Submission Samples from the Drama Genre

Title: Coveted Son

Logline: An Asian billionaire unknowingly fathers a child, becomes sterile and embarks on a desperate mission to the USA to retrieve what can be his only biological heir.

Synopsis: Yeung "Billy" Kim, who, in his younger days as a cadet in the South Korean army, unknowingly fathers a son. Later, as a successful businessman he learns he is sterile and can't have any children. This personal news is exposed on national TV throughout Korea and eventually the world. Eva, Billy's former girlfriend, is shocked of this news and approaches him with the even more shocking news: that although he can't have any children in the future, he already has a biological son in the world who was given up for adoption several years earlier. Billy is ectastic about this development and embarks on a desperate mission to the United States to retrieve his only biological heir from his entrenched adoptive family. When confronted with the adoptive parents, epic moral issues ensue that ultimately lead to Billy enacting a kidnapping and murder plot because there's no way he's going to return home to Korea without his "coveted son."

Title: THE DEAD WALKING

Logline: Two college students are approached by a ghost to get them to inspire the others on campus.

Synopsis: After 9/11 FRANKLIN OVERTON WILLIAMS is shot by a guy on a college campus. Now BRENDAN and NICOLLE conjure him and he tells them to help heal this dying campus. Nicolle is a writing student and Brendan is a business student. His business club is planning to launch a new type of social networking site to promote the students in order to get them jobs. Brendan gets someone to make the site and wins a bet with the club on how to market it. Nicolle works on her art and writing together. As the year goes on, Brendan launches his site and Nicolle has a successful gallery opening. Franklin guides them to always improve the students' lives and they graduate with Brendan getting a job offer and accepted as a grad student at NYU and Nicolle receiving a Carnegie Mellon Fellowship. Five years later and fifteen years after that, they are together and always remembering how Franklin's ghost inspired their lives.

Title: Free God

Logline: Long ago Satan Fools the Angels to kidnaping and sadating God. The put him in a prison below the Grandcanyon. Now Peter has to find a way to Free God from the Grand Canyon

Synopsis: Long ago After Satan was banished from heaven. He Fools the Angels into kidnapping and sedating God. They do this by convincing God to send Jesus to earth to help calm down the humans because they have started to do bad thing they put him in a prison below the Grand Canyon. Now Peter has to find a way to Free God from the Grand Canyon. After that happens all the Angels that have helped Satan turn into gruesome demons and are forced to be Satan's Slaves. Peter was spared for a reason. He could transform back from demon to angel. And he could not be forced by Satan to be his slave. Of course Satan does not know this. Peter has to find a way to free God. He finds Jesus on earth and they go near the Grand Canyon where god tells them that Jesus has help. He has 4 other brothers names were Muhammad, Moses, Abraham, and Buddha. With their help each of them now have to find a chosen one of their religions to form their army's to fight Satan's Demon army. And "Free God".

Title: The Jealous Killer

Logline: A young lady falls in love with her boss and keeps secret. The boss finds his lady lover and set up for the big weeding. The secret lover in rage kill the bride and frame her boss. After trial they...

Synopsis: It tells a tale of love, obsession and revenge that gives everyone some intriguing food for thought. A family of immigrants well on their way to achieving all of the glory of the American Dream finds out that the Dream can be tarnished, wrecked or even destroyed by a jealous lover. When David Mendes, a well-to-do young man, takes over the family business it appears that all his dream come true. From his immigrant background he has managed to become a well liked pillar of the community while also becoming tremendously successful professional. But loneliness drives him to seek out the perfect woman, who he soon finds. Following a whirlwind romance, he and Anna Belay, his lady love, set the date to be married. Everyone was happy about the engagement between wealth businessman and sweetheart Anna, also an immigrant and a recent college graduate. And making their situation still more idyllic, their families join in the young couple's plans for the future, ecstatic at their union.

Title: Penny for Your Thoughts

Logline: When agri-giant Monsanto wants to turn local farmland into growing fields for GMO seeds, Penny Jones must fend off the big money corporation, save her business and protect local crops.

Synopsis: PENNY JONES, a successful, single woman in her 30's, finds herself in the middle of an attempt to bring Monsanto growing crops for genetically modified seed to her small, country town. Her attempts to thwart their arrival get her unjustly removed from her position on the city council and threatens to cost her the business she built from scratch. With the help of her friends and local townspeople, she fends off the big agri-giant and saves both her business and the town from Monsanto's prowl.

Title: BAYOU LOCO

Logline: An ailing lieutenant, goaded to attempt murder, reaches an understanding that reopens his future.

Synopsis: RANSOM has lost his left arm, fiancee, soul. He possseses only a returned engagement ring and an exacting code of honor. BYRON, a former infantryman, whom Ransom sent to the stockade for killing a civilian, lives on the street enraged at those who judge him. Six pistol shots of a suicide attempt in stormy bayou landscape open. Ransom and Byron encounter hours earlier in a Gulf Coast city, equally desolate. Ransom, on convalescent leave and returning early to an army hospital in Texas, is fleeing romantic disaster. Byron recognizes Ransom on the street and follows him onto a Dallas bus. Ransom ignors Byron's goads. Byron is in no hurry to corner him. Ransom discards the ring in the bus restroom trash. Byron intuitively discovers it. Ransom, minutes later returns to reclaim it, finds it missing, and suspects Byron somehow came upon it. Ransom and Byron then move irrevocably to the show-down that unexpectedly frees them to begin normal lives. The suicidal young man?

Title: Nadine and Adele

Logline: Some friendships are like great journeys, where it's not always the length of the distance; but rather, the ground covered over that distance.

Synopsis: When Nadine Martin - one of the most popular girls at school - is paired off with Adele Wilson - the most misunderstood girl at school - for a Sociology class project, they immediately click and become best friends. But soon after that, Nadine learns that her leukemia has returned for the third time; and she isn't going to be able to beat it again this time. Nadine makes it her priority to accomplish two tasks before she dies. First; to help build up Adele's self-esteem. Second; to show everyone at school the truly wonderful person Adele really is, so that they may finally accept her. It is an emotionally sentimental character driven piece depicting a brief, yet powerfully deep and true, friendship forged between two High School Junior girls during the most critically major events of their lives. Through Nadine Martin's death comes Adele Wilson's "birth".

Title: Shoes

Logline: An individual against the establishment. MOSES STONE became a baseball superstar, the death of his brother in Afghanistan, and a hard childhood made him challenge and fight the establishment.

Synopsis: Moses refused to accept a baseball player superstar salary and refused to represent any commercial interests. He then chose to become a "working people hero" as well as instituting a threat to the establishment (baseball organization, players, industrial companies, etc.). They became apprehensive, as they believed he might be creating a consumer revolution that will work against their interest. At first, the estabishment (WOODY PIERCE owner of "Joyce sneakers" who Stone "circus media" who negatively affected his company, and SAMUEL SMITH baseball superstar, who represents "Joyce sneakers" and was terrified how his status changed to the worse.) found Moses very hard to convince or to cooperate with them. Yet after much persuasion and manipulation, they ultimately broke him down and once again induced him to become part of the establishment.

Title: Three Deadly Clues

Logline: An Innocent woman and a terrorist duo lives are changed forever by 3 Deadly Clues.

Synopsis: My screenplay involves several strong characters all pitting their wits against one another in a conspiracy plot. Vio, the terrorist and Jan are about to destroy and over throw a government Military Base. Connie a Government employee becomes a ploy in this cat and mouse espionage as Jan plays the sincere friend manipulating Connie into her deadly scheme thus leading to the meat of the script. You'll live through each moment of Connie's terror as she becomes innocently trapped by the person she calls a friend. How they trap Connie is one of the unbelievable parts of this script. How she manages her escape is even more unbelievable. Connie with the aid of a FBI Agent, Ross, find themselves reenacting places Jan might have inhabited searching for Three Deadly Clues. A dark alley brings climax to the screenplay where Connie encounters Vio's , too late to hear Agent Ross yell don't go into the alley.

Title: Ed Smith

Logline: What if you found yourself in the dangerous world of sexual addiction?

Synopsis: ED SMITH is a drama that exposes the real life of a sex addict. Ed Smith is in the vane of Catcher in the Rye's Holden. He is pathetic but lovable. He fumbles through his quest to meet dream girl Renee Evermore. This story is based on my own struggles with this serious affliction. Ed is thrust from his seemingly safe life into a head on collision with reality. A long relationship with call girl Jenny abrublty ends. Ed finds that his favorite stripper Christy has no real affection for him at all. Ed jumps from one dangerous situation to another. He loses his job and beloved apartment. Ed is arrested by an adrenaline junkie cop. And in the end he is forced to face reality. A previous version of this screenplay made it to the 2008 Bluecat Screenplay competition. scriptsavy.com said "In concept Ed's got a lot going for him dramatically" Also, "the script has a large number of secondary and minor characters". I would like to send you a copy for youe review.