Well, I've been kicking #2 around for close to four years now. It is more complicated, but I've got more of a story and better characterization worked out than the first one, which I just came up with about a week ago.
Hadn't thought of the Spitzer connection, you're right there. If I went with #1, I think I could make some interesting points on double lives and being oneself, and social pressure to conform to a certain ideal (the schoolgirl moonlighting as a Domme, the powerful preacher sneaking out at night to submit). Memphis would definitely be a good setting for that. It's a thematic issue and I'd like to play with it.
Connected isn't a documentary, it's quite fictionalized but a lot of the little scenes and moments are from my own experience. It might piss someone off, but eh, they're people I've already pissed off anyway.
I have a fantasy cast for everything I write or consider writing. It helps me write. My dream actor for that role is actually
Ben Gazzara - I think he'd be awesome in it!
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