Erik Carlson's Screenplays

Henry and the Fictionals

“After putting aside his ambitions and taking a normal job for financial stability, a stressed out screenwriter's characters stage an intervention for him on the night a make-or-break assignment is due.”

Henry and the Fictionals follows Henry, an aspiring screenwriter who has moved to the West Coast to get into screenwriting. Struggling to find a job, his parents financially support him, much to his embarrassment. Finally, he takes a soul-crushing office job out of desperation, putting his creative ambitions on hold. After a period of struggling to keep afloat at the office and lying to his parents and a neighbor down the hall that he has a crush on, things come to a head when Henry races to meet a project deadline, with his boss threatening to fire him if its late, only for his fictional creatures to stage an intervention to get his attention. Over the course of this crazy evening, Henry eventually learns to be true to himself, take responsibility, and leap back into the uncomfortable unknown.