I’ve written more scripts than I care to count. Some on spec, some as a hired gun. While I can’t include samples of the for-hire scripts here (for proprietary reasons), I can the include the first 15 pages of a few of my favorite originals…
THE UPGRADE
A mismatched pair of night shift security guards-one a quiet retiree and the other a loudmouth young punk-become pawns in their boss’s plot to rob his own jewelry store for the insurance money. **This screenplay was purchased by Miramax Films. See the “Press” section of the site for more details.
Read THE UPGRADE - First 15 Pages
THE SECOND SAMSON
When wealthy Wall Street playboy Samson Wells meets a man who looks exactly like him, his charmed life begins to unravel in increasingly mysterious ways. A dark comic thriller in The Twilight Zone mode. **This screenplay was previously optioned by Andrew Lauren Productions (The Squid and The Whale).
Read THE SECOND SAMSON - First 15 Pages
LEGENDARY BEASTS OF THE BORDER
A diverse group of border patrol agents and their undocumented detainees must ban together to battle a ruthless cartel boss and a mysterious Mexican beast that both descend on a remote Texas border patrol station in the same night. A timely, topical action-horror film in the vein of John Carpenter’s The Thing and James Cameron’s Aliens.
Read LEGENDARY BEASTS OF THE BORDER - First 15 pages
MERC
A private military contractor, wounded on assignment in the Middle East, returns home to take an instructor job at his old firm…but also to take revenge on the CEO responsible for a friend’s death during the same assignment. A conspiracy-driven action/thriller.
WIDOW’S CREEK WEEKEND
On the eve of his 40th birthday, pipe factory worker Dusty Runyon gets a visit from Thorne DeWitt, a childhood friend who reminds him of the sacred “blood oath” they made as teens. It’s a pact that will come due on a fateful weekend hunting trip to the mountains near Widow’s Creek. A dark comedy set in the blue collar South.
