MOVIE PROJECTS
DEAD DON’T SPEAK
Feature-length crime thriller
When a young woman goes missing from a 1970s ranching town, an obsessive deputy’s investigation leads to a history of abducted girls and forces the deputy to confront her own tragic past.
COMPS: Silence of the Lambs, Zodiac
Script available upon request.
IN GOD WE RUST
Feature-length crime thriller
A $7 million gold coin gone missing. A misguided Buddhist ex-con who’s coming for what’s due him. And the architects of the original robbery who must find the coin before the murderous felon exacts revenge on everyone involved.
COMPS: No Country For Old Men, You Were Never Really Here
Script available upon request.
THE BLOOD STAR
Feature-length thriller
The theft of a seemingly insignificant paper ring sets off a chain of events that comes back 15 years later when a rich, entitled woman's abduction turns into a battle for survival.
COMPS: Old Boy, Barbarian
Script available upon request.
THE DOOMSDAY VAULT
Feature-length sci-fi drama
After the death of her son, a woman with synesthesia takes refuge on a remote Norwegian island where she discovers a strange object embedded in the ice that may signal a radical benefit to humankind or its destruction.
COMPS: Arrival, The Midnight Sky
Script available upon request.
THE GOD MUSHROOM
Feature-length psychedelic thriller
A lone survivalist suffering from PTSD hunts for a fabled mushroom that reputedly allows you to speak with God, but an encounter with a lost 7-year-old girl in the remote wilderness sets off a deadly chase that forces him to choose between the girl and the answers he seeks.
COMPS: Jacob’s Ladder, Deliverance
Script available upon request.
CITY OF TREES
Feature-length drama
A rudderless 30-something returns to his hometown to care for his dying mother, but his good intentions unravel when he rekindles a romance with his now-married high school sweetheart and his black-sheep brother returns to town.
COMPS: You Can Count On Me, Manchester By The Sea
Script available upon request.
TV PROJECTS
SWEETLY
30-minute comedic crime drama co-created with Brett Maline
A freelance corporate fixer with a rare spinal condition is dispatched to a small timber town to steal a secret that threatens to cripple the global petroleum industry.
COMPS: Barry, Breaking Bad
Pilot script and pitch deck available upon request.
THE BEYOND
When a young girl vanishes from a remote commune on the edge of a dark forest, missing persons detective Samantha Hinton’s investigation leads to a supernatural presence that may hold the secret to the girl’s disappearance – and something much darker.
The Beyond is a darkly compelling anthology series exploring the balance of faith and reason and the human inclination to ascribe supernatural explanations when we don't have any other answers... and how those supernatural explanations may just be true.
Mare of Easttown meets X-Files
NO QUARTER
1-hour historical drama (limited series)
Inspired by true events. 20 years after one of the worst Indian massacres in American history, a former Union cavalryman sets out to save the last remaining survivor.COMPS: Hostiles, The Revenant
Pilot script and pitch deck available upon request.
ZAIRE
1-hour serialized crime drama. Based on a true story.
1974. A wily American ex-pat becomes embroiled in trying to fix the Ali-Foreman heavyweight boxing championship bout while keeping pace with his ambitious Congolese wife and raising two multiracial daughters.
COMPS: Ozark, Narcos
Pilot script and pitch deck available upon request.
ECCO, IDAHO
1-hour serialized sci-fi thriller
On the dusty outskirts of Eisenhower’s America, a failed geophysicist and a teenage rebel outcast stumble into the greatest technology race the world has ever known when the girl’s best friend vanishes off the face of the planet.
COMPS: Dark (Germany), Stranger Things
Pilot script and pitch deck available upon request.
PROSE PROJECTS
BY THE WICKED, THE WICKED SHALL FALL
Literary crime drama novel
When a prominent family is found brutally murdered in a remote Idaho ranching town, homicide detective Isabela Quintana is dispatched from Boise to assist the overwhelmed local sheriff’s office. As she digs into the case, she uncovers unsettling ties to a secretive polygamist hate group known as The Cord, whose influence runs deep through the rural community.
Manuscript available upon request.