J.J. Abrams

Logline: A CIA agent must team up with his estranged father, who works for Mossad, to track down a fugitive Nazi scientist in 1970s Brazil.

Logline: A group of American soldiers work together on D-Day to overcome the Nazis and their new secret weapon – a tar like serum that turns those injected with it into zombies.

JJ Abrams & Jonah Nolan (yes, Christopher Nolan’s brother — and also the guy who co-wrote INCEPTION and THE DARK KNIGHT, and wrote the original story MEMENTO was based on) are currently shopping a HOT new Crime / Thriller TV project. JJ is producing, while Nolan will script and direct the pilot, with a co-created by title with JJ, who will also produce with his Bad Robot shingle.

Project just started leaking to networks, and a lot of HEAT is already buzzing from the inital meet. Look for this to become a hot priority for networks still looking for slots to fill.

Hearing JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot is about to go out with a hot new drama spec called ALCATRAZ written by Elizabeth Sarnoff. The project is kept under wraps, but going off the title and previous Bad Robot projects, it’s bound to be about strange happenings on the island prison in the San Francisco Bay. Sarnoff, previously worked with Abrams’ in the last four years of LOST, writing or co-writing over 19 episodes.

Logline: Kept under wraps, but said to be a horror/thriller about two teens who go into a closet as part of the titular game “7 minutes in heaven” and find all their friends dead when they come back out.

Logline: Pitched as “The Italian Job” meets “Ocean’s Eleven,” set in Antwerp, Belgium in early 2003, a small group of Italian thieves miraculously circumvents ten layers of security to access a vault beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center and make off with a purported $100 million in jewels.

Logline: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth — something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.

Logline: Fifty years after a violent car crash kills a woman’s soul mate, she begins to see him once again as she nears the end of her life, and takes the first steps towards crossing over.