Please Help Me With This Plot?

First off, I'm not a liar who's making stuff up behind a computer. I'll start by explaining my intentions. I'm 15 years old, and I plan on becoming a film director. Local film production studios have offered me productions jobs, and I've taken them, so I'm not kidding, or being narcissistic, when I say that I will most likely become a major film director.


My intention is to begin with low-budget films, with the intention to achieve high profit while sacrificing some artistic integrity. Then I'll move into bigger budgets, and as I gain freedom as a director, I'll make my films more meaningful, rather than just blockbuster cash cow $hit.


That's where this film comes into play. I've developed a plot, and I'm aiming at an early Spielberg feel. The problem is that the plot contains such an enigma I can't fill it in an be satisfied with my own idea. I need help to complete the plot, so here goes.





Martin Cobb, 44, lives in Chicago with his son Sam, 16. Martin is a journalist for the Chicago Sun Times. As layoffs loom, and debt grows, Martin is left with a problem. He's first in line to be laid off, and unless he can find a front-page story, he can't prevent the fate. Without enough money to give his son a better life than his, he sends Sam to live with a friend downtown. Martin is totally at a loss about what to write, and in his darkest hour, he receives a mysterious, anonymous fax. It is written in code, which he cracks. The fax says "CIA in Chicago. Digging. Searching. You must investigate."


Martin investigates, because he has nothing else to write a story about. Upon searching, he pieces things together. He notices strange construction sites downtown, covered by tarps. There are strange sounds coming from inside the construction sites. He also notices a strange plane flying over town, day after day. He asks Air Traffic Control about the plane, and they say that there are no planes flying over town. He receives another fax from the anonymous source. It says "Airplane. Thermal Mapping. Searching."


Meanwhile, Sam, staying at his friend's house, misses his dad. The apartment he's staying in, where his friend lives, is in a tall building downtown, overlooking one of the strange construction sites, which is roofed in by tarps, and walled in by tarps, so the public can't see inside. One night, during a storm, Sam sees that a tarp was blown off of the roof, and he can see inside. There is a drill, and he can see that they're making a big tunnel into the street. Sam tells Martin over the phone.


Over the course of the film, Martin and Sam go inside the construction site, discover the secrets of the CIA in town, etc. The CIA was making the tunnels underground to search for something. Also, the plane was taking thermal images of the city, also looking for the thing, because the thing they're looking for is cold.


Martin gets his front page article, keeps his job, gets Sam back, and they all live happily ever after, after exposing a CIA coverup.





The question is, what was the CIA looking for that was:


1)Underground


2)Cold


3)Not Aliens


4)Not a Bomb


5)Nothing Supernatural


6)Not Terrorists





You tell me, and be creative.|||A big metal key that leads to some old military place or something like that





A priceless painting (the frame is cold) or piece of jewelery.





A dog that got lost in the old tunnels|||Gold? A pit of coldblooded snakes? Some kind of metal... Special or otherwise? Poisonous gas? Does this help? I hope so...|||Gigantic Cold Fusion Reactor used for some evil purposes|||They were looking for the end to this story





You build it up and build it up and it doesnt end properly...or it doesnt have a proper middle...


First of all we need to know who sent the faxes


Second of all happy endings are crap, its cliche and they're compleltly fake. At best you can have a bittersweet ending. And im pretty sure uncovering CIA secrets in the local news paper would get you killed.





I also noticed a complelte lack of female characters





The idea is ok. It needs work though.|||Are you a liar? I think so because of one fact. Why would any film production studio / film maker decide the best person to produce their film is an " inexperienced 15 year old) of all the people in the world, including out of the local colleges and local Arts Centers. So I personally find this so hard to believe ... furthermore, why would you turn to Yahoo to develop your plot if you really are so good at this?|||a frozen body (maybe it could be someone famous or historical that changes the story of their murder), ancient artifacts or something that reveal a secret that leads up to Sam being in danger,





this story is great, but there needs to be some extra twist that has the viewers on their toes.