Submission Samples from the Action Genre

Title: AMERICAN PIRATES

Logline: The past finally catches up with Three Guys from Connecticut, now living the high life down in the Florida Keys.

Synopsis: This Action-Comedy Drama of Three-Modern Day Pirates takes you on a roller coaster ride from Connecticut down to the Florida Keys. The weather is beautiful, the sea is calm and things begin to heat up for these rough necks. These so called "Pirates" live on the edge, taking advantage of unsuspecting yachters in the Carribean. Two FBI Agents from Connecticut, resemble the comedic-duo of "Lethal Weapon", and link the Pirating Villains to previous bank robberies, leading themselves down to the sunny tropical playground of Key West to further investigate their hunch. (The Ending is left open to a possible Sequel)

Title: Enduring Freedom

Logline: Marine officer, Jack Williams, is sent to free US soldiers from a ruthlessTaliban prison. He falls in love with a beautiful rebel trying to free hersister from the Taliban and together they fight.

Synopsis: Marine officer, JACK WILLIAMS,is sent to Afghanistan to free his fellow soldiers from a Taliban prison. Travelling through the Afghan mountains, he meets, MINA, a beautiful and intelligent rebel who is fighting to rescue her captive sister from the Taliban. The two are suddenly caught in the crossfire of a bloody Taliban raid and escape to pursue their missions together. A local villager guides Jack and Mina to the Taliban command base in Pashmool. Jack explodes the weapons warehouse to cause a massive distraction. While the Taliban guards run to the explosion, Jack and Mina rush to free the prisoners from the black holes called prison. Jack frees his soldiers while Mina finally frees her beloved sister and the three rush out to make their escape. A Taliban guard returns to the prison just in time to see the three running from the prison. He takes aim and fires one last fatal shot as the three friends run for their lives and for freedom.

Title: Contest - WGA #1077950

Logline: Adam is accepted for a TV show that promises to be the "mother of all reality shows". Things get ugly quickly when contestants start dying. It's a game to the death.

Synopsis: Seven contestants are selected over thousands and flown to a remote island for an "extreme" reality show. Once there, they learn it's a game to the death with the last one standing winning $10 million. It's a sham. Only Adam, a bored criminal defense lawyer and Bobbie, a clinically-depressed large animal vet are real contestants. The other five contestants are shills, there to drive the action. Show's goal: document Adam's and Bobbie's reactions to extreme and deadly circumstances. Carlos, one of the shills, goes berserk and starts killing for real. What was meant to be fake has become terribly real. HBO yanks the show but the website showing live webcasts becomes the top hit site on the Net as a violence hungry world watches in real time.

Title: Amado (Beloved)

Logline: Nobody is perfect, the re-telling of King David story set in our times

Synopsis: Amado (Beloved), a free adaptation of the books of Samuel I and II, an apology. Gerardo Belender, our David in the story, is the son of Ana Estela Escandon, a known prostitute, and Jesse Belender, a known drug chief, one of his mother's patrons. More significant for us, he is former FBI supervisory special agent Gerardo Belender, head of a little known but powerful heroine cartel doing business in large scale with the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Using the books of Samuel's characters and narrative as a loose guideline, and covering a generation of wars, failed states, drug economies, old empires, new empires and world events, the story challenges our moral values and questions the nature of God. As in David's story, Gerardo's path to power is rooted in strategic thinking, careful grounding of allies, ruthless politicking, convenient deaths and an absolute lack of moral values. And that is really the story: The man we call "a man after God's own heart" is really such a man.

Title: AMERICAN PIRATES

Logline: The past finally catches up with three guys living the high life down in the Florida Keys.

Synopsis: This Action - Comedy/Drama (WGA Registered) of Three Modern-Day Pirates takes you on a roller coaster ride from Connecticut down to the Florida Keys. The weather is beautiful, the water is calm, and things begin to heat up for these rough necks. These so called "Pirates" live on the edge, taking advantage of unsuspecting yachters. Two FBI agents from Connecticut, resemble the comedic duo of "Lethal Weapon", and link the Pirating Villains to previous bank robberies, leading themselves down to the sunny tropical playground of Key West to further investigate their hunch.

Title: The Real Maverick

Logline: This is the exciting - True story of a "regular guy" who made it against all odds in the grueling, demanding, and often dangerous world of flying US Navy fighter jets.

Synopsis: We follow our protagonist from his childhood of athletic endeavor through winning of his US Navy "Wings of Gold" and the ups and downs along the way. This is a "Rudyesque" story whereby our main character must continually fight uphill to achieve the success he dreams of because he is not one of the "chosen". He is an outsider (a modern day "Bruno Stachel" from the 1960's move "The Blue Max") but all he wants to do is fit in and be himself as well as perform as well as or maybe better than anybody else. Unfortunately, he often finds it hard to be accepted personally by his peers even though he tries to be a good guy. He achieves his goal in the end - or does he?

Title: "Revenge & Redemption"

Logline: Mexican-American heart surgeon's life is suddenly and tragically shattered during a Cancun vacation after punching out a drunken Mexican official who gropes his wife.

Synopsis: Genius heart surgeon, attending an AMA conference in Cancun, punches out a drunken government official trying to grope his wife who has ties to a notorious drug cartel. The surgeon is sent to a brutal jungle prison. His family disappears. He escapes not because of U.S. intervention but is broken out by a rival rebel and cartel leader whose dying son desperately needs the surgeon's skills. The leader is a former Mexican general whose anti-cartel command was betrayed by corrupt government insiders, ambushed, and forced to flee to the jungles of Chiapas. The surgeon saves his son's life, and the rebel leader helps him find his family but a rescue attempt turns tragic and they are murdered. The devastated surgeon vows revenge and gets it, aided by the rebel leader and a mercenary assassin. Afterward, with nothing to go home to, he decides to join the rebels and use his medical skills for the poor in the area only to find his world once again suddenly shattered.

Title: CLASSIFIED

Logline: Three highly-trained assassins unite to quash their former employer's mind control conspiracy - which has turned humanity into a bunch of unsuspecting "puppets."

Synopsis: US Copyright # PAu 3-642-741 I've written a fast-paced action/thriller that's the first of a trilogy. Below is a short synopsis: "A large covert organization has built a subliminal mind control network that is connected to every human's mind, allowing them to instantly make anyone do anything they wish - and CAROLINA, her sister and her lover are the only ones who can enlighten the world to this conspiracy, therefore rendering the network useless." Please let me know if I can send you the script, and thanks for your time and consideration. Best,

Title: Bajadores

Logline: An embattled Sheriff is forced to lead a group of inexperienced deputies against a sophisticated Mexican crime syndicate in order to save a once peaceful town in middle-America.

Synopsis: FBI Special Agent Jacob Burke has got it all: a great job, a gorgeous wife, and a new baby on the way. But his poor judgment has led to the ultimate loss. Unable to cope, Jacob quits the Bureau and moves back to where he and his wife grew up, Redemption County, Iowa. Three years later, Jacob is a recovering alcoholic shuffling through life as a self-pitying Sheriff in a dull small town. Meanwhile, Marcos, a charming sociopath who heads a drug syndicate, is released from prison. Eager to revolutionize the future of smuggling, he devises an ingenious plan to move his operation into the largely defenseless heartland. Unfortunately for Redemption County, where go the drugs, so go the vicious home invasion rip crews. Determined to make right his wrongs and save his town, Jacob sets off on a mission to take down Marcos and his entire crew.

Title: The Dream Machine

Logline: A non-believing man discovers a Chinese plot to brain wash the American people and sets out to expose it. His girl friend and war buddy, get murdered. But he is saved by divine intervention.

Synopsis: The Chinese government is funding a secret project in the United States that seeks to combine an under development dream injection system with voice to skull technology for the purpose of brain washing the American people in preparation for a political take over. The forces of good and evil collide leaving a trail of death, rape, barbarism and devastation. A powerful angel is sent to help the non-believer. In the end, good wins out, but at a heavy cost. America is saved from a sinister plot to usurp the will and minds of the people.