Submission Samples from the Action Genre

Title: Leverage

Logline: A second generation CEO ROBERT MURDOCK, allows a series of terrorist type acts to play out, in a desperate attempt to pull his corporation out of the red.

Synopsis: With a plan of redemption, three missions are planed against various commodity markets to give the struggling corporation leverage to earn income and keep shareholders happy. A diverse group of mercenaries are recruited to complete the missions. After the second mission a federal investigation is launched due to the dramatic increase in revenue and attention to the corporation. As the third domestic mission is played out, an ambush takes place from different perspectives. The pursuit is on with a vengeance to tie up loose ends. In an effort towards prosecution, some participants are eliminated, while others are rescued. The strong and skilled, survive to live another day.

Title: The Cajun Sniper

Logline: One of the CIA's best snipers unleashes his wrath on organized crime in New Orleans.

Synopsis: Jacques Boudreaux protects an old friend and her daughter from the mob after she is a victim of a botched hit job. He hides them among his friends in a small fishing community in the beautiful southeast Louisiana swamps. After he nurses her back to health, he transforms into a predator and begins the hunt for her assassins. He stalks and savagely eliminates the men who attacked her, but the fight of his life still awaits him. Unknowingly, his private war destroys the lucrative revenue source of a corrupt FBI Supervisor. The table turns, and Boudreaux becomes the prey. With the help of his local friends and his knowledge of the local terrain, he evades the FBI's snare. He then lures them into a trap where they discover that they underestimated this simple Cajun. Registered WGAw No. 1048323

Title: Shelter

Logline: A local environmentalist team up with Bhalli slum dwellers to stop a greedy corporation from demolishing their jungle

Synopsis: The script based on real events involving a builder's conspiracy to invade and demolish a reserved land in India's jungle. The story centers on a brave environmentalist who risks her life to team up with local villagers in an effort to stop corrupt leaders from destroying trees and rare species in the jungle. And as usual routine, we find how animals and birds were driven out of their original homes in jungle, owing to large scale of deforestation. My writing is based my life experiences as a civil engineer in Maharashtra Engineering Research Institute. Shelter is a unique script with an important environmental message that today's movie going crowd will realily connect and find gripping.

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: 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.

Title: X-Men: Rise from Ashes

Logline: When confusion and fear lead to anger and revenge, tremendous forces will breed a new line of defense.

Synopsis: Two years have passed since the war at Alcatraz when the X-Men discover another mutant who quickly proves to be a valuable asset. Magneto is slowly regaining his rise to power with the assistance of an ally of his own, Scrier, whose origins date back to the mid 18th century. Past mutants resurface and keep us questioning their intentions as this twist and turn of events, adrenaline rushing rollercoaster of entertainment unfolds and the X-Men saga continues, all while Mystique stealthily plots her revenge against Magneto only to be faced by Xavier's champions and Spider-Man.

Title: Christian's War

Logline: A LAPD detective has the gift of seeing demons and angels among criminals and victims alike. Caught in the middle of a spiritual warfare, he learns that prayer is more powerful than a gun.

Synopsis: CHRISTIAN YOUNG is a former seminary student who has lost his belief in the power of prayer and has turned to the power of the gun as a LAPD detective. After a bloody shootout, Christian is left lying on death's door, but is revived by medics on the scene. As he regains consciousness, he glances over at his dying suspect. When the suspect breathes his last breath, his wretched soul comes out of his body and plummets into the pits of hell. From that point on, Christian is blessed and cursed with the ability to see angels and demons among people who have recently died or will die soon. In the hospital, Christian sees a demon hovering around a doctor. ANDY, a pastor and Christian's friend from seminary school, tries to help the doctor through religion. The doctor has been helping CARLOS, a drug lord, to smuggle drugs. Christian and his partner NICK investigate the doctor and find out that Carlos wants Christian dead. This is the pilot episode of a weekly television series.

Title: THE WARNING

Logline: Battling for rescue, the antagonism between Jack and Gala gives them an edge against cartel gunmen after their sloop is deliberately sunk.

Synopsis: Jack and Gala, polar opposites, meet for the first time on a weekend cruise aboard a sloop in the Gulf of Mexico. They take an instant dislike to each other. The sloop sails into forbidden waters and is attacked and sunk by a rogue military fighter. Jack and Gala, the lone survivors, drift for days in the ship's dinghy but their antagonism eventually changes into feelings for each other. The pair washes up on an island thought to be desolate but they discover the island is infested with crime cartel mercenaries. After a failed escape attempt aboard a yacht, they are unexpectedly rescued by U.S. Marines. Their passion for each other wanes and they part only to be reunited through a magazine interview. Their relationship again snags when Gala drags Jack into her gambling addiction. With her personal possessions repossessed, Jack nearly goes broke settling her gambling debt - a futile expression of his love. Then, remembering what it was like against the odds, she opens her heart.

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: The Anarchist

Logline: In a world freefalling into anarchy, a young woman barters her humanity for the power to hunt down the man who slaughtered her friends, family, and fiance on her wedding day.

Synopsis: The Anarchist is an action-adventure, fantasy story in the vein of The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones. It is primarily set in a mythologized version of England from 1132-1135. This is a period known as The Anarchy. Templar Loring de Troyes embodies the brutality of the age. Loring kills Xifra's father during the Crusades. She is then captured and shipped to Sanctushire, a fortified city. Once there, she begins tutoring Robert FitzPhilip, the city's future-ruler. The two of them fall in love. Loring arrives in Sanctushire and swears to level the city. On Xifra and Robert's wedding day, Loring makes good on his promise. He and his army barricade the Sanctustrians in the church and set it on fire. Xifra is the city's sole survivor. She seeks out Juliana, a shape-shifting sorceress. Juliana helps transform Xifra into something more than human. This gives Xifra the power to avenge her loved ones. Xifra ultimately becomes a vampire to save her world from a fiery end at Loring's hands.