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March, 28th 2008

Man entered screenwriting contest hoping prize money will buy a car.

*A New York City tollbooth worker wrote a screenplay with the sole purpose of entering it into a contest and possibly winning prize money to buy a new car after his old vehicle was totaled in an accident.

"I had never written a screenplay before," Michael Martin told the Hollywood Reporter. "I thought, 'How hard can it be?' I was more like, 'If I win this, I can get a new car."

His script, a gritty crime story titled "Brooklyn's Finest," placed second in the contest, but eventually ended up at Warner Bros. where a producer, Mary Viola, just so happened to be looking for a writer with an authentic and original voice to pen a straight-to-DVD sequel to the 1991 film "New Jack City."

In the hands of Viola, "Finest" became hot property and quickly drew the attention of Hollywood's elite. Richard Gere and Don Cheadle signed on to star as cops in the ensemble police thriller, which Antoine Fuqua will direct for indie financier Millennium Films.

The story features three intertwining story lines involving Brooklyn police officers.

"I worked for a bus company that got indicted by the Feds because of Mob connections," Martin said. "I could not have written 'Brooklyn's Finest' without that experience."

The movie is prepping for a May shoot in Brooklyn, in the very locations that inspired Martin to write the script. "Things are moving very fast right now. It's something I've been waiting a long time for," Martin said.

Meanwhile, Martin, a new dad, was recently promoted to construction flagger within the Transit Authority, working inside the subway system. He is writing "New Jack City 2," often during his breaks in the subway tunnels. He's also driving a new car.

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