original screenplays

Unproduced Scripts

These original scripts are available as writing samples or for optioning.

Spring Break on Titan

Interplanetary travel will be as easy and convenient as international flights are today.
When college students want to go away for spring break, instead of Cabo, they’re able to go as far as the moons of Saturn. But when an unexpected traveler hitches a ride,

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The Wilderness

When a group of tech-savvy but nature-ignorant hikers get separated in the woods, we follow their separate stories as they get lost, get found, intersect and avoid each other… and something far worse.

Evil Dead meets Rashômon.

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spec script

Do not do this cool thing

Everyone knows you shouldn’t write a spec script for an existing feature film series. I did it anyway.

You see, I love slasher movies. They’re the reason I got into films in the first place. And I met my wife at a summer camp. So, it shouldn’t be surprising that I’m a massive fan of the Friday the 13th series. I love them all, including the ones that rank low in most fans’ minds. Yes, even A New Beginning.

That’s why I wrote the ultimate Friday the 13th

Jason has faced off against final girls, psychics, and even Freddy Krueger. But he has never confronted anyone like his own mother. The main character in my version of Friday is Mary, a young woman in the same situation as Pamela Voorhees all those years ago: a single mother working at a summer camp to make ends meet.

The script combines influences from classic films like The Shining and the original Friday the 13th, as well my own life experiences as a parent and camp counselor.

I have absolutely no rights to the film or its characters. I simply wrote it in a fit of inspiration, and wanted to share it with the world.

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Danse Macabre

The script came about because a friend of mine is a dancer, and I wanted to shoot something along those lines. After doing some research into the history of dance, I came to the conclusion that it’s basically a form of safe sex. So, once I decided to make that connection explicit, the film almost wrote itself.

I had been studying the effects of different aspect ratios (e.g. this article from David Bordwell), and I realized the character dancing alone would look better in the classic Academy ratio, 4:3. But the love-making scenes looked better in a wide format, because of the way they lay down.

Instead of having to choose, I decided to change the format on screen to show the characters forming a connection, then breaking it.

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A Final Girl's Best Friend

Originally intended to be part of an anthology webseries, this short is an homage to all the great final girls, from Laurie Strode to Sidney Prescott to Cassie Hack.

If you’ve been on my comedy page, you might recognize Carson Nicely and Elizabeth Peterson in a webseries over there.

Feature

The Story

A team of programmers have created a new kind of dating app. Instead of having you fill out a form about your likes and dislikes, the app examines your internet history to pair you with someone similar.

Unfortunately, the app has some unforeseen side-effects. Users lose all self-control, becoming violent, lascivious, evil. The team considers shutting it down, but… evil is profitable.

Other Halves was filmed on a tight schedule and even tighter budget, in the heart of San Francisco, on location at a real start-up. I and my co-writer, Kelly Morr, have many close ties to the tech community, who advised them on programming jargon for the characters. They were assured that an app like Other Halves could, indeed, exist. It probably won’t make you evil, though.