THE GHOST OF TODDY BRYANT - (Screenplay: Film)

Written by: Howard Neil Pugh. Tunstall Studios, SW9 8DA, United Kingdom

Author: Howard Neil Pugh 

The Ghost of Toddy Bryant (working title) - Sequel to Turtles Can Fly

Writers Guild America WEST Registered: 2082694

Expiry: 10/7/2025

An Animated, Adventure-Action Feature

Logline: 

The Turtle's brother is held hostage by an Australian tribe. An epic Australasian railroad journey, takes the Turtle through ancient civilisations & underground habitats in pursuit of his brother. Instead he finds love, a ghost & the most valuable opal ever found.

Taglines:

A Railroad Shell-ebriety

An Express Fairy tale

A Transcontinental Turtle

Synopsis:

After his screenplay success with Turtles Can Fly, Howard receives news his brother is being held hostage in Australia by a tribe of aboriginals demanding their Sacred Land back. Sitting around a campfire with his new found family he walks through the fire to return to his flying Turtle character. His action ‘ignites’ an epic railroad adventure through arid desert regions, ghost towns and an opal-rich desert town pockmarked by mining shafts, an underground Church, and underground homes - all blasted out of the sun-scorched earth. In his search 'down under' for his brother he disturbs 'a hornets nest' - a dark side to ancient and modern civilizations. Can an exotic bird, a ghost and the power of love save the Turtle and his brother from a ritual murder?