I looked at your profile.
Best to write about what you know and what you are interested in.
Its hard to make suggestions without knowing where you are in your plot so far. But . . .
Suddenly, one of your characters meets a director who wants to do a musical stage version of "Jaws." He is outrageously enthusiastic about the idea, and gets financial backing, however, he is having trouble figuring out how to get a Great White Shark on stage.
Meanwhile, one member of a group of stage hands, learning Japanese, is overcome with a desire to bring all the benefits of Japanese culture to the other characters in the film. He starts drawing drawing portraits of Japanese ghosts who were killed during World War II during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This gives the director his idea, which is NOT to bring an actual Great White Shark onto the stage. After all, that would be absurd, wouldn't it? He decides instead to find a medium and have a seance, to convince the Spirit of a deceased Great White Shark to perform in his stage musical version of "Jaws."
A cultural clash eventually occurs between the various ghosts haunting the main character (s) in your screenplay. The Western Ghosts act like poltergeists, and end up scaring the people they visit. The Japanese ghosts come to the living, not to threaten, or to scare, but to reassure, to forgive, and to protect.
The ghost of the shark refuses to participate in a drama that is merely designed to frighten people, since she has evolved spiritually, and wishes all beings to attain enlightenment in the complete circle of being.
Other ghosts contest this, and offer up the Ghost of Hamlet's Father, who gives advice concerning the proper ways to address spirits and learn from them.
One or two ghosts demand that the living characters provide sacrificial offerings to them, but the living only have a few cans of spam in the cupboard, which they proceed to open. They burn the spam, as the ancient Greeks burned oxen, to placate the gods; only this sets off the fire alarm, which brings the fire department down on them.
Some ghosts of former fire fighters converge on the scene and warn the living that they will haunt all the buildings they can until all houses are built of stone or other fire proof materials.
Time traveling ghosts from the year 443 bring news about King Arthur's Court, and attempt to turn our world into another Camelot, with only limited success.
Reporters and Photographers try to photograph the ghosts, but find that the film cannot capture the images.
The medieval time traveling ghosts try to organize a jousting competition, between ghosts and living people. Confusion results when ghost horses are mounted by living human beings and living horses are mounted by ghostly jousters. Sir Galahad sends a spirit messenger to the contest to say he will refuse to participate until the Holy Grail is retrieved from its secret vault in the basement of the Pentagon.
Finally, three Deities--the Virgin Mary, the Japanese Sun Goddess, Ameratsu, and the Indian Goddes, Kali-- descend onto the stage, and provide the appropriate divine intervention to assure that all human doings proceed in acccordance with the purposes of Providence.
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