Submission Samples from the Action Genre

Title: Bullet Wound

Logline: An assassin is given the assignment of murdering a woman who resembles that of his late mother

Synopsis: In the corrupt slums of New York, where the difference between life and death is within inches, Gabriel Lee fits in perfectly. His identity is unknown, his bullets are fatal and his heart is as dark as the night sky. He is a true assassin with no empathy and no feelings of regret. It's no wonder the streets refer to him as "Ghost". With such proficient skill in both gun and hand-to-hand combat, the cost of his bullets seems like top priority. However, when he is forced to kill a woman resembling that of his deceased mother, the bullets become a little more valuable. A beautiful maiden and a deadly assassin. Raven. The name of the bird he last saw when witnessing his mother's death 7 years ago. Unable to pull the trigger, he is forced to face himself as never before. Feeling the effects of heated combat, Gabriel's heart rises up and now he must choose his stand in this fight.

Title: SAND DRUMS

Logline: Jack Stark, riding bulls at the Tucson Rodeo, is thrown and injured. Wins no prize money to stock his ranch. Is persuaded by beautiful Celeste to help her brother escape from prison in Chihuahua, Mex.

Synopsis: Celeste's car breaks down as she hides caches of food in the desert. Searching for help, she sees Jack rope a wild stallion, and fall unconscious. Celeste protects his eyes from the sun. Celeste convinces Jack that she saved his eyes and since he knows the desert, should help her hide caches of food so her brother Brock, really her husband, can escape to the US. Brock captain of a ship owned by Pak Ho hauling drugs and Chinese illegals into Mexico, had run the ship aground to escape pursuing Mexican Coast Guard. He is caught. Pak Ho hires killers to bring him Brock's head for loss of the ship. With the help of bribed guards, Brock escapes. Jack, Celesete, Brock flee across the desert. Brock beats Jack unconscious, abandons Celeste. Tries to ride Jack's horse but is thrown. Jack and Celeste strike out for Jack's ranch. Brock makes a deal with the killers to take Jack's head for the bouny. They find Jack's ranch. Jack and Celeste slay the men. Settle down to raise ornery bucking bulls.

Title: First and Second Assignments (screenplay)

Logline: FIRST AND SECOND ASSIGNMENTS It's a journey through elusive world of criminals by a hit man using guts, tact and ruthlessness in tension filled escapades to rid society of them.

Synopsis: Ike the hit man in high paced actions rids society of her criminal scum. In the first assignment he is hired by Mafia don Nicholai to eliminate his uncle don Marino. Marino also hires him to kill Nicholai. He ends up killing both and wiping out their entire organizations. In the second assignment he is kidnapped by a clandestine organization that planned to control and dominate the world. They wanted to utilize his expertise, but he takes out all the members from don Callisto to top government officials and high ranking military officers from various countries. Their final encounter took place in the north pole. The government hat trained him before and they sanctioned all his assignments.

Title: North of Baghdad

Logline: Four Canadians travel to Iraq during the war. They accidentally uncover secrets of Saddam's WMD's and immediately become targets of various intelligence agencies and terrorists groups.

Synopsis: April 2003, bombs fall on Baghdad; four young Canadian academics (a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim and a beautiful blonde) arrive in Iraq where they start work as university teachers. The blonde receives a gift of a used laptop captured during a raid on the base of a radical Islamic group. The computer contains evidence of saddam's hidden biological weapons programs and their location. Overnight, the Canadians become targets of terrorists and various intelligence services. Knowing they are pursued, the Canadians split up and embark on three separate routes to escape Iraq, each with a CD containing the information they have discovered.

Title: 10 Days in Paradise

Logline: A sister's childhood dream turns into a nightmare when she becomes entangled with a vicious drug lord, and is forced to smuggle drugs out of Colombia to pay off a debt.

Synopsis: Since childhood Carol and Christy have planned to have princess weddings and the two made a pact to help each other if necessary to make their dream come true. Now Christy's big day was being threatened. In order to save her sister's dream, Carol offers to provide the needed funds to her sister. However, she will not have the money in time for the wedding deadline. She decides to borrow the money knowing that she can repay it with the funds from a company sale bonus she is sure to receive within a month. Carol's only challenge now is where she can borrow the money on such short notice. While talking about her dilemma with her good friend Goldie Morris, a part time waitress at Jakes Diner, Goldie recommends a friend of a friend that might help her. The only problem is that he's a loan shark. Not wanting her sister to be disappointed, Carol agrees to take out the loan.

Title: Hard to Swallow

Logline: An impassive upright police officer in the heart of Las Angeles tries to incarcerate a troubled antisocial who shows clarity for both through the chase.

Synopsis: Once Officer Bryan Freeland arrives back from vacation, the hard nosed individual encounters his toughest dilemma in the force. Going after a heavily confused character named Philip North. Both arriving back from the same resort and both being rookies in their roles as criminal vs. lawman, the battleground appears to be equal. Bryan at first wants to bring in Philip with no hidden remorse. Philip on the other hand tries to get Bryan to listen with irrelevant dialogue about society's behaviors. Throughout the way, Mr. North displays acts of vandalism which gets the attention of Bryan's boss Richard who in turn wants to sentence Philip to death by lethal injection. Seeing this as an unfair punishment for Philip's actions, Bryan tries to help Philip in this catch 22. In the end, the two discover why they wake up in the morning.

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: 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: THE JINN

Logline: A four man Seal Team in the Hindu Kush mountains takes a runaway child bride under their wing, only to be threatened by a murderous Jinn(Genie).

Synopsis: LT. JOHN TIERNAY is a killer by training. He leads a four man Seal Team active in the mountains outside Kandahar, where they find a beaten runaway child bride. The choice to help this girl, KHADIGA, alone in the world, without protectors, leads Tiernay and his men into a terrifying Arabian Nights fantasy, where a powerful Jinn threatens to kill them all. As they are picked off, one by one, Tiernay comes to realize the creature cannot be killed directly. Instead, he must kill Khadiga's husband, who is the Jinn's master, and set the beast free. This is a great risk, but Khadiga tells him that Jinns, though all powerful, are fundamentally stupid. Tiernay must somehow trick it, talk it back into the bottle from where it came, if they are to have any chance of surviving. WGA #1450998

Title: The Terrorist

Logline: Deke Slater, a senior Midshipman about to flunk out at the U.S. Naval Academy,is given a last chance, but his ship is hijacked by terrorists who plan to explode a dirty bomb in Washinton, D.C.

Synopsis: Deke Slater,23 year-old senior Midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, is about to flunk out. He is the veteran of two Marine combat tours in Iraq, but a poor student. He is given a last chance by commanding a YP cruise. Deke's best friend, Juan Perez is his XO. As soon as they are underway, a near collision causes the ship's officer to relieve Deke of command. Deke decides he will resign from the Academy at the end of the cruise. Meanwhile, Ali Al-Mukhtar, number one terrorist operative for Osama bin Laden, has just launched a plot to detonate a dirty bomb in Washington. Mukhtar and team hijack Deke's boat, kill the officer, and take the Mids prisoner. Deke gets word to the Academy. President of the U.S. gives the Navy 1 hour to rescue the Mids. A SEAL team, Deke and Juan take back the boat and kill the terrorists. But the Secretary of Defense has already ordered the attack. The ship is sunk, but the good guys survive, Washington is saved, Deke and Juan are heroes.