Screenplays

Since graduating USC Film School in 2005, I've worked on my fair share of spec projects. Here are a few that I'm proud of.

Bury The Dead

My buddy and I started with this nugget of an idea for a TV pilot:

"What if we took The X-Files, crossed it with No Country for Old Men, and wrote a macabre allegory for addiction?"

Here's what we came up with.

3 cups

Blueberries

3 cups

Flour

TV PILOT

1½ cups

Butter

My buddy, being the kick-ass novelist that he is, went on to adapt it into a novel.

You can buy it on Amazon here.

3 cups

Blueberries

3 cups

Flour

THE NOVEL

1½ cups

Butter

Sugar

We took The Third Man, one of our favorite movies (and one of the best film noirs ever made) and adapted it into a gritty neo-noir. Set against a Mexican criminal underworld where sex-trafficking is king, Sugar is one of the hardest things I've ever had to write. Still a work in progress.

3 cups

Blueberries

3 cups

Flour

TREATMENT

1 cup

Sugar

2 tbsp.

Salt

1½ cups

Butter

3 cups

Blueberries

3 cups

Flour

SCREENPLAY

1 cup

Sugar

2 tbsp.

Salt

1½ cups

Butter

30 ROCK

"The Point Break Principle"

On a lighter note, we also wrote a spec to bounce around some diversity writer's boot camps. Its north star is a little film called Point Break and its references include (but are not limited to) Deepak Chopra, Grand Master Flash, prime numbers, and early 2000's Saturday Night Live.

3 cups

Blueberries

TV SPEC