Screenplays

If you're interested in reading any of these, just let me know at varenya1@aol.com.

SCI-FI/HORROR


SHASTA  

A young journalist scoops everyone by getting to write the biography of a famous billionaire recluse. But as she goes through his family history, she discovers the legends surrounding Mount Shasta are not only true, they're her story, too.   


THE PLEISTOCENE REDEMPTION

A geneticist and war veteran is persuaded to clone Ice Age animals and primitive humans by a Middle Eastern  'Savior'.  But when it turns out he's actually producing a weapon of mass destruction, does he really want to stop?  
(And adaptation by a novel by the same name authored by Dan Gallagher. )


CONTEMPORARY DRAMAS


J2

A new Pentagon intelligence analyst struggles to unravel the truth about a secret missile base in Antarctica. But if she uncovers a national security secret instead of a foreign threat, isn't that espionage? 

COMEDIES

PRIME MATES

An ad man mounts an expedition to nab Bigfoot as a way of capturing an even more elusive shoe company account. But when he hires an arrogant primatologist and his estranged wife who writes for a supermarket tabloid, and then runs into the backwoods Fang brothers, the trip becomes quite hairy.  

SUPERMODEL, SUPERHERO

A homely female cop is given magic makeup by a fairy godmother that turns her into a supermodel who fights crime with her stunning looks. But can she defeat a failed clothes designer whose most successful creation is a fashionable designer drug that destroys everyone's sense of style and taste?

GET A PAST-LIFE

A young man hopes to get the girl of his dreams.  It won't be easy since a hypnotist accidentally left him with a suggestion to become one of his past-lives every time a phone rings.


PERIOD DRAMAS

BEAUSEANT

After the crusades, a disillusioned Knight Templar plans to steal the order's treasure that he was sent to guard. But first he has to overcome the King's men, a rapacious church, and mostly, a slave girl he abducted before he can live up to the Templar's war cry, "Beauseant!" (Be glorious!).  

 

AQUILUS

In Judea, a dissolute legionnaire is tasked with investigating the murder of a Roman official, his own father. Used as a pawn in a power struggle between murderous factions, he finds that the key to the mystery is finding out what really happened to the Jewish Messiah. 

 

CHANTILLY

During the Civil War, the artistic son of an ambitious Union senator falls for a princess from India. When her British guardian colludes with his father to pressure him into joining the Army, he rebels by joining the Confederates instead. 


SHORT SCREENPLAYS



THE LOCKED COMBINATION

A young woman faces a charming, but ultimately abusive boyfriend.  When a mysterious bartender gives her a combination lock, little does she know what it will free.  (15 pages.  This was the winner of the Carolina Film Community's 2013 screenwriting contest.) 


THE BIG BREAK

A desperate woman turns hooker to pay the rent.  But when a generous man offers to help her out, little do  each of them know what they really want.  (14 pages.)


NINE-TENTHS

A man invades a house, claiming it's really his, and tosses the family out.  What will it take to get  their home back?  (23 pages)


DEAD RECKONING

A priest finds himself assigned to a remote Alaskan town that seems like hell.  Is there a way out?  (19 pages)

LOST VEGAS

Moses and the Israelites wander into modern Las Vegas after 40 years in the desert.  But is it the promised land?  (29 pages)

 


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