Spec Tracker

Tracking spec scripts as they hit the market.

Logline: A group of 20-somethings converge on their hometown upon hearing about the death of their friend, and go on a road trip to retrace her final months before ending her life.

Logline: The president’s daughter is kidnapped and the undercover Secret Service agent protecting her is forced to save her and risk losing the love of his life.

Logline: Pitched as “Mother” meets “The Others”. Two young brothers, who have built an exact replica of their town in their basement, are troubled when their younger sister starts moving pieces of the model in ways that seem to mirror the bizarre happenings in the town; namely that several local kids have gone missing.

Logline: Four teenage girls conjure “Bloody Mary” as a game, but the frightening spirit pulls one of them through the mirror and terrorizes the remaining three, who must uncover the truth behind the famous legend in order to save themselves and their friend, before it’s too late.

Logline: Pitched in the vein of “Thomas Crown Affair” crossed with “Body Heat”. When an undercover Interpol agent investigating stolen art begins tracking a beautiful woman’s interest in the top art auction houses, he’s seduced into her plot to steal a 300-year-old Dutch painting that she claims had been taken by the Nazis from her family, only to discover that the painting is hiding another secret.

Logline: Pitched as “When Harry Met Sally” meets “The Proposal”. Mortal enemies fall in love after a chauvinistic theory about marriage comes between them.

Logline: Sci-Fi found footage thriller based on the urban legend of “The Lights of Saratoga” where strange lights are said to appear at random late at night deep in the forests of northeast Texas.

Logline: When a difficult film shoot spirals hopelessly out of control into a living nightmare, an ambitious young director must face his greatest fears to turn a troubled production into the biggest movie of all time. Set on Martha’s Vineyard during the summer of 1974, this is the untold story of the making of “Jaws.”

Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of “Primer”, a young neurologist makes a scientific breakthrough that calls the laws of physics into question. The phenomenon spreads like an increasingly dangerous infection, which he must contain before it takes his life or spreads to the rest of the world.

Logline: Pitched in the vein of “Ocean’s 11” meets “Bridesmaids”. Two estranged sisters have to put aside their differences and pull together the ultimate all-girl team to pull off the diamond heist of the century.

Logline: Pitched in the vein of “Lost Horizon.” A black Army engineer-surveyor makes an astounding discovery that remains a secret until an expedition is launched nearly fifty years later.

Logline: Devastated by his brother’s death in combat, an underachieving Cal-Trans worker discovers a secret cache of money hidden in the walls of his brother’s home. Facing the ethical dilemma of what to do with the find, he decides to split it with his brother’s fiancé. Unfortunately, he soon finds she has secrets of her own, while also discovering that they aren’t the only ones who know about the hidden cash.

Logline: When a disgraced Air Force cadet discovers his parents are Russian spies involved in a nuclear plot, he goes on the run to prove their innocence and his own.When a disgraced Air Force cadet discovers his parents are Russian spies involved in a nuclear plot, he goes on the run to prove their innocence and his own.

Logline: While on the run for killing her abusive father, a young woman escapes through a desolate stretch of the Montana plains, where she discovers an ancient evil.

Logline: Story will tell the formative story of how Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince, and Messala, the son of a Roman tax collector, grew up best friends before the Roman Empire took control of Jerusalem. It will also tell the parallel tale of Jesus Christ with whom Ben-Hur has several encounters which moves him to become a believer.

Logline: Story centers on a satellite designer who, when the world’s climate-controlling satellites malfunction, has to work together with his estranged brother to save the world from a man-made storm of epic proportions.

Logline: A prison warden must engineer the escape of a cartel leader from his prison after the warden’s wife and son are kidnapped.