Ready2Read_Screenplay 1st 10′s
NEW! SCATTERED, SMOTHERED AND COVERED – Comedy
4 cantankerous old men fed-up with the government, plot a bio-terrorism attack during their daily Waffle House gatherings.
CLUB HEREAFTER – Ensemble Thriller
Unable to face exposure, six random people are trapped into a game of kill or be killed.
SYNOPSIS: “Tonight, whoever holds the Ace of Clubs will kill someone in this room. Whoever holds the Ace of Spades will die.”Six people. Six playing cards. Six chances of being killed. The odds of the game are deadly. A group of random, everyday people going about their mundane lives. Until… Each receives an anonymously delivered brown envelope. Inside, evidence of an act they committed that if exposed, would destroy their personal and professional lives.
All six are forced into a killing game based upon the luck of the draw. Within 48 hours, two players are brutally murdered. The remaining four are further threatened if they fail to continue to play. When one does… he and his car explode in a ball of flame. Three down, three to go. With the fourth fearing for his life and afraid to break the rules, the two remaining players agree to help one another, find the blackmailer and kill him.
But the blackmailer is not alone… and sins must be accounted for… in full. Game on.
10 YEARS IN 3 DAYS – Comedy/drama
A moribund family gets a brief glimpse of happiness long gone astray.
SYNOPSIS: A runaway wife returns to the family she abandoned ten years ago. She seeks a way to connect with her daughter, who she’s never known, while staying out of sight in the background. Her husband is about to pop the question to his girlfriend. The family has three days to overcome ten lost years between mother and daughter before the soon to be fiancé returns. The sister-in-law attempts to put the family back together by playing cupid. When the sister-in-law’s meddling backfires, the skittish wife again disappears.
RELUCTANT ROOMATE – Comedy / Drama
An emotionally immune widow reluctantly agrees to one last blind date which ends up lasting way longer than expected.
SYNOPSIS: The widow returns from her unwanted blind date to find her old, dilapidated home going up in flames. Her date manipulates the widow into staying with him until she can get on her feet again. What started as charity morphs into something much more for the date. Not, however, for the clueless widow who gets her insurance check and bolts back to her loneliness.
NOCCHI – Rom Com
A modern take on Pinnochio, as an adult romantic comedy: The puppet that became a boy now has to become a man.
A man turns playboy after his wife leaves him for infertility issues. When she and a co-worker end up pregnant his dilemma gestates as he rushes to Italy to save the late Geppetto’s property… WHAT WOOD YOU DO?
10.31 – Supernatural Family Adventure ( a 6th sense for children)
A dejected teen discovers a murderous S.O.S. in his Halloween candy but he doesn’t know which house it came from, and nobody cares enough about him to help him solve the note’s origin – in fact he may as well be invisible.
BELIEVE – family/holiday
When the World’s economy is at its worst, Christmas and the generous spirit the season embodies, is doomed to become ancient myth, until a runaway boy meets up with a vagrant old elf and the journey of their survival changes everything.
SYNOPSIS
The World’s economy has hit rock bottom. 10 year-old, Danny Kearney’s, broken family is on the verge of losing their rental home, and, it’s Christmas, Mom’s favorite time of year. Spirits are so bleak, even the seasonal rush at the North Pole is faced with layoffs. Confronted with the responsibility of breaking his mom’s heart, by confessing he no longer believes in Santa, so she won’t have to buy him gifts, Danny decides to run away.
He hooks up with a clumsy elf, named Cork, who never made Santa’s cut in over 100 years.
While Danny and Cork’s vagabond ways are bringing each other’s bitter feelings to the surface, an Amber Alert is broadcast along with Danny’s last school assignment — ‘What Christmas Means to Me’. Just as Danny and Cork join forces to help save Christmas from extinction, the law interferes to reunite him with Mom, and put Cork away for the vagrant he appears to be.
In the vein of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE meets E.T., BELIEVE answers the age-old question about Santa’s existence.
DYING TO DREAM – Quirky, dramatic comedy
(Inspired by the real accounts of families suffering from a condition as rare as it is horrifying – fatal familial insomnia)
A media mogul who spends his life sleeplessly dedicated to his work until he gets a major wake-up call when he discovers that his insomniac lifestyle is not only genetic – it’s fatal.
If you were to combine CITIZEN KANE with STRANGER THAN FICTION, you’d be close to the premise. If you throw in the tone of THE BEAVER, you have DYING TO DREAM.
GREEN CHRISTMAS – Eco-Conscious Comedy (DEATH AT A FUNERAL MEETS HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS)
Eco-awareness turns enviro-mental when three generations invade a green Samaritan’s home two days before Christmas.
SYNOPSIS
What if a buried childhood memory turned you into someone that would rather recycle garbage than spend Christmas with family?
Would you answer the door?
Sustained sex with her husband is all green guru, Ivy Reece, wants for Christmas, but her intimate plans are turned upside down after being guilted into joining her mother and rival sister in bringing home 90 year-old Grandma Lulu. Car trouble, a dog funeral and a lot of dredged up shit end up making avoiding chemicals, harder than avoiding genes, and in the end, Ivy learns that renewed life can come from anywhere.
WICKED MASTER – Family Action Adventure/Fantasy (also developed as graphic novel)
In modern Massachusetts, a psychic boy’s home burns to the ground at the hands of a twisted Judge that descends from Salem’s witch trial instigators. Now older, the orphan struggles to piece together his broken life as his ability and memory resurface to set the record straight.
SYNOPSIS
Sam Rewop doesn’t have a thing going for him. He’s been in a foster home since he was two, when the boarding house he lived in with his mother was burned to the ground by a modern day descendant of key contributors in the Salem witch hunt, district Judge Rufus Putnam. Sam has blanked out the early events of his life and has zero friends because everywhere he goes, calamity follows. While studying for a homework assignment about superheroes, his memories start to surface, and as he runs away from bullies for the last time, he sees the future of a train derailment and is able to save hundreds, but a chance encounter with the man that torched his childhood away forces him into homeless seclusion to grapple with the future he sees and the past he wants back.
FATHER NATURE – Supernatural Thriller
Based on historical accounts of how the trusted doctor treating Chief Osceola; removed his head and kept it as a family souvenir.
History tells of a Native Chief so revered that upon death, his Doctor stole his head. Generations later, the drawn-out insult tortures a Boston woman relocated to the Everglades in the aftermath of her father’s bizarre death.
SYNOPSIS
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Elizabeth Weedon has been fascinated by the mysterious swamplands since she was four when her father put her to sleep every night with a startling pop-up book. Lost long ago, along with her relationship to her father, the book’s re-discovery sets into motion a string of eerie events that include her father’s death and a dream job with the park service of the Florida Everglades. Elizabeth soon discovers that the skeletons of her Northern heritage have swamp roots way more spine chilling than the creatures and locals, and she’s forced to face the twisted karma of her ancestors or suffer the same deadly fate as her estranged father.
VINNIE’S SECRET – Male driven Comedy
Pushed by his buddies, a dude, luckless at love gets a job at a lingerie superstore and realizes his niche´ is very effeminate.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS – Urban Drama
When a man’s future home and family is ripped away by his fiancé’s death, his guilt and inability to grieve starts a vicious cycle that results in his creation of a family that is doomed to struggle until a fatal coincidence forces him to get a grip.
Y STINK – Family (adapted from YA novel)
In an effort to be normal, the preteen son of Hollywood elite, plots for vengeance against the paparazzi he believes is responsible for his family’s dysfunction and in the process he discovers that it’s normal for everyone’s life to stink at some point.
NORMAL OR DEAD – Family Adventure / Comedy (spin-off from ySTINK, combination so live action and animation)
When an eccentric scientist tries to recreate the son he lost to divorce, the result is an accidental team of characters, that go on the road to determine the fate of unsuspecting Floridians by judging whether their stagnant lives are normal, or they are better off dead.
