Damn Scott, you laid that one out on a silver platter and tied it up with a bow. I can't believe you aren't writing it yourself, but instead are just giving it away. When someone sells this are you going to need a Story By credit? Anyway, I might make a small change and have the protag be a city kid forced to move with his single mother to a small town where the books are all banned. I'd call it Bookloose.

Just thank me when you set it up. I thought of Footloose as well, but then I thought dancing is super active compared to book-reading, and that led me to Dead Poets Society. But cut loose with your Footloose take. I will say this: This year, I've been serving up a particularly juicy set of story ideas. I've hesitated going public with some of them, but I've already got an agenda of writing projects laid out... so here they are!

I can see it being like "A Feast At Midnight," but instead of food, words. They get fat on sumptuous words. This immediately made me think of both episodes of The Twilight Zone that Burgess Meredith was in. I can totally hear the principal going off on a rail like the judge in "The Obsolete Man," "WORDS, Mr Wordsworth, words that you inject into your veins with printer's ink to make you feel as if you have strength, when you have no strength at all!" This idea is awesome. Though I can imagine kids today being total rippers, they could be swapping PDFs and downloads of books onto their Kindles, spreading like a disease. So maybe this is a period piece, that way the books are a solid thing that need spaces to be hidden in, that are vulnerable and need to be protected. There can be caches of books hidden about the campus that only the students know about. Maybe it's all decentralized, instead of a library, the books are in constant rotation, so everyone has ONE that goes into their own hiding place. And the shocking thing about that list is half of those books were REQUIRED when I was in school. The idea that they're banned in any school is insane to me, but maybe there's a scene or subplot there, with some of these books being provided by kids in another school who had to read them and don't want them anymore. They don't know what they have. I've been thinking about how to show off reading in a movie... it's tricky... maybe something like how they read music in Amadeus...

If you go that route, and try to make it funny, may I suggest lifting some quotes/callbacks to the Burgess Meredith episodes of The Twilight Zone, where he keeps getting in trouble for reading. A couple lines from some of the people condemning him could play well, sort of like how Edgar Wright repurposes movie dialogue in Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz. Also you could parody Farenheit 451 where there's that group that just has books memorized and repeat them ad nauseum, that's something no one ever references... he could be reading in the attic like Bastian in The Neverending Story ("This is TOO real")... there's tons of great "book" moments to pepper into a project with a title like "Bookloose"

That is a tricky part of this story: How to make READING visually entertaining. But they did it with poetry in DPS. How about that sequence in Shakespeare in Love where it dissolves from Will writing to the play rehearsal to Will and Viola making love to the play to the writing to their romance, all stitched together by a passage from Romeo and Juliet. You could do something similar where several students, each in a different location, read aloud (or in their minds we hear them reading) one key section of a book... or several sections from different books. A kind of montage...