Screenplay loglines archive, page 8

Fragment

An Air Force jet breaks up over the desert. A mysterious radio beacon draws the pilot from the crash site. A discovery is waiting. And it is not of this Earth.

Noah Griffith, Daniel Stewart

Body Cam

Several LAPD officers are haunted by a malevolent spirit that is tied to the murder of a black youth at the hands of two white cops… all of which was caught on a body cam video that was destroyed in a cover up.

Richmond Riedel

Darker Saints

A female FBI forensics expert is called in to assist the police in profiling a vicious serial killer. She is stunned to discover that this killer is wiping out the entire female bloodline of another family — her own — and she’s his next victim.

Tony Kayden

Space Race

N/A

Daniel Kunka

Infinite

A schizophrenic discovers his hallucinations are actually memories of past lives that he can access as well as the skills he possessed in those time periods.

Ian Shorr

Twin Blades

Zoe, an American tech entrepreneur who relocates her company to China, and Maylin, a local female bodyguard hired to protect her struggle to coexist in their daily routine. When Zoe’s life is threatened, the two must put aside their differences and join forces to survive. Write: Ingrid Eskeland-Adetuyi

The Claim

A single father with a criminal background must uncover the whereabouts of his kidnapped daughter while fighting the mysterious claims of another couple who insist that the child is theirs.

Damien Chazelle

Bad Times at the El Royale

N/A

Drew Goddard

Our Lady of Guadalupe

In 1531, the visitation of the Virgin Mary in a small town in Mexico leads a humble man named Juan Diego to push the local bishop to get a temple erected in her name.

Joe Eszterhas

The Shitheads

A pair of deeply unqualified bozos who have been hired to transport a troubled teenage millionaire to rehab.

Macon Blair

Marian

After a conspiracy to conquer England in which the love of her life Robin Hood dies before her eyes, Marian picks up the cause to lead her people into a pivotal war. She comes to power, charging into a battle that will not only decide the fate of the kingdom but will see her don the mantle of the man she loved. In the process, she rises as a legend herself.

Pete Barry

Bad Cop Bad Cop

An R-rated action buddy comedy about two hapless cops who stumble on a case that exposes a conspiracy of corruption in their own precinct.

Fortune Feimster, Brian Jarvis, Jim Freeman

The Hard Way Out

A wrongfully convicted man returns to his small town in Texas and gets involved with a vulnerable, free spirit.

Brad Mirman

Ruthless

When a legendary retired assassin is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, she must return to the life she left behind and complete one final job in order to secure a future for her young daughter.

John Swetnam

The New Neighbors

A couple moves into an affluent suburban community only to find out that their enclave is filled with dirty secrets.

Leslye Headland, David Schickler

The Impossible War

The true story of Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin as they raced against time and each other to come up with a desperately needed cure.

Robert Specland

/reddoor

A journalist discovers a new game app can kill people in real life once they enter the game. He then needs to race to save both he and his sister before they meet their demise.

Teddy Tenenbaum, Minsun Park

Unfit

The shocking true story of Carrie Buck, a young Virginia woman who became a lightning rod for that movement and was forced to singlehandedly fight against it for the one thing she desperately wanted — to be a mother.

Melissa London Hilfers

Skyward

True story about two families in 1979 who secretly build a homemade hot air balloon in their garage in a plan to escape over the Berlin Wall.

Joe Ballarini

Little America

In a dystopian future, a former American Force Recon member is hired by a Chinese billionaire to go into an American ghetto and rescue his daughter.

Rowan Athale

Keeper of the Diary

The story of Otto Frank’s struggle to find a publisher for the diary written by his daughter Anne Frank before she perished in the Holocaust.

Sam Franco, Evan Kilgore

Slayer

A simple fisherman who, when his wife is kidnapped and his village slaughtered, trains for 20 years to become the greatest warrior alive in order to wreak vengeance on the four demonic knights responsible.

Joel Dorland

3-1-2

Hopeful millennials seek their true potential while surviving the extreme violence of inner-city Chicago, the 3-1-2.

Ike Smith

Pics or It Didn’t Happen

Female-driven thriller for the Instagram generation

Abby McDonald

The State

The script is an international action thriller about a father in a desperate race to rescue his son.

Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvan

The Aeronauts

based on the true story of balloon pilot Amelia Wren and scientist James Glaisher who, in 1862, embark on an extraordinary journey to discover the secrets of the heavens. In the process, they fly higher in an open balloon than anyone ever has — either before or since. They make breathtaking discoveries, but as they ascend to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, they are forced into an epic fight for survival.

Jake Thorne

Highway One

A single mother, a retired soldier who returned from Afghanistan with combat skills as well as injuries and PTSD, must resort to extreme measures when her daughter is kidnapped during a cross country trip they take to start a new life.

Anthony Jaswinski

The Englishman

Set in the shadowy underworld of the Stasi, East Germany’s infamous Ministry for State Security, an ambitious young Stasi officer is handed his chance to advance within the system by unmasking "The Englishman," a peerless assassin whose identity is unknown to even those who hire him.

Luke Garrett

Love in the Time of Dick Pics

A romantic comedy about the illusion of choice — and just how hard it is to find the right person in a sea of options that range from polite, to lewd, to nude.

Nicole Larson

Scarletville

When a deadly criminal shows up in the deceptively-quiet, small town of Scarletville, a diner owner named Hank must spin a series of dark and twisted stories in order to delay the felon long enough for the law to arrive.

Jason Young

Countdown

A boy fascinated by space travel recruits his friends and an eccentric NASA engineer to hatch an unbelievable plan to try and save his dying father.

Steve Altiere

Holland, Michigan

A Midwestern housewife suspects her husband is having an affair. As she peels back the surface of her seemingly perfect life, she learns her husband might be leading a dark, secret life.

Andrew Sodroski

Free Guy

A bank teller stuck in his routine discovers he’s a background character in a realistic, open-world action-adventure video game and he is the only one capable of saving the world.

Matt Lieberman

Turned On

A brilliant but awkward engineer creates an android to fill in for her in life’s difficult situations. But things soon spiral out of control when the robot self-actualizes.

Charlie Kesslering

Palmer

An ex-con returns to his hometown and forms an unlikely bond with a young boy abandoned by his junkie mother.

Cheryl Guerriero

Furby

Centers on Furbys, owl-like creatures with speaking capabilities in dozens of languages.

Daniel Persitz and Devon Kliger