"The Elite Eight"

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