Code of "Con"duct II: <To Be Titled>

[Skywalker]

This is the last movie in the CoCd franchise.
Yuki and Richie seemed very eager to write CoCd I, but i had already began work on that... so, i'm letting them do this one.
What ever they want to do, i just have to approve it.

So, Yuki and Richie, good luck.

[Eric T. Jones]

Shouldn't this really be titled CoCd III, since this comes AFTER CoCd (whilst CoCd I comes before CoCd)?

[Skywalker]

actually no

here's the timeline

CoCd I: "Con"cession - Clarence and Thomas (C&T) enter the conning business
CoCd II: <To Be Titled> - Up to Yuki and Richie, but this happens while C&T are in the conning business
CoCd III: Code of "Con"duct - The one that we have already filmed.

[bluesabre1]

So I made the first draft of the outline a few days ago. It's pretty rough right now.

Basically Clarence and Thomas are really in the red and need to get out fast. They hatch a plan to befriend some clutzy girls. Then once the girls are at work they will sell their homes for a meager fee compared to normal housing costs. The victims get stuck with the fake deed and have to deal with the angry girls! Clarence and Thomas are successful in the Con and flee the state.

A detective character is somewhere in there but we don't know about how the character should be other than a bumbling cliche we can cut to in order to relieve the pacing.

Oh- and the title should be either "Con"viction or "Con"diments.
kidding in both cases.

[Eric T. Jones]

"Con"diments fits the tone of the series better, but "Con"viction fits the plot.

...would this detective happen to be something of a Hitchcock McGuffin?

[bluesabre1]

Although that's an interesting idea the current incomplete first draft has the detective role changed to a criminologist. Obviously someone who studies criminals but doesn't have a legal obligation to catch them. Basically he is a criminal criminologist. Ha ha ha. Although this film has the darkest con and some slightly more PG-13 themes than CoCd III the comedy is more obvious and frequent to help bring a balance. The good lines of the third film will be protected and many themes were respected and hinted in the second to be fulfilled in the third.

However Yuki and I are doing precisely what I feared. We are writing the sequel without seeing the final draft of the original.

Expect to see the finished first draft immediately after its completion.
I mean first when I say it. This draft has very little polish. Once the story is written, whether we are satisfied with it or not it goes up. The task of rewritting and refining it will come afterward by necessity, not just to say, "Oh yes, it was second drafted.( We moved commas around. Yes, certainly)."

Immediate posting also helps kep Skywalker in tune so he can warn us if we are straying from his overall vision for the series. What we have right now is different from the third film and in most aspects better. The only problem is that Thomas may be right in character, more of a caricature of what he will be in the third film.

[bluesabre1]

Also, don't we need a new subtitle for the third film? It can't be
Code of "Con"duct III: Code of "Con"duct.

[bluesabre1]

So it's (partially) done! I have a 17 page draft that's around 70% complete. It only needs the date scenes (the major part of the film) and all the conclusion written out. I have an outline for the conclusion and I have concepts for the two dates. I would have written the conclusion but my legs were numb. I won't write the dates until I have Yuki start and a confirmation from Jessica that she'll play the character we've written. I have tried to take her complaints to heart about the portrayal of women in the film. The new plan is instead of writing clutzy girls they'll be well-adjusted people looking for out-of-the ordinary men. My original concept of them was that the girls would be risk takers and confident in their affluence. Essentially the perfect victim for a con. But that was diluted as they became more of a joke.

[Hanna(h)]

Okay, good that Jessica voiced her opinion about the women. I didn't really know how you you were going to do it, but I don't want to be "the butt of the joke" either.

[kenny]

I've got a title for this. Since it's a real-estate scam, why don't we call it:

Code of "Con"duct II: "Con"dominiums!

Or:

Code of "Con"duct II: "Con"sensus!

Or how about......ah, never mind, people are already trying to kill me because of these puns! *runs away*