Category Archives: Spec Tracker (SM-DB)
PALE HORSE (SPEC)
When a reclusive author shelters a man who escaped captivity with her long-missing brother, they’re both tormented by the zealot responsible.
Details are being kept under wraps, but the project is being pitched as a grounded sci-fi story in the vein of Ex Machina.
When his childhood drawings inexplicably come to life, a dad and his daughter must stop the havoc his beastly creations wreak upon their community. Being pitched as a four-quadrant franchise starter in the zone of Jumanji and Night at the Museum.
Following the disappearance of the book fair money he was entrusted to protect, a lactose intolerant middle school student with an addiction to dairy items must hone his detective skills to investigate the “seedy” underbelly of his school. It’s a fun spin on classic detective tales like Maltese Falcon, but with the built in franchise potential of a series akin to Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
Following a cataclysmic event that erases humanity’s memories, a woman wakes up with no memory of her young daughter but must find her amid the chaos using clues she left for herself and her maternal instincts.
A failed junior high drama teacher attends a musical theater summer camp for adults.
At the apex of his career, the mercurial Frank Sinatra must work together with the FBI to rescue his son from his inept kidnappers, and ensure he has a chance to repair their broken paternal bond.
Follows an American family who move into an old Victorian house in London and begin to believe it might be haunted.
Centers on the CIA’s extreme interrogation program on detainees following the 9/11 attacks.
Collecting stories about the political commodity of water and food in third-world countries and how a people either are fed or starve depending on whatever entity is in control.
A psychology grad student comes to believe that her new patient holds the key to the mystery surrounding her sister’s disappearance 13 years earlier.
On the verge of a life-changing meeting, a phobic, blunt, wine-addicted writer has her life upended when a brown box containing an urn of her mother’s ashes is dumped on her doorstep.
Described as “a darker Jerry Maguire” featuring a Latino-American sports agent.
Home invasion thriller nspired by the “Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter” in which a Kentucky family claimed to have survived an all night alien home invasion attempt.
Two American brothers, wrongly sentenced to prison in Thailand, are forced to compete in Thai boxing for a chance to win their freedom.
A young refugee couple make a harrowing escape from war-torn Sudan but then struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an evil lurking beneath the surface.
Set against the backdrop of an aggressive, politically-motivated deportation raid where members of ICE clash with LAPD officers, which escalates into an explosively violent standoff in East Los Angeles.
After a passenger plane goes down in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a woman finds herself washed ashore and the sole survivor on a mysterious island where she faces her worst fear.
Tells the story of an entirely African-American combat unit whose heroism during WWII led to the desegregation of the armed forces.
As the Civil War rages, a slave named Robert Smalls races against the clock to pull off a daring heist: smuggling his friends and family onto a Confederate warship and eluding Confederate forces to escape to the freedom of the North.
Set in 1960s Chicago, the feature chronicles a campaign of lies, sabotage and assassination intended to tear apart the young Civil Rights movement from the inside.
About a young girl whose high school friends inexplicably begin to die in a series of gruesome murders.
Inspired by true events, a female LAPD officer finds herself on the kill manifesto of her disgraced former trainee, a young African-American man who claims he was set-up by his corrupt colleagues.
Centers on a man who has to hunt down clones of himself who have gone AWOL from a war they were made to fight in and instead have set their sights on the corporate state that created them.
Written by Dave Gibbons, the co-creator of Watchmen and Kingsman, the story transplants Mods and Rockers from ’60s London into a retro-futuristic England, where two childhood friends have dreamed of becoming members of the Originals — the toughest, most stylish gang in the country. But once they’re finally initiated, they find out being an Original isn’t all fun and games.
Written by Babaloo Mandel, the story follows two self-centered men whose lives become intertwined, forcing them to become caring human beings in spite of one of them being a thoroughly outrageous punk rocker who died in 1977.
Follows a sardonic girl in her final year of college whose overactive imagination leads to catastrophic thinking and hilarious mishaps.
Inspired by true events about actress Jean Seberg, who in the late 1960s was targeted by the FBI’s illegal Cointelpro surveillance program.
