Iron Sphere Chronicles; Part 1, The Black Sun

During the close of WW II, Senior members of the Third Reich along with 2000 scientist and nearly 1,000,000 Jewish prisoners vanished from the face of the earth. Professional treasure hunter John Becker inherits a diary, written before WW II by Karl Rommel, which may hold the key to they’re disappearance.  After several attempts on his team’s lives by Neo-Nazi Skinheads, and the Nazi SS, John’s team, with the help of his millionaire friend, Tommy Dabney, travel to Emi Kouse Volcano, in northern Chad, to locate the entrance to a passage into the interior of the Earth.  What they discover is a 21^st century Nazi Army on the verge of waging war on the World.  This time, the scientist have had over 60 years to prefect their war machines.

Action / Adventure  120 pages

Kontum Diary
Based on the Emmy Award Winning  true story by Paul Reed. 

During the 1968 battle at Kontum, Vietnam, Paul Reed captured a small diary which belongs to a North Vietnamese soldier. He sends the diary home where it sits in a box for 20 years.  Suffering from PTSD, Paul has the diary translated, discovering that it is a book of poems.  In an effort to bring closure to the war, he decides to return the diary to the soldier’s family, only to discover that his former enemy, Nghia, is still alive.  The entire journey of reconciliation and forgiveness is documented by freelance director Steve Smith for later broadcast on PBS.
Non-fiction Drama  107 pages
(This screenplay is one of two being offered as a package. See The Flute.)

One Day 
After the death of his wife, a dyeing multi-billionaire, who is now in poverty after giving everything away, is given one day to go back in time and say goodbye to his family and friends. It is a 24 hour emotional ride for a 15 year old, back in the spring of 1967.
Family 110 pages

The Aronnax Diary
 At the close of the American Civil War, a Confederate submarine designer is given the opportunity to discover the mysteries of the deep, by Captain Nemo who commands he Nautilus. Unlike many scripts, this one more closely follows the storyline of the Jules Vern novel.
Adventure /Sci-Fi 110 pages

The Return

Based on the predictions of  2012, a race of giant beings return to Earth to collect Human laborers, only to discover that something has gone wrong with their original genetic programming and the inhabitance of the planet have no intensions of going peacefully.  A great war is fought between the Nephilim of the planet, Nibiru, and the futuristic U.S. Military of  the 21^st Century.

Si-Fi Action / Adventure  123 pages

A Return to the Center of the Earth, Part 1
Decedents of the original adventures retrace the path as described in the Jules Vern novel.  They are being persued by criminals led by a cannibal who is from the center of the Earth and does not want any more outsiders entering his subterranean world.
Action/Adventure 124 pages

The Ascension, Return From the Center of the Earth, Part 2
A tribe of albino cannibals persue the decedents across the vast central cavern and ocean as they search for a different route up to the surface.
Action/Adventure 120 pages

The Creature from Pine Lake
Honeymoon couple and lake residents are terrified by an unidentified creature that brutally kills it victims and takes the heads.
Horror 90 pages

The Flute
This is based on a true story of a sick North Vietnam soldier who found his way back home during the bombing of the North by the U.S. Air Force. The man is helped by many good people who, like the soldier, want the war to end and the two Vietnam’s unified.
Military/Family 122 pages
(This screenplay is one of two being offered as a package. See Kontum Diary)

Seeing the Elephant
This is the true story of the 1873, New Mexico, Gage train robbery and the crazy capture of the four cowboys that committed to crime. The story is based on over 400 pages of sworn testimonies by the lawmen and posse that captured the four outlaws.
Non-fiction / Western 121 pages

Sky Ranger
 A Texas Highway Patrol officer receives an experimental jet-pack flying suit from a deceased uncle who worked for the government out in California back in the 40’s. He uses the device to track down a drug kingpin who is in the U. S. to take his daughter back to South America.
Action/ Adventure   123 pages

Them
This is a complete remake of the 1954 sci-fi movie concerning an encounter, in southern New Mexico, with large ants, and a group of terrorist bringing an atomic device into the U.S.
Sfi-fi/Action  121 pages

Killers Reprieve
(Under contract)

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The grandson of the famous Indiana Jones travels back in time to battle the Nazis in Jerusalem to prevent the abduction of Jesus Christ, who is to be taken before Hitler for his birthday. Action/Adventure  119 pages

Short Scripts

Caveat Emptor 
Small roadside flea market is used as a front for aliens collecting human specimens.
Sci-Fi  7 pages

Last Date
Woman who is date-raped gets revenge.
Drama 1 page

Promise

A young man with a very special talent comes upon the wreck of a SUV in which four people were riding. The ghosts of three of the passengers help him to discover the whereabouts of the forth passenger, who is still alive. The ending is a strange twist of events as the young man discovers that one of the ghosts is a girl he has known since childhood and would do anything for… and does.
Drama  25 pages

Talking to the Dead Dead
Army soldier gets out of hell to collect his sinful father that has committed suicide.
 Horror 6 pages

The Test
Two angels move among a collection of people at a popular coffee shop, looking for just one good person that will prevent God from destroying mankind again. Ironically it is a wheelchair bound Veteran that comes to the rescue.
 Family  5 pages


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