I’m so grateful for the love I’ve received over this script—especially to the Nicholl Fellowships for choosing it as a winner in 2019. It opened a lot of doors to me. I’ve written many scripts since, but this one remains my favorite.
As a fan, I’m always looking for films that land the right tonal mix of serious stakes and absolute fun. I certainly tried with this screenplay. I’ve often described the world I created here as a “fun dystopia” – a place objectively horrible for the characters but that we love spending time in as an audience. Baroque neighborhoods, mutants, robots, grubby humans, gangs, humor, crazy plans and crazier consequences. The mess without the misery.
It’s the story of a Dickensian gang of hardscrabble girls, some of the last of their kind, surviving on guts and skill and love. They find humor in the danger because they have to—Allie most of all, because the pressure of keeping them alive falls to her. Self-preservation tempts her in ways I understand, but she acts in ways I hope I could.
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