…in 71 days (title)
The first half is about stuff he wanted to do but couldn’t. Around Mid Point he realizes that if it continues, he would probably become a foetus!
(maybe his nephew gave him a sample of this new product his lab’s currently working on, as a prank)
Seems like a clone of the premise? for?”The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”? (2008).? Different story bootup (inciting incident) , but same dramatic problem, a character who lives his life backwards.
Can you make it clearer in the logline, that de-ages one year a day? Another difference is, it can be reversed, and that he has lived a full life before. How else can you make it fundamentally different? I mean the aging backward concept is probably not taboo now. Just needs your unique ?variable? take on it.
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Come to think about it, I think it’s a potentially cool concept.? It would be another story working off the primal wish of getting a 2nd chance to live one’s life over,? to right the wrongs, to make better decisions.? And I would suggest her biological time clock should age — or rather youth — backwards one day at a time.? However, the world doesn’t.? It keeps moving forward in time.? Which presents interesting choices she has to make.
But I fear that the 1st reaction of most movie makers will be what mine was, “Oh,? that was already done with ‘Benjamin Button’.” So I think the logline (as well as the script) needs not only a different inciting incident (which you’ve got ) but a more interesting objective goal than finding the manufacturer.? I think her objective goal should be to seize the opportunity to live the life she always wanted to live but didn’t have the guts to live.
fwiw