Other screenplays

The Girl Who Loved Frogs

Genre:

Drama

Details:

...and frogs loved her. Which was one of the reasons she hated the fairy tale about the Frog Prince, spoiled princess and all. And there was the odious Billy-Jack, who tortured frogs and became the bane of her life. Sometimes it appeared that frogs were infinitely preferable to people.

Budget: low to medium

Thunder Trail

Genre:

Thriller

Details:

A chance meeting on a tramp bring together three individuals: a man in whose chest beats the heart of his dead daughter; a woman about to commit suicide; and a producer of 'the ultimate unscripted reality footage'.

Budget: low

The Weaponsmaster

Genre:

Historical romance
(Quarter-finalist in the 2001 and 2004 Nicholl screenwriting competition)

Details:

A small kingdom in medieval France:

Fifteen years after his parents were murdered, Antione returns for a reckoning. But the murderer is now a general. Antoine manages to inveigle himself at court in the role of the king's new weaponsmaster. The role includes the tuition of the unruly crown princess Darcie, who is the focus of intrigues and assassination plots. Soon, Antoine's desire for revenge comes into conflict with his professional and personal interest in her.

Budget: medium to high

The Sareen's Gift

Genre:

Fantasy
This screenplay uses motifs from Keaen and the sequels.
(A top-10% placement in the 2003 Nicholl screen writing competition)

Details:

All his life, Caitlan has been haunted by the memory of the day when he saved a Sareen (an apparently ageless woman healer) from a lynch mob of his home village. Now, decades later, hunted by his former lord for betraying him, Caitlan's continuing quest to find her leads him into the heart of an evil plot by a local warlord to wrest the Sareens' secret from them.

Budget: medium to high

The Good Name

Genre:

Crime drama

Details:

Glen's father was murdered many years ago, under a cloud of suspicion of having been a crooked cop. Now his killer has ecsaped from jail, and is on Glen's tail, hoping to find a lead to a hidden fortune that may or may not exist. Glen's new life and his adopted family are about to be placed in grave danger, especially when he learns that his adopted father has his own closely-kept secrets.

Budget: medium to high

A Reason to Stay

Genre:

Romantic drama/comedy

Details:

At high-school Terry and Alyssa hated each other. Years later, after a chance meeting, they became friends: and they kept this a secret even from their closest friends. Years later again, Terry faces a dilemma: for he is in love with her, but fears that revealing it would destroy their friendship.

Budget: low

Yamitou (Dark Sword)

Genre:

Action

Details:

For hundreds of years the existence of the Yamitou was a secret, known only to the few who had heard of the legend and had seen evidence of its existence. Those who know its powers will do anything to have it.

Grant Dickson thinks he knows who has it, and he's set into motion a plan to get it into his hands. Then former S.E.A.L. John Shaw interferes with an attempt to abduct Dickson's girlfriend, Helen; and she insists on hiring him as a bodyguard. However, despite John's best efforts at protecting her, she is abducted only days later. Now he has to find her, and unravel a complex plot of schemes-within-schemes, all of which focus on the Yamitou and who will possess it. But nobody truly understands the true nature of the Yamitou or the meaning of the words engraved on the empty scabbard waiting to hold it.

Budget: high

A Misty Patch

Genre:

Romantic Drama

Details:

The marriage between Vanessa and Tim seemed OK. Cynthia loved them both, and her dad in particular. But Vanessa had a secret lover, and when Tim went off to that conference he ran into Susan, who ended up on the same flight, and who was as attracted to him as he was to her. Out of the confusion caused by lost cell-phones, secret schemes and trysts, Cynthia's would-be-rapist boyfriend, and uncooperative airline schedules, there emerged one question for Tim: What was more important, his daughter and his family, or the strange and powerful attraction between him and Susan?

Budget: low

DCS 3.5

Genre:

Science-fiction/Cyber-fiction

Details:

Michael doesn't know it, but the computer game/simulation he's created is not just setting new standards for animation design and agent intelligence, but it is about to seep across the interface between the cybernetic and the physical and destroy the very reality he's always taken for granted. Now he must try to save his world, but for that he needs the help of the one game-character who is currently being hunted down by one of the most evil and intelligent cybernetic constructs ever created.

Budget: medium to high

Paladin

Genre:

Fantasy

Details:

Corwin was King Oded's paladin; a lethally efficient and fiercely loyal protector. Then Oded was murdered and his son, Geisel, wastes no time taking over the kingdom. He accuses Corwin of being Oded's killer and has him imprisoned, waiting to be executed. But Corwin has hidden the ruler's symbol of power, and without it Geisel cannot gain legitimacy. When Corwin escapes, the hunt for him and those who are helping is on—and Corwin must solve the mysteries of his own origin and in the process confront an unexpected destiny.

Budget: medium to high