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CHAMPION OF THE WORLD!
A sledgehammer right fist; Heavyweight Boxing Champion at age 23; the most popular man in America; “boxing reform” activist and a ten-year foe of the Police Gazette publisher who wants him dethroned. And an alcoholic.
Sullivan’s exuberant lifestyle captures the American spirit. He becomes the most popular figure in the US and a world-wide celebrity. But Sullivan angers Police Gazette publisher Richard Kyle Fox which begins a 10-year feud. Fox continually imports overseas fighters to dethrone Sullivan; none succeeds.
John L. sails to England, defeats English champion Charley Mitchell and has a lively encounter with the Prince of Wales. Back home, he goes theatrical and stars in a melodramatic stage play written for him; it is widely successful. He also begins a relationship with singer Ann Livingston, who becomes his lover/companion.
Sullivan eventually accepts Fox’s challenge to a bare knuckle champion fight against Jake Kilrain. The famed “Fight of the Century” lasts 75 rounds! Kilrain is no match for John L. Kilrain’s manager throws in the towel.
John L. doesn’t defend his title for next three years; resumes his notorious lifestyle, theatrical career and lecture tours.
Contemplating retirement, Sullivan (34) agrees to fight newcomer James J. Corbett (26). Corbett dances around the champion for 20 rounds, but secures a knockout in the 21st – the only defeat in John L.’s career.
Sullivan then stops drinking and becomes a nationwide advocate of temperance. He speaks at temperance meetings; tours with axe-and-bible prohibitionist Carrie Nation. John L.’s new persona restores his popularity. He is even asked to run for Congress, and hobnobs with President Teddy Roosevelt.
At age 46, Sullivan is goaded into an exhibition fight with 26-year old newcomer who promotes himself as the new John L. John L. knocks him unconscious -- for five minutes!
After retiring, Sullivan is feted at Madison Square Garden where a young boxer pushes the old man aside in the dressing room. Sullivan grabs him; “I may be the ex-heavyweight champion, kiddo, but I can still lick any sonofabitch in the house!”
“RECOMMEND” Dave Trottier (Author, The Screenwriter’s Bible)
Screenplays
Jim specializes in screenplays based on historical true events (including musicals), bio/pics and/or disasters. In alphabetical order:
“BOJANGLES, EUBIE AND BERT!” Three Black musical legends of the past – Bert Williams, Eubie Blake and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson – relive their show business success in spite of racism and theatrical bigotry.
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!The Sword's Awakening
When King Arthur’s legendary sword Excalibur is stolen from a museum, it awakens a dragon and the descendent of a legendary knight who must join forces to find the powerful relic before its dark magic falls into the wrong hands.
FAUSTIAN
After a string of suspicious celebrity deaths, an obsessed detective must protect a fragile pop starlet and other notable targets of an eccentric stalker who claims to be able to cancel deals with the devil they've unknowingly made.
THE FAT LADY SINGS
When a small time private investigator gets a chance at the big time taking on a prominent politician’s wife’s case; neither realizes they are in way over their heads, the political party has been shadowing her, and will do anything to protect her husband, a presumed future presidential candidate.
Fingertips
A Psychological Horror With a twist of a psychotic individual suffering from psychosocial issues has an imaginary friend that’s part of his hallucinations his Imaginary friend is his British father a young proud to be American, forgets his medication after collecting it from a Pharmacy he causes a lot of mayhem around his area he thinks the worlds in his fingertips he chases down social media Influencers and artists by hacking and tracking their location constantly talking to himself as he hallucinates thinking He can see his British Father is around him, Kevin ends up with a chainsaw and gets a few round kills with his Chainsaw he stole from an old granny.
A Cracker in East Harlem
JIMMY J is 50 and has lived in the same East Harlem building for more than half of his life.
Free Sports Radio
Two Filipino-American brothers purchase a radio station in a small city, dreaming of commercial free sports talk, but their ambitious, younger sister has bigger plans for herself and the station.
Desert Quarry
Two mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them.
Perfect Contrition
A traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys.
LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
The Coventry Deception
After a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil.
