Briseis and the Imagists
    Episode 3:  Counter Coup

A Work in Progress
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Glenn Hughes sketched out the plot:

We’ll set the action in Washington D.C.

A counter coup is being planned

Two gangs, no three, led by Cabinet members

Each claiming they are the most loyal to Caesar

Each seeing opportunity in his decline

Each fearful of losing power

Each aware he’s made them complicit

Only hubris can bring him down  

Then there are subplots involving embassies

The Gulf States are plotting

Israel does too

While Europe stands back 

Russia presses forward

Iran does too

How will we stage it?

That’s a very big cast

In IMAX at epic scale

Caesar would like that

We’ll show it to him

After our film finishes

He’ll want to stand on the stage

Basking in applause

He can influence the ending

Leaving the end unknown

Leading into the sequel we plan

Or even a series

We come to bury Caesar not to praise him

Briseis objected

He’s good box office 

Hughes responded

If we put it on YouTube

We can make it go viral

We can loop in Venezuela

Cuba too

We’ll start in Antwerp

Let him wear his gold ring

What’s the budget for this?

So many locations

We’ll crowdsource it

They’ll pay

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