Spec Tracker

Tracking spec scripts as they hit the market.

Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of ‘American Beauty’ and ‘Little Miss Sunshine.’ After sabotaging another family vacation, a travel agent who’s afraid to fly battles his irrational phobias in order to win back his wife and daughter.

Logline: Pitched as being WEDDING CRASHERS meets THE BIG CHILL. A young stuck-in-a-rut 30-something is convinced by his slick-talking best friend to pretend he’s dying so they can throw a “last hurrah” living funeral in the hopes of reconnecting with the girl who got away.

Logline: Two billionaire party animals and life-long best buds, go to war with each other after learning their teens are vying for the last spot at their alma mater — and both men will do anything it takes to get their kid in… and keep the other kid out.

Logline: Pitched as being an action/thriller in the vein of TAKEN and BREAKDOWN. Happily married with a beautiful young son, Jake and Kara seemingly have it all…until Kara goes missing. When footage surfaces of her walking out onto the Golden Gate Bridge, dropping all her personal belongings and never walking back off, the case seems like an open and shut suicide. Jake, not accepting the fact that his wife may have indeed taken her own life, searches to uncover the facts behind her disappearance. On a journey that ultimately leads him south of the border, Jake finds that the quest for truth uncovers realities he could not have possibly imagined.

Logline: Pitched as a comedic cross between “Dr. Strangelove,” “The Lives of Others” and “Our Man in Havana.” Set at the NSA, the script tells the story of a man working in the electronic surveillance department who innocently begins spying on a cute girl he stumbles upon one day. When he tells a lie to cover his tracks, it spins out of control and brings the world to the brink of World War III.

Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of “Taken” and “Wanted.” When a brilliant videogame programmer has his newest ultra-violent video game blocked due to its controversial content, he snaps and begins unleashing the game himself, level by level, on the streets of Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Jeff, a recovering gambling addict, on the verge of paying off his debt via indentured servitude to his bookie, is struggling to win back the confidence of his wife. When Phil and Jeff cross paths, Jeff gets caught in Phil’s tangled web of systematic chaos and must fight his way out to protect everything dear to him.

Logline: In this character driven thriller in the vein of No Country for Old Men, everyone’s fate in a small West Texas town is altered when a woman on the run from her mysterious past takes drastic measures in order change her own.

Logline: Pitched as ANCHOR MAN meets REVENGE OF THE NERDS set in the early days of the NASA space program. When a group of nerdy Rocket Engineers are given the ultimate challenge of putting a man on the Moon, their biggest obstacle ends up being the belligerent astronauts they have to send.

Logline: Ensemble R-rated wish fulfillment comedy where a group of guys gradually turn into werewolves and their suburban family lives benefit from it. Pitched as being in the vein of “THE HANGOVER.”

Logline: Two life long friends, endlessly locked in competition, pack up their families and embark on a winner-takes-all, cross-country race to win the ultimate family vacation.

Logline: A high school athlete who goes from big-man-on-campus to outcast must rely on his unlikely new nerdy friends who help him learn that there’s more to life than the big game.

Logline: Dark teen comedy about a highly competitive high school where play auditions are so political that four separate Dorothys are cast in the school’s Wizard of Oz. Scandal ensues when the Dorothys mysteriously begin dropping out of the show, one after the other.

Logline: A post-apocalyptic heist movie involving the real-world Doomsday Vault in the Arctic, pitched as OCEAN’S 11 meets 2012. When a terrifying plague destroys crops and causes starvation on a global scale, the world’s greatest thief must break into the extremist-controlled Doomsday Vault to steal the one seed that could prevent the extinction of the human race.

Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of HAROLD AND KUMAR, and THE HANGOVER (with comic book geek references). When childhood friends Grey, Brian & Joey decide to make a sidetrip to Tijuana on their way to Comic-Con, they have no idea of the adventure that awaits them. Beautiful strippers, Mexican warlords, Russian mafia, and the infamous Luchador Wrestlers of Casa Diablo all stand in the way of the guys reaching Comic-Con and getting the most valuable comic in the world signed by its elusive author.

Logline: Centers on a mild-mannered suburban dad who, in an attempt to lure back his ex-wife, decides to become the sugar daddy to an independent-minded, but down-on-her-luck younger woman.

Logline: When professional soldier Timothy Vance receives information from someone claiming to be his long-lost father, he takes a trip to out-of-the-way Harbor Moon, Maine. It turns out that man hasn’t been there in thirty years and pretty soon Tim’s life is in danger. Fighting for the truth and his survival, Tim discovers that Harbor Moon is harboring a secret. The entire town is werewolves and the man he was looking for may be just like them. Just as a ruthless band of werewolf hunters descend upon the town, Tim must decide whether he is going to stay and fight or turn his back on who he is.

Logline: After her mother dies, a successful New York investment firm owner has a mid-life crisis, dumps her boyfriend, and travels to Harvard to find the perfect sperm donor.

Logline: A depraved assault during a costume ball shatters Marlie Downing’s mind, sending her on a vicious murder spree… 30 years later, her murderous spirit, now known as the Butcher Bride, is restless and has a secret to share with the world.

Logline: She’s just been given the ultimate choice: one week with her soul mate or a lifetime with a man she cares about, but who isn’t “the one.”

Logline: A counselor and his campers get more than they bargained for when the ghost stories that have been told at the camp for years start to become a reality.

Logline: A female SUPERBAD that follows three high school senior girls on a single day as they struggle with the past and present of their friendship, and look forward to the future.

Logline: Pitched as GALAXY QUEST meets FANBOYS. Every weekend, retail employees, community college students, and stay-at-home moms resigned to the lives of quiet desperation become the knights and wizards of Hero Quest – a medieval fantasy live action role playing game (L.A.R.P.). But, when an army of real goblins come to conquer suburbia, a Best Buy assistant manager and his band of L.A.R.P.’ers are the only thing standing between us and world domination.

Logline: In the vein of PLEASANTVILLE & PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED. The ultimate techno-savvy teenager wakes up one day to find herself trapped in a 1980’s movie.

Logline: After losing track of his estranged daughters in the chaos of an amusement park fire, an ex-firefighter races to get them back from a man who is convinced they are in fact his own daughters, who were abducted years before.

Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of “Harold & Kumar.” Two buddies journey on a spontaneous, and poorly planned road trip to Mexico to rescue their best friend.