Screenplays & Treatments
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
Action
For action scripts, I usually look for compelling real life events that have been swept under the rug for whatever reason. It’s fun to take gnarly premises, people them with noble heroes, believable villains, and seemingly insurmountable odds; then watch what happens. The concepts below were born from real life events so indicting that they were swept under a rug...that was promptly cemented over; then covered with AstroTurf and dropped in the ocean (on Mars).
Detail: Action Thriller (Journalism)
Inspired by: The American Eugenics movement and War Against the Weak, by Edwin Black.
Logline: To stop tomorrow’s vote on an untested genetic alternative to the death penalty, Senator Sam Nagel must prove its potential for mass abuse tonight, on live TV. But as he relives the deadly past when he and his muckraking uncle stopped a related atrocity, a more ominous present unfolds with each commercial break.
Status: This script received a Recommend rating at Brillstein Entertainment Partners and is available upon request.
Detail: Action Adventure
Inspired by: The Violence Initiative Project of 1992
Logline: After members of his team are killed in a Miami drug bust gone bad, DEA agent Darren Greene is transferred to the FDA. But when he's sent back to Miami to investigate a rash of food related deaths, he unwittingly winds up on the radar of a far more ruthless and powerful Drug Lord than he'd ever faced in his 10 years fighting the cartels.
Status: Treatment available upon request