Introductory excerpt from 2018 screenplay, The Emperor of the United States, by David Francis.
Although a feature film or limited series television adaptation of the Emperor Norton story has yet to reach a screen of any size, writers inspired by the story have been working on this idea for some time.
Here, we hope to present some of the best examples of complete but unproduced scripts by writers who have set themselves the challenge of scaling the “story portion” of this creative Everest, because…it is there.
2018
The Emperor of the United States, by David Francis. Feature film script.