life all clash and spiral down into utter chaos, with Booker and Elizabeth as unlikely partners in the midst of all the action.

Green Acres (Reboot)

A new modern remake of the 60s TV show. A wealthy New York City attorney and his wife attempt to live as genteel farmers in the bizarre community of Hooterville.

Barbarella

A remake that both parodies and pays homage to the original movie. Barbarella, an astronaut from the 41st century, sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.

The Boy in the Bubble

A movie about the true story of David Vetter (September 21, 1971 – February 22, 1984). Born with the rare conditon Severe combined immunodeficiency or SCID. David spent his entire life in a plastic bubble as any exposure to germs would kill him. His story inspired several movies and stories and David became a folk hero simply known as "The Bubble Boy."

Sacagawea

In 1804 Thomas Jefferson had just purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for a meager 15 million dollars. It doubled the size of the United States but nobody really knew what lay there. So he hired Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the territory and trek all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to find out what was there. But the two men needed a guide and someone who knew how to survive out west. And they found one in a Teenage Shoshone Woman named Sacagawea. Kidnapped from her tribe at a young age she was married off to a French fur trapped against her will and forced to bear his children. So she along with her husband Toussaint Charbonneau and her baby Pomp set out with Lewis and Clark to explore the unexplored territory. The journey took two years and the three made history. This is their story.

Gump and Son (Forrest Gump 2)

This sequel picks up exactly where Forrest Gump left off and follows Forrest as he struggles to run Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. and raise his son Forrest Jr as a single parent through the 80s, the 90s, and the 2000s. (In no way connected to Gump and Co.)

Marvel Cinematic Universe (1980s)

What if the Marvel Cinnematic Universe was thirty years earlier. In this Universe all the MCU films were released exactly 30 years earlier meaning Iron Man came out in 1978 and Infinity War came out in 1987.

The Crown: Season 4

Chronicles the Royal Family and the United Kingdom under the three successive ministries of Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman prime minister. From the struggles of a war in the Falklands to Charles's doomed marriage to Diana Spencer the royal family desperately tries to stay together in the tough circumstances.

The Julia Butterfly Hill Story

Julia Butterfly Hill had a pretty average life (except for being the daughter of a traveling preacher) as a resuarant manager in Jonesboro, Arkansas. But in August 1996 at the age of 22 she suffererd a near fatal car crash. During her year long recovery where she learned to speak and walk normally again she had an epithany that she had spent her whole life focusing on material objects and her career. This in her words steered her life in a new direction and she decided to spent the rest of her life living in the moment and doing whatever she could to make a positive impact on the future. She embarked on a spiritual quest which let her to Humboldt County, California where a group of environmentalist we’re protesting the clear cutting of a grove of California Redwood trees by loggers. They had a plan to stop the loggers by having someone sit in one tree affectionately called Luna by the environmentalists for one week. Luna was one thousand years old, 200 feet tall and in danger of being cut down. When the enviromenrs asked for someone to volunteer Julia Butterfly Hill was the only one who stepped forward. So she ascended the tall tree and stayed there for 738 days until the logging company agreed to spare Luna and the rest of the trees in the grove. This is her story.

The Golden Girls Remake

Four Previuosly Married women live together in Miami, sharing their various experiences together and enjoying themselves despite the hard times

Lucy and Desi

A biopic chronicling the working and romantic relationship of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and how they created one of the most successful and influential TV shows of all time, I Love Lucy. From their first meeting to their messy divorce.

Gorillas in the Mist

This film is an adaptation of wildlife expert Dian Fossey's autobiography. Midwesterner Fossey leaves the United States for Africa, where she studies the gorillas of Rwanda and Uganda. As Fossey develops a bond with the animals, she also becomes wary of the poachers who prey on them. Fearing that the gorillas will go extinct if humans continue to hunt them, she organizes a defense league to protect the animals; in doing so, though, she puts herself in a perilous situation.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

During the Battle of Britain, Miss Eglantine Price, a cunning witch-in-training, decides to use her supernatural powers to defeat the Nazi menace. She sets out to accomplish this task with the aid of three inventive children who have been evacuated from the London Blitz. Joined by Emelius Brown, the head of Miss Price's witchcraft training correspondence school, the crew uses an enchanted bed to travel into a fantasy land and foil encroaching German troops.

Funny People (1999)

What if Funny People was made 10 years earlier. When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship causes him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act.

Joan of Arc

A historical epic based on the story of Joan of Arc. The French peasant girl who was called upon by god to defend her country from the English during the Hundreds Years War and turned the tide in favor of France

Two Boys Kissing

New York Times bestselling author David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and Craig, two 17-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record—all of which is narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS. While the two increasingly dehydrated and sleep-deprived boys are locking lips, they become a focal point in the lives of other teen boys dealing with languishing long-term relationships, coming out, navigating gender identity, and falling deeper into the digital rabbit hole of gay hookup sites—all while the kissing former couple tries to figure out their own feelings for each other. (less)

The Parent Trap

Disney recently announced they're going to remake the Parent Trap a second time. Let's Fan Cast it. Here's the story: Twins Annie and Hallie are strangers until happenstance unites them. The preteen girls' divorced parents, Nick and Elizabeth, are living on opposite sides of the Atlantic, each with one child. After meeting at camp, American Hallie and British-raised Annie engineer an identity swap, giving both the chance to spend time with the parent they've missed. If the scheme works, it might just make the family whole again.

St. Helens

A TV Miniseries about the events leading up to an the immediate aftermath of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens and all the people who were involved. From Harry R. Truman the cantankerous old lodge owner who refused to leave his home despite the risk of the nearby volcano. To David Johnston the young meticulous, enthusiastic volcanologist who gave his life to studying volcanos. To Dixy Lee Ray, the Washington State governor who loved volcanoes but who's massive blunder along with Washington State Patrol Chief Robert Landon caused several deaths. All of these people and more lives were changed on May 18, 1980 at 8:32 AM.

Flashdance

Alex Owens is a beautiful young woman who works a day job in a steel mill and dances in a bar at night. When Alex discovers that her handsome boss, Nick Hurley, is both interested in her and supportive of her performing career, she renews her efforts to get accepted into a prestigious dance conservatory. Although Alex is frightened of failure, she is cheered on by Nick, as well as by her mentor, former ballet performer Hanna Long.