Why would there be a clone of Faux-Reagan in the first place, I'm wondering? Are they planning to do a switch-a-roo plot with the Evil-Reagan?
Its not really a clone, but an injection of Regan's memories, personality and though process into some poor schmo who's had his mind wiped clean. Faux Regan is the prototype of a military project carried out by original Regan.
Hmm. This sounds quite interesting — it is like a bum found on the street, being given the intelligence and memories of a Superman. And now this bum has to contend with this Superman turned evil, using this intelligence given to him. Will a good will prevail over evil bastardry?
Try exploring the bum's origins; maybe traces of his old memories still thrive in him? Or how about meeting other people willing to aid him along the way? This reminds me of The Bourne Series, coupled along with The Fugitive.
On an unrelated note, is it wrong of me misreading your handle as "JK Rowling"? I got confused at first, when I stumbled across this thread.
edited 13th Jan '11 12:10:07 PM by QQQQQ
That happens quite often, actually.
To tell the truth I was planning on not addressing the origins of the man who became Regan at all. Faux-Regan feels and thinks like the real Regan did in 1996, even after he knows he's not. He's enraged that someone could wipe out someone's entire thoughts and personality -their soul, as it were- for science, but the thing is, it is not he who is enraged, but "Regan".
I've never seen the Bourne films, I was actually worried my plot would be one that draws comparison to it.
So here is my latest noir spy thriller I think about writing on the bus and that'll sell a billion copies and mean I'll never have to work again...
...Howard Regan, an idealistic, visionary military scientist, wakes up in a hospital ward in Montréal. He's been in a comma for months as a John Doe. Regan learns it’s the early 2010s, though his most recent memories (which are quite pristine) are from the mid-nineties. He's also physically in his early thirties, the age he was in the mid-nineties. Regan travels to the United States and looks up his friends, family and co-workers, finding many missing, dead and so on, the few he does find have disparate recollections of Howard Regan, but all say the same thing, they lost touch with Regan by the last nineties, and that man that has come calling is not Howard Regan.
The government comes after him eventually, and Regan eventually learns the horrible truth; he is not Howard Regan, just some completely untraceable person who was made to think he is by the real Howard Regan, who had had a start of darkness shortly after the time that the fake Regan can last remember.
That's the first arc, and the rest of the story would be about both Regan trying to take the other out. Original-Regan is a magnificent bastard who known everything faux-Regan does and then some, but because evil can’t comprehend good, and because faux-Regan is at his creative prime he can't quite get to him. Faux-Regan has to resort to extreme measures to stay ahead and find a way to get back at “himself”, while fully aware he might be going down the road that led his other self to be the man he’s trying to take down, and struggling with the purpose of his mission.
Alright, so plot holes abound and everything, but I’m working on it. I realize that the government operative with a memory problem is probably a genre in itself by now.
What I’m asking is, is my idea too derivative?
edited 13th Jan '11 4:58:56 AM by JWHarding