Here It Is...

So February has proved to be my least productive blogging month so far. But there’s a simple explanation for it. Whatever writing time I’ve had these past few weeks had been spent working on this…

Yes, M.Zulkifli the screenwriter is getting more serious these days. After completing the first movie screenplay (co-written with Izham Omar), my second handy work is something called “Mingguan Lelaki”. Intriguing, huh?

Before I get into the story, FYI, “Mingguan Lelaki” is a made-for-web drama which will be shown on - surprise, surprise - GUA.COM.MY. Which means, the format will be 20 4-5min episodes. The story has to move faster, and each episode must end with a cliffhanger to make sure you lot return to watch it right till the end.

As for the story, “Mingguan Lelaki” is about a guy - a tech geek to be specific - who accidentally works for a trashy men’s magazine. So yes, I didn’t have to look far for story inspiration. But of course I had to throw in a major story arc that involves a love-triangle of some sort. The "market" loves it when you throw this in...

Still, you’ll see loads of very realistic goings-on at a lad rag organization including photoshoots, babes and more babes. And I’m taking it as far as I can with themes like self-love (ahem), celebrity crush, homosexuality, jealousy and how to build robots.

Yes, intriguing stuff indeed.