Screenwriting
14 works
Two broke, aimless mates discover their camping buddy is quietly sitting on $65 million in bitcoin — and hatch a plan so catastrophically stupid it becomes its own kind of genius. An 8-page deadpan Australian comedy about escalating bad decisions,…
A suburban dad runs a black-ops morning routine — balcony pipe, breath spray, asthma puffer, aftershave, ninja-jog back to bed — all to keep one small secret from his very pregnant wife. A 28-page grounded, dry, slightly dark domestic comedy…
Top Gun — but the fighter jocks are morons, the enemy is “a dark-coloured plane that looks sinister,” and the Cold War is being run by men too proud to admit they can’t read a radar. A ~101-page broad, deadpan…
A rookie time-agent is sent to pull a suspended operative off a sun-bleached Guam pier — except the man insists he’s just a washed-up local named Jack, not the specialist the Chronology needs back on duty. A cool, character-first sci-fi/espionage…
In a 2080 Perth carved into walled corporate territories, an operative is handed his own firm’s leak investigation — while replaying the night he let the one relationship he cared about slip away. An 8-page corporate noir sci-fi sample in…
“You suspect them, we detect them.” Meet the worst private investigator in the business — asleep in his own filth, lying to the client he’s supposed to be surveilling for. A 22-page crude, deadpan noir-comedy pilot for fans of It’s…
Three share-house slackers, one couch, and the world’s most relaxed reaction to getting “very fired” — a 21-page slacker sitcom pilot about doing the absolute minimum, together, for fans of Workaholics and Trailer Park Boys. Dry, mundane-absurdist, and completely at…
Nine months before a uranium-mine rescue drags him half-dead from the dark, a quiet man gets a phone call that starts pulling his life — and his timeline — apart. A 71-page grounded sci-fi drama/thriller sample for readers of Primer,…
A man who habitually wakes in the back of airport cabs is delivered to a serviced apartment that shouldn’t exist, run by a woman who already knows his name before he does. A 41-page sci-fi mystery/thriller sample pitched at Ex…
Two Pharm Rite executives break some news to an employee using every evasive corporate metaphor available: he was dosed, at work, with an experimental quantum-entanglement drug. A 5-page dark corporate-satire short for fans of Severance, Silicon Valley and the HR…
A man corners an old friend in a party bathroom to explain he’s trapped in a time loop, rewriting reality with a device called the 4D Remote — and the actual crisis turns out to be a forgotten turkey. A…
A man wakes hooded and hogtied in a white processing facility for people who’ve misused illegal time travel — and can no longer trust his own memory of how he got there. A 6-page noir sci-fi short with the clinical,…
In 2109, a war-weary investigator moves through a corporate-owned world of holographic feeds and supraorbital ships, trying to tune out a future that won’t let him rest. A 20-page noir science-fiction sample for readers of Blade Runner, Altered Carbon and…
A stranger recruits a tester for a shadowy VR startup’s beta — then quietly reveals the headsets never used electricity, and neither of them may still be entirely present. A 5-page hard sci-fi short sample in the register of Devs,…