Archive page 25
Browse page 25 of the Scott Myers screenplay logline archive, covering source records from 1991 through 2025.
Source records
36 records on this page · 72 pages
John Keller, an ex-Marine, orchestrates the rescue of 244 of his New Orleans neighbors after their building, the American Can Co., is flooded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The five-story structure sits in eleven feet of water after the breach of the levees.
John Lee Hancock
An ex-Texas Ranger will stop at nothing to find and punish the men who killed his brother and rescue his nephew.
John Hlavin
A tough NYC police detective is forced into bodyguard duty for a spoiled teen heiress who is receiving kidnapping threats.
Matt Lieberman
No details given.
Brad Bredeweg, Peter Paige
In October 1988, three California gray whales are found trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle. The subsequent rescue attempt becomes a huge global event, as scores of journalists converge on the nearby Eskimo town of Barrow, Alaska, and the U.S. and Soviet government enjoy a rare moment of collaboration. The two-week drama plays out at a time of geopolitical change, with Mikhail Gorbachev in the midst of his glasnost initiative and Ronald Reagan preparing to leave office after his second term. During all of this a nonprofit aid worker and a government worker fall in love.
Jack Amiel, Michael Begler
A 21-year-old becomes his father’s boss when he gets promoted.
Tony Lord, David Cohen
Legendary hero Odysseus, famed king of Ithaca, returns to his island after 20 years of fighting the Trojan Wars, only to find his kingdom under the brutal occupation of an invading force. Odysseus single-handedly defeats every last man and takes back his wife, his son and his kingdom.
Ann Peacock
Being kept under wraps.
Mike Culbert, Mike Pellettieri
A young female college student trapped on a deserted campus is attacked by intruders.
Anthony Jaswinski
After a publisher changes a writer’s debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to nonfiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world of his lead character and must take on the role of his character for his own survival.
Jeff Morris
The story line follows a suburban husband and father going through a midlife crisis who discovers a mysterious man-cave in his basement. The fantasy world provides his version of the perfect life, which ultimately gets called into question.
Jacob Isser, Paul Lutz
In “Bid,” an art auctioneer moonlights by capturing criminals and auctioning them off to rival crime bosses. He runs into trouble, though, when a mysterious character from his past unites criminal factions against him.
Gary Spinelli
A teenage apprentice in a macabre circus for the dead yearns to bring his true love back to life, but not before encountering the many dangerous and mysterious gothic characters that stand in his way.
Brian Nathanson
In the future, a dating service matches soulmates around the world without fail, but one guy has the audacity to reject the person chosen for him.
Chris McCoy
Centers on the dark, sinister version of what really happens to people when they decide they want to get close to vampires.
Marc Haimes
A young divorcing couple tries to maintain their longstanding friendship while pursuing other relationships.
Rashida Jones, Will McCormack
The passengers on Flight 209 are mysteriously abducted by an alien ship.
Michael Gilvary
A working-class single dad, whose only son is murdered, must set out on a quest to solve the killing.
Jonathan Herman
An untitled college-set comedy script by newcomer scribe Chris McCoy.
Chris McCoy
Described as in the vein of “Shrek” and “The Princess Bride.”
Charles Vignola, Kevin Marcus , Bradley Marcus
Two grandmothers with very different styles of child-rearing babysit their grandkids for a month and compete for their affections.
Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Described as “The Dirty Dozen” set in the Middle Ages and centers on seven imprisoned men — a gypsy, a thief, a samurai, a knight, a monk, an Arab and a Viking.
Alex Litvak, Michael Finch
A couple’s marriage is threatened when the baby surrogate they have hired becomes obsessed with wanting the husband and the baby for herself.
Jack Olsen
A sheriff investigates a series of murders as well as the disappearance of a bank robber, The clues lead back to a heist the robber committed.
Oren Uziel
Two sixty-something conmen reunite their old gang for one final night to do everything they’ve ever wanted to do before one of them meets his demise.
Noah Haidle
After realizing the only thing they haven’t accomplished is having boyfriends, two overachieving high school seniors resolve to find ones by the prom.
Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins
A quartet of pals go on a global adventure.
Jonah Hill, Matt Spicer, Max Winkler
Set within the architecture of the mind.
Christopher Nolan
A down-on-his-luck private eye accompanied by his loyal dog sets off to solve a missing persons case. The story is told from the vantage point of Chet, a dog that flunked out of K-9 school.
Jeff Lowell
A mastermind bank robber serves five years in prison following a botched heist and then is forced by an FBI agent to entrap his protege, who’s in the midst of a multimillion-dollar job.
Jonathan Herman
Described as a cross between “Superbad” and “Adventures in Babysitting.”
Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka
A witch doctor uses his power to free patients from evil curses.
Todd Berger
Set in an endless field, a group of strangers wake up with seemingly random items and must find a way out.
Seth Wathen, Josh Dobkin
Details are under wraps, but film will be set around a young cast and a supernatural element.
Al Gough, Mils Millar
Finding it more difficult to kill himself than he thought it would be, a depressed man offers a cash-strapped woman his life insurance money if she’ll marry him and make sure the suicide succeeds.
Corinne Kingsbury
Follows the rise, fall and ultimate redemption of a fictional British tennis star of the ’80s.
Chip Hall