Low-cost dramatic showcase for almost all female cast. NYC-based.

This exact spot and fashion shoot captured in Inconceivable!, screenplay based on the novel of the same name

 

If you had read Inconceivable!

 

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What is even more Inconceivable!

Now there is a spin-out from Inconceivable! titled The Pregnant Adventures of Helene Talos.  Will this action-packed screenplay about the transformation of a 30s NYC woman from hipster to momster find some traction on the path to a producer?  It is written as a classic 3-act script, 15 beats totaling 49 scenes, 67 pages, 51% dialogue.  All locations in NYC, strong female lead with diverse female supporting roles.  Feel good ending with a feel-good twist.  Perfectly packaged for a professional, prodigious producer.

Poster copy:  "Is it better to love or to be loved?"

There is a producer with rights of first look...truly, even more inconceivable!  What shall the next project be? Maybe a witch, a crime series, a dog movie  or something else equally and totally unthought of...

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Inconceivable! once again way ahead of the news...

 The Las Vegas man accused of holding his girlfriend hostage, murdering her 4-year-old son and keeping his remains in the garage freezer now claims the boy’s mother aided in the cover-up.

Brandon Toseland, 35, has been charged with the murder of Mason Dominguez, child abuse, kidnapping and domestic violence after Mason’s mother, Dahsia Maldonado, snuck a note pleading for help to her 7-year-old daughter’s teachers in February.

From the NY Daily News, May 3, 2022

Contemporary drama with comedic and historic elements. Strong female lead and supporting roles

 

Book to Screen Submission

Title: Inconceivable!

Logline:  Inconceivable! is a contemporary drama with historic and comedic elements about Helene Talos, a young, married, soon-to-be mom in NYC who wants nothing more than to deliver a healthy baby and keep her athlete’s body at the same time. When she is assaulted by a new mother and the end of her first trimester, only a rare and dangerous medical procedure saves the baby. Helene is forced in her second trimester to keep still and “wrestle in bed” with visitors who have secrets, conflicts and opinions of their own.  Society’s expectations about the size, shape, and purpose of everyone’s breasts is subtly and cleverly layered throughout her encounters.

Inconceivable! is driven to its surprise hysterical conclusion by unforgettable female characters of all ages who want to help Helene, but they all have secrets, motivations, and breasts of their own…

…Not to mention her dazed and confused husband, Greco, who cannot wait to make cheese from her breast milk.

Genre: Contemporary drama with historical and comedic elements, featuring strong female lead and supporting roles.
A-list talent, big budget, international locations, no sex or violence.

Agent’s feedback:

“The strongest thing about Inconceivable! is that it takes a very singular issue, i.e. Helene and Greco’s anxiety about their pregnancy, and branches out from that into a detailed journey through their pasts and heritage. The method of using short chapters to juggle viewpoints from multiple characters works well and kept me interested throughout. I was impressed by the overall scope of the story and more specifically, by the skill with which the author has developed a dozen (or so!) key characters. By the epilogue, everything came together nicely and I wasn’t left wondering about loose ends. It’s an interesting story and fun to read!”

Bio: Steve Marshall Cohen began his writing career as a journalist, covering corporate finance, venture capital and entrepreneurship - where everything is researched, factual and technical, and where everything he wrote was published within a week.  He thought it would be fun to write fiction, where he could choose the topic, what to research and where he could take creative liberties with the facts.  Steve chose a common topic - pregnancy - and treated it in a uncommon way, seeking to fuse a journalist's training with a novelist's creativity.  The result is  Inconceivable!

Steve lives and writes in Hunter, NY in the literal shadow of Hunter Mountain, where sunset in the winter is about 3:30pm.  That means lots of long, cold winter nights in front of the fireplace and the keyboard.

Plot:  Helene learns she is pregnant and is at once over-joyed and over-whelmed.  Her loving husband Greco is over-joyed and under-prepared for the coming 40 weeks.  Their doctor requires that they complete a pre-natal questionnaire known as “The Family Pedigree Questionnaire” [“FPQ”].  Each question takes them on a different journey into the past, with its tear-jerking secrets, and soul changing conflicts.

Helene thinks she is Irish – she’s not, we find out when Greco returns from a sudden European trip.  Greco thinks he is Greek – he’s not, we find out when Shaina (Greco’s client) uncovers her own past in a world-war II orphanage in Ireland.

Characters:

·       Helene Talos, young, athletic mom-to-be, wife of
Greco.  Competitive amateur road-runner with flourishing career as a wig-designer for women with hair loss from chemo-therapy and other medical conditions. Also, glamour wig designer for theatrical productions, Broadway, fashion shoots.

·       Alais, her Irish, widowed, mother

·       Dr. Arnez, her also pregnant gynecologist

·       Dr. Portnoy, her indecipherable genetic specialist

·       Dr. CC, her high school friend and drug dealer

·       Shaina, a world leading fashion model, with Ph.d. in European history and a deep desire to be more than a clothes hanger.

·       Greco, Helen’s husband, a location scout for a large ad agency

·       Plexi, Greco’s uncle, manager of “Protector of Crete” diner in Queens, NY, holocaust survivor

·       Althea, Greco’s mother, a waitress at the diner, sister of Plexi

·       Little Flower, Greco’s colleague at the agency

·       Supporting roles of many ethnicities and races, including Rastafarian, Northern Irish, Eastern European, Southern Italian, Japanese, Transgender.

Note: This novel/script extremely timely now with its layers of breast-feeding, the role of breasts in self-esteem and racial disparities in NYC.

Status: Self-published novel with Amazon sales; uncirculated adapted screenplay.  Part II (“Born an Orphan”) & III (“Truth and Ruth”) of trilogy in progress.  Author also has TV series pitch deck ("Soon To Parent”) based on characters in the novel.

Contact:  Steve Marshall Cohen
smarshallcohen@usa.net
917 589 8862

 

Alternate Log lines:

Inconceivable! by Steve Marshall Cohen

(A)

Inconceivable! is a contemporary drama with historic and comedic elements about Helene Talos, a young mother to be in NYC who faces the challenges of her pregnancy – assault, genetic risks, generational secrets, and conflicted doctors and  friends – while her husband’s job sends him around the world with a gorgeous super-model who knows beauty is only skin deep.  As her due date approaches, her prenatal classmate threatens to destroy everything she did to protect her baby. 

(B)

Wanting to know the gender of their baby, Helene and Greco Talos, a 30something NYC couple, go the gyn for a test.  Giving “informed consent” for the procedure provokes a chain of events that reveals no one in either family is who they think they are. Over 10 full moons, Helene struggles with family, drugs, and self-esteem as her body changes.  Greco loves her new body, especially her bigger breasts, even though he works with super-models all day.

After 40 weeks, all exhibit high anxiety when the baby refuses to be born on schedule.

Contemporary drama with comedic and historic elements. Strong female leads and supporting characters for women aged 20 to 70. 

Inconceivable!  by Steve Marshall Cohen

(C)

The simple desire of a conflicted young mother in NYC, Helene Talos, to know the gender of her unborn, sets off an inconceivable chain of events, involving genetic research, super-models, medical miracles and a celebration of a little-known chapter in Irish history.  Her dazed and dizzy husband Greco does his best to keep up, but Helene’s adventures lead to dangerous circumstances for both, especially in the last days before the due date.

Inconceivable! is a contemporary drama that covers on trend issues including pregnancy, genetic science, homelessness, orphans, and the aftermath of WWII.  And throughout, Inconceivable! has a keen focus on women’s breasts – their size, shape, and function in contemporary culture.

 

Contact Steve Marshall Cohen
smarshallcohen@usa.net
917 589 8862