The lovely Gianni

 Finally! I get to focus all my attention on "What's Eating the Runaways?". 

Let's start with the main character, Gianni. 

Gianni is quite impulsive, but very compassionate. His favorite subject is literature, and he sticks to his ideals. He cares for his family, especially his little brother-Lucas. He would do anything for him.

He loves his mother, but sometimes he gets mad at her because she is unable to make decisions for herself. He always knew there was something wrong with his family, especially with his "father". Gianni always found that he never had anything in common, with this man and always found it suspicious. Both of them were drastically different, so he never bonded with him. He finds out that his mom has been lying to him about who his father is. Gianni believed that the man that has been living with them, ever since he was a chid isn't really his dad. He is not biologically related to him in anyway. His real dad is in New York. 

Gianni is furious that his mother has lied to him for the past 19 years, and so because he is as impulsive as he comes, he decides to take him and his little brother to New York and find his real father. Gianni feels that if he accomplishes this, he will find out who he really is and discover something about himself, he never knew.

To establish that Gianni is impulsive and that he is trying to find his identity, I want the opening of the film to start with a little voice-over monologue. I want the monologue to portray his teen-angst and hunger for something new. 

He is of Italian descent, but is unaware of this because his biological father that is Italian is estranged from Gianni. He wears grungy clothes and likes to take walks around the neighborhood to clear his head. The people of his town are very weary of him, because he's quiet and keeps to himself. He comes across as very intimidating, so he doesn't have many friends. He's fine with that though, as long as ha has himself and his little brother, all is right in the world. 

Gianni has a deep appreciation for music, so when he finds out that his biological dad is a musical artist he jumps at the chance to meet him. When he meets him, well...let's just say that Gianni should've made his expectations low.