Loglines

Here are the loglines for some of my screenplays. Read. Comment. Discuss.

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Completed Projects

Blackout

Genre: Thriller

Logline: An alcoholic ex-Marine prone to blackouts and arrested for murder, escapes from the FBI and struggles to prove his innocence while avoiding capture.

Blackout is Leaving Las Vegas meets The Fugitive.

Scorpio Cruise

Genre: Thriller

Logline: A traumatized family man struggles with the realization he must kill the rival of a local drug dealer to free his kidnapped wife and in the process discovers his true nature.

Taken meets Falling Down

Cardinal Sin

Genre: Thriller

Logline: An immortal, tired of life, struggles to prevent a world war only to discover the woman he loves is also immortal and hell-bent on starting it.

How do you stop a terrorist who is immortal?

Deluded

Genre: Thriller

Logline: A homicide detective struggles to solve a series of murders while pursuing his high school sweetheart, but falls in love with her identical twin only to discover his new lover’s affections have nothing to do with love. 

Sea of Love meets Basic Instinct

Qumran

Genre: Action-adventure

Logline: When his treasure-hunting brother is murdered, a cynical American retraces his brother’s path and discovers himself in a race against a rogue Mossad agent and a religious fanatic who will stop at nothing to control the tomb of Jesus Christ.

Dulce

Genre: Action-adventure

Logline: An ex-government agent and an archaeologist team up to expose an alien shadow government deep inside a secret government lab known as Dulce.

A Soldier’s Honor

Genre: Action-adventure

Logline: During World War I a young Quaker, sent to the front as a stretcher-bearer, experiences the reality of war and struggles to remain true to his peaceful values. 

Red Frenzy

Genre: Thriller/Horror

Logline: On the verge of settling down with his long-time girlfriend, a serial killer learns a mysterious woman has purchased his boyhood home; but when her persistent taunts lead him to suspect she knows his true identity he goes on a killing spree, only to discover the mystery woman is not who, or what, she seems.

Lawyers, Guns and Money

Genre: Thriller

Logline: On the verge of bankruptcy, an ambulance-chasing lawyer is offered a multimillion-dollar malpractice lawsuit by a high-powered attorney: his estranged brother, but when he begins to have doubts about his client and his brother’s motives, he must discover the truth before events lead to murder.

Raven Mocker

Genre: Thriller/Horror

Crazy Jennifer’s relatives are disappearing and nobody believes her.

Logline: A troubled teen must battle a supernatural entity hell-bent on eliminating her relatives along with any memory, or evidence, they ever existed as revenge for a fifty-year-old murder; a murder she must solve before she too disappears.

Bad Penny

Genre: Sci-fi Thriller

Logline: An intrepid archaeologist, searching for lost treasure, discovers an ancient tomb containing a modern-dressed corpse and when DNA tests prove the remains are his own he struggles to discover the killer before his future becomes his past.

Dead on Arrival meets The Time Machine.

Works in progress

Peter and Ba’al

Genre: Sci-fi/comedy

Logline: A down and out TV evangelist is visited by an Alien who wants to meet Jesus.

E.T. meets Leap of Faith

Cocos Island

Genre: Contained Thriller

Logline: Four people awake in an underwater cavern on an isolated island are unable to remember anything about their lives, how they got there, or why; slowly they realize they’ve located a Spanish treasure worth millions and one of them will kill to keep it.

Soulmate

Genre: Sci-fi Comedy

Logline: A trio of MIT geeks botches a bachelor party prank swapping the souls of a stripper and the groom-to-be but the prank goes awry when the stripper’s soul refuses to leave the grooms body.

The Big Bang Theory meets The Hangover.

Blackridge Omega, Inc.

Genre: Sci-fi Thriller

Logline: An amnesic mercenary, trained to assassinate the President of the United States, searches for his identity while being hunted by his handler.

The Manchurian Candidate meets The Bourne Identity.

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