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SCREENPLAYS & CONCEPTS
Hargrove, Garrett
Instinct Vs. Reason
Genre:
Black Comedy
Comparison:
Blurb/Logline: Russell has been the source of torment for
most of his awkward life. Now his patience has run thin and he sees only
one escape to this life... he must become a super-villain. He dons a mask
and cape. He gathers a crew of henchmen. He plots to destroy the city.
Only he finds out… he’s not very good at it. Now Russell must deal with
incompetent henchmen, a hero who doesn’t care about saving people, and his
nagging mother. In doing so, he finds the respect and friends he has been
looking for.
Budget: Low-to-Medium
* * *
Tainted Love
Genre:
Suspense
Comparison: Fatal Attraction
Attachments: Laura Clifton (The Alamo, 2003), female
lead
Blurb/Logline Will and James were best friends and roommates
in college. In one fell swoop, James flunks out of school, loses his
girlfriend, and abandons his best friend. When he learns that Will and his
girlfriend are dating behind his back, he snaps. Only one thing can
save him: he's got to find Will ... but what will happen when he does?
Murder is a distinct possibility. But whose? This intriguing story tests the depths
of friendship, love, and rage in one singularly suspenseful tale.
Budget: Low-to-Medium.
*Under Review
* * *
Vigilante
Genre:
Action
Psychological Drama
Comparison: Hardcore
meets Crime and Punishment
Blurb/Logline
Once
you've lost it all, how far do you go to get it back? When widower
Landon's daughter is taken in the night from his home and a police
investigation fails to find her, he sets out after the one thing left in
life that matters. As sanity drifts farther away, Landon transforms
himself into a masked man stalking the night, searching for his little
girl. In the process, he becomes a folk hero, cloaked behind a sword and
a mask, as he takes on the night and all those who lurk there, waiting in
prey for young children.
Budget: Medium.
*Under Review
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Detention
Genre:
Horror
Slasher
Blurb/Logline
Twenty year ago, Norman went to school, killed seventeen
students and two teachers, and then took his own life. Now, seven random
students are going to find out the hard way ... Norman never left!
Budget:
Low.
Harmon, Christopher
Footsteps in the Dark -
The Isley Brothers
Genre:
Biography
Documentary
Comparison: Behind the Music, works by
Ken Burns
Blurb/Logline The Isley Brothers
reflect the tumultuous times in America through powerful songs and a
blazing guitar.
Budget: Low.
* *
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Mary Shelley's American Nightmare: A Monstrous Affair
Genre:
Horror
Historical
Suspense
Comparison: Pride and Prejudice meets
Victor Hugo
Blurb/Logline Teenage spitfire Mary Shelley and her beloved
man servant, Adamly, visit Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and expect to
see the Utopia they have read about in the Bill of Rights and Declaration
of Independence. Instead they are shocked at the cruelty and brutality of
slavery. Later, they become captive to mad scientist Victor Franklin
(the illegitimate son of Ben Franklin). Victor decapitates Adamly in
order to combine his intellectual powers with the power of lightning to
create an artificial man: the monster. The idea backfires, though, when
Mary and Adamly turn the tables on the teacher, giving him a lesson he'll
never forget about trying to play God. Shelley returns to Europe and goes
on to pen her cult-horror classic based upon her unforgettable experience.
Budget: Medium-to-High.
* * *
Blitz of the Black
Wolf--
An American Werewolf in Kosovo
Genre:
Horror
Black Comedy
Action/Adventure
War
Comparison: Behind Enemy Lines
Blurb/Logline
Shot down over Kosovo and near death, a fighter pilot is rescued by
Gypsies who can save his life only by turning him into a werewolf. He
uses his powers to fight ethnic cleansing. Much like Behind Enemy
Lines and the American Werewolf in Europe series, it is a
mixture of action and humor.
Budget: High (Low-Budget version exists).
* * *
Rebuilding the Soul
Genre:
Coming-of-Age
Martial Arts
Comparison: The Karate Kid goes Hip-Hop
Blurb/Logline A young martial artist survives a high
school shooting by killing the gunmen, but loses several close friends.
His parents send him to the Philippines for the summer where his
grandfather is building a martial arts center and rebuilding his
grandson’s will to live.
Budget: Medium.
* * *
Red Thunder
Genre:
Football
Native American
Comparison: Jerry Maguire at Wounded Knee on Any
Given Sunday
Blurb/Logline A football player of
African-American/Apache ancestry becomes a dominating force and a
nightmare to opposing offenses. Not only does the lineman battle his way
to the Super Bowl, but he also wages war in his real life as he tries to
get the Washington Redskins to change their name.
Budget Medium.
* * *
Ghost of
the Dragon
Genre:
Martial Arts
Fantasy
Comparison: The Crow wins the Game of Death
Blurb/Logline A "What If" premise based on the lives
of Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee, that features Bruce coming out of hiding in
a remote Buddhist monastery, to avenge Brandon’s death.
Budget: Low.
* * *
The
Real Monsters
Genre:
Drama (content driven)
Political
Comparison: If American History X had been written by
Malcolm X.
Blurb/Logline The evil empire of the Ku Klux Klan
unfolds through the eyes of a Black kidnapping victim who just happens to
live to tell the story
to a reporter.
Budget: Low-to-Medium.
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Rocking
Jerusalem
Genre:
Biblical
Musical
Comparison: Jesus Christ Superstar, jamming to The Little Drummer Boy, with Afro-centric based music and cast
Blurb/Logline The life of The Little Drummer Boy is
explored in this controversial Biblical screenplay. In this all-Black
version, the young master-drummer not only befriends Jesus as a baby, but
remains as a Big Brother to him throughout his life.
Budget: Medium-to-High.
Herda, D. J.
Gareon of Israel
Genre:
Black Comedy
Psychological Drama
Biblical
Comparison: A
Fish Named Wanda meets Life of Brian
Blurb/Logline
When the new leader of the Levites balks
at leading his people into war against Egypt in order to force Pharaoh to
allow the Israelites to abandon the desert for the promised land, his tribal
council talks him into it. As preparations unfold, Gareon grows
increasingly confident of victory and of his place in Hebrew history. When God steps in and strikes a deal with
Gareon to talk his people out of war in order that Moses be given a crack
at the task, the writing is on the wall. Unfortunately, Gareon is a
slow reader. Almost by accident, he ends up double-crossing God ... and lives to tell about it!
Budget: Low.
Jamison, Neal
Marty
the Martian Farmer
May 2005 - Winner in the TV Pilot category at the Moondance Film
Festival
Genre:
Animated Comedy
Series
Comparison:
Green Acres meets Futurama
Blurb/Logline
Marty follows the trials and tribulations of a seemingly simple
farmer, his family, and the rest of their little green world on the most
popular planet in the solar system. In the pilot episode,
"Cow Troubles," Marty is fed up to his ears with the rovers, probes, and
other space junk that keeps landing on his farm--not to mention one very
hungry and destructive cow. As if that weren’t enough, his daughter
Clarita has just joined a hardcore punk band. Could there be a
single solution to all the chaos?
Budget: Medium.
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