Unproduced scripts for Monday, August 13th

Christmas Story by Sean Chipman (mr. blonde)

(Drama) – A botched Christmas Eve liquor store robbery leads down a destructive path for a cop trying to reconcile with his estranged mother, an alcoholic mall Santa, a mentally unhinged man, his vindictive fiancé and her secret lover. 92 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Bitter Monarch by Erica Vogel (AustinWriterEV)

(Short, Fairy Tale) – When a fashion model collects brides to maintain her beauty, one groom fights back. 13 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Designated Driver by Sam Klein

(Short, Comedy) – A big new reason not to be the DD… 12 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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The Presidency by Reid Kinkel

(Series, Drama) – It’s the last month of Frank’s presidency in the 1940s, and to celebrate, his brother-in-law throws him a Christmas Party. But at the party, the first lady throws herself off the railing and onto the floor. But it’s what the niece finds, that is so shocking. 14 pages (celtx – formatting: )

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With Thomas Wolfe Whispering in My Head by Doug Presley

(Drama) – A man takes a long overdue journey back to the place he grew up, to see a few old friends and relive a few memories, only to find out that more than he has bargained for has changed in the years he’s been gone. 145 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Necessary Means by Chazz Christopher

(Action, Adventure) – After a newly-retired Green Beret survives an assassination attempt, he slowly uncovers a massive political conspiracy, with the help of the Green Beret recruit who was the cause for his retirement. 115 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Enemy in the Heart by Devin Rumer (psykpyrate)

(Drama) – Olivia, a young American woman during WWII is forced to have German prisoners on her farm. Family and friends are torn apart by a war and long held beliefs are challenged. Can Olivia find love and meaning in one who she believes is the enemy? 131 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Patrick Quinn’s Wedding Day by Paul Arlington

(Drama) – A drama set in Derbyshire in the 1950’s. 100 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Dark World by Davi da Silva Alves

(Horror) – A group of people are trapped in a dark, alternative world; dominated by grisly creatures. 79 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Routine by John Robbins (ojohnnyonutso)

(Short) – An entire lifetime of following instructions from a computer becomes deadly when the source decides to change the game. 7 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Unproduced scripts for Sunday, August 12th

Breakfast in Vietnam by Richard Longhorn (Abeoldieboy)

(Short, Drama) – Two soldiers eat breakfast in Vietnam. 8 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Sunday by Norman Scribbler (courhaw)

(Thriller) – An innocent girl’s dark past returns to kill her. 111 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Guardian Spirits Evolution EXE Episode 1 by David Arkon (ChronosSkyz)

(Series, Anime) – The Wire is a virtual world of freedom and eventually death. Takahashi Ryo is a renown hacker who is offered to join a government agency after a hacking job gone wrong. He accepts to investigate and avenge his friend’s death. Meanwhile, he is also looking for the cure that can stop him from dying and also looking for a mysterious virus called the “Wired Ghost”, which seems to portray some similar abilities Ryo has and it may have the answer to his cure. 42 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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The Cancer Patient by Alonzo Milbourne

(Drama) – Cancer kills millions of people a year. This is story of boy meets girl. The pain love and change of two people. A single father has to raise a daughter. 96 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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The East Turn Red by John Robbins

(Short, Sci Fi, Fantasy) – A botanist is enlisted for deadly mission to the edges of imagination by an unstable soldier. 29 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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The Presidency by Reid Kinkel

(Series, Drama) – This is the pilot episode to the Presidential fiasco that involves the First Lady’s infidelity, the President’s corruption, the unknown murder, and the niece’s figuring out what is going on. 14 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Man with a Gun by Erick Freitas hosted by Man with a Gun

(Short, Drama) – After committing a murder, the man with a gun, must get away. 14 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Future Girl by Freddie G. Owens (freddie moon)

(Sci Fi, Superhero) – It’s a teenage Wonder Woman meets Harry Potter. 125 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Smart Phone by David Nelson

(Drama) – James Rucker is the Intelligence Chief of the most powerful secret organization in the world. When top level government information is breached from his phone, could the culprit be the woman he has trusted and loved the most? 97 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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S.O.C Son of Charlie by Brianna Owen

(Thriller) – A murderous cult kidnaps a young woman to convince her estranged Detective Father to admit to planting evidence against a convicted murderer. 97 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Unproduced scripts for Saturday, August 11th

Judgement Date by Ed Love

(Thriller) – A wrongly convicted death row inmate gets a chance at freedom on the live comeback TV show of a disgraced Idol judge. 106 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Shopping Cart by Steve Burton (steveb)

(Short, Drama) – An affluent elderly woman takes off on a quest to return a fold able shopping cart to a stranger. 30 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Billy by Simon (sicoll007)

(Short) – Whilst in debt, a man makes a rash decision. 10 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Ormolu Death Clocks by Erica Vogel (AustinWriterEV)

(Short, Sci Fi) – An 18th century clockmaker’s best client is a pawnshop owner from the future who is willing to trade the clockmaker’s life for a profit. (pdf – formatting: )

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The Jack Off: The Life & Times of the Greatest Lumberjack to Ever Live by Chazz Christopher

(Comedy) – When the greatest competitive lumber jack ever realizes he’s broke and decides to come out of retirement, he comes to understand that to truly make a comeback, he must get more than his body in shape to defeat his arch-nemesis and be a world champion again. 111 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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The High Life by Anthony Lando

(Comedy, Stoner Comedy Webseries) – The ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives of 4 stoners 15 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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A Special Kind of Love by Dale Trett

(Short, Drama) – A young man follows his heart on valentines day. 3 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Let’s Get It Started by Dale Trett

(Comedy) – Two best friends attempt to throw a party for the wrong crowd. 99 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Secrets Pilot 1.1 by Fernando Avila (WhatTheFAA)

(Series) – {no logline} 44 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Song of the Year by Devon Ryan Pattynson

(Drama, Documentary) – What does it really take to become the world’s most powerful musicians? 110 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Unproduced scripts for Friday, August 10th

Fight by Anthony Hudson (alffy)

(Short, Comedy) – The workplace can be a dangerous place, especially when you’re forced in to a contest against the reigning champion. 5 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Cat by Simon (sicoll007)

(Short) – Cat versus Rat. 8 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Shadows by Grace A. Fynn hosted by Shadows

(Drama) – {no logline} 94 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Underneath the Vessel by Gage Eggleston (AsteroidJuice) hosted by Underneath the Vessel

(Short, Surreal) – What does it mean to you? 4 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Dergz: 005 – Caught With Their Pants Down by Chris Bodean

(Series, Comedy) – The gang helps Shareena fix a mistake from the past. 47 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Dergz: 006 – Does a Dreg Sh*t in the Woods by Chris Bodean

(Series, Comedy) – The gang goes camping and encounters an escaped fugitive.47 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Preposterous by Anthony Hudson (alffy)

(Short, Sci Fi) – Prometheus Spoof. A team of clueless explorers think they’ve discovered the origins of man and so travel on the ship ‘Preposterous’ to see if they’re right. 28 quick pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Deadend Cemetery 2 “The Book of Sorrow” by Benjamin Theis (DeadendBen)

(Short, Thriller, Drama) – After a successful female horror writer acquires a journal from a mysterious man, she sets out to discover the truth regarding it’s authenticity. Leading a group of friends on a paranormal nightmare, she learns something of her own past, and of a horror that is far from fiction 120 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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My Weekend with David by Richard Longhorn (Abeoldieboy)

(Short, Drama) – A Father with no money struggles to raise his kids. 10 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Broken by Will Hare (happywash)

(Drama) – A young man’s fragile existence shatters when he’s forced to care for the brother that abused him as a child, hurtling the damaged siblings toward reconciliation… or ruin. 107 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Unproduced scripts for Thursday, August 9th

Kevin Goes to the Doctor by Kevin Tosi

(Short, Comedy) – Kevin goes to the doctor for a physical. 8 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Transformations by Jacob Greenberg

(Short, Action, Adventure) – A successful broker sees people with animal heads that leads him to understand with whom he spends his life. 44 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Adrenaline by Benjamin Pearce

(Comedy) – Erin and Mitchell Librias, Two bickering brothers must resort to their knowledge of pop culture films and video games after they return to their home town and discover a waterborne parasite has infected the minds of their hosts, turning them hostile and killing any uninfected survivors to silence them while they plot to spread the pandemic and cause world destruction. Once the brothers band with six survivors, as they attempt to stop the infected and infamous drug lord Chet Saddler, the leader of the infected. However, once Mitch is kidnapped by Saddler, it’s a balls-to-the-wall no holds barred adrenaline fulled thrill ride as Erin and the remaining survivors go to the colosseum, where all of the infected gather, to save his brother. 124 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Househusbands by Michael Nelson

(Comedy) – Women now outnumber men in the workforce. Men, here is a frightening vision of the future. 105 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Every Day I Die by John T Chance (tiggy)

(Drama) – An alcoholic struggles with his past and leads an uneventful life until he runs into his high school crush and the FBI comes knocking at his door asking about a friend that runs the mob. 91 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Unproduced scripts for Wednesday, August 8th

Amina’s by Hanadi Sadi

(Drama) – An oppressed Syrian wife arrives to the US to collect her inheritance her deceased uncle left her, only to find herself on a journey that leads her to self-discovery, self-reliance, empowerment, and self-worth where what she thinks matters to millions. (fdr – formatting: )

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Our Problem in Vegas by Simon (sicoll007)

(Drama) – A cop is deployed to investigate corruption in Vegas. 88 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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The Pact by Jennifer Joelle Fatou

(Drama. Romance, Thriller) – A close circle of friends drifts apart as they deal with heartbreak and betrayal.Can a weekend away from the stress of their lives and careers heal and strengthen their relationships?Their bond and friendships are tested when they are unexpectedly struck by agony and tragedy (celtex – formatting: )

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A Thousand Sunrises by Mario Perrotta (coldsnap)

(Short, Action, Drama) – In Cold War-era Siberia, an American soldier drags a Soviet prisoner across the arctic terrain, when he discovers that the Soviet is more than what he appears to be. 13 pages. (pdf – formatting: )

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Stormangels by Paul Mailhot (pmailhot)

(Sci Fi, Fantasy) – When cross-dimensional twin worlds bleed into each other, the unproven leader of a medieval village must brave the trek to the hostile otherworld to seal the breach. 109 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Unproduced scripts for Tuesday, August 7th

The Twins by Jennifer Joelle Fatou

(Comedy) – These 2 guys have a problem most men wish they had:hot,young women just can’t get enough of them.They run,hide,lie and deceive until of course they find then again (celtex – formatting: )

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The Cleen Family by Micahel David

(Short) – A short animation about a cleen family. 5 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Battleground by Richard Rivera

(Action, Adventure) – During World War Two, in the merciless, freezing wilderness of southern Russia, stranded American and German soldiers put their differences aside to fight off an alien invasion from another world. 107 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Deadend Cemetery “The Execution of Darlyn Drake by Benjamin Theis (DeadendBen)

(Short, Thriller, Drama) – Arrogant Warden Akers has different ideas what to do with the body of executed serial killer Darlyn Drake.  Leading a trio of his men and the prison priest to the fabled  DeadendCemetery, he quickly learns that there is something more sinister with ideas of it’s own. 26 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Oh Father Why? by Richard Longhorn (Abeoldieboy)

(Short, Drama) – The life of a troubled teen is explored. (pdf – formatting: )

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Unproduced scripts for Monday, August 6th

Killing Clare by Glynn (thelimy)

(Thriller) – A husband hires a hitman to kill his wife but then discovers that she has a brain tumor and tries to stop the murder with disastrous consequences. 113 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Run! by Tom Mann

(Drama) – The story of the trials and tribulations of inner city London life told from the eyes of a family of Sudanese immigrants. The Akol family’s life is thrown into turmoil when the oldest sibling, Edgard, is attacked by ‘hoods’ from a local gang and left unable to provide for his poor family. Middle child Joseph now needs to muster all the strength and faith he can to help his family survive, he needs to run! 116 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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Releasing Frank by Glynn (thelimy)

(Action, Adventure) – Frank has eight hours to get out of prison, get his family back, and get even. 94 (pdf – formatting: )

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Did I Say That Out Loud? by Robert Pierce hosted by Robert Pierce

(Series) – Drunk Seattle weatherman Jack Walters should have been fired this week but with the ratings skyrocketing, WSTY decides to keep him on the air and liquored up, accompanied by a gaggle of dysfunctional anchors, assistants, reporters and directors. 28 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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The Watcher On The Hill by George Anderson

(Short, Sci Fi) – On Mars, the hills have eyes. A Martian rover from Earth encounters something on a Martian hillside. Who, or what, is it? 4 pages (pdf – formatting: )

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