Beth Bruckner O’Brien

Story centers on Doug, a regular guy who is moonlighting as a henchman for a notorious villain so that he can put his daughter through private school. When Doug accidentally kills “The Termite,” the city’s super hero, Doug knows that his boss villain will be pissed, probably pissed enough to kill him. So Doug does the only think he can think of: puts on the The Termite’s suite and starts saving the city from villains. That’s when things really start to get complicated.

A teenager’s life is thrown into upheaval when her mother suffers an extreme accident that her little brother claims is because he “stepped on a crack and broke Mommy’s back.” But when other superstitions start coming true, she realizes that fighting her own superstitious beliefs could be deadlier than she thought.

Every year, a new Young & Hungry List is compiled from across the industry, proudly showcasing those writers most eager to stake their claim. Voted on by Hollywood’s most influential players, each list distinguishes a fresh slate of up-and-coming creatives preparing to take the next step in their careers. We’re pleased to present the 2016 Young & Hungry List.

Scarlett Johansson may be headed from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the Jazz Age, as she’s attached to play Zelda Fitzgerald in the forthcoming biopic about “the first American flapper.”

After falling in love with a man in one evening, a woman sells her memory of their encounter, only to find herself relying on him for help when she becomes the target of a ruthless assassin covering up a worldwide conspiracy.

Logline: In this prequel to “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”, a young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on a road trip from hell.

Logline: A detective must team up with an American ex-pat to rescue his son from China’s triad gangs when the kid steals one of the ruthless organization’s boats.

Logline: The world is overrun by the return of the flesh hungry living-dead, leaving a small group of scientists and military personnel holed-up in an underground bunker as a last ditch effort to stay alive.

Logline: A group of deadly female operatives pose as high-class call girls to infiltrate a notorious dictator’s network and take him down.

Logline: A 12-year-old boy and three seniors stage a heist on a bank that threatens to take his home after failing to take responsibility for his father’s death.

Logline: The Mechanic thought he’d escaped his deadly past and disappeared but now someone has found him and kidnapped the woman he loves.

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Logline: Centers on a down-on-her-luck stripper, a regular patron of the club who gets kicked out and a foreign man with money to blow as their lives all intertwine in and around the strip club.

Logline: Follows the tumultuous romance between Zelda Sayre and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who became Jazz Age icons and the toast of the town in the 1920s, despite their marriage being filled with jealousy and acrimony.