Genre:
Horror
Historical
Suspense

Comparison: Pride and Prejudice meets Victor Hugo

Blurb/Logline  Teenage spitfire Mary Shelley and her beloved man servant, Adamly, visit Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and expect to see the Utopia they have read about in the Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence.  Instead they are shocked at the cruelty and brutality of slavery.  Later, they become captive to mad scientist Victor Franklin (the illegitimate son of Ben Franklin).  Victor decapitates Adamly in order to combine his intellectual powers with the power of lightning to create an artificial man: the monster.  The idea backfires, though, when Mary and Adamly turn the tables on the teacher, giving him a lesson he'll never forget about trying to play God.  Shelley returns to Europe and goes on to pen her cult-horror classic based upon her unforgettable experience.

Budget:  Medium-to-High.

Genre:
Horror
Black Comedy
Action/Adventure
War

Comparison: Behind Enemy Lines

Blurb/Logline  Shot down over Kosovo and near death, a fighter pilot is rescued by Gypsies who can save his life only by turning him into a werewolf.  He uses his powers to fight ethnic cleansing.  Much like Behind Enemy Lines and the American Werewolf in Europe series, it is a mixture of action and humor.

Budget:  High (Low-Budget version exists).

Genre:
Coming-of-Age
Martial Arts

Comparison: The Karate Kid goes Hip-Hop

Blurb/Logline  A young martial artist survives a high school shooting by killing the gunmen, but loses several close friends.  His parents send him to the Philippines for the summer where his grandfather is building a martial arts center and rebuilding his grandson’s will to live.

Budget:  Medium.

Genre:
Football
Native American

Comparison: Jerry Maguire at Wounded Knee on Any Given Sunday

Blurb/Logline  A football player of African-American/Apache ancestry becomes a dominating force and a nightmare to opposing offenses.  Not only does the lineman battle his way to the Super Bowl, but he also wages war in his real life as he tries to get the Washington Redskins to change their name.

Budget  Medium.

Genre:
Martial Arts
Fantasy

Comparison: The Crow wins the Game of Death

Blurb/Logline  A "What If" premise based on the lives of Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee, that features Bruce coming out of hiding in a remote Buddhist monastery, to avenge Brandon’s death.
 

Budget:  Low.
 

Budget:  Low-to-Medium.
 

Comparison: A Fish Named Wanda meets Life of Brian

Blurb/Logline  When the new leader of the Levites balks at leading his people into war against Egypt in order to force Pharaoh to allow the Israelites to abandon the desert for the promised land, his tribal council talks him into it.  As preparations unfold, Gareon grows increasingly confident of victory and of his place in Hebrew history.  When God steps in and strikes a deal with Gareon to talk his people out of war in order that Moses be given a crack at the task, the writing is on the wall.  Unfortunately, Gareon is a slow reader.  Almost by accident, he ends up double-crossing God ... and lives to tell about it!

Comparison: Green Acres meets Futurama

Blurb/Logline  Marty follows the trials and tribulations of a seemingly simple farmer, his family, and the rest of their little green world on the most popular planet in the solar system.  In the pilot episode, "Cow Troubles," Marty is fed up to his ears with the rovers, probes, and other space junk that keeps landing on his farm--not to mention one very hungry and destructive cow.  As if that weren’t enough, his daughter Clarita has just joined a hardcore punk band.  Could there be a single solution to all the chaos?

Budget:  Medium.

*Under Review
 

Budget: Low-to-Medium.
 

Genre:
Contemporary Romance

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Genre:
Urban Romance
Mystery

Blurb/Logline  The unusual relationship of a widow and a boarder who is 20 years younger prompts her family’s suspicions; but, years later, the couple’s story intrigues a great-granddaughter.  In resuming an October tradition of giving away pumpkins, she finds inspiration in the tale while restoring new meaning to an old man’s life.

Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Comedy

Comparison: You've Got Mail

Blurb/Logline  A budding heiress championing the cause of abstinence for teenagers is publicly embarrassed by a famous paparazzo’s photo and sets out to prove that pictures don’t always tell the truth.  She employs both a disguise and several willing relatives to pull a sting on the photographer but, in the process, the woman known as the Virgin Queen develops more than a casual liking for the King of Paparazzi.

Budget: Medium.
 

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Mortuary of Madness
Finalist, Best Screenplay, TSA 2003 Competition
Finalist, Best Screenplay, Fade-In Screenplay Contest
Finalist, Best Screenplay, Writer's Network Screenplay Contest

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Bloodline: The Legacy of Paine
3rd Place, Best Screenplay, TSA 2003 Competition
Finalist, Best Screenplay, Fade-In Screenplay Contest
Finalist, Best Screenplay, Writer's Network Screenplay Contest

Budget: Medium

Schoenewolf, Gerald
Freud in Love

Genre:

Historical

Psychological Drama

Tragedy

Comparisons: Shakespeare in Love

Blurb/Logline  In 1912 Sigmund Freud invites Lou Andreas-Salome to be the first woman to join the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.  This leads to a romantic triangle, a schism, a tragedy and a scandal.

Budget:  Low-to-Medium

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Genre:
Action/Adventure

Love Story

Psychological Drama

Blurb/Logline  Adam has the perfect wife and the perfect life, until both are blown up on Septermber 11.  His mission of revenge takes him to Saudi Arabia, where he lands a date with a terrorist’s wife and destiny.

Budget: Low.

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Maid of the MistOPTIONED

Genre:

Historical

Musical

Blurb/Logline  When Lelawala, daughter of the Chief of the Seneca Indians, is picked to be the yearly sacrificial virgin, French explorer LaSalle and Catholic missionary Father Hennipen try talking the Chief out of the sacrifice.  But the Chief argues that the Christian son of God, Jesus, also sacrificed himself.  Lelawala has a final romance with Running Bear before the fateful sacrificial scene.

*Optioned to Producer Bill Cowell

1. Reality Bites - Nationwide competition for unknown screenwriters to pitch their idea to the big wigs in Hollywood and New York for a movie—the winners get the opportunity to make the movie of their dreams. Similar format to American Idol.

2. The Mustang Ranch - reality series about a massage parlor in Nevada tracing the lives of the ladies that work there, the clientele, the work, the idea of legalized prostitution in America, pros and cons, religious leaders, feminists, Nevada legislature. Since Nevada is the only state where prostitution is legal, what are the effects, pros and cons of the world’s second oldest profession on us?

3. Death Row – A documentary-reality series about one man on death row in America—example-Stanley Tookie Williams-in California, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, story and interviews told from the standpoint of the prisoner, the victim’s family, the guards and prison official, those in favor or opposed to capital punishment. Reality series follows the death row inmate all the way up to and including the execution of the prisoner himself. Also, there is a national movement afoot that if nitrogen is used to execute a prisoner, his vital organs can be harvested to help folks who might be dying of some disease or accident, therefore, the killer might gain more redemption for his execution.

4. So You Want To Be a Cheerleader - This idea I got from my daughter. There is tremendous interest on the part of American girls from grade school through college to become a cheerleader. Form public and private schools to gymnastics this is not your momma’s pom pom. The 21st century cheerleader is a combination of traditional chants to modern dance and highly difficult gymnastic choreography, these young ladies are buff. A six month reality TV series about the ups and downs of competition locally, regionally and being in the national spot light.

5. Dying in America - From poets to sociologist, is death still hidden in this country-
a look at the life and dying of a hospice patient. Flashbacks of a healthy life, the diagnosis of the threatening disease and the inevitability of what lies ahead for the
show’s protagonist with the long term implication for the next of kin. Issues such as pain management, quality of life, and even assisted suicide should be discussed here. Even preparation for funeral and discussions with clergy are also key. Also, question about heaven and hell, salvation and forgiveness, communicating with the dead, ghosts, might be included.

6. American Soldier Coming Home - The Hidden Cost of War - A look at the rehab of our warriors from easy to hard, from psychological to amputation. How did they get wounded, the medical care, the rehab, the reaction from their family and country, and most importantly to show the audience the greatest battle that lie ahead are those without bullets.

7. Shrink in Training for the Criminally Insane - Charles Manson, the BTK killer, and certain American traitors, serial rapists—each week bring a different case to the show. WHY DO THESE MEN KILL AND CAN ANYTHING BE DONE TO PREVENT FUTURE ACTS OF UNSPEAKBLE CRIMES? (Nature or nurture?)

8. Teenagers in Time - Here’s the plot formation. A disenchanted American teenager with very few friends and less self confidence becomes an unlikely hero via the concepts of Einstein’s physics and time travel. Plus, Logan needs to get out of his suburban New Jersey house for his stepfather is cold and demanding, and his mother cannot stand up for herself. Logan suffers from asthma, but with the helps of spirits from a parallel universe of compassion and second chances, Logan sets out each week to save the world from itself! A typical episode involves Pearl Harbor, and December 4, 1941, when Logan is sent to help the United States, he is thrown in a Honolulu jail with a bunch of great looking call girls who try and help Logan out!

Ward, Justin
A Nobel Find