My Hollywood Script Drawer

A list of projects old and new that I have at one time worked on or am still working on.

Film & TV, SOLD, OPTIONED, IN DEVELOPMENT or INTEREST SHOWN
	Ghost Town	Perestroika
	Valentina's Day	Red House
	Lädenmeister	Adelstein-Parouse
	C.H.U.D.	In development at IPW (23rd draft)
	The Lifted Veil	Gunther
FEATURES IN PLAY (or in my computer or in my head)
	Monster Truck Madness	After humiliating himself by defecating in a NASCAR trophy cup, a washed-up racer turns to the monster-truck circuit to win money and respect.
	According to Plan	A dramedy about the connections, small and large, of disparate people.
	The Abominable Snow Man War	In this wacky comedy, a disgruntled tabloid reporter is forced to go to Alaska and investigate reported sightings of the Abominable Snow Man; when he gets there, he discovers both the town and the snow man aren't what they appear to be.
	Apocalypse Ed	Dopey Hollywood production assistants don't notice the world literally ending around them.
	Exhume	A morbid Philadelphia woman drags her college-aged friends to an isolated farmhouse to record a series of string-quintet compositions, but they get more than they bargained for when a spirit haunting the house doesn't want them to leave.
	Siamese Dream	This powerful drama tells the story of a cynical Chinese teen, raised in America, who stays with family in his home country and falls in love with his underage first cousin.
	Games	An unstable woman kidnaps her ex-husband, a psychiatrist, and forces him to play psychological games.
	The Accidental Bachelorette	Upon the suggestion of a promiscuous friend, a suburban St. Louis woman tells a man her boyfriend is dying of cancer to create sympathy. To her surprise--his ex died of cancer a year ago. Under these wacky comic circumstances, she must convince the man of the lie or risk the horror of his anger and humiliation when he finds out the truth.
	Heaven's Mandate	My Chinese Joan of Arc script.
	Sons of Illusion	Amid a bloody political riot in Bogotá, a young boy searches for his father.
	The Imposter	In the 1970s, Boise detectives search for a murderer who may have been a Nazi spy in World War II.
	Kaleidoscope	A character study about a friendless, disaffected teen who falls in love, then gets hit by a car.
	The Legend of Leland Fox: They Just Won't Let Me Die	In 2055, an elderly private detective tells his grandson about a deal he made with the devil 50 years earlier.
	New Year's Steve	An irresponsible slob is forced to keep all his New Year's resolutions, no matter what.
	Palm Pilot	After touching a power line, a talentless artist discovers his hand has a mind of its own.
	Lemonhead	A poor bartender thinks he's dreaming of a life of wealth, until he wakes up and finds out it's real.
	The Spiritualist	In 1923, a priest and a man who sees ghosts try to stop an army of German ghosts killed in World War I.
	Phobic	A group of friends stay in a rural cabin; its hauntings cause each member of the group to hallucinate their worst fears have come to pass.
	Townies	At their 10-year reunion, four friends make a pact to hook up with girls they crushed on in high school.
	The Warren Experiment	A biotechnology firm seeks a woman implanted with nanorobots that almost instantly heal her injuries.
	Outrage	In a slapstick-meets-Coen-noir tale, a fastidious man who is disappointed that every male thinks he's gay tries to prove otherwise--and winds up running from the police, the Mafia, and his own father.
	Merman	When a mermaid falls in love with a land-lubber frat boy, her merman prince declares war on humanity in this outrageous comedy.
	The Man in the Rearview Mirror	In 1959, a fater driving across rural Illinois with his kids, wife, and mother-in-law thinks he may have witnessed a roadside murder--but he can't get out of the car!
	Shrimp Po'Boy	Forced to move into and manage a motel, a scheming Louisiana family man decides to pursue the marginally insane business of selling his wife's fried shrimp.
TELEVISION SPECS IN A DRAWER (they just never panned out)
	Blood and Samples	a Star Trek, Voyager episode
	Grace Under Fire	a sit com spec (written with DiFranco Murray)
	Madigan Men	a sit com spec (written with DiFranco Murray)
	Jesse	a sit com spec (written with DiFranco Murray)
	Thunder Alley	a sit com spec (written with DiFranco Murray)
TELEVISION, VIDEO, INTERNET and INTERACTIVE TREATMENTS with hopes for the future
	Platelets!	an interactive computer game
	Travel Kidz	a travel show run by kids
	Civvies	real world at a Civil War reenactment
	Stargate Defender	ESPN style full contact combat sports
	Real Civil	the simple life goes to the Civil War (reenactment)
	Baby Pranks	a series of baby friendly videos
	Mail-Order Brides	a made to order documentary
	Castleton	a Middle Ages documentary series
	Oil and Water	a reality show
	Wacky Shenanigans	an improv comedy game show
	Twelve-Sided DIE!	a reality adventure game show
	Chicago Stand-Up Sit-Down	a reality show
	TAR.GZ DECRYPT	a pod cast video format