Smother (II) (2008)

Mike White: Myron Stubbs

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• Marilyn Cooper : Can you pass the ketchup, Myrelle?

  Myron Stubbs : It's Myron.

  Marilyn Cooper : Oh. I kind of like Myrelle better. It reminds me of Gone With the Wind. Normally black movies don't hold my attention, but I liked that one. And I like The Jeffersons.

• Marilyn Cooper : What do you do, Myron?

  Myron Stubbs : I'm a screenwriter.

  Marilyn Cooper : Oh, really? How interesting.

  Myron Stubbs : I'm working on a sci-fi horror set in the jungles of Vietnam. Lt. Tom Dawson gets infected by Agent Orange-infused malaria, then mutates into a violent but misunderstood creature driven to insanity by the horrors of herbicidal warfare. My original title was Mansquito, but that's already taken, so my working title is PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Destroyer. It's sort of Platoon meets The Fly.

  Noah Cooper : Sounds like it'll really capture the authentic Vietnam experience.

  Myron Stubbs : But with a sci-fi hook, exactly. Half Commando... Half Mosquito... Total Terror.