Working titles: The Christmas Miss Wishlist/Corporate Dad: The Christmas Miss Wishlist/The Christmas Miss Wishlist
The Story
Logline: When a wishdragon on a trip to the human world to deliver Christmas gifts suffers an injury and gets caught up in a tangle, two children must help to deliver some Christmas gifts to other children in order to save their Christmases and as they do so, the wishdragon sprinkles some Christmas magic across their paths via the fulfilment of their Christmas Miss Wishlist in order to save their own Christmas too because an unbelieving, busy but sad corporate father stands in the family's way to true seasonal joy and a truly united family Christmas. Written by Zaylee Knowles
Short Summary: When a wishdragon on a trip to the human world to deliver Christmas gifts suffers an injury and gets caught up in a tangle, two children must help to deliver some Christmas gifts to other children in order to save their Christmases and as they do so the wishdragon sprinkles some Christmas magic across their paths via the fulfilment of their Christmas Miss Wishlist in order to save their own Christmas too. However, as the wishdragon attempts to put some missing festive joy back into their hearts and lives an unbelieving, busy but sad corporate father who has lost his Christmas spirit and who does not believe in magic of any kind stands in the family's way to true seasonal joy and a truly united family Christmas. Written by Zaylee Knowles
Synopsis/Summary: When the mother of two children passes away at around Christmas in the years that follow directly afterwards, the holiday season no longer seems to hold any appeal to the children's father who has thrown himself headfirst into work and so, the two children create a Christmas Miss Wishlist of all the things they miss about the Christmases when their mother was present. One Christmas however, the two children stumble upon and bump into a wishdragon that is caught up in a tangle and has an injury, who it appears needs their assistance to deliver some important Christmas gifts.
In recent years and modern times since there has been a huge increase in demand for Christmas presents the children discover that wishdragons from Wishland usually have to lend Father Christmas a festive webby wing by delivering presents during the festive season and that this particular year that assistance is even more important because according to the wishdragon Santa has a very bad cold. Since the children's father is very busy with corporate demands, the two children quickly volunteer to help and as they start to assist the wishdragon with the special Christmas deliveries and attempt to save other children's Christmases due to the children's helpful spirits, the wishdragon offers to help them fulfil their Christmas Miss Wishlist in order to save their own Christmas.
Due to the obstacles to happiness that stand in the family's way however, the wishdragon has to splash a bit of Christmas magic across each family member's heart, life and lifepath along the way in order to convince their father to leave work long enough to have an actual holiday, so that he can participate in the festive season as more than just a spectator. In an attempt to guide and help the family find their way back to the loving times that they once had, the wishdragon must try to rekindle the festive joys and treasures of the holiday season and convince an unbelieving, busy but sad corporate father who has lost his Christmas spirit and who does not believe in magic of any kind that corporate success cannot provide an acceptable substitute or replacement to real happiness.
Once the Christmas present deliveries are complete, before the wishdragon departs and returns to Wishland, a special Christmas wish gift is given to each of the two children but the two wishes have some conditions in that each wish must be made wisely and each wish must be made to make someone else happy, if they would like the wishes to come true. Since the two children have never been given a wish before, they must firstly try to figure which wishes are wise, who they would like to spend their special Christmas wishes on and what wishes they can give and make that might actually make those people happy which proves to be quite a puzzle because as the two rapidly discover, happiness doesn’t come in a bottle with an ingredients label on it and there doesn't appear to be any instructions or maps to help find it. Written by Zaylee Knowles
Genre: Fantasy Family Adventure (Animation)
Format: Animation (preferable) (or hybrid live action/CGI)
Soundtrack List (Wishland Song Collection)
Quote Scene dialogue excerpt from outline draft:
Wishdragon: Does anything strike you when you look at your children's Christmas Miss Wishlist? Do you notice anything unusual?
Father: (shakes head) Should I? (glances at list and shakes head again) Did I miss something?
Wishdragon: Yes, you're missing everything and with every day of their lives that slips by, they are losing you as you stand by on the sidelines of their lives like a spectator. (points at some list items) Many of those wishes and list items have your name written on them, please don't let your children's losses in life be two parents because they really have lost so much already.
