In a near-future dystopia, where mutated beasts called the Hounds have ravaged the earth, a young girl and her mother struggle to survive in an isolated farmhouse. When a stranger arrives on the land, both mother and daughter’s lives begin to unravel as they start to question the very reality they thought they knew so well.
Spenser Cohen
An asteroid miner who, after crash-landing on an alien planet, must make his way across the harsh terrain, running out of oxygen, hunted by strange creatures, to the only other survivor: a woman who is trapped in her escape pod.
An expectant mother, plagued with nightmares of destruction that only get worse after her daughter is born, must determine if these visions are a severe case of postpartum psychosis or something more sinister that might be connected to her newborn child.
After a rift opens a doorway for refugees from an alternate earth, a woman must take the place of her double from the other side in order to stop a rebellion that threatens to destroy our way of life.
A mother recovering from a brutal accident moves into a prototype smart home with her family, only to find the house’s AI system may have sinister intentions.
Soon we’ll be releasing the 2016 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 2013 Hit List writers — where they’ve been, and where they are today.
After heating up the spec market and garnering attention from studios like Sony and Fox, Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi spec Moonfall has landed at Universal Pictures.
When an asteroid hits the moon, an unlikely band of misfits must come together to travel to the moon and harness the alien technology left behind to stop it from colliding with the earth.
With the summer blockbuster season heating up and Independence Day: Resurgence going wide later this month, two similarly titled alien invasion specs have hit the market in an attempt to draw some of the residual heat surrounding the belated sequel to the 1996 hit.
Logline: When an asteroid hits the moon, an unlikely band of misfits must come together to travel to the moon and harness the alien technology left behind to stop it from colliding with the earth.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but described as in the vein of “Looper”
Logline: Kept under wraps, but described as in the vein of “Looper”
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Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: When Peter’s dreams about an alien invasion become reality, he fights desperately to protect his family while on the run from the invading forces. Along the way, he starts to question the reality of the world he’s living in, leading to a final reveal that flips the table on him and the audience.
Logline: When Peter’s dreams about an alien invasion become reality, he fights desperately to protect his family while on the run from the invading forces. Along the way, he starts to question the reality of the world he’s living in, leading to a final reveal that flips the table on him and the audience.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will contain military elements.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: An international squad of private military contractors infiltrate a cargo ship overrun by pirates in order to capture and extract a seemingly impossible High-Value Target, the pirate warlord.
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Logline: Pitched as as “Black Hawk Down” meets “The Raid”. An international squad of private military contractors infiltrate a cargo ship overrun by pirates in order to capture and extract a seemingly impossible High-Value Target, the pirate warlord.
Logline: An international squad of private military contractors infiltrate a cargo ship overrun by pirates in order to capture and extract a seemingly impossible High-Value Target, the pirate warlord.
Logline: An international squad of private military contractors infiltrate a cargo ship overrun by pirates in order to capture and extract a seemingly impossible High-Value Target, the pirate warlord.
Logline: A suburban man’s life is turned upside down on his drive to work when he is forced into becoming the wheelman for a group of criminals.