Tagline – “The Real Superheroes”
“25 words or less” – An elite Special Forces unit is covertly brought in to liberate Laredo, Texas after it’s taken over by a ruthless Mexican drug cartel
Full Summary:
Victor Carias, the ruthless leader of the Nuevo Laredo drug cartel in Mexico, is incarcerated in the Texas State Penitentiary and serving four consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole. This all changes when he stages a daring prison break with the help of his son-in-law, Tex Austin, Tex’s brother Dallas, fellow inmates and his army of cartel associates.
After overpowering the prison guards and local police force, Victor decides to create a new base of operations and establish America’s first narco city-state in Laredo, Texas. Resistance is futile from local law enforcement agencies and even the Texas National Guard as the cartel, with their superior manpower and weaponry, easily defeats them.
Once they have undisputed control of Laredo, Victor and his associates round up all the males in the town and kill the most threatening ones while locking up, or enslaving, the rest. After their operation is up and running, they open up the border to drug trafficking from Mexico. This leads to an unlimited drug supply easily flooding cities throughout America. In another diabolical plan, Victor decides to raise a battalion of “expendable” homegrown child soldiers to boost his security forces throughout the city.
With the President wary of calling in a large military force and ordering an all out assault on an American city that could lead to many civilian deaths, the decision is made to send in a small, very elite, special forces team to work covertly to liberate the city and defeat the cartel.
The choice to lead this covert operation is obvious to most of the senior military leadership - Ron Champion, a chiseled, harden special forces veteran fresh off of a successful mission in Pakistan where he and his unit took out the world’s most wanted terrorist.
Ron is shuttled back to the Pentagon where he’s briefed and asked to pull together a small team of eight elite Special Forces soldiers – “the best of the best.” There he assembles his all stars – Chet Armstrong, his cool-as-ice right hand man and the consummate professional soldier; Sureshot Williams, a former All-American running back at the University of Maryland and expert marksman; Rock Johnson, an imposing grappler from Hawaii; Tony Gash, an All-American track star at UCLA and an assassination expert; Thunder Jackson, a weapons expert who can figure out how to shoot any kind of gun put in front of him; and Gunner Steele, a fresh-faced California surfer dude who is the young one of the group.
Before Ron Champion is allowed to pick his eighth team member, he’s informed that he’ll be forced to take someone of the military’s choosing who has expert knowledge of the Laredo terrain and is from the area. Enter, the Black Widow, a Mexican-American “tough as nails” woman who was given her name due to her proclivity for killing the enemy. Although initially resistant to this addition, Ron gets over his skepticism when the Black Widow proves her toughness and ability to act like an elite Special Forces soldier.
With the team assembled, the covert assault on Laredo, Texas begins. The battle grows fierce as stiff resistance is met at every corner. Bullets fly, flame throwers are used and ass kickings are handed out all in an attempt to subdue and defeat the enemy. After a fierce firefight, highlighted by a particularly great ass kicking administered by the Black Widow on Tex Austin, the Special Forces team corners Victor in Laredo’s City Hall.
Not giving up the fight, Victor takes hostages to protect him as the team closes in. As they’re locked in a standoff within the old Mayor’s office, Sureshot Williams ends everything with a precision sniper shot to Victor’s head from outside the building. With the cartel defeated and the citizens freed, the Special Forces team decides to celebrate their victory with the locals by partying until the break of dawn at a local tequila bar.
The Elite Eight Screenplay
Monday, November 21, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
"Morristown - Episode #1"
Tagline – “Live. Love. Lie”
“25 words or less” – It’s one-degree of separation for six carefree friends within the New Jersey suburb of Morristown where these early thirty-something professionals live, work and love
Full Summary:
“Morristown” is a TV series that follows six friends who are all early thirty-something professionals living in the shadow of New York City in the New Jersey suburb of Morristown. Everyone knows each other in this relatively small town and, with five restaurants, four bars, three coffee shops and one gym, there’s no hiding or escaping anyone even if you try. This makes life challenging when one of the main characters tries to avoid a fling that ended awkwardly or an ex that refuses to leave their life.
The pilot episode opens with Kathryn McGrath, a nymphomaniac real estate agent, being told that she’s contracted an STD by her doctor, and good friend, Erica Phillips. Erica is the level-headed, practical friend of the group, however the same can’t be said for her friend Kathryn. Kathryn is out for only one thing, sex, and an STD isn’t going to stop her pursuit of more. Although Erica warns her of the dangers and pleads with her to hold off on being intimate until she’s cured through treatment, Kathryn is determined to finally have sex that night with the new guy she’s seeing, Daniel. Daniel is also one of the six friends that the series revolves around and he enjoys his relationship with Kathryn which is a welcome diversion from his relatively boring job as an accountant. If Kathryn finally goes home with Daniel, will she have the guts to tell him about her STD before she sleeps with him?
Erica’s level-headedness is further counterbalanced by her sister, Jessica, who is also her roommate. Although Jessica has a very stable job as a divorce lawyer, she has the tendency to act irrationally mostly because she can’t find a decent man and she’s worried about growing old without one. One night, they go to the Famished Frog, a divey bar in the center of town that everyone goes to all the time, where a drunken Jessica runs into one of her clients. Desperate for attention from a man, she goes over to him and strikes up a conversation which quickly becomes flirtatious. Does Jessica try to elevate the harmless flirting into something more, potentially jeopardizing her career?
To round out the group of six friends are Russell Paxton and Steven. Russell is a completely carefree, cool but lackadaisical high school substitute teacher who just wants to be surfing all the time and admits he only has his job because he gets out of work at 3p everyday and he has the summers off. He’s also the type of teacher that takes cell phone calls during class and will take a swipe from his flask when the students aren’t looking, not that he even notices the kids in his class most of the time. Russell is a good-looking guy and is adored by many of the attractive female high school students, many of whom openly admit to their friends that they’d like to have an affair with the single man. Will he ever act on one of his student’s desires?
Russell is also the life of the party and with his friend, Steven, a trainer at the local gym, they join up with Erica and Jessica on a Friday night to pre-game at their apartment before hitting up the local hotspot, Famished Frog. Once at the bar, the two guys peel away from the girls in search of women. Russell tries desperately to get Steven to hit on some of them with him, but he refuses. He tries and tries again but Steven stands his ground. Frustrated, Russell calls him out and jokingly asks if he’s gay. Since Steven is, in fact, a closeted gay, will he finally come out to his best friend? If he does, what will the reaction be?
Each episode presents an ethical or moral dilemma for at least one of the characters and we see how that particular character deals with it. Sometimes they make the right decision but more often than not they end up making the wrong move which only gets them into deeper trouble later. Even the level-headed, practical doctor Erica is bound to get into her own moral dilemmas as well. That’s just what’s come to be expected from the carefree, “I want whatever I want now” generation and it’s the central theme of “Morristown.”
Morristown Screenplay
“25 words or less” – It’s one-degree of separation for six carefree friends within the New Jersey suburb of Morristown where these early thirty-something professionals live, work and love
Full Summary:
“Morristown” is a TV series that follows six friends who are all early thirty-something professionals living in the shadow of New York City in the New Jersey suburb of Morristown. Everyone knows each other in this relatively small town and, with five restaurants, four bars, three coffee shops and one gym, there’s no hiding or escaping anyone even if you try. This makes life challenging when one of the main characters tries to avoid a fling that ended awkwardly or an ex that refuses to leave their life.
The pilot episode opens with Kathryn McGrath, a nymphomaniac real estate agent, being told that she’s contracted an STD by her doctor, and good friend, Erica Phillips. Erica is the level-headed, practical friend of the group, however the same can’t be said for her friend Kathryn. Kathryn is out for only one thing, sex, and an STD isn’t going to stop her pursuit of more. Although Erica warns her of the dangers and pleads with her to hold off on being intimate until she’s cured through treatment, Kathryn is determined to finally have sex that night with the new guy she’s seeing, Daniel. Daniel is also one of the six friends that the series revolves around and he enjoys his relationship with Kathryn which is a welcome diversion from his relatively boring job as an accountant. If Kathryn finally goes home with Daniel, will she have the guts to tell him about her STD before she sleeps with him?
Erica’s level-headedness is further counterbalanced by her sister, Jessica, who is also her roommate. Although Jessica has a very stable job as a divorce lawyer, she has the tendency to act irrationally mostly because she can’t find a decent man and she’s worried about growing old without one. One night, they go to the Famished Frog, a divey bar in the center of town that everyone goes to all the time, where a drunken Jessica runs into one of her clients. Desperate for attention from a man, she goes over to him and strikes up a conversation which quickly becomes flirtatious. Does Jessica try to elevate the harmless flirting into something more, potentially jeopardizing her career?
To round out the group of six friends are Russell Paxton and Steven. Russell is a completely carefree, cool but lackadaisical high school substitute teacher who just wants to be surfing all the time and admits he only has his job because he gets out of work at 3p everyday and he has the summers off. He’s also the type of teacher that takes cell phone calls during class and will take a swipe from his flask when the students aren’t looking, not that he even notices the kids in his class most of the time. Russell is a good-looking guy and is adored by many of the attractive female high school students, many of whom openly admit to their friends that they’d like to have an affair with the single man. Will he ever act on one of his student’s desires?
Russell is also the life of the party and with his friend, Steven, a trainer at the local gym, they join up with Erica and Jessica on a Friday night to pre-game at their apartment before hitting up the local hotspot, Famished Frog. Once at the bar, the two guys peel away from the girls in search of women. Russell tries desperately to get Steven to hit on some of them with him, but he refuses. He tries and tries again but Steven stands his ground. Frustrated, Russell calls him out and jokingly asks if he’s gay. Since Steven is, in fact, a closeted gay, will he finally come out to his best friend? If he does, what will the reaction be?
Each episode presents an ethical or moral dilemma for at least one of the characters and we see how that particular character deals with it. Sometimes they make the right decision but more often than not they end up making the wrong move which only gets them into deeper trouble later. Even the level-headed, practical doctor Erica is bound to get into her own moral dilemmas as well. That’s just what’s come to be expected from the carefree, “I want whatever I want now” generation and it’s the central theme of “Morristown.”
Morristown Screenplay
Saturday, May 28, 2011
"Ditch Day"
“25 words or less” – A group of high school seniors in 1995 ditch class to have one more day of fun together before going their separate ways after graduation
Full Summary:
It’s a Friday morning in early June of 1995 and the temperature is supposed to break 80 degrees in the small Rhode Island suburb where Marcus Appleby lives. Marcus is a popular high school senior set to graduate in a week and already preparing for his new life in college. As he sits at the breakfast table watching the local weatherman talk up the beautiful day, only one thought passes through his mind – ditching school.
Quickly, he organizes a ditch day at the beach with eight of his closest friends, along with two other students, as a final “hoorah” before they all go their separate ways after graduation.
There’s Marcus, not only the leader of the high school pack, but also an anti-war advocate who rails against his friends’ pro-military stance. His relationship with his attractive prom date, Stacey, is confusing to say the least but he’s determined to figure out their status by the end of ditch day so they can enjoy their summer together.
His best friend, Johnny, is a contradiction in terms – a free spirit from a four generation military family destined to uphold tradition and join the Army after high school.
Marcus’ other friend, Vincent, has had a secret crush on their friend Karen for a long time and contemplates finally telling her before he starts a summer internship at Cantor Fitzgerald in NYC. Will Vincent be too nervous to make the first move? If he does, will Karen reciprocate?
Vincent’s younger brother, Joey, manages to weasel his way into the group after finding out Vincent’s intentions to ditch and threatening to tell their parents unless he takes him with them. At the beach he’s secretly plied with Vodka and smoked up by his brother’s friend, Charlie O, a real degenerate drunk and drug addict who’s pretty much defined as a fuck up, a harmless fuck up though, by his fellow classmates.
Two other friends that ditch are Robert and Jodi, a combustible couple who constantly argue and fight with each other but manage to stay together through thick and thin in high school. The littlest thing that Jodi does will set Robert off but she’s always good about standing up for herself and giving as good as she gets…which is not always a good move.
And then there’s Stanley, the nerdy outcast of the group. Showing his heart, Marcus invites him along on ditch day when he sees him walking to school by himself. Although his friends think it’s a prank, Marcus assures them and Stanley that it’s no joke and that he really wants him to come along so he can have some carefree fun for once in his life. At the beach he becomes friendly with Sandy, a tough girl who’s initially very condescending since she only knows him as the quiet dork of the class, but she eventually softens up once she gets to know him.
Set to a rap & hip hop soundtrack to pay homage to how the African-American culture was a focal point for suburban white kids growing up in the 1990s, the story follows the eleven characters as they enjoy their carefree ditch day in high school during a time of peace, tranquility and economic prosperity then fast forwards at the end to show where they are ten years later during a much different time of insecurity, turbulence and economic recession in 2005.
Ditch Day Screenplay
Full Summary:
It’s a Friday morning in early June of 1995 and the temperature is supposed to break 80 degrees in the small Rhode Island suburb where Marcus Appleby lives. Marcus is a popular high school senior set to graduate in a week and already preparing for his new life in college. As he sits at the breakfast table watching the local weatherman talk up the beautiful day, only one thought passes through his mind – ditching school.
Quickly, he organizes a ditch day at the beach with eight of his closest friends, along with two other students, as a final “hoorah” before they all go their separate ways after graduation.
There’s Marcus, not only the leader of the high school pack, but also an anti-war advocate who rails against his friends’ pro-military stance. His relationship with his attractive prom date, Stacey, is confusing to say the least but he’s determined to figure out their status by the end of ditch day so they can enjoy their summer together.
His best friend, Johnny, is a contradiction in terms – a free spirit from a four generation military family destined to uphold tradition and join the Army after high school.
Marcus’ other friend, Vincent, has had a secret crush on their friend Karen for a long time and contemplates finally telling her before he starts a summer internship at Cantor Fitzgerald in NYC. Will Vincent be too nervous to make the first move? If he does, will Karen reciprocate?
Vincent’s younger brother, Joey, manages to weasel his way into the group after finding out Vincent’s intentions to ditch and threatening to tell their parents unless he takes him with them. At the beach he’s secretly plied with Vodka and smoked up by his brother’s friend, Charlie O, a real degenerate drunk and drug addict who’s pretty much defined as a fuck up, a harmless fuck up though, by his fellow classmates.
Two other friends that ditch are Robert and Jodi, a combustible couple who constantly argue and fight with each other but manage to stay together through thick and thin in high school. The littlest thing that Jodi does will set Robert off but she’s always good about standing up for herself and giving as good as she gets…which is not always a good move.
And then there’s Stanley, the nerdy outcast of the group. Showing his heart, Marcus invites him along on ditch day when he sees him walking to school by himself. Although his friends think it’s a prank, Marcus assures them and Stanley that it’s no joke and that he really wants him to come along so he can have some carefree fun for once in his life. At the beach he becomes friendly with Sandy, a tough girl who’s initially very condescending since she only knows him as the quiet dork of the class, but she eventually softens up once she gets to know him.
Set to a rap & hip hop soundtrack to pay homage to how the African-American culture was a focal point for suburban white kids growing up in the 1990s, the story follows the eleven characters as they enjoy their carefree ditch day in high school during a time of peace, tranquility and economic prosperity then fast forwards at the end to show where they are ten years later during a much different time of insecurity, turbulence and economic recession in 2005.
Ditch Day Screenplay
Monday, January 10, 2011
"Strip Club Love"
Tagline – “A Love Story Between A Man And His Stripper”
“25 words or less” – A down on his luck single guy falls in love with a stripper but finds it’s extremely difficult to accept the requirements of her job
Full Summary:
Simon Reynolds has just been dumped by another girlfriend; this one didn’t even have the decency to break up with him to his face opting instead to leave a cold-hearted voicemail. The next day he joins the last of his single friends for his bachelor party at a local strip club. Instead of having fun and enjoying the night with his boys, he sulks at the end of bar feeling depressed and alone.
A slightly awkward guy, he considers himself not much of a strip club guy and doesn’t see the appeal of going to a place where you have to pay a girl for her company. However, a few days after the bachelor party, he finds a free pass to the same strip club in his coat pocket as he prepares to leave work. Having nothing else to do, he decides to stop into the strip club, which is on his way home anyways, for two drinks.
A quick two drinks turns into a seven hour visit when he meets a stripper named Melanie, the most beautiful girl he’s ever seen in his life. Melanie also takes a liking to Simon and ends up spending hours getting to know him while disregarding the potential for making money from the other male patrons who would be willing to actually pay her to dance.
Simon is in love and starts going to the club to see more of her. He asks her out on a date but her strict “no dating customers” policy forbids her from mingling with him outside of the club. But Simon doesn’t relent, and in his kind-hearted manner he changes tact – “how about just grabbing coffee after you get off your shift sometime.” Sensing that this would be much easier to deal with, Melanie finally accepts.
They meet at a non-descript diner in Manhattan close by the strip club and sparks immediately fly. If they take this to the next level though, Melanie has one rule for Simon, “you know I’m a stripper and you know what I do; the only thing I ask is that you never become a jealous man because of my line of work.”
Although Simon agrees, it’s easier said than done, can he really follow through with it? How will he be able to deal with her odd work hours? How will he feel when he sees her giving another male customer a seductive lap dance? What will he do if he sees her vanish with some guy to a VIP room for hours on end? And will his reactions to her actions, actions that she needs to perform as a stripper, rip them apart and ruin their newfound relationship?
Strip Club Love Screenplay
“25 words or less” – A down on his luck single guy falls in love with a stripper but finds it’s extremely difficult to accept the requirements of her job
Full Summary:
Simon Reynolds has just been dumped by another girlfriend; this one didn’t even have the decency to break up with him to his face opting instead to leave a cold-hearted voicemail. The next day he joins the last of his single friends for his bachelor party at a local strip club. Instead of having fun and enjoying the night with his boys, he sulks at the end of bar feeling depressed and alone.
A slightly awkward guy, he considers himself not much of a strip club guy and doesn’t see the appeal of going to a place where you have to pay a girl for her company. However, a few days after the bachelor party, he finds a free pass to the same strip club in his coat pocket as he prepares to leave work. Having nothing else to do, he decides to stop into the strip club, which is on his way home anyways, for two drinks.
A quick two drinks turns into a seven hour visit when he meets a stripper named Melanie, the most beautiful girl he’s ever seen in his life. Melanie also takes a liking to Simon and ends up spending hours getting to know him while disregarding the potential for making money from the other male patrons who would be willing to actually pay her to dance.
Simon is in love and starts going to the club to see more of her. He asks her out on a date but her strict “no dating customers” policy forbids her from mingling with him outside of the club. But Simon doesn’t relent, and in his kind-hearted manner he changes tact – “how about just grabbing coffee after you get off your shift sometime.” Sensing that this would be much easier to deal with, Melanie finally accepts.
They meet at a non-descript diner in Manhattan close by the strip club and sparks immediately fly. If they take this to the next level though, Melanie has one rule for Simon, “you know I’m a stripper and you know what I do; the only thing I ask is that you never become a jealous man because of my line of work.”
Although Simon agrees, it’s easier said than done, can he really follow through with it? How will he be able to deal with her odd work hours? How will he feel when he sees her giving another male customer a seductive lap dance? What will he do if he sees her vanish with some guy to a VIP room for hours on end? And will his reactions to her actions, actions that she needs to perform as a stripper, rip them apart and ruin their newfound relationship?
Strip Club Love Screenplay
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