Katrin Benedikt

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMSecret Service agent Mike Banning, who has spent his career keeping American presidents safe, has now become the target. If his attackers can take down half of Washington D.C. with it, all the better. Among those at risk include the President, whose official Air Force One plane is code-named Angel.

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This Friday, we’re releasing the 2015 Hit List, our compilation of the best year’s best spec scripts as voted on by industry professionals. In preparation for its release, we’re taking a look back at the 2012 Hit List writers–where they’ve been, and where they are today.

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Set in a future where a victim is granted 24 hours to take revenge against someone who murders their loved one, follows a father who, after killing a criminal while protecting his son during a home invasion, must take up arms against a horde of the victim’s deadly cohorts after they declare war.

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A happily married woman of 20 years suddenly finds a military arsenal hidden in her home, uncovering her husband’s hidden identity

Logline: Adapted from the successful iOS mobile video game following the horrific and terrifying events that occurs in a sleepy island town off the coast of Seattle after a deep-sea oil drilling accident releases ancient and deadly organisms into the water supply.

Logline: Secret Service agent Mike Banning and the President of the United States must work together to thwart a terrorist attack in London on the day of the Prime Minster’s funeral.

Logline: The Expendables assemble, along with younger more tech-savvy recruits, to battle their co-founder-turned-ruthless-arms-dealer Conrad Stonebanks, who was thought dead until now.

Logline: When a businessman is named the culprit in a nationwide murder binge, he must go on the run to prove his innocence and find out his true identity.

Logline: A Secret Service agent must rescue the President after a group of North Korean militants storm the White House, take hostages, and demand the United States remove military forces from the Korean Peninsula.