Legends of an Urban Scream

Bright and socially responsible college student Sheryl thought she was spending a cozy weekend with her boyfriend in the mountains.  But when the bodies start piling up, the quickly unraveling Sheryl begins to suspect some sort of collective psychosis brought on by violence in the media. 

(Horrifically Violent, Anti-Violence Slasher-Comedy, 1998)

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RIZE (With Greg Emetaz and Rebecca Goodberg)

Friends of Tomorrow:  A Multi-National New Age Conglomerate at the height of it’s power.  The Sun: a mysterious renewable source of unlimited energy.  Greg Morrison:  Maverick Espionage Agent determined to bring the truth to light.  Jessica Hollander:  Vice President of Friends of Tomorrow, determined to build a better world, might be in love with Greg Morrison.  Terra Hollander:  Jessica’s anarchist, world-saving little sister, prone to blowing things up, especially Friends of Tomorrow property, might possess awesome latent telekinetic powers as the result of being experimented on by the conglomerate when she was a child.  Greg, Jessica, and Terra meet unexpectedly one night in Bangladesh…

(New Age Espionage Thriller, 2005)

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TALE OF THE TRIBE (Produced)

An epic love story between Peter, a film-maker, and Sara, an occult sorceress.  Set amidst rapidly shifting 21st century New York City, DAGOBER follows the converging lives of eight individuals, who – though powerless alone - may together be capable of impacting the world…

(A Love Story for the 21^st Century)

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The Fall (Produced)

A young woman, Althea, vanishes.  Her boyfriend Bobby searches for her obsessively, following her trail into the liminal worlds of the American Underground, where psychological technology has evolved beyond the point of recognition, and ignorance is a dangerous blessing.

(Realist-Absurdist Art-Film Noir, 2006)

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The Blue Magoo Trilogy

Part I

An enormous Malaysian Tapir lays waste to a city.  Mandy, while standing trial for the murder of her husband Brody, slowly begins to awaken in a universe that seems to obey no rules whatsoever.  Wise Old Dragon assembles his team – only Mandy can stop the Blue Magoo. 

(Surrealist-Absurdist Comedic Drama, 1996)

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Part II

With Mandy gone, supermodelesque prosecuting attorney Geraldine slowly begins to realize that the lawless universe which she has recently embraced seems to be collapsing from a terminal illness.  Accompanied by the reincarnated Dr. Prudencia MD, the Ghost of Mwilla-Mina, and Brody’s severed head, she must find the source of the universal cancer, along with the origin of a mysterious psychotic talking bird and friendly talking worm, and uncover the true motivations of the confusing Professor. (Absurdist-Surrealist Dark Comedy, 1998, currently under revision)

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Part III  “The Seeds of Chaos”

During an epic battle with a Giant Armadillo, a portal is ripped in the fabric of spacetime, resulting in a temporal chain reaction and the total collapse of the local timeline.  Wise Old Dragon, Brody, and Madison are seemingly destroyed in the collapse, but the rest of the team escapes through the portal, arriving one thousand years in the past, when the laws of the universe were “simpler”.  Scientist Prudencia, Master Chao, Mwilla-Mina, and their friends, must now come to terms with life in a universe ruled by Gravity and Logic – forces that barely exist in their obliterated future.  Befriended by the newly orphaned Prince and Princess of the realm, a mysterious old Wizard, and a Baby Dragon, they embark on a journey toward the ancient Temple of Magu, in a quest to rescue their chaotic future from the tyranny of Simplification – a journey which may reveal to them, each in their own way, the fundamental Secret of the Universe… (Post-Modern Epic Fantasy, 2005)

(Part III is possibly my best screenplay to date…)

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The Fewment Agenda (Rough First Draft Stage)

(with Rebecca Goodberg and Greg Emetaz)

It started simply enough – Hector decided to steal back his repossessed manufactured home from Sally, while it was being moved to it’s new location, and he brought his mousy girlfriend Madge along for the ride.  After being pulled over by Hector’s ex-wife cop Lydia, Madge makes contact with what appears to be an enormous Gold Dragon, who informs her that he is “her power animal” and reveals that “her time has come.”  CIA agent Cecil quickly flies his helicopter into the Dragon, in an attempt to disperse what he believes to be the manifestation of a sentient, Nano-Holographic Computer Program – while Hector desperately chases after the suddenly kidnapped Sally, hoping to retrieve from her a screenplay which might change the course of human evolution.  Meanwhile, Rogue Film Executive Rebecca attempts to hack into the Gold Dragon Incorporated Mainframe by accessing the mutating brain of a temporarily incapacitated Corporate Operative named Jonathan – forcing Eighteen Year Old British Super-Psychic Rorie Parks to cut her vacation in India short and race back to the Americans, even as Rebecca’s Butler and Maid, who are in reality craftily disguised spies, attempt to gain control of the situation.  That’s the simpler version - As of this draft, the film also involves time travel, cloning, fairies, and aliens.  

(An Epic of Unprecedented Complication, 2005)

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