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Movie spinoff

posted 8 years ago by garretg818-423-365496
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I, as well as many people here I'm sure want to know WHAT happened to Jackie.. Did she die? Did she survive and end up with permanent brain damage, and/or get arrested for stealing the drugs? Mainly, is she alive?

Whether it be a movie or a mini series, I think it would be a successful hit.

Movie: Backtracks with it starting her meeting Eddie and he starts giving her the drugs. Her and Kevin are on great terms. He has no idea of her problem, nor does anyone. 20 minutes into it Eddie figures out she's an addict, shortly after falling for her around the 10/15 min mark. Kevin finds out about her drug use, leaves (unknowing her relationship with Eddie), but returns around the 40 min mark to give her a second chance once she goes to rehab and shows she's clean. He then finds out she's been sleeping with Eddie. This causes him to leave for good, spiraling her out of control because Eddie now knows that she's back with him and is no longer supplying her. Add in the Doctors son (forgot character name), whos now selling to her. She gets her job back, then they find out she's using again, she gets repremanded by Ekilitis for it and suspends her. She comes back and eventually ODs.

or

Pick up from the ending where she's rushed into emergency surgery and gets narcan to counter act the drugs. Spends a week or 2 in hospital. Gets out, goes back to rehab. Kevin is still not with her nor is Eddie. She finds a job AT a rehab center, where she's clean and sober for over a month. Starts from scratch. She's now working as a drug counselor to help others, as most counselors, well at least the best ones, learn from
First hand experience. She eventually gets to have the kids over on weekends to start. Eventually, she gets promoted and gains access to the drugs and relapses even harder than before. That's when she collapsed and then they figure out what happens to her. Then we can find out her status.

Mini series: again, it would HAVE to pick up from where it started, kinda how they're doing with Prison Break, #3 fav show behind SOA 1 and BB, but that's a prequel, which also could be an idea as well. Introduce her better and have it start before everything but end after the final original.

Either way, there's several options on what they can do.

What would you guys prefer a movie/spinoff and what's more realistic as far as storyline but most of all successful?

I just came up with all this as I wrote it, so keep that in mind. But please, be critical and brutally honest without bashing me as an idiot. I'd like honest opinions truthfully. I won't care nor will it bother me it people dissgree. But it would be helpful for when I begin to write a pilot or film. I am a writer as well as an actor. I wrote a very successful screenplay for my friend for his school project(college) and not only did he get an A, he won an award for it but I relinquished all writing rights and let him get the full credit. I've also cc wrote a movie with a friend, and almost got picked up by a big, but smaller production company which I won't name because we're currently re doing it. I don't have any writing credits on IMDb, but feel free to look at my woRk on the other side (acting)

IMDb me Garret Gerlich.

[–] ErgonomicSpliff 8 years ago

You're not an idiot at all.

However, there would never be a spinoff featuring Jackie because she died on the ER floor at the end of the final episode. Unlike "The Sopranos" abhorrently abrupt finale that left so many viewers incensed and confused, "Nurse Jackie" chose to end on a much clearer note. No one, not even someone with a high tolerance for opiates/opioids as Jackie possessed, snorts that much heroin and lives. Her life as she wanted it was practically over anyway, so instead of ultimately forcing herself to live sober, she took the easier way out.

As for a prequel, I don't think it would work simply due to Edie Falco's obvious aging throughout the show. There's no way to make her look younger than she was at the beginning of the series. It's a very similar issue with "Better Call Saul" and Jonathan Banks. In BCS, Mike looks so much older than he did when he first cleans up Jesse's apartment that it strains suspension of disbelief, on occasion.

[–] liscarkat (18426) 6 years ago

Jackie did not die at the end of the final episode. In the final shot, she was alive and semi-conscious. The guy who wrote the episode has said, in an interview, that he thinks she survived.