EVERYTHING’S GONE GREEN, the first screenplay written by Douglas Coupland, author of the million plus bestseller Generation X, which debuted at the 2006 Toronto Int’l Film Festival, is set to open in New York City late March and in Los Angeles early April, as a First Independent Pictures release.
Ryan, (Paulo Costanzo “40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS”, "ROAD TRIP", “JOEY”) stars as a twentysomething uberslacker trapped in a wage-slave cubicle job. In the space of 24 hours Ryan is dumped by his boss and ditched by his yuppie girlfriend. All he can get is a shitty job with a lottery magazine, photographing and writing up the winners’ stories. Ryan is at a loss, until a radio report of a dead whale washed up on a Vancouver beach leads to a chance encounter with the lovely Ming (Steph Song.) This beautiful film-set-dresser is the first thing in Ryan’s life he actually wants.
The plot thickens when he meets Bryce (JR Bourne,) Ming’s current boyfriend who she’s more than ready to dump. Fast-talking scammer, Bryce spots a money-laundering scheme involving the new lottery winners and successfully draws Ryan into a lifestyle of the suddenly rich and not-otherwise-likely-to-be-famous. But the sports car and style of moneyed youth put him at odds with Ming. He needs to convince her how different he is from Bryce, which proves harder than expected.
As with “Generation X” in Everything’s Gone Green Coupland has his finger on the pulse of contemporary questions about identity: what is it and how do we find it in a world where all of the traditional means we used to define ourselves have disappeared or become critically unstable? Ryan drifts through a world of hollow possibilities – body obsession, steroid use, online porn, grow ops, lottery winnings, real estate scams, cubicle jobs, yakuza money laundering schemes – none of which seem to offer any sort of clue who he is, who he might be, or what he really wants of his life.
