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In one instance he 'trades up' for superstar Bo Callahan, sacrificing his team's first round picks for the next four years, and then doubts whether Callahan is the man for the team after all.ĭraft Day reads like it's set in a warzone, and shines a light on the frenzied backstairs machinations that besets the NFL on transfer day.

Sonny Jnr is hit with setback after setback he's a laughing stock, the players are against him, the fans are against him, he's being outmanoeuvred by rival clubs, he's forced to take wildly risky chances on superstar players. The reason Draft Day works so well as a script is it follows one of the central tenets of screenwriting which is, 'thou shalt make things as hard as possible for your protagonist.'. SummitĮverything that can go wrong does go wrong for our poor beleaguered coach, Sonny Weaver Jnr, general manager of the declining Buffalo Bills and son to the beloved Sonny Weaver, the talismanic icon of the Buffalo's, whom Sonny Jnr fired-talk about a gutsy call! Worse, Sonny's dad's just died today, which coincides with the day all hell breaks loose on the trading floor that is the drafting system of NFL-in short, it's a tough day for Sonny Jnr to navigate. Everything happened at a million miles an hour in this script, every decision was made in relation to a ticking clock, the frantic backroom panic was visceral and credible. Its focus on deadline day was a novel approach to the sports drama genre, imbuing the script with an immediacy and urgency we hadn't seen before. The story of a single hectic day, the eponymous Draft Day of the NFL, was a surprise hit in the screenwriting community, indeed, becoming the number one script of 2012's Black List, a listing of the best unproduced screenplays of the year.

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