Screenplay loglines archive, page 17

Sanctuary

A young woman possessed by a powerful demonic force seeks refuge within The Sanctuary, a Vatican-run secret organization that teaches the possessed to channel their inner demon and use its power as a weapon against evil.

Alan Trezza

Cherries

“Cherries” follows three naive dads who set out to stop their daughters from making good on a pact to lose their virginity on prom night.

Brian Kehoe, Jim Kehoe

Triple Time

Two-hander follows a broke U.S. marshal tasked with escorting a prisoner accused of an environmental disaster to Washington, D.C. When their transport plane explodes, the unlikely pair must work together to figure out who is behind the conspiracy, which may include one of them.

Peter Billingsley, Michael J. Wilson

Subdivision

N/A

Morgan Jurgenson, Alex Ankeles

Somacell

“Somacell” chronicles a female prison guard in the near future who discovers that the virtual reality process that rehabilitates convicts is not all it promises to be.

Ashleigh Powell

Our Name Is Adam

An astronaut who travels back in time and works with his younger self.

T. S. Nowlin

Patrol

The pic follows US Marines patrol who while chasing drug smugglers to a remote island, their mission takes an unexpectedly deadly twist.

Jayson Rothwell

The Join

Set in the wake of a terrible particle accelerator accident, story follows a first response hazmat team sent in to investigate, only to find themselves targeted for assassination as soon as they emerge.

Justin Rhodes

Almanac

Found footage. No details about Almanac were given other than it is intended to be a found-footage project and that Paramount intends to move aggressively and swiftly with it.

Andrew Stark, Jason Pagan

Currency

Focuses on two Secret Service agents in pursuit of a private mercenary’s powerful and sophisticated counterfeiting operation.

Mark DiStefano

Vanish Man

International thriller.

Denison Hatch

Black Box

After Air Force One goes down over America, an investigator’s life is put in jeopardy when he discovers that the plane didn’t go down due to technical issues, as was the official cause, but actually was shot down.

David Guggenheim

Epsilon

Set after an initial robot rebellion ended in failure and Earth operates on almost no electronics. The remaining robots seek refuge on a space station and begin to raise their own human lab rats, which they train to act as their agents. The main character is a man who discovers he is more human than he thought.

Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick

Rockets’ Red Glare

Story revolves around the CFO of a Mexican drug cartel who surrenders himself to a rural Texas border patrol agent, promising the delivery of $8 billion within 72 hours in exchange for immunity. The agent must keep his high-value asset alive amidst a slew of cartel assassination attempts, resulting in a national security emergency.

Ken Nolan

Untitled McCormick Cop Comedy

Two best friends, following a costume party dressed as cops, are mistaken as real officers and forced to bring a dangerous criminal back to the station.

Blake McCormick

Love and Weapons

In the spirit of Three Kings, “Love and Weapons” is a wild ride of a love story set against the backdrop of travelling UN weapons inspectors.

Stephen Belber

Haunt

A family that moves into a new home with a dark past. When their son becomes involved with a beautiful girl next door, and together they begin to explore their sexual awakening, they unwittingly invoke an alternative dimension of the house.

Andrew Barrer

Pontius Pilate

This script follows the evolution of Lucius Pontius Pilate from the sensitive son of a Roman Knight into a ferocious soldier whose warrior exploits make him a general and puts him on a political track under the Roman Emperor Tiberius. Promised a military governorship in Egypt, Pilate is instead assigned by Tiberius to become the prefect of Judea, at a time when Jerusalem was a cauldron of religious tensions between various factions of the Jewish faith. Pilate veers from the political fast track into the express lane to hell and historical infamy.

Vera Blasi

Lights Out

The story focuses on an teenage boy trapped in his house with his sister when a deadly intruder enters the home, and mysterious events occur during the captivity.

Jay Frasco

The Last Breath…

The lone survivor of a suicide pact is haunted by a vengeful otherworldly entity which demands her death.

Paul J. Salamoff

The Beard

…title refers to a member of the opposite sex — usually a woman — who acts as a date for a gay person, giving the illusion the person isn’t gay. Story details were not revealed.

Becca Greene

Untitled Cameron Crowe Project aka Aloha

The project is a two-hander, and the male lead hasn’t yet been set, and the tone is reminiscent of past Crowe films Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire.

Cameron Crowe

Viral

The story is told from the 1st person point of view via the helmet cam of a bio-safety suit, and centers on a scientist who joins an extraction team through quarantined areas of Manhattan, while secretly searching for her missing daughter. It’s I am Legend meets Outbreak.

Dustin T. Benson

Divorce Party

A raunchy ensemble comedy chronicling the intersecting arcs and misadventures of a group of people attending a divorce party. Bridesmaids meets There is Something About Mary.

Mukilan Thangamani

Acolyte

“Acolyte” centers on a rogue government agency that’s using blackmail to coerce everyday citizens into committing acts of domestic terror. The agency mistakenly kidnaps the wife of a retired operative who responds by recruiting a disbanded group of trained “associates” to exact revenge and rescue his wife.

Derek Kolstad

Match

Story centers on an executive at a dating web site who declares war on a rival service that embellishes profiles to help its clients hook up.

Ben Shiffrin, Dan Antoniazzi

Draft Day

The script revolves around the general manager of the Buffalo Bills as he spends the day of the National Football League draft frantically trying to get the number one pick for his struggling team.

Rajiv Joseph, Scott Rothman

Monster Problems

Details are being kept under lock and key, but the project has been described as a post-apocalyptic road movie in the vein of Mad Max and Zombieland with a John Hughes-esque love story at its center.

Brian Duffield

The Quiet Ones

The script is in the vein of Paranormal Activity and is pitched as follows: “Three students walked into a house. Ninety minutes later, all three of them were dead. This is what happened.”

Vic Weet

Atom and Eve

Script is a romantic comedy in which a recently jilted young computer scientist needs to impress her family by pretending that her humanoid artificial intelligence robot is actually her boyfriend.

Ethan Furman, Adam Farasati

Wunderkind

The action/thriller is set in the 1970s and follows two Nazi hunters; one is with the CIA and another works for Israel’s Mossad intelligence organization. The two hunters’ paths become intertwined — but they only start working together reluctantly.

Patrick Aison

God Particle

The script is set after a physics experiment with a large hadron accelerator causes the Earth to seemingly vanish completely. The terrified crew of an orbiting American space station is left floating in the middle of now-even-more-empty space. When a European spacecraft appears on their radar, the Americans must determine whether it’s their salvation, or a harbinger of doom.

Oren Uziel

Interrogation

A bomb will go off in Las Vegas on one of the busiest betting days. A brilliant interrogator is called in to question the prime suspect as time runs out, and it becomes clear there’s an even bigger plan in place for both of them.

Adam Rodin

Bethlehem

A group of humans turn to an unlikely ally to protect them from harm and shepherd them to a safe haven in Bethlehem, Penn.

Glimmer

N/A

Carter Blanchard

Untitled a.k.a. The Cellar

Script is described as a contained thriller with Science Fiction elements.

Josh Campbell, Matt Stuecken