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Sleep
Traveler has been a life long project, even though it is
classified as fiction, it is based on my true personal
life long paranormal experiences. From very young age my
parents realized that I had a very wild imagination and
soon after they could not explain logically the things
that I would imagine and express to them. I was able to
verbalize things that have not happened yet or that it
was happening at the same time but some where else where
we were not present. I had a certain connection with
some family members, for example my uncle; my moms
brother. I would tell my parents what I saw him doing
and would play a game by telling them step by step when
he was driving, parking, getting out of his car, walking
and knocking at our door when we would hear someone
knocking and it would be him. My parents were puzzled
and to this day they talk about it.
It was
around 1971 when I had my first sleep traveling
experience. I was only eight years old when my mother
would confine me to my room for studying time and I
hated it so much that I started playing a game that I
now refer to as sleep traveling. It was just a child’s
game, a way to pass time, yet it opened doors that have
been haunting me to this day and probably beyond. It all
actually so quickly became so profound that as a child I
got scared. Over the years my five senses and the
community around me made my other sensory experiences
weaker and weaker to the point that was almost vanished.
However the need to find answers never went away. After
graduating from high school, as much as I wanted to
study art, my family would not allow it and basically
pushed toward health related studies. Meanwhile I
studied psychology as a second major to find answers
when there are no absolute answers. Through it all, I
believe I have taken simple ideas from my experiences
and studies and put them together, making it easier to
understand with an overall positive message.
Around 1999
when I wanted to share my visions and put my thoughts on
paper, was when I had my strongest to this day sleep
traveling experience. My father always said believe half
of what you see and nothing of what you hear, so I
always knew that the only way I wanted to share my ideas
was to show them. So when I sat down to see how the
story should go, it was as if I went to the movies and
saw the whole Sleep Traveler movie. As strange as it may
sound, I recognized three of the actors in the story and
even felt a connection between two of them. They were
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Oprah. I decided to give
the first name of the actors to the characters they
portray except Brads first name. Brad plays three
different characters in the story which includes the
actual sleep traveler, Jonathan II, and the two Brendens.
I had Tristen from his legend of the fall movie that I
loved, but my sister named her son Tristen and when she
realized while I am writing the first draft that Tristen
dies in my story, she begged me to change his name which
I changed to Brenden. However I felt the connection
between Angelina and Brad in their real lives and to
show that in the screenplay Angelina is getting married
to Brad but this Brad is not a character that Brad Pitt
plays. It was a way for me to show that I saw in 1999
that Brad and Angelina will be together in the future.
Obviously no one believed that I saw all of this
happening back in 1999, so on my first draft registered;
on the second page of the screenplay you have Angelina
and Brad as the two characters that are partying,
getting ready to marry the next night. Now as far as the
characters that Brad Pitt plays in the story, Brad and
Angelina don’t even have one scene together, however the
spirit of one becomes the other.
Now I really
do not consider myself as a writer, so since 1999 after
seeing the Sleep Traveler movie in my head and writing
the first draft, I have been studying and working hard
to learn how to write a screenplay. I also did many
things in front and behind the camera for independent
film and music videos. I also helped in covering red
carpet events for an international channel and
interviewed many actors, actresses, writers, directors
and producers and so on. I even got a chance to question
Angelina on the Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow
but never Brad. I asked her one of the opening questions
of the Sleep Traveler story which was; do you believe in
life after death? She obviously didn’t know where I am
coming from and her answer was; no, she rather
concentrate on the life that she is living rather than
what could happen when she is gone. Her answer is
actually great and makes a lot of sense but is not
relevant to my story, I just wanted to document on film
in some way to prove that I have been after Angelina to
participate in the Sleep Traveler movie from the
beginning. I have also sent emails to the Oprah site,
yet I have never got any response because I am sure
everyone wants Oprah and they will not consider anyone
unless they are someone of importance.
In
conclusion, Sleep Traveler Prophecy would only come true
if Brad, Angelina and Oprah participate. Over the years
I have had different production companies showing
interest toward Sleep Traveler screenplay but I have
refused them all. I would only be interested if it is
Plan B production, Brad and Angelina, or Harpo
production that is Oprah. Other than that since my life
does not depend on it, I am going to wait and do
anything possible to connect with them and hope that
what I saw almost ten years ago will some day come true.
Marcus
Hame.
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