Failed Screenwriter’s Notebook

Red Menace (PG-13)

Over the course of a few weeks, famed geneticist Dr James Cornell (Sir Ben Kingsley) begins to notice strange phenomena amongst his friends and colleagues… they’re all going ginger. Assuming that perhaps it is some sort of celebrity influenced fad, he initially thinks nothing of it.

One evening, when President Obama (Tracy Morgan) appears on national television sporting a red hair doo, he realises something is going terribly, terribly wrong.

After some preliminary research in his laboratory, Dr Cornell discovers that there is an alien virus converting people to gingerism. He tries to convince his non-ginger colleagues but they all think he’s crazy. In hopes of developing an antidote, he’s forced to go undercover (dying his hair red) in attempt to find the origins of the virus (perhaps Scotland?)

Dr Cornell finds himself in a race against time to stop the ‘red menace’… before it’s too late.