Arts - Inside scoop on new comedy
Inside scoop on new comedy
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hip-up a script from an award winning film-maker, add music from an internationally acclaimed pop star, sprinkle it with some Scottish scenery and you’re almost guaranteed a recipe for success. At least, that’s what independent movie producer Lee Crompton is hoping for with his latest project, a new dark comedy called Game of Cones.
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The story revolves around lovestruck Jack. He is so desperate to prove himself to his future inlaws that he borrows money from a shady ‘businessman’ called Mad Rab to buy an engagement ring and ends up being drawn into the middle of an ice-cream van drugs war in a sleepy seaside resort. Written as a series of five 30-minute episodes the comedy follows Jack as he tries to extract
himself from a series of scrapes without getting arrested, killed or, even worse, his future father-inlaw fining out. “It starts with Jack getting involved accidentally but it then escalates as the situations get worse and the plot progresses,” said Lee, who has made about 30 short films in various styles in the last few years while honing his skills as a script writer.
