The Animated Feature Film

Copyright 1989, Jana L. Shellman

WISH FACTORY TREATMENT

A young boy, JR wishes his teddy bear, Threadbare Fred Bear, (made by JR’s Mom out of his old blue jeans with a red velvet heart and a red bow) were real so he’d have someone to play with. Just as JR is about to say, but teddy bears can’t be real, Fred Bear comes to life, takes him to The Wish Factory (via JR’s closet and via the wishing tunnel) where he learns how wishes, hopes, daydreams, and prayers are made manifest. Adventures ensue. Each adventure illustrates the folly of "unwishing" one’s wishes, thinking negative thoughts, etc., and one adventure even shows the consequences of not following up on one’s dreams. Ultimately, it shows that when more than one person have the same wish (hope, dream or prayer) it almost always comes true. For some wishes to come true everything in the world must move over a fraction of an inch to allow it to happen. Some wishes take much longer than others to come true.

I envision, the Wish Factory itself as a pastel rendition of a factory (think of Gaudi’s Cathedral in Barcelona)...the elves are all different, and fit their descriptive names.

Threadbare Fred Bear doesn’t have wings in the first part, not until the very end, where it is revealed that Fred is really JR’s guardian angel in disguise. Fred is a handsome man with chiseled features, a strong man, who grows into a 12 foot avenging angel when the need arises.

If you'd like to see more on this, or would like to get a copy of my screenplay, please email me.  wishladya@aol.com