I have an idea for a movie based on this insane newspaper article

It's called 'Billionaire Bunker,' at least for now, and it's about the super-spy girlfriend of a tech billionaire... Also, 7 other things worth a click...

There was a time, going back almost two decades ago now, when I thought I wanted to be a screenwriter.

I packed all my stuff in a used Kia Sportage, and I moved with my girlfriend at the time to Los Angeles.

I did all the things that people out there do: took writing classes at UCLA Extension, joined writing groups, worked a terrible day job.

Life had other plans. I happened to arrive in LA just a few days before 9/11, and while I stuck it out in Hollywood for a year, my heart wasn’t really in it.

I was already in the Army Reserve … let’s just say that after the country was attacked, the idea of building a career where success might mean being Rewrite Guy No. 6 on American Pie 9 didn't hold quite the same appeal.

The other road I took instead is full and fun, and I’m pretty fulfilled and happy. But I still dabble in screenwriting — or at least in dreaming up movie ideas.

My movie idea

Here’s one, based on a news article I read last night. We’ll get to the article below, but first the movi…